Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS The North American Review for September Sep-tember Is a very able and timely magazine maga-zine It llscuBBca with great ability the chief questions of the day The opening article ImperIalism and Christianity IB by the Very Rov F W Farrar D D and It sows that whatever horrors muy accompany war there ls no reason why a Christian man or nation should not face them In a Just cause The Duty of the Gold Democrat by President M 13 I In galls of the Chesapeake Ohio railroad Is strong against Bryan Nihilism and Anarchy by Charles Johnston Is a forcible presentation of causes and tendencies ten-dencies The Assassination Mania by Felix Ii Oswald treats of the red specter I that threatens civilization Catholics I and American Citizenship by the Ut Rev J A McFaul Bishop of Trenton covers a wldo range with consequent cpols ot weakness and of strength Thin Vain Hope of tIne Filipinos by i Murrlon WIlcox Is a very candid and able statement state-ment The Chinese articles are Confucianism Confucian-ism In the Nineteenth Century ny > IIci bert A Giles professor of Chinese In Cambridge University Tho Empire of tho Dead by tho Rev r 33 Clark D D president of the United Society of Chris 1 I han Endeavor Commercial Aspects of I tho Yellow Peril by Allcync Ireland Tho Root of the Chinese Trouble by John Foord Secretary of the American Asiatic association and What the Chl 4 IT i Alwny a strong and admirable publication publica-tion The North American Review Now York The Bookman for September has In Its always excellent Chronicle and Comment Com-ment a very complete and well condensed con-densed resume of the literary events of tho month including notices of books critical estimates of authors and a number num-ber of fine portraits Here and There Is a forecast of tho Impending crash In Italy and a consideration of events In China Plagiarism Real and Apparent Russian Literature and Its latest Historian His-torian Pompcllan Life and ArL The Manuscript of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Early Years of the Republican Re-publican Party and other clever sketches poems and rcvlcwn give tho number a great record A highclass literary publication Dodd Mead Company Com-pany publishers Now York The American Journal of Sociology for September has Tine Ethics of tho Competitive Com-petitive Process by 1 W W Wllloughby Albion IV Small continues his Scope of Sociology Monroe N Work writes of Crime Among tho Negroes of Chicago A Acry able and comprehcnsle paper Is Dr Manxs Puberal Hygiene In Relation to Pedagogy and Sociology Edward Alnaworth Ross reaches the eighteenth section of his Social Control Max West discusses Tho Fourteenth Amendment Amend-ment and the Race Question In a rather hopeful spirit while confessing a groat shortage of actuality Avhcn compared with the rational hope Ernest Carroll Moore writes of Pleasure as Ethical Standard and Albert G Keller of Sociology So-ciology und tine Epic Book Reviews and Notes and Abstracts complete a most Interesting number The University ol Chicago Press publishers Chicago Crams Magazine for September has the continuation of Its papers on the Paris Exposition has n continuation of Dr MurrayAarons masterly Study In Platforms Plat-forms the Republican and Democratic utterances of this year Our Foreign Trade and Its Posslbllllles by C E Allen A M Is thorough and good The Great Crisis In China tells some new thlngH of the hoary old rottenness The Worlds Doings Is a useful summary The publication is a valuable one nn educational force George F Cram pub helter Chicago Harpers Bazar for September 8lh has n very handsome colored title page and many fullpuge colored fashionplates besides a large number of fashionplaten in black It I is a most delightful publication publica-tion In Its general makeup and Its read Ini matter Is also firstclass llarpor Brothers publishers Now York Pearsons Magazine for October recalla The American Slave arid In text and picture shows his hard lot Indigo Planting Plant-ing In India1 Imperial Sportsmen The Art of the Ase How Animals Sleep Tho Petrllled Forests of Arizona Ice Crushers oil tho Great Lake all handsomely hand-somely Illustrated and wellapproved fiction fic-tion are found In It A very readable magazine mag-azine The Pearson Publishing Company Now York The Smart Set for September has n complete com-plete novelette TheLendlnfir Woman by JolmD Harry Tho Love Letters of a Liar OIH If there were but one and n brilliant array of witty paragraphs vcr ux and short siorlcs The whole contents con-tents Mimrlcle with bright sayIngs and smart naj Inas Ess Eyu Publishing Company Com-pany