Show LITERATURE HARPERS MMUEIHB The frontispiece lor the July number num-ber of Harpers Magazine ia an exquisitely uisitely beautiful engraving from I Mr F 8 Churchs picture A WitobtI Daughter II Toe number ia very riots i in illustration and its table of contents presents very strong literary attractions The opening article of the number is an interesting interest-ing description ot Hempstead Heath the most picturoque of the suburbs of London by WHitim H Rideing with thirteen striking illustrations from drawings oy Hubert W Macbeth and E F Brewtnall Alexander F Oakey contributes a brief artiola ex jlaming what is mean by Ojnven ional l Art with fourteen piotures illustrating the estijest A second paper on Tbe Bornani fli is contributed ributed be H Sutherland Ed ward devoted to low reign ot the late Emperor Em-peror Alexander II Toe article is illustrated by portraits of Alexander II Alexander III tbe present Empress Em-press and tbe Hairapparent An admirable piper ° n Cincinnati it contributed by Oive Logan with twenty illustration from drawings by our beet artists minuet tllgglDBODtI eighth chapter of American History is entitled Tbe Second Generation ofEcgliabtnen in America an exposition I ex-position of the American Colonies at tbe middle oi tbe seventeenth century with eflecttve illustrations from drawings by HowaroP yle and o d portraits An entertaining article on Obaiterton is contributed by John Ingram who has given 2uch study to tbe subject with some beautiful illustrations by Alfred Fredericks Resins Emmet contributes a epirited iilustjatioa for a song by Boberk Browning Tbe fiction of the number num-ber is of an attractive and popular kind consisting ot the third part cl A Castle in Spain with five illustrations illus-trations by A ibty Born to Good Luck JI a short story by Cnarle Rende Qaite Private a lively dramatic sketch by Mrs D H R Goodale and a humorous sketch entitled en-titled Aunt Maria and the Auto pbone William L Stooe contributes con-tributes a paper entitled Tbe Declaration Dec-laration of Independence iu a New Ligbt disclosing some novel facts connected with the passage 01 the original resolution and the subsequent subse-quent signing of the instrument known as utne Declaration George Gary Egglegton traats the subject ot the Education of Women from a practical point of view urging that a woman is of more value as a omau than at a scholar and that her education edu-cation should prepare her first for tbe homely duties and responsibilities that must develop upon her whatever what-ever else that elucaticn may include Wong Chin Foo the editor oi The Chinese American contributes an interesting in-teresting article entitled Political Honors in Coma whicb will commend com-mend itself to all readers interested in the improvement of our civil service ser-vice Poama are contributed by F D Morico and Jenny P Bigelow Mr George William Curtis in tnt Editors Easy Chair Jives some important im-portant suggestions to committees having in charge the designs for Qen tcnnial monuments comments on the memoir of General John A Dix by his eon notices the important work being accomplished by the Society of Decorative Art gives an interesting view of Jonea Very as a poet and reminding us that this is the Luther memorial year contrasts i the conduct of that reformer witb the policy of those who adopt tbo easier maxim to let well enough alone The other editorial depar meats areas are-as timely and interesting ae usual and the EdItors Drawer it especially goodNew New York harper k Bros 81 Lake James Dater NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW In the North American Review for JulyPresident Julius H Seelye writes of Dynamite as a Factor in Civilization taking of the subject the reassuring view that dynamit ism being merely a symptom of present discontent is necessarily a transient social phenomenon which w 11 quickly disappear as the institutions insti-tutions of government are brought more into harmony with the interests and aspirations of the masses of the people In The Last Days of the Rebellion Lieutenant General P H Sheridan recounts the operations of the cavalry divisions under his command during the week preceding the surrender of Lee and offers a highly important contribution to the history of the late war William S HolmanMC makes a striking exhibit of The Increase of Public Expenditures and insists upon the necessity for unceasing vigilance on the part of the people lest the burdens of governmental gov-ernmental administration become intolerable Democracy and Moral Progress by O B Frothing ham is a philosophic forecast of the probable outcome of government by the people themselves Z R UroGkway Superintendent of the Reformatory at Elmira N Y points out some Needed Reforms in Prison Management Thomas Sergeant Perry writes of Science and the Imagination Geo E WaringJrof Sanitary Drainage Elbridge Gerry of Cruelty to Children and finally there is a Symposium on Church Attendance Attend-ance the question whether the churches are growing to be less of a power for good now than in former tiraea the symposlasts being A NonChurohGoer Rev Dr Wm Hayes Ward Rev Dr James M Pullman and Rev Dr J H Bylance Published at 80 Lafayette Place r New York o THE MODERN AGE The July number of The Modern Age is the first issue of its second volume and accompanying it is an index of the numbers from January to June The number opens with an excellent companion piece to Halevys Love Marriage printed in theJuno number entitled A Brilliant Match Mr Began Pauls article on the Production of Books should be read by every literary man in tbe country The first half of Ivan rounjenieffs latest story After Death is atimely selection and is a good specimen of that famous authors strange talent The Man of the Future presents an uncomplimentary picture of what poor humanity is drifting to through the process of evolution A Scrioblers Apology is good reading and A Curious Case of Boycotting Is an entertaining bit of fancy The Weathercock which might have