| Show LITERATURE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW In the North American RcUio fIr May exJudge Jere S Black continues con-tinues the very interesting sems ol papers on be third term question begun in the February number His article is entitled Gen Grant and Strong Government and ita purpose is to show first that die limitation ol tenure of offices in the presidency to two terms s a fundamental principle of our republican form of ficvernmeut and secondly 1 that not only dues disregard dis-regard of tbat principle threaten tho permanency of ropublicaninititulion but that Grants third candidacy is actually a plot torovoluloaizo the republic re-public and introduce monarchy Mr Leslie Stephen writes of ihs Religion Reli-gion of all Sensible Men and specu lates on the prospect of that religion displacing the present creeds of the multitnde The creed of the future he says must bo capable of assimilating assimilat-ing modern scientific theories George i Ttchnor Curtis continues his series of articles on McOlelUna Last Service ta the Republic Liter papers are ppscially valuable on account of the large number of hitherto unpublished documents which they contain Mr Francis H Underwood contributes AH essay on R W Emmton and his writings and an anonymous writer labors to show that the United States government cannot consisteUly with the Monroe doctrine permit the construction con-struction of an American isthmian canal unless the same shall be controlled con-trolled EOely by cis Atlantic governments govern-ments The notices of new books ere by Mr Arel Gustafsoa Address2Yie Aorlft American Review Re-view New York POPULAR MONTHLY For May maintains its welldeserved reputation We find a rare display of admirable articles st riec sketches essay poems and a miscellany re marhble for its comprehensiveness The opening article Alexander II Czar Russia by Alfred H Guern lIeyis most interesting and replete with information There are seventeen seven-teen excellent ttrations The Three Alpine Tunnels with special reference to the Mont Cems will be read with great interest It is pro lueely illustrated An article on uta and Nulbearing Trees one on Cotton in the Coast and Upland Fields of South Carolina and Quinine Land by N Robinson are amon jo prominent features of I I the number In the department of fiction Etta W Tierces story Not Guilty is continued and there are sonic excellent short stories by I V Crawford Thorna Archer etc etc There are several sketches descriptive of adventure porsous and places admirably written and of exceeding interest There are poems of unusual un-usual merit many of them beautifully I beauti-fully illdstrAttrJ The pnca of ft 1 singo copy 25c ayeais subscription I subscrip-tion 3 Address Frank Leslies Publishing I House 53 55 57 Park Place New York GOOD COJIPANYf Good Company 3 a year Springfield Spring-field Mass No 8 opens with a story by Mrs Rebecca Harding Davis which is not lacking in her usual vigorous vig-orous touches The other stories areA II are-A Tale of the North Shore and Not in the Curriculum both from new contributor Barberry Island of the last number is followed by The Schoolmistress on Barberry Island equally attractive in quaintness quaint-ness A readanle paper on Archery as It Is is by Maurice Thompson tbe wellknown authority on this subject sub-ject E S Gilbert contributes one of his fascinating articles entitled Spring Flowers which gives evidence evi-dence of much familiarity with them Mr George Towle writea interestingly interest-ingly of Caetellar the Spanish statesman states-man and Edward Abbot givea some account of Mary Carpenter the devoted de-voted English philanthropist whose visit to this country some years since will be recalled There are also Getting Get-ting Breakfast at Bruges The Preacher in Print As to Family Newspapers and other articles LITTELLS LIVING AGE The numbers of The Living Age for the week ending April 17th and 24th respectively contain the following articles Hamertcns Life of Turner Tur-ner Edinburgh Charles Waterton London Quarterly Sham Admiration in Literature and Days in the Woods Nineteenth Century the Marbles Mar-bles of gina fortnightly Among French Friends in Burgundy Frascr Tbe British Peerage Temple Car The Civil Code of the Jews and Chinese Progress and Russian Diplomacy in Central Asia Pall JfaW Hindoo Powers of Memory Athenccttm A Tidal Problem Nature with metal ments of Adam and Eve The Crookit Meg and Nerena Fon taines Rebellion and the usual amount of poetry As a new vplumt begun with the number for April this is a good time to subscribe For fifty two numbers of sixty four large pages each or more than 3300 pages a year the subscription price 8 ia low while for 1050 the publishers offer to send any one of the American SI monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age for a year including the extra numbers of the latter both postpaid I post-paid Littell Co Boston are the publishers |
