Show LITERATURE WIDE AWAKE This charming magazine for young people shows improvement with each successive issue It is as pretty as a picture and both entertaining and instructive the articles in it being written with care for the exclusive culture arid delectation of the little folks The June issue is brim full of good things and abounding in delightful pictures Boston D Lothrop S Co POTTERS AMERICAN MONTHLY The June number of this progressive progress-ive periodical has a delightful table of contents including several illustrated illus-trated papers the most interesting of which perhaps is Tunis and Carthage by S P Scott The British Stage in the Nineteenth Century is also an extremely entertaining article by J H Sid dons The poetic codtributions are Henry W Longfellow by Marie i AlJyne Lady Rose by W Leon Mead and June by Elizabeth Oakes Smith Potters is taking rank I among the better known leading magazines of America Philadelphia John E Potter S Company LESLIES POPULAR MONTHLY The June number isas usualnotice able for the amount variety and excellence ex-cellence of the reading matter and illustrations The opening article by Archibald Forbes the famous war correspondent The Melodramatic Melodra-matic Aspects of the FrancoGer man War with its fourteen illustrations illus-trations is a very able paper and abounds with interesting facts Coffee traces the berry from the plantations to the cup and is finely illustrated Reminiscences of Service Ser-vice Among the Comanches by an old army officer The Delusions of Alchemy Longfellow Peasant Life in India A Piece of Amber Am-ber etc etc are prominent features feat-ures of the number contributed by popular writers The serial The Letter S Or The Jocelyn Sin is continued and there are charming short stories sketches adventures etc etc together with some exquisite ex-quisite poems and a miscellany abounding with interest entertainment entertain-ment and information There are 128 quarto pages over 100 illustra tions and for the frontispiece a beautiful picture in oil colors Kitty I Youre a Tease Frank Leslie publisher 53 55 and 57 Park Place New York I ATLANTIC MONTHLY The June Atlantic is a Longfel low memorial number and must be peculiarly acceptable to those who i admire and love both the poems of 1 Mr Longfellow and the poet himself him-self A remarkable fine steel por I trait of Mr Longfellow forms the frontispiece of the number which I contains a hitherto unpublished poem by Mr Longfellow on Decoration Dec-oration Day a poem which cannot fail to be read with great satisfac tion by all who appreciate the siO nificance of this new and beautiful national holiday Dr Holmes con tributes three sonnets in commemoration commem-oration of Longfellow entitling i them Our Dead Singer j and 0f Frothmgham writes an article in commemoration of the poet and his works The number contains five new chapters of Thomas Hardvs charming story Two on a Tower also additional > I chapters of Ni s striking story of Dr Zay Phelps b House of a Merchant Dlr BishOPs chantDlr fourth paller ln Prince The chant series Studies in the a remarkable number of aSouth is devoted to a South whicB both the southern subjects and in those in other sections people country who wish to know of aboSt south cannot fail to be tde about all at interested These papers give omfe fullest and the most accurate once the curate account of the present state south that can be found any of the aud should be read with the closest a attention Edward Atkinson closest I The paper on thoughtful son bas a I Communism Rapid progress of in mem Fjske writes an essay John Darwin and inas ory of Charles acquainted with he was much as Mr Darwin and bad the highest admiration for his work as a scient a man his character as ist and for unusual interest his paper possesses and value Henry James Jr contributes con-tributes an exquisite criticism on Daudet The short Alphonse entitled Serena by M H story Catherwood is of the same excellent 1 excel-lent type as the short stories in the Atlantic usually are Herbert Tuttle Tut-tle who writes with unusual familiarity famil-iarity of European matters has a paper on The New Eastern Question Ques-tion Phil Robinson contributes an article of no little interest on The Poets Birds H A Huntington Hunt-ington furnishes a study of Mrs Centlivre A poet on The Night Moths Comment by Sallie M B Piatt the usual variety of the Contributors Con-tributors Club and an account of the books of the month complete an excellent number of this standard monthly Houghton Mifflin t Company Boston ARNE A sketch of Norwegian Country Coun-try Life By Bjornstjerne Bjornson Hew York John W Lovell Company Com-pany Salt Lake James Dwyer Price 10 cents FBANKENSTSIN or The Modern Prometheus Pro-metheus By Mary Wolstonecrafl Shelley New YorK Jolin W Loveh Company Salt Lake James Dwyer Price 10 cents These cheap reprints are placing the best current and standard literature litera-ture within the reach of all Both the above are well known to the reading public but have never before be-fore been presented in this cheap and convenient form Arne is one of Bjornsons delightful sketches Frankenstein is an improbable bit of fiction made altogether alto-gether of the supernaturaland filled with fancies and imaginary terrors |