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Harper'S Mdu6zine.

Harper's Magazine for september has for its
leading article "Around London by Bicycle
in which Eliza beth Robins Pencil describes a
number of rides radia:ing from the great city
which introduces the traveller TO a greater
variety of places OF interest from q literary
point of view than can be found anywhere
else in an equal area. The article is splen-
didly illustrated. There is an Indian myth
told by Frederic Remington as he heard the
legend from a hali-breed interpreter. "a
Twentieth Century Prospect" by our leading
naval authority, Captain A. T. Mahan,
U, S. N, gives an estimate of the part the
United States must stand ready to take in
future con 1icts. Henry James gives view of
George du Maurier from the standpoint of an
intimate friend and fe llow-craftsman. James
Barnes tells of the beginnings of the Ameri-
can navy. Frank Stockton continues his ex-
travagant flights OF Imagination in "The Great
Stone of Sardis," and the 'Lotos Land of the
Pacific" by John Harrison Wagner, gives a
view OF native life in Samoa, the Illustrations
TO which, by ]. Macfarlane, are very well done
There are quite number of shor. stories and
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THE MAGAZINES.
North American Review.

The Septem Der number OF the North Ameri-
can Review contains a paper that will be OF
especial interest TO the people of this coast on
"Chinese Slavery in America" by Charles
Frederick Holder An examination of the
records OF the Chinese American missions
shows that slavery of the most horrible and
debased nature Is being carried on wherever
the Chinese have found foothold. The Rev.
Josiah Strong, in 1.-The Problem of the Twen-
tieth Century" shows that by 1920 the popu-
lation of the cities will be able TO control the
American Associa ton OF Farmers Institute
Managers, writes about farmers insti-
tutes ana their work. Under the title of
1.-The United States and the Western Henri
sphere" there are two articles-one on the
liberation OF the Spanish-American colonies
by II. d. Money, SenatoT-elect from Mississippi
in reply to the paper by the Mexican Minister,
which appeared in the July Review, and the
other concerning our diplomacy i'll regard to
Central American canals, by James Gustavus
Whitley. The leading article is, "Are Our
School Histories Angophobe?' by Professor
Goldwin Smith. The woman question is in
diligently discussed by Mrs G. G. Buckler
under the modest title 1.-THE Lesser Man"
The final paper of the series on 1.-THE Progress
OF the United States" by Professor w. Garden
BlaIkie, deals with the Pacific States, and
there is an article on 1.-The Administration
and Hawaii" by Longield German. The
number will be OF particular interest to Cali
fornia and the Pacific Coast.
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TO YOUNG NOVELlSTS.

The New York Commercial Advertiser in q
recent editorial noting the large sales that
such wholesome stories ''Sentimen tai
Tommy" king Noanett," "The Country OF
the Pointed FRS" and kate Carnegie" have
had this year, makes this very pertinent side
remark to young authors:
Young writers-and there are a legion OF
them-would do well TO remember that If they
wish 10 make their stories and novels immor-
tai they must first Of all make them healthy.
The popularity of disease is never lasting
The literary crazes of the last five years
show, indeed, that disease sometimes exer-
cises an unholy fascination, but sooner or
later the spell will be broken. and readers
will scent the corruption and turn from it in
disgust.
The reason for this is not far to seek. The
majority OF men and women wish TO take as
hopeful a view Of life as possible. They like
to think well of their kind to believe thatmen
are brave and that women are pure. They
want TO feel that somehow good will be the
final goal of ILL., that the wicked will not tri-
umph nor the righteous be overthrown. They
60 10 fiction To have these beliefs confirmed,
TO have these hopes fulfilled. This does not
imply that fiction should be melodramatic,
that it should not be true To life. 1t can be
true to the facts OF life and yet be instinct
with the spirit of hopefulness and with the
spirit OF sweet reas ona bleness,
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The Cen fury.

