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A talk with the author of "Trilby,'
George Du Maurier, in "McClure's Mag
azine" for April, tells as good story, with
as charming a candor and cordiality, as
Trilby" itself. Miss TarbelPs Life OF
Napoleon" covers, in this number. an
excellent account of the retreat from
Moscow, the exile to Elba, the triumph
ant return, the defeat at Waterloo and
the death at st. Helena. Twenty-four
pictures from the collection of Mr.. Hub
bard illustrate these great and pictu-
rescue events and Napoleon's aspect and
bearing in the midst of them. There
are two papers to follow. 1t is announced,
supplementary to this admirably COM
pact Life" Conan Doyle supplies a
story which is the counterpart of the
Sherlock Holmes" memoirs, being the
confessions of man of the class whom
the Sherlock Holmeses are always in
pursuit of, namely, an 'old offender"
There is a humorous story by Robert
Barr, and story by the author of "Be-
side the Bonnie Brier Bush" Ian Mac
laren. Other features of the number are
the first of series of illustrated papers
by L. J. Edwards, dramatic chapters in
the history of the Tammany Society; a
| Pinkerton story which tells of the steal
ing of $4,000 worth of diamonds off a
! mans person by open assault in a
! crowded railway car under full speed an
account, with numerous pictures, OF the
frauds practiced on the Bank of Eng
land, and of the banks manner of deal
ing with financial panics, and a study,
with portraits and other pictures, of
Pierre Lott as he appears in private life
writing his novels, administering his
! office of commander in the French navy,
or taking his diversion-a study written
| by Madame Adam, who, as editor OF the
"Nouvelle Revue" introduced Pierre
7 he IL
Clure, New York City.
The study of mind. perhaps the most
fascinating branch of science, receives
much attention in the April Popular
Science Monthly" Professor NJ. Allen
Starr, NJ. D., opens the number with an
| account of 'Some Curiosities of Think
ing" His cases include persons with
various strange hallucinations, and some
with a single curiously defective or
| greatly superior faculty. Professor
| Sully's paper on Later Progress in Lam
! guage," gives insight into mental action
! from another point of view. Reuben p.
Halleck discusses THE Personal Equa-
| ton in Human Truth" communicated
! Insanity" is discussed by Charles w.
Pilgrim, NJ. d. Garrett p. Serviss con-
tinues his illustrated talks about the con-
| stellations. In "The Successor of the
| Railway" the extent to which the trolley
road may compete with the steam line is
SuOWA ny ADDltlOH N1OTgdUs All Illus
! trated article describing "Some of the
| Outliers' Among Birds" curious either
| in plumage or habits, is contributed by
DIR. K. w. Shufeldt. Certain Animals
That Live in Caves" are described by E.
A. Martel. 4 timely article is ''The
Shad's Annual Pilgrimage" by A. Il.
| Gouraud. The subject of the usual sketch
and portrait is Professor Lardner Va
nuXem. In the EDITORS Table, the i'm
! proved relations OF science and religion
! are pointed out, and attention is called to
the lack OF nervous control that charac-
terlzes modern life. New York: d. Ap-
| pleton q Co.
The March issues of "Littell's Living
! Age' (Littell q Co., Boston,, give 315
pages of the choicest periodical literature
printed in the English language. IN all,
these five weekly numbers contain
thirty-six articles, of which perhaps the
most valuable are THE Court of Ferrara
in the Fifteenth Century," translated
from the Italian of the COnte Gandini, by
Miss II. Zimmern; Single Chamber
Democrats" by R. Wallace, NJ. p;
Erasmus and the Reformation" by j.
G. Bailey; The Evolution of Cities" by
Elisee Reclus; Rural Scotland in First
Half of last Century" by II. Grey
Strachey; "Mr. Balfour's Foundation of
Belief" by Benjamin Kidd; IAN Tn
published Page in Madagascar History,'
by Alice ZimE1ern; General Boulanger:
An Object Lesson in French Politics.;
and the concluding paper on ''The
Crimea in 1854 ana 1894" by General Sir
| fiction, consisting of complete story in
each number, includes "Only Kitty" by
| l.. 3. WaIford; "a Curious Lottery" by
| Rye Owen; ''The Girl who Believed in
the Saints" by l.. Dougall; and Homie,
A Study of Irish Peasant Life" aud
bringing Down the House" Each
issue contains the usual page of poetry by
such writer's as VIM. Watson, A. St.
John Adcock, Violet Fame, Z. J. Reed,
E. Blair Oliphant, Evelyn Martinengo
Cesaresco, etc., etc.
The complete novel in the April issue
of "Lippincotts" philadelphia, is
"Alain OF Halfdene," by Anna Robson
Mrs. Poultney Bige.ow, tells how Gu
riously near-sighted Englishman and
his young wife were reconciled after a
first quarrel. ''The Defendant Speaks'
to some purpose in story by Genie II.
Rosenfeld; result, divorce is avoided.
Mary Dawson relates the innocent loves
of dancer, The Butterfly" and her
young man. Majorie Richardson shows
how the young woman who occupied
1.-The House With the Paint Wore OFF,
procured its external rehabilitation
Nine. Melba, one of the chief liv-
llB dthlaCLiOus Ol GD0 lyric stage,
writes pleasantly of "Grand Opera. u
Alvan F. Sanborn's paper on
Cheap Living in Paris will be of inter-
est, and is OF practical value. Mary E.
! Stlckney supplies an amusing article on
Bucolic Journalism of the West" with
specimens. Hiram Powers in Wash
| lngton" gives an unfamiliar bit of art
history, in three letters from the sculptor,
| written IN 1885, when first emerging from
obscurlty into fame, and getting no help
from Webster and Everett. "Woman's
Lot In Persia is described at length by
Wolf Won Schierbrand. Lee j. Vance
writes of the Evolution of Table Man
ners," and j. w. Abernethy of 1.-The
Womanliness of Literary Women" The
poetry OF the number is by M. s. Paden,
Champion Bissell, Charles G. d. Roberts
and Robert Beverly Hale.
The April number of "Paving and Mu-
nicipal Engineering Magazine con-
talns valuable paper by f. A. Hether-
lngton, NJ. r., on Injurious Manipula-
ton OF Asphalt" showing some of the
common mistakes of paving companies
IN heating and mixing asphalt. Among
the other important articles of public in
terest are: Some Tests of Paving Brick I"
by James w. Reed, C. E.; How to Pre-
vent Electrolysis of Gas and Water
Pipes" by Udo Hesse, c. E.; "The n Dn.
ties OF City Engineer" by Horace An
drews. City Engineer of Albany, N, ":
Paving Brick in Ontario;" 'sThe Sewer
Farm at st. Johns, Mich.," by Jens
Hartwig, G. E.; "'The Maintenance Cost
of Telford Pavements,'" by H. Il. Blake:
"Creosoted Wood Pavements in Calves,
ton, Texas" by j. w. Byrnes; "Opposi-
ton to Municipal Ownership of Lighting
plants" and large number of shorter
articles relating TO the improvement of
cities. Published by Municipal Engineer
ing Company, indianapolis, Ind
Home and Country" (New York; for