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Editorial Department. the other on fishing for the Black Sea-Bass on the Pacific Coast. The number is unusually rich in fiction, containing four complete short stories, — by George A. Hibbard, the late John Elliott Curran, Edith Wharton, and George L. Catlin, U. S. Con sul at Zurich. There are three articles of political importance, — one on "Starting a Parliament in Japan," by Prof. John H. Wigmore, of the University of Tokio; another giving a civil en gineer's glimpse of the revolutionary Republic of Hayti; and the third summarizing the romantic history of outlawry on the Mexican border.
The July Lippincott's Magazine opens with a charming novel, by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, entitled "A Rose of a Hundred Leaves." Of the other contents the article which will excite most interest is entitled " The Future of Cuba," and is written by Frank A. Barr. " Talleyrand and Posterity," by C. R. Corson, and "Some Recent American Changes," by James W. Gerard, are well worthy of perusal. The other contents call for no espe cial mention. The contents of Harper's Magazine for July are varied and interesting. They include " Peter Ibbetson," Part II., by Geo. Du Maurier; " Chris tianity and Socialism," by Rev. J. M. Buckley; "An Imperative Duty," a novel by William Dean Howells; " Some American Riders," third paper, by Col. Theodore A. Dodge; " Briticisms and Americanisms," by Brander Matthews; " The Re public of Paraguay" ( illustrated ), by Theodore Child; "The Warwickshire Avon" (illustrated), third paper, by A. T. Q. Couch; " Oliver Wendell Holmes," by George William Curtis; " London, — Saxon and Norman " ( illustrated ), by Walter Besant. There are also several short stories. A striking portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes forms the frontispiece. The place of honor in the July Arena is given to a sketch of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by George Stewart, LL.D. An admirable portrait accom panies the article. The other contents of this number are " Plutocracy and Snobbery in New York." by Edgar Fawcett; " Should the Govern ment control the Railways," by C. Wood Davis; "The Unknown," by Camille Flammarion; "The Swiss and American Constitutions," by W. D.
McCrackan; " The Tyranny of all the Peo ple," by Rev. Francis Bellamy; " Revolutionary Measures and Neglected Crimes," by Prof. Joseph R. Buchanan; " /Eonian Punishment," by Rev. W. E. Manley; The Negro Question," by Prof. W. S. Scarborough; " A Prairie Heroine," by Hamlin Garland. The Atlantic Monthly for July presents its readers with the following attractive table of con tents : "The Lady of Fort St. John" (Prelude, I.III.), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood; "Under ground Christian Rome," by Rodolfo Lanciani; "The Old Rome and the New," by W. J. Stillman; "Plantation Life in Arkansas," by Octave Thanet; "The Male Ruby-Throat," by Bradford Torrey; "When with thy life thou didst encompass mine," by Philip Bourke Marston; " The House of Martha" ( XXXVII.-XL.), by Frank R. Stock ton; "The Story of a Long Inheritance," by Wil liam M. Davis; " English Railway Fiction," by Agnes Repplier; " The Neutrality of Switzer land," by W. D. McCrackan; " College Examina tions," by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler; " Tintoret, the Shakespeare of Painters," by William R. Thayer; " The Finding of Miss Clementine," by Elizabeth W. Bellamy.
BOOK NOTICES. American State Reports, containing the cases of general value and authority decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the several States. Selected, reported, and annotated by A. C. Freeman Vol. XVIII. Bancroft-Whitney Com pany, San .Francisco, 1891. S4.00. This volume contains one hundred and twentyfive cases selected from fourteen volumes of the official State reports as follows : 89 Ala., 84 CaK, 58 Conn., 123 Ind., 79 Iowa, 77 and 78 Mich., 42 Minn., 100 Mo., 9 Mont., 26 Neb., :2i N. Y., 105 N. C, and 76 Tex. It has. in addition thereto, the usual number of shorter notes, cross references, and current refer ences. We have exhausted our vocubulary of praise in noticing previous volumes of this series. It is say ing nil that need be said to state that the present volume is in every way equal to its predecessors.
