of late. Mr. Lowell continues his articles on travel in Japan. Scribxer's Magazine for March contains two striking articles of exploration and adventure, — Mr. Mounteney Jephson's account of one of the most exciting periods of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, and Mr. M. B. Kerr's description of the latest attempt to reach the summit of Mount St. Elias in Alaska. The former is illustrated with sketches by Frederic Villiers, made under Mr. Jephson's personal direction, and the latter from photographs made by the expedition. The number is also notable for its fiction, containing four short stories, by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Harding Davis, Duncan Campbell Scott, and W. H. Woods. E. S. Nadal (so long one of the secretaries of the United States Legation in London), from abundant knowledge, writes of "London and American Clubs." His article is richly illustrated, as is also the novel paper on "The Ornamentation of Ponds and Lakes," by Samuel Parsons, Jr., Superintendent of New York Parks. Sir Edwin Arnold's papers on Japan are concluded in this issue; but two more papers on the new regime in Japan, by Prof J. H. Wigmore, are promised, with more of Robert Blum's exqui site illustrations which he is now completing in Tokio.
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Government; and the author makes some timely suggestions which will be read with interest. The article is fully illustrated. The principal article in this number of this popular magazine is " The Story of a War Correspondent's Life," by Frederic Villiers. Other interesting contents are " Keauty on the French Stage," by Edouard Marie; " Prot estant Missions," by Edmund Collins; " The Cream City," by Capt. Charles King.
"The Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh," by Laurence Hutton, is the most attractive article, perhaps, in the March Harper's Monthly. It is beautifully illustrated with pictures of the abodes of many well-known literary celebrities. Andrew Lang has an interesting paper on " The Comedy of Errors," and Theodore Child describes " The Argentine Capital;" both these articles are pro fusely illustrated. " In the ' Stranger People's ' Country," by Charles Egbert Craddock, increases in interest, and bids fair to be one of the best pro ductions of that popular author. A new novel "Wessex Folk," by Thomas Hardy, is begun in this number; and Brander Matthews contributes a short story entitled " In the Vestibule Limited."
BOOK NOTICES. The first instalment of " Some Familiar Letters by Horace Greeley " form one of the most interest ing features of Lippincott's Magazine for March. Two notable contributions by Walt Whitman are followed by a review of the poet's life and work by Horace L. Traubel. Other interesting articles are " A Lost Art," by Anne H. Wharton; "Three Famous Old Maids," by Agnes Repplier; and a thrilling story by Anna Katharine Green, entitled "A Mysterious Case." The complete novel in this number is " The Sound of a Voice; or, The Song of the De'bardeur," by the late Frederic S. Cozzens, the well-known author of the "Sparrowgrass Papers." The recent status of Indian affairs has called forth numerous articles upon the question of the future of that ill-treated unfortunate race. " In Darkest America," by Joseph P. Reed, in the Cosmopolitan for March, depicts in all its black ness the shameful treatment of the Indians by our
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