Solomon Schindler; " Rhode Island," by E. Benja min Andrews; "Mrs. Rex's Brahmin," by Kate Gannett Wells; " Bird Traits," by Frank Bolles; "An Old New Hampshire Muster," by Horatio J. Perry; " A Plea for the German Element in Amer ica," by W. L. Sheldon; " The Tendencies of Othello Perkins," by Helen Campbell; •• Profit Sharing in the United States," by Nicholas Paine Oilman. The Arena for September presents a rich and varied table of contents, as will be seen from the following : The Future of Islam," by Ibn Ishak; "Old Stock Days," by James A. Heme, with fullpage portrait of Mr. Heme; " Psychical Research," by Rev. M. J. Savage; " The Communism of Cap ital," by Hon. John Davis, M. C.; the third paper in the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy, by Edwin Reed; " Successful Treatment of Typhoid Fever," by Dr. C. E. Page; " Under the Dome of the Capitol," by Hamlin Garland; " Walt Whitman," by Prof. Willis Boughton, Ph. D.; " Bricks without Straw," a story of the modern West, by John Hudspeth; " A Symposium on Woman's Dress Reform," prepared under the auspices of the National Committee of Women of the United States. The September Cosmopolitan is an unusually interesting number. " The Advance of Education in the South," by Charles W. Dabney, Jr., is per haps the most important of its contents, and will open the eyes of many a reader as to the educational status of that portion of our country. The article is beautifully illustrated. " Up the Onachita on a Cotton-Boat," by Stoughton Cooley, and Alligator Hunting with the Seminoles," by Kirk Munroe, give us further pictures of Southern life. Murat Halstead contributes an amusing paper on " The Chi cago Convention." There is the usual supply of fiction, including the first part of a new story by H. H. Boyesen, entitled Social Struggles."
The contents of the Century for September are notable for their variety and excellent quality. They include " The Grand Falls of Labrador." by Henry G. ISryant; " The Nature and Elements of Poetry," VII., by Edmund Clarence Stedman; "Pioneer Packhorses in Alaska," by E. J. Glane; "Christopher Columbus," V., by Emilio Castelar; "The Chosen Valley," V., by Mary Hallock Foote;
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"Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposi tion," IV., by Henry Van Brunt; "The Pictorial Poster," by Brander Matthews; and " The Chate laine of La Trinite,', IV., by Henry B. Fuller.
The September issue of Lippincott's is a Pacific number. Every article in it deals with topics of our Western coast, — chiefly, of course, Californian, — or has been prepared by a native or resident of that favored region. The complete novel, " The Doomswoman," is by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. It is a vigorous tale of "the grass era" of Spanish occupation, and depicts with vivid brilliancy the manners, amusements, passions, and intrigues of those hidalgos and donnas who ruled the land be fore its cession. The novel is fully illustrated.
The contents of the September Atlantic are as follows : "The Story of a Child," IV., by Margaret Deland; " Cliff-Dwellers in the Canon," by Olive Thome Miller; An American at Home in Europe," III., by William Henry Bishop; "Catherine," by Mary J. Jacques; "ANew England Boyhood," III., by Edward Everett Hale; " Romance of Memory," by S. R. Elliott; " The Lost Colors," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; " Don Orsino," XIX-XXI., by F. Marion Crawford; " The Primer and Literature," by Horace E. Scudder; " An Afternoon Tea," by Harriet Lewis Bradley; " The Prometheus Un bound of Shelley," III., by Vida D. Scudder, "To Oliver Wendell Holmes," by John Greenleaf Whittier.
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