In the September number of the Century
there are some interesting notes OF a Partisan,
Pierre de Coubertin. calle1 "RoyalisI and Re-
pubIicaus." "An Adventure With q Dog and
a Glacier" by John Muir, is timely, ii tells
of perils in Alaska. Adventure is the chief
feature of The number. ''What Stopped the
Ship" by H. Phelps Whitmarsh, is story of
mid-ocean mystery. up the Matterhorn in
a Boat" by Mrs. Marion Manville Pope, is
an extravaganza suggest ting the daring ad-
ventures OF aeronauts. The experiences of
two ladies in an outof-the-way region in Java
is given by Miss E. L. Scidmore, who wrote
"Down to Java" in the August lumber. Deal
ing with adventure also is DR.. Weir Mitchell's
American story, "Hugh Wynne." The study
by Mrs. Catherwood of the days OF
Jeanne dare" comes under the head OF
adventure too. "The Cruelties of the Congo
Free State" by E. J. Glave, is an astonishing
expose OF the barbarities practiced by so-called
civilized people on the blacks. "Browning's
Summers in Brittany" is study of the poets
Breton work and also an illustrated paper OF
travel. Harry Furniss, one Of Punch's car
toonists, writes "Glimpses of Gladstone" with
characteristic drawings of the English states
man not before printed.
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sphinx itself, he has the same apprehensive
glance, the glance of the reporter of genius.
1t is there that he and Mr.. kipling take hands
they are both superb journalists at bottom,
but whereas one adds to his journalistic equip
ment an extravsgant sense OF fun, the other is
enriched by dramatic power and nowledge OF
hearts
Mark Twain at his best is the most bracing
companion in the worId-he is so amusing and
amused, and withal so sane. He is so unbur-
dened by sentiment or reverence-and m ost OF
US have TOO much OF both. 1t was the absence
OF these qualities which made 1.-The lnnocents
Abroad" the refreshing book it was. gener-
alton bred up on Mr.. RusKin was left gasping
by the impudence of this American, who de-
clined to put on fine phrases and tread del
cately just because he had exchanged his own
country for an older. 1t was the first trans
Atlantic democratic utterance which found its
way into the hearing of the mass OF
English people. Bret Har;e's idyls of
the Californian mines had paved the
way; but he only described the rough
western diamOnd-this was the diamond ITSELF
articulate. People who were tired OF formal
and machine made periods turned TO Mark
Twain as thirsty travellers turn to a spring.
He gave them a new language. freer air. He
brought the Far West vociferous to our doors.
He acquainted US with Americas National
unscrupulousness, its daring. He was the first
man VINO had ever laughed in catacombs, the
first to connect Michael Angelo with fun.
But Mark Twain did more than this. Not
only did he offer broad, comic effects and sa-
gacious criticisms of life, be passed on to
add notable contributions to that mass Of
data concerning human nature which novel
lists and dramatis,s have been accumulating
these many centuries. Tom Sawyer has been
called the completest boy in fiction, and it
would be hard to prove this praise at fault;
and Huck Finn is surely immortal. 1t was
said that in some of his poems nature took the
pen from Wordsworth and wrote for him. In
Huckleberry Finn it may be said that natural
man took the men from Mark Twain aud
wrote for him. That great book, which is
likely to remain the standard picturesque
novel OF America, is the least trammeled piece
OF literature in the language. 1t is worthy to
rank with "Gil Bias"
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The Atlantic Monthly.

