THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEWS OF REVIEWS for September lias a good deal to say about the Andrews incident and Brown University — not so much on account of the personal interests involved in the case as because of the far-reaching principles affecting academic life and liberty which have become matters at issue. Among the contributed articles are sketches of the three members of the new Nicaragua Canal Commission — Admiral Walker, Capt. О. M. Carter. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and I'rof. Lewis M. Haupt. These sketches are illustrated with portraits. The Hon. J. L. M. Curry, formerly our Minister to Spain, contributes an estimate of the murdered Premier of Spain, Señor Cánovas del Castillo, and his relations to modern Spanish politics.
THE editorial matter of the September number of CURRENT LITERATURE is able and interesting, and the selections well chosen and abundant. The verse de partments are this month enriched by the addition of two pages of love songs selected from the poems of the late Jean Ingelow. There is also an appreciative sketch of her life and work taken from the London Academy, and a portrait of Miss Ingelow in the de partment " Gossip of Authors," where also amongst others appears a very interesting account of Maurus Jokai. the Hungarian novelist.
MRS. ELLEN M. HEXROTIN, President of the General Fédération of Women's Clubs in the United States, contributes to the October NATIONAL MAGA ZINE a strong article on " Women in Finance." Mr. Hay den Carruth begins in this number a short serial entitled " Starting • The Burntwood Breeze.'" And there is a very clever article, " From Out the Purple Grape," by Mr. Henry Haynie.
THE September SCIMBNER'S has a number of out ing articles suited to the dog days. William Henry Bishop describes picturesquely the famous wateringplace in northern Spain, San Sebastian. The fashion andgayety of the place lead him to call it "the Span ish Newport." Frederic Irland describes •• a lazycruise " in a schooner along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, east of Tadousac, with excur sions up some of its wonderful salmon streams. It is a wild and beautiful region, absolutely divorced from the tyranny of the railway or steamers. " The Durket Sperret," a novelette by Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott, will run through the fall numbers of this magazine.
HARPER'S MAGA/INT: for October opens with the first installment of " Spanish John," by William Mc Lennan, a novel of adventure dealing with the for tunes of the Scotch Pretenders to the throne of Eng land. The action takes place partly in the army of the King of Spain operating in Italy, and partly in Scotland. The unprecedented popularity of golf in all parts of the United States is celebrated by Casper Whitney in THE GOLFER'S CONQUEST OF AMERICA. A. B. Frost contributes a series of character studies of the humors of bad form in golfing, and a series of illustrations of correct form of using various clubs. The leading clubhouses and links of the country are illustrated by E. C. Peixotto and Henry McCarter, and the portraits of the leading goiters are engraved by Schladitz. The short stories are : " Mrs. Upton's Device," a tale of match-making, by John Kendrick Bangs; " Psyche," a story in dialogue, by George Hibbard; and " There and Here," a story by Alice lirown.
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