Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Tho Atlantic Monthly for August opens with an earnest and able plea for better Instruction in politics In our higher Institutions Insti-tutions of learning John Mulr has another of his prosepoema The Wild Gardens of tho Yosemite Park and Frederic Ban croft considers Somo Radicals a Stares mon Chase Sumner Adams and StO cnB n very keen study W D Howellss A Difficult Case continues and Can dace Wheelers Content In a Garden Is finished these being tho serials of tho number Tho Price of Order by Tal cott Williams L practical study In clo monary principles Is n practical exposition exposi-tion of timely value Submarine SignalIng Signal-Ing and Maritime Safety explains operations opera-tions that just now aro of much public Interest Thero Is plenty of excellent reading read-ing in tho number stories poems letters and solid and Instructive papers of which latter Mark B Dunnolls Our Rights In China Is a firstclass example This Atlantic continues to shlno as thor tho-r nt literary exemplar and model for 1 Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston I Poot Lore for tho quarter ending Juno I is largo and has many things of vnlue Sudormans Tho Three Herons Feathers I Feath-ers Sucormons being of noteworthy Interest Thero I are comments on classic prose and verse book reviews consideration of contemporary tho School rary authors and their works of Literature and much In excellent spirit spir-it and original thought but tho trumpery verses mushy in statement and faulty In structure by William Mountain nro n blot on an otherwise very commendable number Generally speaking a magazine of high standard PootLoro Co Boston Bos-ton The Reign of Law n Talc of the Kentucky Ken-tucky Hemp Flolds By James Lane Allen l Al-len Published by tho Mncmlllan Company Com-pany NPW York This book has drawn much public attention and columns In the literary departments of the dally press hay been dcVotod to i principally In tho way of laudaUon The reading of It because be-cause oxiicctsulon was rather high Is a distinct disappointment To Nbo sure the local coloilng Is clear charming and wins ono a a beautiful picture lie hemp fields the labor 1 In them the fragrant odors tho woods tho storms tho farms and their homely affairs Ire all set down n lovingly and as ravishingly as heart Could wish but for the most part the Inhabitants In-habitants l are repulsive travesties on humanity I hu-manity Tho chief personage In the story DavidIs a weakminded shifting I sort of n person who contents himself In skinning I mother down to ning his father and cqualld poverty throws over his religion in tho notion that some crumbs of belated science have entered his mind and demolished demol-ished tho sanctuary gots expelled from cole a queer college It must have bee i whore a youth could get In practically without any previous cchooling and goes back to live with his Barents who are both horrified at him and would be glad to have him go away but ho sticks to board and lodging and In tho vicinity ho finds a helpful young woman of much stronger character and mind than his own after n while they are to bo married mar-ried Then all at ho notion rle al once gets a noton that ho will to Eastern wi co some college and study his beloved science and begins be-gins to talk to tho girl of the years that must emma before they can marry but them sho lakes tho control as the eternal order of fitness require the stronger to do and makes known to him that thero Is to bo no walling 5 far as tlmy two arc concerned they will bo married right away and co together ho Is charmed but all at once he remembers tho almighty dollar and wants to know how they can manage It then the buss points out the way She has saved two years of her salary she has been a district tchaool teacher presumably n about fifteen dollars dol-lars Q month and they ca llvo on that the bilk In him rlea triumphant and with a gasp Oh Gabriellal ho yields The scenes of the ravages this young mates weak dependent nature makes and tho feeble wriggling of his wabbly l mind put forth in tho old clocs of tremendous mental throes are pitiful enough but so obviously unnecessary that they are much more apt to call up disgust than sympathy 1 Is a hopelessly trivial book 50 fur as lie characters In it are concerned con-cerned i 1 |