The National tribune., 1896-08-27

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Besides account of the candidates this
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Magazines and Notes.
The September number of Frank Lcslie,s
Popular Monthly just out, is brilliant one. 10
is impossible to even mention all of its special
features. A few of these are: Colonial Danes
and Their Daughters, by Sally Nelson Robins
of the Virginia Historical Society, illustrated
with many old portraits; the second paper Of
Col. Garnett's description oil Gen. Lees part in
the battle of Gettysburg, forming the eighth
article in the Popular MOataEy's great Leo
series; A Staff Officers Recolleetions of Gen.
Lee, by Col. III. v. Moore.
See Charles Howard Johnson's King Of Man
and Beast, and the back page Reed Prize, In
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The Definition. Object, and Sphere of Taxa
ton will be treated by David A. Wells in Ap-
pleton's Popular Science Monthly for September.
Many popular errors as to the nature of taxa
ton, some centuries old, will be pointed out in
this paper. 1t will also contain abstract OF
the recent studies of Eurico Ferri on Homi-
eide among both savages and civilized men,
with some consideration of "crime among ami
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Kit-Kat is bright little magazine for cent,
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Published at 10 South Eighteenth street, Phila-
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The best photograph of Maj. Mckinley yet
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photographer, Mt. Vernon, o. ..
Rudyard Kipling has lately written two new
barrack-room ballads, which will be published
in McClare's Magazine-the first in the Septem-
Der number.
DIR. Weir Mitchell has been engaged for
| several years on a novel which will give pecu-
liar satisfaction to those who rejoice in the able
and worthy treatment of American life and
character in American fiction. The story is
called Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker. and will be-
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Mitchelps masterpiece. The scene is laid in
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airy war, and among the characters are Wash.
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| Ian Macaren's new short story has been Sc
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| The Penny Magazine. Published at Phila-
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| Harper's Magazine for September. Special
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| 1881, by Woodrow Wilson; The Art OF Driy-
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