Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS I ScrIbners Magazine for August opens with a story of the correspondents shop which tells a good deal more than the story Its title is Tho Derelict and It Is strong and well told Phoebus on Hal at > hron Is a misty Cornish legend by A T Qulllcr Couch Q illustrated illus-trated in fullpage colored plates Rural New York City Is an Illustrated study Jn the suburbs of the great metropolis A LItllo Suvago Gentleman is a delightful Samoan story by Isabel Strong sister of Stevenson Tho Pines of Lorw give the opening chapters of a new serial by J A Mitchell From Reykjavik to Glouces ter a Hcaracing tale Is told with great spirit Tho Memphis Packet Is an old limo Mississippi river fltory I well written Tho Object of the Federation by oc tavo Than t Is delightful A great nuni r I her of nn admirable magazine Charles Scrlbncrs Sons publishers New York I Alnslcos Magazine for August tolls of Tho Wonders of Christian Science describes de-scribes the lifo and work of Lawson of Boston has an essay on Department Stores and does justice to Thc Woman m Citizen Thero are flnostorlcs and poems and Topics of tho Theater Is f lively with gossip of tho seasons successes suc-cesses Tho Ghosts of tho Brig Tho Revenge of Oaklegs Tho Spotted Bron i cho Tho Burglars at Miss Camps are eomo of tho agreeable and wolllold stories of which there aro many Street 1 Smith publishers Now York I A Drono and a Dreamer By Nelson Lloyd Published by J F Taylor Company Com-pany New York Tho author of this novel will bo remembered as tho author also of The Chronic Loafer a sprles of humorous sketches of drowsy life In An outoftheway Pennsylvania town Tho sceno of the present volume Is also In Pennsylvania nnd the surroundings remind re-mind one of tljo localities In time former work and they aro most vividly described The people aro goodnatured and aculo and also very comfortably situated The plot runs along like a murmuring brook so well has tho writer done his work and tho contest for The Girl Is at once whimsical whim-sical and earnest the best man getting her at tho last It Is a wholcwomo book full of delightful situations and capitally planned and worked out Time authors stylo Is excellently simple and his work is I always well done The book Is ono lo stay with to the end and no ono OUld possibly feel lIke doing anything else |