"His Honor," by Miss Ellen Makubin, a vivid pic ture of events in a Western army post, and " Hearts ease," a bit of true New England lffe, by Miss Alice Brown. Under the title " People We Pass," Julian Ralph begins in the October number of Harper's Maga zine a series of short stories of East-Side life in New York, where East Side is usually synonymous with the under side. The first tale, " A Day of the Pinochle Club," describes one of the semi-political, semi-social organizations which flourish in conjunc tion with the saloons, and help to explain the mis rule of the metropolis. This story will be read with unusual interest while the investigation of New York's police department is fresh in mind.
The complete novel in the October humber of Lippincott's is " A Question of Courage," by Fran cis Lynde. It deals with a feud in the mountains of Tennessee, and the question of the Northern hero's courage, after sundry doubts and adventures, is settled to the hero's own satisfaction and that of the heroine. Gertrude Atherton, in " Famous Rivalries of Women," recalls many moving tales of the past, and George J. Varney traces the progress of " Teleg raphy up to Date." There is no better aid to the acquirement of a sound literary taste than the continuous reading of the weekly issues of Littell's Living Age. Glean ing as it does from the richest literary field that exists; skillfully and carefully winnowing the wheat from the chaff, it makes the reader acquainted with the best specimens of English literature, and keeps him abreast of the times on all the many questions of public interest; the various phases and depart ments of science and art; biography and history; travel and discovery; in short on every subject that touches modern life or interests the cultivated mind.
In the Century for October is an editorial con sideration of the question " Is Bi-metallism De sirable?" by the writer of the previous article on Cheap Money Experiments, which have appeared in this department. There is also a paper on " The Nation and Its Toilers" in continuation of the ar ticles on the American Laboring Class, published in the same department last year. The latter subject is further considered in the " Open Letters" depart ment by Dr. James Weir. Jr.. on " The Methods of the Rioting Striker an Evidence of Degeneration," and by Prof. Albert S. Bolles of the University of Pennsylvania, entitled " Is the Friction between
Employed and Employer Diminishing?" The Rev. Washington Gladden returns to the discussion of the A. P. A. in an Open Letter on " Secret Societies in Politics." Hon. Lambert Tree, ex-minister to Bel gium and to Russia, prints an Open Letter on the Con sular Service and the Spoils System. He agrees with the large majority of ministers who took part in the symposium of the June number in thinking that the consular service would be much improved by being made more permanent in its personnel.
Scribner's Magazine for October is full of inter esting matter. The illustrations are particularly at tractive. George A. Hibbard writes of the charms of "Lenox"; H. G. Prout contributes an article on "Railrpad Travel in England and America," and Dr. Carl Lumholtz concludes his observations on the "Tarahumari." The number is also strong in fiction. BOOK NOTICES. Law. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery. By the late Edmund Robert Daniell, Barrister at Law. Sixth American Edition, with notes and references to Ameri can decisions; An Appendix of Precedents; and other additions and improvements, adapt ing the work to the demands of American Practice in Chancery. Based on the Sixth English Edition, and the Fourth and Fifth American Editions. By John M. Gould, Ph.D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1894. 3 vols. Law sheep. $18.oo. To comment upon the character and scope of this famous treatise of Mr. Daniell's, would be a work of supererogation. No book is better known to the profession. From its very first appearance it has been regarded as an authoritative commentary upon Equity Practice, and successive editions have greatly enhanced its value and enabled it to easily maintain its position as the standard authority upon the subject. For the preparation of this present edition, the publishers have been fortunate in securing the ser vices of such a man as Mr. Gould. He is not only one of our foremost law writers, but is thoroughly conversant with the law of Equity. The vastness of the work accomplished by him has required more than three years' time for its performance. The ci tations now added nearly double those of the last American edition, and the new cases number fully ten thousand. The treatise is complete to date and