The Atlantic Monthly for September con-
tains an encouraging article on the subject of
the condition of the people to wealth di stri-
button as compared with former times. The
title asks the question, care the Rich Growing
Richer and the Poor Poorer?" and the writer,
Colonel Carroll d. Wright, chief of the Bureau
OF Labor Statistics, furnishes proof that while
the number of rich men is increasing the rela
tive number of poor men is decreasing, and
that the tendency OF our population is toward
an increase in well being along the whole
line. "On Being Human" by Woodrow Will
son of Princeton University, is an essay
on the human quality in books. The pro-
fsssor points out how this charm in literature
distinguishes it from mere learning. In THE
American Notion OF Equality Henry Childs
Merwin discusses how far that notion has been
realized. Theodore Roosevelt writes an arti-
Gle on Municipal ministra tion the New
York Police Force" which shows the vast
good that was effected In the metropolis by re-
form in that branch of administration "a
Southerner in the Peloponnesiau War"
by Professor B. L. Gildersleeve of Johns Hop
kins University, gives the "reminiscences of
soldier IN the Confederate Army, and as a
student of the Peloponnesian War draws some
interesting parallels etween the two conflicts
"a New Organization for the Navy" by Ira N
II oils, professor OF Harvard and formerly of
the United States navy, states the necessity OF
the read justment of the personnel 20 steam
warships. There is q description of the expe-
rienee of the American astronomical expedi-
ton to Japan last year to witness the total
eclipse of the sun; second installment of the
letters OF Swift; the conclusion of the story,
"Sutterfeld and Company which shows the
contrast of life in Virginia before the war and
since; an account of naturalists ram bles in
North Carolina, and two short stories
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The passing OF the Lark and the coincident
heglra of Gelett Burgess have snapped one of
the threads which bound San Francisco, in
literary way, 10 the rest of the world. And
such threads were few. The work OF Califor-
nian writer's has often been important, but,
before the Lark was Matched, there was no lit
erary cooperation there, no union of pur-
pose, no group. San Francisco's position in
letters was isolaIed-unique. West of the
West, the work OF its writers could not lily be
included under that classifying brand of the
criuc-Western literature. Neighborless, as
far as seats OF learning were concerned, 1t de-
pended upon the fraternal, publishing East 10
purchase and dispense the wares GIFTS authors.
1t is true, Cal1oTnians might have recog-
nzed in this verificat on of the biblical
GAS far as the east is from the west, so far
hath he removed our transgressions from u.s.;
but it was, nevertheless, rather hard local
pride. For the apprentice, however, the way
10 fame was. happily. precarious as the
passage OF the Mohammedan's bridge to the
gates of heaven. 10 which fact is due, no
DOUBT. the very respectable average, in point
OF merit, of California literature.
1t would be superogatory to catalogue the
achievements of the authors OF the Pacific
Coast This has been done ad nauseum by
the California press In an abortive spirit OF
literary jingoism; nor is their geographical
distribution matter of special in terest to
any but that family of fauna itself San
Francisco has always been the radiant whence
the shooting stars OF literature take their
flight with Occasi onal explosion, amid the
flashes OF silence that are heard even as far
as Boston.
1t was from such condition that the Lark
emerged, something over two years ago,
and proceeded to be discovered" in all
parts OF the country. Les Jeunes, or, in
other words, Gelett Burgess, Ernest Peix-
otto, Bruce Porter, Porter Garnett Florence
Lundborg, and the rest, pooled their facul-
ties, as 1t were, and Immediately engaged the
interest OF The discriminating. They cons IL
tuted group, the first IN the history of Cali
fOrnia letters, and by virtue of a certain
dizziness and naivete, made for their fancies
friends that they knew not Of But the
Lark was like q prophet and it had TO look
toward the rising sun Tor appreciation and
support And now it is dead. Les Jeunes
taken doubtless with an affection similar to
the gold fever of the Klondike, are striking
out for the East where the nuggets OF
recognition and encouragement are 10 be
picked up in the fertile fields of literature and
art. Gelett Burgess and Ernest Peixotto are
in New York, Bruce Porter and Florence Luud-
borg are headed toward Europe, and 1.-THE
Homeless Snail Yone Noguehi, alone re-
mains:
Standing like ghost in the smiling mysteries Of
the moon garden.
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The Review of Reviews.

The most interesting subject treated in the
Review of Reviews Tor this month is the affair
OF Professor Andrews OF Brown University,
which, it is prophesied, will be historic as a
sort OF Roger Williams battle secundus The
Klondike situation is discussed and another
timely subject is about wheat, silver and
prices. ExMinister j. L. NJ Curry, in ''Cano-
vas, SPANS Foremost Statesman" talks of
spain's suicidal course In regard TO her
colonies. There is sketch of the three men,
beIs of the new Nicaragua Canal Commission,
showing the qualifications OF these gentle
men for their task. paper deserving of the
most earnest attention is 1.-THE Sine Qua Non
of Caucus Reform" in which Ralph Eas.ey
urges that the better ass of American citi-
zens should go out anu take an active share in
party primaries. The last chief OF the Pot
tawatomie Indians, Simon Pakagon, joins
with Agent Terry and others in condemning
the present method of naming the Indians in
the West.
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Scribner's Magazine.