New York Avho got It out In commendable com-mendable form Table Tn Ik for September glv sj appetizing appetiz-ing tn nus for every day In IM month hus h ereat variety and ihtindunco of household reeliei tells how to rook many vegetables and fruit und 10 make nice drinks and gives vcccll iii hints and Information about the lioufcHmM and man a cmcni of a house A right good mngA zlni Table Talk Publishing Co Phlla delphla McCills Mu ilnft for October has a very dcllcnto nnd artistic fullpage colored fashion Plato and deals with household matters fancy work the style and homo management It Js Aell put together Mc j Call Cot nuhJlMhcrv New Ycrlc i t ji e > v liii II < ilUtV I MIVMll HealthCull for September Is devoted lo practical hygiene and undrr different titles I by mam medical out Innrs It presents a more than comferlahle series of articles on tine pieacrvnlloii of health and HealthCuro Company strength The publishers New York 1 for September has portttIt Book News and bloimDly of Wf it hlo graphical sketch of C Miir Iw A iJCiTY lrK I 3ttfl of D portrait timid sketch and 1er of lltenry Ton nnd a great lot workers litcriir3 1 Very good for xonnl gossip sport PhnilU ers John Wunumakor publisher delphlu Mr Bunny I its Book By dnh J Sutton published by the Suoll eld Put shIn ton O A profusely lUuptralou Akron lug Co Mr ulil book In color and iinl juvenile iii the part Bunny play tine conspIcuous mall the eyela pictures being served upto altitude The all sort of POKtures and ihtTtI005 accompany lie rhymei that ny of them funny smooth and some are hi 1 much pictures while a portion of tho p real art m nbovA the common and show makes avery Titebiok Idcu and construction The very favorable Impression Hearth N0 47 of the The Cricket on 11 being on cell Cassellfl National Library classic by l Prof iJcno UonV DIckcnss Morley a nice edition with a Brneeful In i New 1 publisher trddiictlon Cassell Co I York Animnah Life A first Bodk of zoology By David S Jordan M S M U Phi Vn 1 Stamford Jun LL J x PrcHldent of Inland L Kellogg iAi ior University and Vernon university Iub S pnifesaor In the aimc llshcd In a line volume copiously llluntrat cd with firstclass pictures by D Apple York and one ol ton and Company New Text Books A their Twentieth Century Is thoroughly book to be read and followed It oughly wood both In plan and execution The authors Intheir prqf cc explain that this work to give an II WB their purpose In relations of animals to account of the their surroundings and of tine rcaponDlvc adaptation or fitting of the life of animate to these surrounding that the basis is the obscrvatlcn of facts and a search for the significance or meaning In the life or tine animal of the facts ninth that In this the vorlcsl beginner can be and ought to be nn Independent observer nnd thinker So planned and faithfully and elegantly presented In accordnree therewith tho book Is commendable from Ural to last Afield nnd Afloat By Frank R Stockton Stock-ton Published by Charles Scrlbncr Sons New York A R Derge Co Salt Luke City A scries of cloven stories told In Stocktons best vein each of which Is a gem and each sparkling with Us separate se-parate luster all together a rare treat The stories and the author tells humorously humor-ously how each was conceived are Tho BullerPodllngtou Compact The Romance of a Mule Car The Governor General Old Applcjoys Ghost Struck by a Boomerang The Skipper and El Capltan Como In New Year A Sailors Sail-ors Knot The Great Staircase at Land over JIM The Ghosts In My Tower The Landsmans Tale Nothing more enjoyable than this series could bo desired de-sired Tho Romance Gilbert Holmes a IIIs lend Novel By Marshall Monroe Kirk man The World Railway Publishing Company Chicago This novel deals with early days In Illinois and stirring days they were There were truth justice honor hon-or and mercy In those days but there wero more or tine opposite qualities man can bq found anywhere In America todaj among a population of the samo numbers The author Is happy In dealing faithfully and with a thorough knowledge of conditions condi-tions then prevailing and of tine people with all sides of the life he undertakes to depict and It Is no moro than his duo to say that ho docs this with marked success Ho brings Into his scenes eminent men of that time Lincoln Douglas Jefferson Davis Da-vis Black Hawk and others of note The descriptions of the country as It then np peared the woods the waters the storms and of the people and their ways arc most numlrtiblc special bits as tho descrlp tlon ol Constance by Gilbert ore as dainty and exnulsllo ns can be found In Htcru lure It should bo a wideselling book |