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, more than 81. 500, 900 by reason of his de-
votion to public life. This, and other in
tersting facts are brought cut in the ar
ticle on British Statesmen as Wage
Farmers" which Henry w. Lucy will con-
Tribute to the Youths Companion for the
week of Sept q.
The C. w Dillingham; company will be
the American publishers of the lOnS-eX-
pected Memoirs of Victor Hugo which
promise to form one of the most import
ant works of the cning season. These
meoirs, which will be translated by Mi
John w. Harding, begin with the year
1925 when Hugo witnessed the coronation
of Charles X. at Rheims: Hugo was in
the confidence of Louis Philippe, and the
earlier parts of his memoirs will have the
desirable quality of being practically new,
as his later career, notably his opposition
to Napoleon III has obscured these days
of his early manhood.
''ThesArt of Buying Food for a Family"
by Mary Graham. is an able paper in the
September Cosmopolitan" on the very
practical subject of puryey1ng for a
household. The writer shows just where
the average housekeeper is wasteful, and
tells many things that will enable pur-
| veyOr to supply her family with variety
In food al less cost than that with which
| she now endaavors to maintain house,
| hold with a too frequent accompaniment
| Of complaint and criticism.
Further announcement of the series on
! New York in Fiction" to begin in the
forthcoming number of The Boollman. in
! valuable feature of these articles. on a
| subject Of great interest to all Ameri-
cans, will be the illustrations, which are
| to be numerous and OF a unique kind.
Among the places identified in New York
| fiction TO be illustrated in the first article
are Jacob Dolph's house in. Burners
Story of a New York House," Burners
Little Red Box. Of Vesey-- Street, the
Big Barracks of Julian's' Ralph's "Peo-
pie We Pass" the newsboys' lodging
house where Mr.. Townsend found "Chinl-
ME Fadden," and other slum scenes de-
| scribed, in this authors stories of New
York.
Mrs Burton Harrison's latest novel;
THE Circle of a Century" which the
publication, is a round of love stories in
New y Ork. : The scene of the first Is laid
in the Bowling Green neighborhood when
the festivities were in progress that
Washington and the establishment of con-
stitutional government. The hero is
soldier and the scion Of an old and hon
.ored~eolonial family; While the heroine is
-fIrish mechanic: 2f<s,@ -
+ gyhe subject of a very interesting srti-
Gle. in the September number Of The
American Illustrated Methodist Magazine
SSsflIia4af Jones; I'D. D.=The, author was
I ehabIaihssef the Army of Northern Vir-
ginfa, and followed Gen, Lee through all
| his campaigns to the surrender at Apo
mattoX.
F Among the early. fall publications of
' Little, Brown & Co. is a wonder story for
girls and boys by John Preston True, en-
titled THE Iron Star. and What 1t Saw
in Its Quincy, Through the Ages" Start
ing with the fall of meteorite in the
/ times of the gCaNemen, the .bookspressnts
q series of exceedingly interesting con-
Injected historical sketches, which give
some idea of the growth of the worlds
civiliaatt0h down to the days of Miles
1 Standish-}--~E r =
The Century company annqunces for
8 pgbficatiqn in October a new edition Of
+ The .Isiasntts;;.<hy Richard Whiteing, au
E thof or NO. John street" This story
+ appeared soneoten years sllee, and. was
received With great cordfa1fty ~ the press
OF England and America. but failed to at
book of which it was the forerunner.
The55neW. edition will contain two entire
~ new chapters, apropos of recent events
IN france 1t has been revised through
out, and will be prefaced4by new intro
duction ), Sc