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The American monthly Review Of
Reviews" for October CNew York; has
several articles Of unsual interest TO
women readers. Miss Frances Willard
tells the story Of the Worlds w c. t.
U movement Mrs. Ellen NJ. Henrotin,
President of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, outlines the benefits OF
those organizations; Mrs. Sheldon
Amos of England, writes Of London
Women's Club, and Miss Mary Taylor
Blauvelt contributes an enlightenlng
article on the opportunities for women
at the English universities, The edi-
tor makes some pertinent comments on
the recent shooting of striking miners
by Deputy Sheriffs al Latimer Pa. He
treats also Of the prevalence of lynch
ing, on the campaign for the Mayoralty
of Greater New York and on various
recent developments in foreign politics.
The number contains the first complete
account of the discovery of the Ameri-
can process for the reduction of alum
Of hi
discovery (Which resulted in bringing
down the price of the metal from $40
to 30 cents a pound) and its subsequent
application in manufacturing on COM
mercial scale is one of the most inter-
esting chapters in the recent annals or
American industrial progress. The en-
inent woman journalist, Mrs. Emily
Crawford, Paris correspondent OF the
London Daily News" writes on Sir
Isaac Holden, the famous old English
inventor, manufacturer, and philan-
philanthropist, who died recently A
remarkably interesting educational eX-
pertinent is described in an article en-
titled Local History and the CIVIC
Renaissance in New York" The from
tispiece is a new portrait of Hall Caine
at Greeba Castle, his Isle Of Man home
The magazine reproduces a large num-
Der of striking cartoons, both American
and foreign, adding suggestive editorial
comment. This department OF the
Review forms a really valuable chap
ter, each month, of Current History IN
CaIicature."
The "Bookman" for October New
York; is freely Illustrated. There is
very full department of Chronicle ana
Comment" poetry in plenitude, includ-
ing stanzas from Mr.. LIE Gallienne's
rendering of The Rubdiyat of Omar
Khadvvanl": THE Photograph, by
Paul Laurence Dunbar; Experience,
by Robert Adger Bowen; 'UndertoW,
by John B. Tabb. There are special
papers as follows: Living Conttnen-
tai Critics. V. Herman Grimm" by Ku-
no Francke; Two Apostles of Simple
ity." by Henry Copley Greene; The
Women's Labor Bureau; Sir Walter
Besant's New Scheme" by Sarah A.
Tooley; Mr. Barrie's Early Days IN
Journalism by J. A. Hammert0n; In
Kedar's Tents serial is in the twen-
ty-fourth chapter; New Books" are
reviewed at length; Novel Notes" are
full and THE Bookmans Table" treats
of "Cromwell's Place in History,
''Hallucinations and Illusions, Han
nibal," The First Crossing of Spitz-
bergen, the Poetical Works of Rob-
ert Burns
THE Lotus for October CKansas
City, MOI offers a refreshing assort-
ment of fable. story, and verse: The
Terror Of the Truth of Things" by Miss
Joanna Fortune. The philosophy Of
Journalism is voiced in a Trialogue by
William Griffith. The newspaper writer
has his fling in the story by f. Kemble.
Among the poems, the Flowers and
Bees personified, dispense sweetness in
Twice Smitten," by Leon Starr, and
"A Song" by Genevra Madeline Joce-
lyn. Claude Fayette Bragdon be-
queaths TO the world a proverb in ''Es-
sences. 'Self-Abnegation," by Eliz-
abeth Alden Curtis, deals with the
questionable virtues of the recluse. I
Never Knew Before" in a strain of
sad sentiment is by Roy c. Robinson.
Among the stories are q" Bonnie Boon
at Dickinson" by William Wallace
Cook: AT Eventide,'' by Hubert Henry
Davies. and "A Love" by William H.
Ellis. One of the characteristic prod
ucts of the late G.. Fredric Russell is a
parable. The Seven-Ton Casting" Two
other numbers which might be con-
strued in different ways as parallels are
"Metempsychosis," treating of the i'm
pulses that lead to human dust, by St.
George Best; and another, by Nellie
Arlington, picturing Death as halting
when Life's charms have fed. 1t is en-
titled Sorrows Feast" and, with the
other stories. is accompanied by very
adroitly executed marginal Illustrations
from the pen of Max Knowles.
The October issue of Art Idols of the
Paris Salon is at hand, containing re-
productions of the famous nude figures
of The Paris Salon. 1t is one of the most
s,lperb numbers yet published. The
prints in black and white are in every
wav as rich and beautiful as the can
vases in oil colors as exhibited in this
greatest of all fine art exhibitions-the
Salon-where the greatest artists OF
the world show their most important
works One of the most beautiful
ideas Of the present collection IS a
comparison shown in THE Odalisque