Show LITERl UK E I ATLANTIC MONTHLY I The September Atlantic contains three new chapters of Mr HoweUaft new < aerial story Dr BODS Prai tie which cannot tars to be read with the greatest zest and enjoyment by the multitude who find in Mr Howellss story some of the moa charming reading which our age affords af-fords A very noteworthy article is that by Mr E L Godkin The attempt I tempt on the Presidents Life which discusses with great theughJulDeas and ability the motives and object ot the assassination and derives from the fearful act a thoroughly logical and impressive lesson upon the necessity ne-cessity for change in the mode Of appointment ap-pointment of officers It is an article which deserves the widest and meat careful reading John Fiske continues con-tinues his instructive and engaging aeries of mythological articles witn one entitled Koadchei the D ath leas or the Diffusion of airy Tales The second part ol Mary Hallock Footea tory In Exile confirms the exceedingly pleasant impression which the first part made and proves her to have as great skill h i writing BS in art H H continues her unusually interesting series of Norway articles with an estay on The Catrina Saga which is part story part essay and part poetry al thoroughly delightful All housekeepers house-keepers will be interested in the very charming if possibly Utopian sketch of Housekeeping Hereafter by James V Sears J Brander Matthews Mat-thews who always writes of theatrical theatri-cal matters with so much intelligence intelli-gence discusses the Dramas of the Elder Dumas Rev Wm Chaunoy Langdon contributes a paper deserving deser-ving much attention among Harvard graduates and wellwishers on the Future of Harvard Divinity School Dr Holmes contributes the Phi Beta Kappa poem which he recently read at Harvard j and Miss Edith M Thomas one of the most promising of the new contributors to the Atlantic Atlan-tic has an attractive poem entitle Harvest Noon The remainder of the magazine contains notices of some or more important new books an unusually interesting and varied Contributors Club and a running discussion of the books of the month A thoroughly good number ol this stsnJard magazineHoughton Muf flin Co Boston POPULAR MONTHLY The September number is especially espec-ially noteworthy The opening article by George Alfred Townsend entitled Days of Gloom in the White House is timely and interesting embodying a history of the Presidential Presiden-tial mansion and the most prominent promi-nent incidents in connection with the attempted assassination of the Presi dent The article is illustrated by sixteen tine engravings Mr N Robinson contributes an admirable article Brighton the Queen oj English Watering Places with thirteen illustrations Movable Homes and Tent Life treats of the various homes of the true nomad there are fourteen illustrations An Early Vieit to Marshfield CIA Russian Rus-sian Home uA Chapter on Roses and Mr Denninga article on Comets Com-ets with its eighteen illustrations will be read with great interest Benedicts serial II ALate Remorse ia continued and there are some excellent ex-cellent stories by popular authors one by Chandoa Fulton Theres Burglars in the House is extremely humorous There are sketches essays poems and an abundant miscellany replete with interest and valuable information The number is embellished with a haudome frontispiece fron-tispiece He Wont Hurt You from Heywood Hardys painting Frank Leslies Publishing House 53 55 afod 57 Park Place New York PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL Contents of the September number Paul H Hayne the Southern Poet Imagination as Connected with Science Comparative Phenology Does Death End All Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Evo lution of Homes and Architecture Charles J Guitteau the Assassin A Talk with Our Girls The Queer Friends How ChiidHabita are Formed Hygiene of the Eyes i Molds of Fruits etc Malaria About a Set of Teeth Notes in Science and Agriculture Editorial Items Answers to Correspondents Poetry Personal Selections New Books i u < ft work i Fowter t Veils > > 753 BtoadWay I I 1 i THIS CAUFOBJUAN Consents of the September num Ter At Cobweb and Or4 ys on > I JI > Jtr by Lmafd Kip The Indian jfrobjem Mr Soaurz faviewetf by Jataes Wyatt tfate r T6oh + dre Rom5f by Warren Cfctejey j Unrest t by Wilder ilaok Wooster Tnp a ilk 6t an Bernardino by T S anD ye Ih the Canon by Igabtl I A Saxon Don Carlos I by Edward Kirk at trick t-rick 49 and 50 oh zxij sxm xxiv fop John Vance Cheney Be jkappyt Happy Little Maid by Ina Ooolbruh f be Wilda of toe Darien III by O M Woz3floraft A Flower in a L ttcr = by ftlilicent W Shmn Snhpmos to Annex the Sandwich Islands by ames 0 Ikeara Close the TJuiversity by JohnS Hittell Science and In dustryArt and Artists Oucroppinge San Francisco California Publishing Publish-ing Co 408 California street |