Show i r LITERATURE r Xsforperg Mapulne The contents of the August number unsurpassed by those of any previous pre-vious In solid and light reading in poetry and prose in letterpress and illustrations the best is provided One of EA Abbeys charming illustrations for The Leather Bottel serves as a frontispiece full of delicacy feeling and life The initial article is a continuation con-tinuation of Lafcadio Hearns description descrip-tion of his Of Midsummer Trip to the West Indies Much out is devoted to depicting the terrors and the appalling b auty of tropical forests put instruction instruc-tion is also imparted in the paragraphs relating to the natives There is a juat j amount of fiction in the number viz the continuation of Mr Blacks uln Far Lochnber of Annie I Kilburn Mr WD Howells charming j serial an ardent love story oalleU Pride and Pride by Mrs Jane G j Austin and the final instalment of H i Rider Haggards Maiwas Ber nge The article on Holstein Frtaajan tattle tat-tle by S Hoxie describes rnoidity with whicn the cow of Dutch extraction extrac-tion has won the heart of the American dairy farmer and gives the reason therefor The Mon gnias by C H Farnham describes tho life of the Indians In-dians who live aloo the north shore of the Gulf of 8t Lawrence east of tbeSagnenay Moncure D Conway in A Chiswick gamble describes an old neighborhood of London fraught with many mempries of such strong personalities person-alities as Hogarth Hume Prince Rupert Ru-pert Lgrd Russell and Margaret Hughes In Studies of the Great West Charles Dudley Warner has much to say in behalf ot Cincinnati and Louisville The artist Sacdro Botticelli Bot-ticelli is written up by Theodore Child under that head and the letterpress thereof is excellently illustrated by reproductions re-productions of specimens of the painters paint-ers pklll Poetry with illustrations is feature of the number The Leather Bottel is splendidly illustrated by E A Abbey and one of Wordsworths son nqts by Alfred Parsons The other poems are original and oharming The I departments are full of timely matter I George William Curtis uses telling lan gupge in discoursing of anonymous letters let-ters Russia false Americanism and the hard times of American artists and W D Howells writes about early American literature and what it reveal The Drawer overflows with cleverness and bright sketches by witty artists Mention must also be made of the Social Soc-ial Study a fullpage drawing by George Du Manner New York Harper dt Bros Bait Lake Diry or B Bookstore |