The September scribner has article on
''San Sebastian, the Spanish Newport by
William Henry Bishop, with illustrations by
i. Marchetti, which gives glim pse of the
Queen Regent and the little King. Walter A.
Wyckoff contributes the second number of
"The Workers. and tells OF an experiment in
toll as day laborer at West Point. 1.-The Way
OF an Election" by Octave Thanet, is the
second of a series of five papers, stories
of labor and capital ''Some Notes on Ten
nessee's Centennial," by F. Hopklnson Smith
is very interesting, and pays an enthusias tic
tribute to Tennesseeans for getting up such
successful show at time of so much financial
depression. ITO the Shores of the Mingan
Seignory," by Frederick Irland, with
illustrations from photographs b. the
author, will prove interesting to lovers of
scenery. Lord Byron in the Greek Revolu-
tion," by +. B. Sanborn, shows the poet in one
of the noblest features OF his life. eat the
Foot OF the Roeki les" by Able Carter Goodloe,
tells OF how young Englishmen make ranch
and military post life agreea BILE though seventy
miles from railway station. "a Misunder-
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MCClure's Mao azine.

McClure's Magazine for September has a
practical article on "Life Ill the Klondike Gold
Fields" which embodies the personal obser-
yations of pioneer who has lately come
home with good sized bag of dust and mug
gets. 1t tells all about the life the Klordike,
how the miners enter and work their claims,
what kind OF men they are, how they govern
themselves and how they spend their leisure
time. The article is fully illustrated from re-
cent photographs. ''The Cleaning of a Great
City" by Colonel George E. Waring, the Com
missioner OF STRENGTHENING in New York,
shows that it is quite feasible at slight cost
to keep the streets OF a big city as clean AID
wholesome as a well-kept house. There is a
series OF life portraits of Henry Clay, most OF
which were never before published. Robert
Barr gives a humorous story OF hoy cowboy
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HERE AND THERE.

Mrs. Gertrude Anterior. who has been living
in England for some time, IS going to Rouen.
where she will complete her new story.
There mas been rumor of late that DR.. Ibsen
was getting tired of Christlania, where he has
been living for the last few years, and that he
soon would settle down again abroad. We
now hear that Dr. Ibsen has decided to leave
CHRISTIANS at the end of October, and will
take up his abode in Rome for the time being
1t is somewhat mundane to assert books
with money, but authors 40 not write for
glory, nor do publishers publish for the same
thing. Anyhow, without further comment,
the calculation has been made that Hall
Caines 1.-THE Christian" ought to bring him
in some $40, 900.
This is from the Critic: "Anthony Hope was
asked recently, apropos of his coming lecture
tour in this country, whether he intended to
write book OF his American impressions.
He promptly answered: 4 shall be there too
long to write my impressions. / understand
that no traveller writes book who stays in q
country more than week, and shall be in
America three months at least
An INQUIRY was recently sent to the most
eminent literary men an women in America
says the London Christian World, asking what
were the ten poems that should be regarded
as 1.-The noblest in English literature" Sixty
seven replies were received, and the list of the
ten selections shows Wordsworths ode on
'Immor tality'' in the lead, this having re-
ceived fifty votes.
Some people will boast about anything. 1t
is said that DR.. Charles L. Mooney OF Lexing-
ton, KY, is the champion whisky-drinker of
the world" The doctor claims that he has
for fifty wears averaged over twenty drinks of
he Nv doll nj 6rip 10
Ii there was one gill at each drink he has con-
sumed 81 $50 pints, or 45,625 quarts, or IL,
406 gallons. This amount OF liquor would fill
ISL hogsheads. The doctor, it is said is now
somewhat wrecked in HEALTH We can quite
believe 1t.
Journalistic ubiquity is commonly supposed
to be recent invention, but the author Of
Gan Englishman in Paris" writing in re-
cent issue of the Fortnightly Review about
Emile de Girardn, whom he calls "The King
of Journalists shows that so far back as
the thirties and forties Girardin had perfected
a system of which the most enterprislng of
modern editors might be proud. He kept a
voluminous record of every contemporary
whose name was at all likely 10 reeur in the
warfare of politicl, and in so far as he
could do so he got this record from the
revelations made at one time or another by
the men themselves. II they had ever printed
a syllable that they wished to forget be hold !
Girardin had it in his treasury. ''Girardin
who could be very amiable at times" SAYS Mr..
Vandsm, asked TO test his system 1
named a political parsonage, somewhat ZEN
evidence at the time, and in less than mo-
ment had not only the main lines of his
career before me- but particulars which could
not be red either from books or news
papers," Mr.. Vandam's paper makes diverting
reading for any one interested in the history
of journalism.
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BY A HINDU SAGE.

