LITERARY NOTES.
The leading article in Apple-tons' Popular Science Monthly for August is a timely discussion of " What to Tax and How to Tax it," by the Hon. David A. Wells. Dr. R. W. Shufeldt contributes a wellillustrated article entitled, " Some Uses of the Camera in Zoology." The mysterious and beautiful phenome non known as the "Aurora Borealis " is described and pictured by W. Farrand Felch. Prof. Israel C. Russell contributes an important geologic and topo graphic study under the title" Topographic Features due to Landslides." " The Romance of Race," by Grant Allen, discusses the interesting and important popular aspects of the race question. Prof. Mary Roberts Smith, contributes a thoughtful essay under the title " Education for Domestic Life. Dr. M. W. Barr is the author of a most timely article on "The Training of Mentally Deficient Children." Harper"s Magazine for September contains "Days in the Arctic, notes from the Journal of Frederick G. Jackson." "An Angel in a Web," a novel by Julian Ralph, part I. "The New Fiscal Policy of the LTnited States," by Worthington C. Ford. "The Romance of a Mad King," by Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smith, D.D. A vivid sketch of the life of Wagner's patron, King Louis II. of Bavaria. " Mr. Gladstone. Second paper. Reminiscences, Anec dotes, and an estimate," by George W. Smalley. "United States Foreign Military Expeditions," by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart. " Social Life in the British Army, part I.," by a British officer. " The Turk at Home," by Sidney Whitman, F. R. G. S. "Future Policy of the United States," from an Eng lish point of view, by James Bryce. The stories of this number are, "Justice and the Judge," by Mar garet Deland; " Sun-down Leflare's Warm Spot," by Frederic Remington; " After All," by Katrina Trask; and "The One Thing Needful," by Alice Duer. This year the colored cover of the August fic tion number of Scribner's Magazine is one of the four prize designs by Albert Herter. The war has necessarily crowded out some of the illus trated short stories. Mr. Davis sends a brilliant account of •'The Landing of Shafter's Army," and the raising of the American flag. John R. Spear's who was present at the bombardment of San Juan, has written, under the title, " The Chase of Cervera," a picturesque and stirring narrative of the movements of Admiral Sampson's squadron. Under the title " Episodes of the War," Scribner's will give in each number brief and vivid accounts of
dramatic incidents. Mr. Spears contributes, " The Winslow Affair." J. F. J. Archibald, describes the actual " First Engagement of American Troops on Cuban Soil." "The Amalgamated Bill " is a short story of very original motive by Charles Warren. ' ' Gormley's Scoop " is a newspaper story turning on a supernatural event, written by E. A. Walcott. "A Saga of the Seas " is another Golden Age story by Kenneth Grahame, the chronicler of child-life.
The complete novel in the August issue of Lippincott's, " The Last Rebel, "is by Joseph A. Altsheler. The scene is a lonesome post in the southern Alleghanies, held for the Confederacy by a chivalrous monomaniac after the unpleasantness of 1861-65 had ended. "Tudie" and "Misery" as described re spectively by Alice Miriam Roundy and Elizabeth F. Tittle, were girls of extremely diverse situation and fortune. Edwin A. Pratt and John Ford Barbour narrate the amatory exploit of " A Fortune-hunter." The prospects of " The United States as a Colonial Power" are considered by Fred. Parry Powers. George J . Varney writes of " Signalling in War-time," and George Ethelbert Walsh of " Privateers." A bit of old frontier history is given by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer under the title " In Ohio a Hun dred Years Ago." In the Atlantic Monthly for September, Prince Kropotkin, the Russian revolutionist and refugee, begins his reminiscences, which it is believed will be among the most interesting publications of the sort that have appeared for many years in any quarter of the world. Under the title of "America's Jubilee of Science," W. J. Magee will write of the magnificent achievements of American scientists during the past half century. The letters of Thomas Carlyle to his "little sister Jenny" (Mrs. Hanning), recently dis covered, which begin in this number, will be edited by Mr. Charles Townsend Copeland, who will also prepare for the Atlantic a paper on " Carlyle as a Letter Writer." The stories are : " At The Twelfth Hour," by Joseph Altsheler; " The March of Prog ress," by Charles W. Chesnutt; "The Circle of Death," by Miss G. D. Wetherbee.
The relations of England and America continue to be much discussed in the English reviews. Two noticeable articles, looking at the question from slightly different points of view are reprinted in The Living Age from " The Nineteenth Century." One is by Frederick Greenwood and the other by Sir George Sydenham Clarke.
