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THE July MAGAZINES.
The Arena for July.

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Modifed?" "Whittiers Religion" by Rev.
tection." by C. s. Thomas. Occult Sci
ence in Thibet' is treated by Heinrich Hen
soldt, Phi. d. sIndia Silver, Wheat and
Cotton" by Samuel Leavitt is another splen-
did presentation of the argument for bis
yes Prof Goodwin Smiths argument
against the enfranchisement of women.
1.-THE Higher Evolution of Man."
by Henry Wood, is an ethical paper of
value. Mr.. B. o. Flowers discussion of
Japan's treaties and the subsequent legisla-
lative operations of the English and Ameri-
can governments, in apaper called "Justice
for Japan" 10 demand that the American
government shall keep its treaty pledge and
not play the bully, as John Bull always
does, disregarding both honor and decency.
Henry Frank outlines 1.-THE Crusade of the
Unemployed" "How They Doomed the
Elgin Street Church" is lifetime realistic
story.
short stories.
The special feature of the July number
of Short Stories il tale called ''On the
California Limited" by Judge Tourgee-
well-known as the author of "a Fools FIR
rand" &c. There is also a pretty bit of
fiction from the pen of Beatrice Harraden
entitled "a Bird of Passage, and Doro-
thea Gerard--the author of many clever
stories such as "The Waters of Hercules"
and "a Queen of Curds and Cream" is rep
resented by a pretty love story. In adj
diti0n to those mentioned there are in
teresting tales by Andre Theuriet, Barry
Pain and others. The famous story for the
month is by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. Cur
rent Literature Publishing Co., so "a La
fayette Place, New York.
The Atlantic Monthly
has many articles of timely interest this
month. The scenes are laid in both city
and country the city on the housetops
showing the hived dwellers in the metropo-
lis make the most Of their unpleasant sur
roundings then there is trip to Nova
Scotia with Frank Bolles. Then there is a
Florida sketch by Bradford Torrey; a
French Canadian story by Mrs. Gather
wood; japanese love story by Lafca-
do Hearn. That absorbing serial Philip
and his Wife by Margaret Deland has a
good instalment in this number and we have
not enumerated half the good things.
The Annals of the American Academy
begins with the number for July its fifth
year and volume. This number contains
1.-THE Future Problem of Charity and the
Unemployed" by Rev. DR.. John Graham
Brooks, Of Cambridge, Mass. "Peaceable
Boycotting,' by Che ster A. Reed Esq, of
Boston "The Significance of a Decreasing
Birth-Rate," by j. L. Brownell, A. M, of
Bryn Mawr College "Rent and Profit" by
c. w. Macfarlane, IN. D.. Personal Notes
and Book Department. AS supplement
to this number is sent monograph on
1.-The Theory of Sociology" by Prof. +.
II. Giddings, of Columbia College. Phila-
delphia. .
LIppincotts.
The complete novel in the July number
of Lippincott's is Captain Close" by Cap
tain Charles King. 1t deals with the re-
construction period, and relates the expert
ences of a newly-hedged lieutenant in camp
near Tugaloo, and of his very curious COM
handing officer.
Louise Stockton begins a strong story,
"a Mess of Pottage," to be concluded in
the August issue. Other tales are cat
Marrinis,' lively character sketch by
Richard Hamilton Potts, and "a Case of
Hoodoo, an amusing dialect tale from
Virginia police court.
Ellen Olney Kirk depicts "a Roman
Nurse" in her habit as she lives, with the
pampered pride which marks her above her
congeners in any land but Italy. Eliza
beth Morris writes of "Mill-Girls" here at
home.
Francis Leon Chrisman tells the history
of 1.-The Conscience Fund" of the U. S.
government, and gives some recent exam
pies of the contributions to it. Under the
heading "a Scattered Sect" II. V. Brown
describes queer organization which flour
ished not long ago in England, and called
itself 1.-The Army of the Lord"
The Cosmopolitan.
That the July Cosmopolitan is mid
summer number is shown in many direc-
tons. Three short stories, including one
of sport and adventure, two travel articles,
and other light matter, make up 12S pages
Of charming summer reading. The July
Cosmopolitan marks the close of the first
year since the revolutionary announcement
was made that the price of that magazine,
already low, had been cut to one-hslf of
three dollars year. All sorts of predic
tons have come to be unfulfilled during the
year-it would be impossible to maintain
the rate-the quality would be lowered
the size would be decreased. But even
ing number there has been betterment in
the quality of articles and illustrations, and
the size has remained unchanged, except
the always growing advertising pages. The
magazine printed, for the six months en-
braced in Volume XVI, one million four
hundred and nineteen Thousand copies. an
entirely unspproached record, and has
doubled its already large plant of presses
and binding machinery. The walls of the
magazines new home are rapidly rising at
Irvington-on-the-Hu
New England Magazine
For July has not only its usual abun-
dance of that especially dear to the heart
of the New Englander but enough for all.
Hon. George y. Boutwell,, who was COVER
Tor of Massachusetts, when Kossuth was
here in 1862, contributes an intensely in
teresting historical sketch of that visit to
New England. The charm of Sarah Orne
Jewett's style is had in her description of
"The Old Town of Berwick" No one in
terested in social problems or DESTROYS of
an insight into London life should fail to
read William Clsrk's article in this number
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