Show LITERATURE MY OFFICIAL WIFE A novel By Colonel Rich Rch ard Henry Savage New York Home Pub lishing company Price 0 cents The fact that this story was published by Mr A C Gunter the author of those popular pop-ular novels Mr Barnes of Now York and Mr Potter of Texas is a sufficient guarantee that the work is clever My Official Wife is not merely a good story judged by the standard of the novels of the da but it is a telling satire aud rich in humor I is issued uniform in style with Mr Gunters books THE RIHT OF WOMEN AND THE SEXUAL R LATIONS An Address to an Unknown Lady Reader Bv Karl Helnzen Boston Benjamin Benja-min R Tuck r The preface to this address is by a German Ger-man scholar of Detroit Karl Schmemaan who commends it in praise which is little less than lavish There Is undoubtedly much in the lecture that is good but there is also much that could have been omitted with propriety To state a truth it isnt necessary to descend to tho vulgar and obscene ob-scene Another fault is that the author teaches openly atheism i the immediate object was not to do so Thus he says Even though Christ pardoned adulteresses adulter-esses and magdalens the story of His origin or-igin His abstinence morality His promises prom-ises of heaven add the consequences of Mosaic barbarism which permeate Christianity Christ-ianity it is disgusting to treat these thin sat s-at large hare prepared a lot for women which can only be traced to a suppression of nature want of sense and barbarity TiE FORUM Mr Henry Cabot Lodge undertakes to play the role of a political prophet in the September numuer of The Forum in an article on The Political Issues of 1892 and he predicts that the most prominent issue in tho next presidential campaign will be not the tariff question but the question of the free coinage of silver The tariff question he maintains is one that is always with us and is not settled now and will not be settled at an early date but that the agitation of the free coinage of silver has now reached so acute a stage I that it Is not going to pass away before some definite action is taken and that the popular feeling is such that this is obliged to come to a crisis in the next years campaign cam-paign ATLANTIC MONTHLY Wo are accustomed to associate the name of Rudyard Kipling with stories of Indian military life but in his nautical story The I Disturber of Traffic which appears in the I September Atlantic he has struck an entirely en-tirely new vein The story is related ban r b-an English lighthouse keeper who tells of the experience of another lighthouse keeper in a littleknown part of the world who half maddened by solitude and a certain curious optical delusion connected with the tides flowing by his light becomes to an alarming extent a disturber of traffic Mr lupling has never done anything of the same kind before and has never been in ore vivid and astounding than in the present story Another short story An Innocent Life is contributed by LillIe B Chase Wyman whose Poverty Grass is remembered as a collection of powerful short stories on social questions Mr Stocktons House of Martha is continuod by a long installment and Mary Hartwell Catherwood gives us four clever chapters of Tho Lady of Port St John Thereat of the number is made up of a collection of remarkably good articles and one hardly knows how to pick out the chief plums from Co Boston the pudding Houghton Mifflin HARPERS MAGAZINE Readers of Harpers Magazine for September Septem-ber are confronted from the beginning with an embarrassment of riches The number is opened by series of superb illustrations of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing Noth-ing most of them fullpage from drawings draw-ings by Edwin A Abbey These pictures with Andrew Langs entertaining and scholary comment on the play comprise the fifth instalment of the Illustrations of Shakespeares Comedies which have been appearing at intervals in tbe magazine following this paper is I comprehensive and popular article on the New York i Chamber of Commerce The third chapter chap-ter of W D Howolls remarkable story An Imperative Duty presents some highly dramatic scenes and leaves the reader impatient for the succeeding in stalment A genuine treat to lovers I of literature is offered in the Letters Let-ters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins which are now for tho first time given to the public through the editorship of Laurence Hutton Montgomery Schuy ler continues his Glimpses of Western Artitecture and gives his impressions of the domestic architecture of Chicago Elizabeth Stoddard writes a pleasant summer sum-mer story i Wheatfield Idyl Mr de Bio witz contributes a peculiarly striking article ar-ticle on Germany France and General European Politics which will doubtless create sensation wherever it is read Tho editorial departments under the control of Georgo William Curtis William Dean Howells and Charles Dudley Warner Howels Chares present pre-sent for discussion and thought the usual rich variety of timely topics relating to society musi manners and literature Harper Brothers New York |