Show I I CURRENT PUBLICATIONS I The Congorvitlvp Review for June a I quarterly of hjgh merit opens with the first Installment uf Col Richard Malcolm I I Jf linstons autobiography most IntTOHl I ing nnd admirably put he wns a Georgia I Unionist during the war and his experiences experi-ences wero both varied and stirring ad J I might bo expected though ho does not dwell much on that pprtion of his life Theory and Practice pf tho Spoils Stem I S-tem by n T Ncwcomb Is a forcible arraignment ar-raignment of tho system that Mr Now comb doesnt approve Appleton Morgan A M discusses lucidly Tho Passionate Pilgrim Affair holding Shakespeare blameless throughout The Catholicism of France Is considered by Thomas J Shnhan D D in a vein of loyalty to tho church The Youth of Goethe Is treated treat-ed of by James A Harrison LL D The i South African War from the Standpoint j of International Law Is nn ablo review J of the legal standing of tho contestants It Is Impartial too and If It baa 1 flaw it Is In Ignoring to some extent tho atrocl tics brutalities and oppressions by tho Boers the writer te 1 TheoJoie P Ion J D and ho has evidently mastered the j I case Elements of Unity In iho Homeric 1 Poems by Edward Fajfluhar Ph D Is j an argument against the jscpiratiwt theory r of many authors Edward Livingston Is uu appreciative retrospect by Charles H Peck of n great Ncw Yorlcc tho founder of a numerous und powerful fam I lly Commercial Possibilities of the North Polo Region is by Theo F Van i Wagenen who In a gossipy piper tells I many curious things abOut the Arctic re I glons The Conservative Review Is gr at ly I Improved It Is a publication of high r class deserving a wide hearing among the American people The Ncale Company Com-pany publisher ashfngton D C The Independent for Juno 14th has a brief but ckarlyput article by Gen E S Otis The Situation in tho Philippines Hon John W Foster suggests A Permanent Per-manent Method of Arbitration and the general contents show admirable variety and excellence The Independent N Y Tho Overland Monthly for June describes de-scribes and Illustrates copiously OuaUn lupe tho Sacred 1 City Tho Tom y Pine which grows only near San Diego Is I deecrlbcd and pictured Some Afternoon Amusements at the Paris Exposition aro shown thero Is a symposium of four articles I ar-ticles on What Shall Society do to bo Saved Trout Culture In Mendoclno Is a lino article San Franciscos postotflco is icll rltten up and the general contents aro very good The Overland Monthly San Francisco Pearsons Magazine for July returns the wanderers In other worlds to earth again but by several hairraising crcnpes j Another creepy article Is I Herbert C I Fyfos How Will the World End with Illustrations of hideous monstrosities i Polo Tho Rich Mans Game Is a good i lIt of sporting writing with many pictures pic-tures Feeding the Fighting Man tolls i how Groat Britain does it 1A Machine that Almost Thinks is the title of tin I article telling about and picturing the new machine which will do tho ctnaus I computations A lively publication always al-ways with plenty of attractive wading I In IL Pearson Publishing Company New York I Sunbeams By the author of Pecks Bad Boy George W Peck Humor Sarcasm and Sense Is a catchy line on tho title page which accurately summarizes sum-marizes the contents TheRe Wipriso a largo collection of little tales from the Sun Pecks weekly paper and they 1 avor ago well JamlesonHlgglna Co pub Ushers Chlniqo The Living Age for June Hah treats of Tho Posslhilltles of a war British with France gives the Diary of a Boer Le foro Lndyemlth treats of Monellk and Morocco and has a number of good things from the European publications The Living Age Connmny Boston I Chickens Come Tome to Roost a novel By L B Hlllos Wright Com pany publahorn New York A toro tor-o rebellion times the scene laid In the northern part of old Virginia The things depleted tho author claims were actual scenes anJ tho characters real men and women Phineas Strong Is said to have been a man of great local celebrity for his sMieroua deeds and warm heart aid tho heroine his daughter is alleged to bo hurled on this banks of tho Rappuhannocli Tho mel dents arc those of a most stirring time and tho author has given tho public a narmtlvs that mIght well lit In with the occurrences of those anxloun days He has told his story with earnest forces and to Ray that It In worth reading is but to do Justice to his powers 1 Bishop Pendlc or Tho Bishops Secret By Fergus Hume Published by Rand McNolly Company Chicago This story deals with Iho quiet and rather exclusive society of an Bnsllsh cathedral town and Is most excellently conceived and worked out The chief character is Bishop Pcndle who lives In the odor or I sanctity and happiness for many years but when his boys grow up they want lo form undcslrablo matrimonial alliances I and the father Is made desperate Then comes a thunderclap upon him a man J appears demanding hushmoney and threatening to make public his assertion 1 that Mrs Pomllo wan his wife tho Bishop had Infl rica her ns a widow holing ho-ling seen her first husbands grav und headstone on the tilefield 01 Sedan I but now after thirty years a man Claim Iny 1 to be thatthHM > aud turns up it Is I It most aromatic situation and long nsony and gloom eneue but at the lust Irovldence rescues the honest folk from I 4 v their troubles and Joy reign supreme I Tho author has done distinguished work not to be rut lower thun tho best In I EngllsH fiction and his reader has a rare plcey of literary art and force to I peruse It is Work thoroughly well done |