| Show LTTEILATTJItEma I is stated that Mark Rutherford author of that striking book The Revolt 1 Tanners Tan-ners Lane will shortly publish another work of considerable interest Agitation against the three volume novel system has again begun in England No one can be found who is willing to take the responsibility for the existanco of this nuisance ExEmpress Eugenie is preparing a memorial me-morial volume containing letters of her husband and son The proceeds of the sale of the book are to go to the funds for the relief of widows made by tho war of 18TO Dr Carl Lumholtz is making ready to visita remnant of tho Aztecs believed to be surviving the mountains of Northern Mexico Dr Lumholtzs record of this quest will of course be forthcoming be fore a great while Dr Holmes has hardly written anything which has attracted wider or more favorable favor-able attention than his papers Over the Teacups now appearing in the Atlantic Monthly A L Burt of New York announces anew a-new series to be called Burts Library of the Worlds Best Books The text of the volumes included in the series will be unabridged un-abridged When likely to be of value to students and general readers indexes biographical bio-graphical sketches and explanatory notes will be given I is understood in literary circles that the effects of Miss Mary L Booth includ ing her valuable library of several thousand thou-sand volumes have been placed in charge of her nephew Mr Herbert Booth King in accordance with her wish With a view to publication Mr King is now examining Miss Booths correspondence which was very extensive On the list of persons who wrote to her is the name of almost every literary man and woman who was her contemporary I is thought that Talleyrands memoirs will at last see the light The Revue d > Histoirc Diplomatique publishes by permission permis-sion of the Due do Brogue a number of letters written by Tlle rand to Mme de Stael in the years 1703 and 1794 Talley rand would not allow the publication of his memoirs during his life and he entrusted the task to M Andral The latter for one reason or another failed to execute his trust and loft it to the Due de Broglie Brogle whom he appointed his heir In French literary circles it is thought that it is now about t be carried out The publication in the current number of Tie Illustrated American of a handsomely i lustrated article upon the life of General Robert E Lee and the University of Washington and Leo at Lexington Va will be read with much iaterestin view of the honors which are to be paid t the memory of the Virginia hero on tHE th The article also gives a portrait and sketch of Lexingtons other hero General Stonewall Stone-wall Jackson and an account of his last night on earth written by the Hon J Ran dolph Tucker This article is one of the series of Historic America a subject which by breadth of treatment and pro fuseness of illustration is attracting many readers to Thc Illustrated American Twentyfour illustrations drawn by the notable French artists Luigi Rossi Louis Montegut F de Myrbach Ernest Bieler and Frederic Montenard will accompany the first instalment of Alphonse Daudets new humorous serial Port Tarascon in Harper Magazine for June The drawings are all in the style that has become identi fell with the name of Rossi and Myrbach the famous illustrators of M Daudots other Tartariu stories stores The largest number ever issued of T7ic Ladies Home Journal is that for June Tie which sixty articles and over fifty authors discuss every conceivable point of interest to women Are Women Careless of Money is a striking article by Juulus Henri Browne in which tho author takes up the question whether women ruin men by their extravagance How to Close a Town House for Summer is excellently told by Florence Howe Hall while Ellen Le Garde delightfully treats some Out door Sports for Girls Lina Beard tells how to arrange A Paper Picnic while Mrs Mallon the famous New York fash ionwriter begins a department For Womens Wear Mrs Whitney Maud Howe Kate Upson Clark each have a serial novel and there is also a charmingly illustrated illus-trated story for girls by Fay Huntington The Journal is published at 433435 Arch street Philadelphia The current number of the Juvenile Instructor In-structor has an unusually interesting table of contents among the contributors being Miss Josephine Spencer whoso Drama of the Worlds History is continued contnued Homespun who has another installment of Up from Tribulation Lulu Green Richards Rich-ards with threo chapters of Ebache Male Veritablo and n S Home who writes of Abraham and Isaac In Topics of the Times the editor treats of The Efforts of Our Enemies and in Editorial Thoughts he ing tells of the Effects of Cigarette Smok Peterson for June is unusually rich with excellent illustrations Her Seventh Birthday A June Twilight and His Mothers Message aro all charming and totally unlike in subject and treatment The opening story Frank Raymonds Faith is capitally illustrated Tho mammoth mam-moth fashionplate with other illustrations I of summer dresses and tho needlework designs cannot fail to interest tho ladies Miss Ella Higcinsons novelet A Love and a Passion is full of interest and power and Miss Alice Bonmans Story of Dagma is ahead of any of her previous serials Petersons Magazine Philadelphia One of the most useful of all charities is chartics that which looks after the little unknown waifs of a great city who might otherwise I be left to perish or to grow up into hardened harden-ed criminals offers them an asylum where I they can spend their infancy under the surveilanco of careful nurses and finally sends them out Into the great wOrld as the adopted children of respect families The Illustrated American has detailed a special spe-cial staff correspondent and artist to visit the Foundling Asylum in New York where they were afforded all facilities for secur ing excellent pictures and descriptions A beautifully illustrated article the current number is the result EIEVER IN EUROPE By S Dana Horton New York MacMillan Co The greater interest in silver which has lately been excited will make this volume sought after by men on either side ot the controversy now raging The author is a ragn warm friend of the white metal and while he gives the true stQry of silver his advocacy ad-vocacy of tho causo of full monetization monetzation runs through the v olu eAGEr e-AGEr OR DEVIL mAT THE WORLD THINKS 1 OF WOMAN New York Minerva publishing company Price CO cents On one page running through the entire volume arc the good things which great geat authors statesmen poets preachers and thinkers have said about women and these make her appear the most adorable the most beautiful the most lovable and loving creature crea-ture imaginable veritable angel in fact On the ODDosite Datce are the consure and criticisms the 4 sleors and sneers the ugly things that have been said of her by the I famous novelists poets humorists reviewers review-ers andso listpoets will be puzzled to find an answer to the title query doubt less each orio wilt conclude that woman is a combination ofall that is good and bad 1 j all that is lovely and ugly The collection > is an interesting one I Frank Leslies Popular Monthly Frederic Arthur Bridgman the Oriental istpainter is characterized by Mrs Schuy ler Van Ronssolaer in Frank Leslies Zopti I lar Monthly for June as a typical American II artist because m art just now it i the cosmopolite who is typical the thoroughpaced 1 thorough-paced American who is exceptional Some admirable engravings and facsimiles of I Mr Bridgmans pictures are given Another An-other notable attraction of this number is a I profusely illustrated article on that milo of history the Bowery of New York j city by Felix Oldboy tho wellknown local I I historian who seems to have inherited Irv ings charm of style and fund of Gotlmm i 1 lore Other interesting illustrated articles aro The Life of a Longshoreman Dr F i Guernseys concluding paper on Frederick the Great Women Wearers of Mens I Clothes A Mysterious and Dreaded j Saurian the Gila Monster The Last of the Mochicans and Traveling by Air The short stories poems literary and other I I miscellany supplied in the abundance which is charicterlstlc of this magazine make up au uncommonly rich mumber I |