FROM COLOMBO TO ALMORA-By Gwami
Vivekananda- Madras; The Vyjay anti Press.
These seventeen lectures by a Hindu teacher
were delivered upon his return TO his native
land alter four years spent in travelling in the
West and studying its civilization and re-
ligion. He is regarded Dy his people with all
the reverence due to a divine messenger In
the enthusiastic addresses to him upon his
arrival in his old home in Calcutta he was
told that he had world to conquer, that ii
was for him to interpret and vindicate the re-
ligion OF the Hfndus 10 the ignorant the
skepticel and the willfully blind. II was this
Gwami who presented the principles of the
Aryan religion to the Worlds Parliament OF
Religions. He explains mis- religion in thes e
lectures and says that the source of all truth is
in the Vedanti scriptures.
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The Ladies' Home Journal.

The Ladies' Home Journal for September
contains the second part of Hamlin Garland s
serial, 'The Spirit of Sweetwater," and the
first part OF Mrs. Mark Morrison's series for
children, 1.-THE Pixies and the Elaines."
when Henry Clay Sa Farewell TO the Sem
ate" tells of one of the great dramatic scenes
CT Congress. Elizabeth Bisland in THE Diff
ference Between Mrs. A. and Mrs. B." dis
cusses the exactions that 1.-THE Four Hun
dred, or the Dominating Social Circle OF Our
Communities" imposes on an aspirant for ad-
mission 10 its ranks. There is composition
for the piano, 1.-THE Golden Vineyard WalHes,"
by the famous composer, Edward Jakobowski
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A PLEA FOR PURITY.

THEN, AND NOT TILL THEN By Clara
Nevada Mcleod. New York: Robert Lewis
Weed Company.
simple story whose purport is explained
by the following extract which is used as a
motto Tor the book: when the hus bands and
the fathers are pure they wish their
wives and daughters 10 be; then, and not till
then, will the foundations OF pure society be
laid" 1t tells of man who let his affections
stray from his wife to a former sweetheart
and the wrecking of the happiness OF two
women in consequence 1t is crudely written,
but is evidently an honest effort to inculcate
purity by picturing a case where its non
observance brought much misery,
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IN THE LAND OF PLOTS.

FOR HER LIFE-By Richard Henry Savage.
Chicago and New ork: Rand. McNally & Co
Price 81 so.
The type of novel with scenes laid in Russia,
where plots are rife and Government espion-
age almost unbearable, where punishment for
political offeuse is swift and where even to be
suspected is to be in extreme danger, is well
known to fiction readers. and this story is q
fai-ly good one of that species. The hero is a
Greek soldier in the Russian service who gets
himself into the tolls on account of his chiv-
alric befriending OF beautiful woman and of
his having reused the enmity of the COM
maader Of the military police.
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THE LAWS OF PLAY.

COMPLETE HOYLE-By r F. Foster. New
ork: Frederick A. Stokes Company. For sale
in this City by the Dodge Book ana Stationery
Company, Post street Price 81.
This is an encyclopedia of all the indoor
games played at the present day, with sugges-
tions for good play, full code of laws, illus
trative hands and a brief statement of the
doctrine of change as applied to games. The
author does not believe it posi- Die 70 compile
a work which would be so universally recog-
nized as an authority on games a dictionary
on spelling, but aims to select what seems to
be the most common usage, or the best rule, to
state il accurately and bring l up 10 date.
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Frank Ies.ie's Monthly.

Frank Leslie's Monthly for September has
for leading ar tiele an account of the historic
Waikiki Valley. There is valuable paper on
The United States Marine Hospital Service"
Garrard Harrison describes "Piantation Life
in Dixie" The old city of Bahia, in Brazil, is
the subject OF an article by Henry Greyson.
The American cities series is continued with
an account of Pittsburg. by Charles Thomas
Logan, and there are several short stories.
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ABOUT SWITZERLAND.

ANNALS OF SwIZERLAND-By Julia M Col
New York: A. s Barnes d Co.
The reason given for the putting forth OF
this work is that there are few records in the
English Language of the inspiring event is in
the long history OF this little nation. The fact
that the picturesque land is such mecca tor
lovers of natures grandeur would alone make
its annals of much interest. and when we add
TO that its being the scene where brave race
wrought out its freedom and developed a sue
cessful democracy age of almost univer-
sal despodc power. they become most orthy
subject OF study.