The leading article in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for September is a discussion of "Geological Water Ways Across Central America," by J. W. Spencer. Other interesting articles are "Curiosities of American Coinage," by A. E. Outerbridge, Jr.; "The Nationalization of the Swiss Rail road," by M. Horace Micheli; "College Women and the New Science," by Mrs. Charlotte Smith Angstman. This number contains also a sketch of Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of the vulcanization process in connection with the rubber industry. The war articles in the September Scribner's are led by Richard Harding Davis's account of "The Rough-Riders' Fight at Guasimas." It is the fullest as well as the most thrilling account of the fight yet published, and will stand as the historical picture of that famous event. Edward Marshall, the heroic correspondent who insisted on dictating his account of the fight while supposed to be dying on the field, is now in a New York hospital and has written his recollections of the Guasimas fight. The wife of a naval officer, Anna A. Rogers, writes an amusing love-story of the fleet at anchor at Old Point. C. D. Gibson draws the second chapter of the story in pictures of "A New York Day." A brief article describes the famous railway now building to the top of the Jungfrau. Mr. George E. Graham and Mr. A. M. Goode, contribute to McClure's Magazine for September, accounts of the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet as witnessed by themselves from Commodore Schley's flagship, the "Brooklyn," and Admiral Sampson's flagship, the "New York." A sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln contributes an article giving reminiscences and recollections of Mrs. Lincoln. Hamlin Garland gives an account of General Custer's last fight in the actual words of Two Moon, an Indian chief still living, who took part in it. Harper's Magazine for October contains "On the Roof of the World. Notes from my Journey through Asia," by Sven Hedin; "The Span o' Life, a novel, Part I." By William McLennan and J. N. Mcllwraith; " Social Life in the British Army," by a British Officer. Second Paper; "Our Future Policy," by the Hon. John G. Carlisle; " An Author's Reading and its Consequences," a story, by Mrs. Burton Harrison; "Our Navy in Asiatic Waters," by William Elliot Griffis; "The Sultan and his Sur roundings," by Sidney Whitman; " Pancho's Happy Family, a story of the Battle of Manila," by Henrietta Dana Skinner; "Mr. Gladstone. Re miniscences, Anecdotes, and an Estimate. Third Paper." By George W. Smalley.
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WHAT SHALL WE READ? The Life Publishing Co. has just issued a volume of exceeding interest, entitled, The Yankee Navy,1 in which the author traces the history of our navy from its birth to the destruction of Cervera's fleet. The book is beautifully gotten up and and is filled with interesting illustrations. It is a delight to the eye and a treasure house of valuable information. 1 The V'ankee Navy by Tom Masson. Illustrated. Publishing Co., New York, 1898. Cloth. $1.00.
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NEW LAW-BOOKS. The Life of Judge Jeffreys. By H. B. Irving, M. A., Oxon. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1898. Cloth. This is one of the most interesting books we have had the pleasure of reading for a long time. Mr. Irving does not believe that Jeffreys was nearly as black as he has been painted, and the reader will lay aside the volume with the feeling that, perhaps, after all, the judge was not quite the judicial "monster" that we have been taught to regard him. Jeffreys lived in troublous times, and Mr. Irving maintains, that while in some instances he may have been guilty of flagrant injustice and displayed uncalled for brutality, still on the whole, those brought before him received only their just deserts. Whether or not Mr. Irving is correct in his deductions, the book contains a most graphic description of the rise and fall of a remarkable man, and after having the darkest side of Jeffrey's character so constantly presented, it is pleasant to turn to a work wherein the author has a kindly word to say for one who has been the object of so much execration. A Handbook of Bankruptcy Laws embodying the full text of the Act of Congress of 1898 and annotated with references to pertinent decisions under former Statutes. By H. Campbell Black. West Publishing Co. St. Paul, Minn. 1898. Cloth. This is a timely work and will be of much aid to those of the legal profession who have cases arising under the new Bankruptcy Law. The annotations are very full, and special prominence has been given to the elucidation of those questions which will probably first come before the courts for settlement — questions, that is, of jurisdiction, of procedure, of the persons and corporations entitled to take advantage of the law, or liable to be proceeded against under it, and in regard to the acts of bank ruptcy upon which a petition in involuntary cases