come from the pen of Edgar Poe so vivid and bloodcuidiiug is ittwo poems and the editorial department makeup make-up what is altogether an excellent number of the magazine The Modern Age Publishing Co New York City LITTELLS LIVING AGE The numbers of The Living Age for June tth and Itith contain Persecution Persecu-tion 01 the Jews Edinburgh I John Richard Green and Henry Stephens Steph-ens Smith fortnightly Mrs Car lyle by Mrs Oliphaut3 Contemporary Con-temporary Unwritten History by F II HUXLEY Naturalness Long mans Tha Central Asian Desert Today and Twenty Years Ago Good Words Absentminded People Peo-ple All ghe Year Hnund Whitsuntide Whit-suntide at Home and Abroad Saturday Sat-urday Review with the conclusion of No New Thing instalments of The Wizard and My Daughter inLaw and Poetry Littell Co 31 Bedford St Bos ton Ma sTIlE s-TIlE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY The Popular Science Monthly for July is a strong number in its variety of instructive reading and contains several striking articles The first one The Bailioad Pro blem in the United tttates is an admirable statement of the various urgent and difficult questions tha have oeen created by this new colossal interest of our civilization Mr lies article is not an attempt to solve the problems presented but to put the reader in closer possession of their magnitude and movement and show how different classes of society are related to them Mr lies i3 one of the most lucid and clearheaded of our young writers But the most brilliant paper in the number and as practical as enter taining is that of Dr Oswald on Uysppsia in his series on The Remedies of Nature It presents pre-sents the hygienic treatment of this protean and lireem bittering disease with great vividness and force In fact he shows that nature can deal effectually effect-ually with derangements of diges tion and the disorders of its organs Many adyspeptic wretch would get new experience of life by adopting the treatment here laid down Dr Emily Blaebwell has a very radical and able article on The industrial Position of Women in which she advocates the freest competition in all outside vocations and maintains that the liberation and independence of woman are to come by removing all domestic labor from the home to the sphere of outside business organ ization The editor of the Monthly makes a lively reply to Dr Black wells main positions Huxleys article ar-ticle on Unwritten History is one of the finest of this incomparable scientific essayist Various other contributions make the number a peculiarly attractive one New York D Appleton tC CoLors Co-Lors LenD BRXRESFOBD AND OTHER TALc liy tbo author of tt FhyJha U Molly BaWD etc PhilrdelphU J B LippiaooU Co Salt Lake James Dwyer Price 125 This is a collection of a dozen or more stories none of them so long as to weary the reader even during these warm days Indeed the volume vol-ume was doubtless arranged for hot weather when one wants to read and sleep and doesnt care to have his naps disturbed by bearing iu his mind the thread of a n Del The stories are all good and what is not always the case in modern literature litera-ture are well told ATLANTIC MONTHLY Rome Tour and Newport form the backgrounds of the three strikingly strik-ingly briliantsenais beginningin tie Atlantic Monthly for July namely the new storyA Roman Singer by F Marion Crawford the author of the successful Mr Isaacs En Province the first of a series of papers by Henry James Jr comprising com-prising sketches of life and scenery in the old towns of France and finally fin-ally Mr George Parsons Luthrops clever society novel Newport Tbat the Atlantic follows it usual custom of util zing the work of the best American authors rather than that of English writers may readily be seen from the above announcement announce-ment and consequently few magazines maga-zines can show such attractions for the summer months The amusing sketch Mr Washington Adams in England by R G White is concluded con-cluded in this number and another English paper of a very different description however is contributed con-tributed by Miss Harriet W Preston under the title II Oxford in Winter Miss Preston well known to Atlantic readers by her picturesque travel sketches and in this one a delightful account not only of the old university town but also of many famous Oxonians who have contributed to literature is placed before the reader American life politics and thought are respectively respect-ively touched upon in U Boomtown a Western sketch by F D Y Carpenter Car-penter in a careful article entitled Municipal Extravagance by Arthur Ar-thur B Ellis and in Some Phases of Idealism in New England by Rev O B Frothingham whose articles ar-ticles always command and reward careful attention There are two excellent short stories Sylvan Station by Carolii e E Leignton and Tompkins by P Deming Some good poetry by Edith Thomas Maurice Thompson and E R Sill careful reviews of new books and the Contributors Club complete an unusually agreeable number Houghton Mifflin Co Boston FRANK LESLIES POPULAR MONTHLY The number for July abounds with most interesting and instructive instruc-tive reading The Longest Span in the World by A V Abbott has fourteen illustrations of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Bridge of which full details are given Cornelius Matthews con tiibutes The Poet of HomeJohn Howard Payne this number also contains an unpublished story and poem by Payne There is a sketch of Assam the great Tea Country of India an article by Mrs V T Polk u San Antonio and its Old Missions one by Marc Vallette of peculiar interest with illustrations of the Stranga Funeral Rites indifferent in-different countries There are stories and sketches by Oscanyan N Robinson etc several charming poems and a miscellany of a varied and pleasing character The great serial The Beautiful Countess of Clairville is continued U iVinter Quarters is the title of the colored frontispiece Address Mrs 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