Show LITERATURE FRISK LESLIES POPDLAB MONTHLY The April number is even more interesting than usual and is replete with instruction and entertainment The embellishments are adrrirable the colored frontispiece The approach AP-proach of a storm is particularly GO The opening article How Uniform Standard Time Came About abounds with information and io profusely illustrated il-lustrated There ae also Illustrated articles by Walter E McCann E A Duyckinck Charies Von 8as N Robinson Prof Barrett T N Seymour Sey-mour etc Etta W Pierce continues her great serial A Dark Deed and there are short stories sketches etc bv John Habbsrton W E MoCann K V Hastings Helen YVPienon and other popular writers There are poems by Sidney Gray Jos B Dalton 8 Waddingtons etc and a large variety of short articles paragraphs para-graphs aneceotes etc There are 128 quarto pages and over 100 illui trot on in each number Mrs Frank Leslie Publisher 53 55 and 57 Park Place ifer York POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY This is an especially strong varied and valuable number The opening paper is by Herbert Spencer on a subject of great public moment the decay of the sentiment of personal liberty and the rapid growth of the system of legislative interference and coercion which be discusses under the title The Gaming Slavery Our politicians should give attention to the striking facts and startling conclusions con-clusions of this maeterh aper A Defense of Modern Though1 by W D Le Stieur is a vigorous reply to the Bishop of Ontario on Agnooli cism and an instructive statement of the position of modern thinkers There is another most excellent and practical chapter of W Mattieu Wil liamss Cheaistry of Cookery in which butter and other fate and milk are treated and Dr Oswald concludes in this number his lively series on The Remedies of Nature The illustrated illus-trated articles are Photographing a Streak of Lightning by Gaston Tis sandier Why the Eyes of Animals Shine in the jUark by Swan M Bur nett M D j and The Electric Railway Rail-way by Lieutenant B A Fiske U S Nin which is told juet what everyone every-one wants to know about this coming mode of transportation A paper on Methods Instruction Mineralogy by M E Wadsworth Ph Df of Harvard Universityindicatcs the sort i of drill that scientific educators wish to substitute for Greek Professor A W Hofmann is the scientist whom a portrait and oketch are given the latter by E J Hallock Ph D We i can only menton the other articles The Physiological Significance of Vital Force by William GStevenson M D Prehistoric Art in America by the Matt uie de Nadaillan The Morality of Happiness continued by TkamftB Fester Biblical find ICftd ern Lepreiy ky G H Fox M D Rout Geological Chtvgea in West arm Michigan by 0W Wooldridge M D and The Fealty of Speech fcy E lk Brush M D New Yerk D Applftov it 3om Fetlf WELT > SHALL va KAMI IA DiG tteaars of Baptismal Nra t fer Ohil irtn New York Jckm c ttookwall to Ana Skeet Price Jfte Not a fw parents are pratle4 over namtE their offspring some being at their wIll sad to tine pretty Ieeat stMII Mag worrted in their asaraik rer AMM that wm be ap rftt4 Im their depeiabieu ladrs < are alaite ftwItly Ariiten tuck abominably cruel intmee that tJalY go thrvufe life hide their ugly mxm men btiiind initl er tTMi chxnglBK thtM fer 4hra better isHH M t tn fr Mme The fUlthor cf this llttv Mom hlt M-om fi to the relic of suffer tg paws end mMMU and Jay fefore them a list of eee 9 than 9000 Knxsant Ie I pthar with their ah aalltgr asd M etsning Ore the tMInlt hire ftafl a name t salt TrfSl he hard to pIe < < e MJLCrAZIiTE JIJMJSEIOAH lIlT ltY The April Ifagaeiite ofAnwrlain History is not only strong substantial I substan-tial and interesting but it excels all former numbers of this excellent periodical in artistic elegance The article on MsjcrGonersl Eiohsrd Montgomery of the Continental Army by General Geerga W Col Inn is richly illtustrated wIth some eighteen or nirtre historic portraits and antique views The flaely cut ort5H of Montgsrasry himself is the frontispiece to the number I Another notable portrait IB that of Dniol ilorgpnin tbcsbirt uniform General C llum writes forcibly of the military moremonte gAintt Canada in 1TI5 and of the aasaJfc upon Qac090 in which Montgomery fall on the last day of that mem r able ysor In the srcoud paper cf this number of the Magazine wa bavo s description of the Natchez IndiansA Lost Tribe which Is supplemented in the Minor Tropics by a spirited account ac-count of the Massacre of St Andre Prafessoi SalisbnTj concludes con-cludes his scholarly essays in The Griswold Family of Connecticut the present essay contalaing many letters of great public interest also the interesting Gnswold pedigree General John C Robinson oaclri bates an article entitled rc Thft Utah Expedition which wntainv information new to many Chanter Chan-ter VII 01 the Private Intelligence Papers b i Sir Henry Clinton edited by 5drcrd F DsLnncey is one of tho most interesting chapters tkat IftRTa yet appsorsd from this raluo of ftluati rigiiial leuiSiSa Minor Topics presents a letter to the reader from Mr Thomas C Amorv on the subject of these same official documents in connection with General Sullivan and his brother bro-ther jtfote Queries Replies Societies So-cieties and Book Notices are as usual crowded with matters of importance im-portance and entertainment Pub lisbed at 30 Lafayette Place New York City |