Show NOBTH AMERICAN REVIEW Abaut forty years ago Mr John L Stephens published two work on Central America and Southern Mexico So eager was the public to obtain information in regard to numerous nu-merous ruins of ancient cities which he described that though each of the works comprised two expensive volumes 1 vol-umes ten editions o the first work were sold within three months and the success of the second was quite aa remarkable Other travelers American and European have visited the ruins and have written deeply interesting in-teresting volumes in regard to their immense architectural monuments Recently a wellequipped expedition has been despatched to Central America charged with the work bf systematically searching for everything every-thing that may tend to place within the domain of history the facts con nested with a psople whose career mast have been one of the most interesting in-teresting in ttlPJ general development of the worlds civilization A full account ac-count of the explorations of the party comprising the expedition is i to be published from month to month in tbe North American Review with illustrations illustra-tions of the most important objects discovered The August number of the review contains an article by the editor intrcductory to the series entitled en-titled Ruined Cities ot Central America Other articles in the same number of the review are The Law of Newspaper Libel by John Proflatt The Census Laws by Charles F Johnson Nullity of tbe Emancipation by Richard H Dana Principles of Taxation by Prof Simon Newcomb Prince Ills marck as a Friend of America and asa as-a Statesman by Moritz Busch and Recent Literature by Charles T Congdon I ITEUS LIVING AGE I The last number of LitltlVs Living Age contains A Few Weeks Upon the Continent Contemporary Review He That Will Not When He May Part XXI Mrs Oliphant Sterne Cornhili Magazine Atheism and Repentance a Familiar Colloquy by W H Mtllick The Position of Quakerism Spectator as prose articles arti-cles and Dropping a Seed by I Mrs Jewells and Fair but Coy by Bion as poetry In addition to these is tbe usual entertaining miscellany mis-cellany collection |