the number of its distinguished contributors, in the interest of its contents, and in its overflowing illustra tions by famous artists. François Coppée. William Dean Howells, Camille Flammarion, Andrew Lang. Frank Dempster Sherman, H. H. Boyesen. Charles DeKay. Thomas A. Janvier, Colonel Tillman. Agnes Repplier, and Gilbert Parker are a few of the names which appear on its titlepage. Three frontispieces, all by famous artists, furnish an unusual feature; and among the artists who contribute to the hundred and nineteen illustrations adorning its pages, a,re Laurens. Reinhart. Fenn. Toussaint. Stevens. Saunier, Filler, Meaulle, and Franzen. The midsummer num ber is intended to set the pace for the magazine at its new price of twelve and a half cents a copy, or $i 50 a year. The magazine remains unchanged in size, and each issue will be an advance upon its predecessor. Harper's. Italian Gardens, Part I. (illustrated), Charles A. Platt; French Canadians in New England (illus trated), Henry Loom is Nelson; The Handsome Humes, A Novel, Part II., William Black; Side Lights on the German Soldier (illustrated). Poultney Bigelow; Silence: A Story (illustrated), Mary E. Wilkins; Three English Race Meetings (illustrated). Richard Harding Davis: Algerian Riders (illus trated). Col. T. A. Dodge, U. S. A.: Horace Chase, A Novel. Part VII., Constance Fenimore Woolson; Chicago's Gentle Side. Julian Ralph; The Function of Slang, Prof. Brander Matthews. Lippincott's. The Troublesome Lady (illustrated), Patience Stapleton; Fanny Kemble at Lenox, C. B. Todd; On the Way (illustrated). Julian Hawthorne; An Old- Fashioned View of Fiction, Maurice Francis Egan : Chicago Architecture (illustrated), Barr Ferree : The Reprieve of Capitalist Clyve (illus trated), Owen Wister; What the United States owes to Italy. Giovanni P. Morosini; "The New Poetry and Mr. W. E. Henley, Gilbert Parker; A Wild Night on the Amazon, Morgan S. Edmunds; Point •vs. Truth. Robert Timsol; Truth vs. Point, Frederic M. Bird; Certain Points of Style in Writing, Edgar Fawcett: Men of the Day, M. Crofton. Rcvisw of Reviews. This number very fitly calls attention to our entrance on a new age — the age of electricity — in its three absorbing articles on the newest marvels and the even more incredible things to be expected. The great electrical exhibit at the World's Fair is described by Mr. J. R. Cravath. This paper is fol lowed by two more under the title " Two Giants of the Electric Age." Mr. C. D. Lanier tells of the personality and sketches the picturesque career of
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Thomas A. Edison. The interview with Mr. Edison presents fully the great inventor's views of the further triumphs in electrical science that are about to come to us. A striking and picturesque contrast to the Edison article is Mr. J. Munro's character sketch on Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. Mr. Munro tells how Lord Kelvin made the Atlantic cable pos sible, and how he invented the best mariner's com pass : and the personality of the great Scotch professor is a theme of no less absorbing interest than his wonderful achievements in science. All these articles are profusely illustrated with portraits and pictures. Scribner's. The Life of the Merchant Sailor (illustrated), W. Clark Russell; Personal Recollections of Two Visits to Gettysburg (illustrated), A. H. Nickerson; Fore ground and Vista at the Fair (illustrated). W. Ham ilton Gibson; The Opinions of a Philosopher, Chapters III.-V. (illustrated), Robert Grant; Ara bian Nights Entertainments, W.E.Henley; Musical Societies of the United States, and their Representa tion at the World's Fair (illustrated), George P. Upton; An Amateur Gamble, Anna Fuller; Troutfishing in the Traun (illustrated), Henry Van Dyke; Aspects of Nature in the West Indies : From the Note-book of a Naturalist (illustrated), W. K. Brooks: The Copperhead, Chapters I. and II., Harold Frederic; The Prevention oi Pauperism, Oscar Craig. New England Magazine. Mount Washington (illustrated), Julius H. Ward; John Hallantyne, American, XI.-XIL, Helen Camp bell; Where our Flag was first Saluted (illustrated), William Elliott Griffis; The Man who Lived a Plot (illustrated), Everard Jack Appleton; In the Foolsteps of Jane Austen (illustrated), Oscar Fay Adams; The Wooden Peg, W. Grant; Experiences during many Years, III. -IV.. Benjamin I'. Shillaber; A Frontier Army Post (illustrated i, Price Collier; The Common and Human in Literature, Walter Blackburne Hart; Influence of Physical Features on New England Development, Edmund K. Alden; Forests and Forestry in Europe ami America. Henry Lambert : Diet, Samuel R. Elliott.
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