Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Harpers Magazine May number has a vary appropriate und most Interesting re vlov l Fifty Years of Harpers Magazine Maga-zine It Is wrlllun by lie editor und illustrated by many portraits of proprietors proprie-tors I IlTilorH and contributors I K K Kas ton contributes Uu llrst of a series In stilo lie Boer Llnefi Rudvinl Kiplings From a Winter NoteBook describes tho fiost seapon In Vermont his former home Capt T Malmnn Tho Problem of Asia concludes a very instructive and able series of papers Slophon Lranos Whllomvilla Stories ore diverting as usual Mrs Humphry Wards aerial Eleanor advances through the fifth part I Znngwlll begins a story The Mantle of Elijah 1 for which the frontispiece frontis-piece Is an Illustration There are other good stories and poems i and the Illustrations Illustra-tions arc fine A great and noble magazine maga-zine Harper Brothers New York Current Lltcraturu for May hUM readings read-ings from Frank T 1 niillcn Leo Tolslol Slophon Bonsai and Robert lichens Its editorials touch upon disappearing authors auth-ors literary outcists lllvirt and tho church young men and political life and other topics of Interest The departments include contemporary celebrities I history music poetry wit and humor pen pie turN of travel animal life books solon llfio problems and ninny other l titles It Is a great compendium of good reading Current Literature Publishing Co New York II CnssoHu LILLIe Folko for May has a pretty historical sketch hnntitsoino Illustrations Illus-trations a colored frontispiece and a I profuso quantity of suiUiblo reading for I tho Jltlk folks It Is n favorlto with I i them and Justly so Cnsscll Company I Now York J I I In the Living Ago for April 2Jth Sir I John Robinson continues his South African I Afri-can a mont Interesting and timely series Unpublished letters of Cnrlylo nnil Robert Chiunbors aro reprinted I printed and llu > ro IH I much good roadliiR I In pvoso and Poetry Tho Living Age I Boston |