Scribner's Magazine for June is a Stanley number, containing the only article which he will contribute to any periodical, and the first authori tative word from him on many of the most im portant features of his great expedition for the re lief of Emin Pasha. This article fills thirty-two pages of the issue, and is a most graphic and ex citing narrative from first to last. The illustra tions are unique, presenting the first results of modern photographic methods as applied in places never before seen by a white man, as well as drawings from sketches made by Mr. Stanley himself. One of the most striking pictures shows a group of the Wambutti Pygmies, a new race discovered by Stanley. " The City House " (the East and South), by Russell Sturgis, is the sec ond article in the series on Homes. It is very fully illustrated with pictures of typical houses in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and the South. The first instalment is published of an anonymous serial entitled "Jerry," which will run through the year. The story, it is announced, will deal with some significant social problems in a most dramatic way. President Seth Low, of Co lumbia College, writes of "The Rights of the Citizen as a User of Public Conveyances " (the third article of the Citizen's Rights Series), and makes some definite suggestions as to legislation to remedy the existing abuses of street-railway and ferry franchises. " Barbizon and Jean-Fran cois Millet " is finished with a most interesting selection from the unpublished letters of Millet to his friend Sensier, which give an intimate per sonal view of his life at Barbizon, the trials with which he contended, and the measure of success which came to him at last. Like the previous article, this is very richly illustrated The Century for July has for a frontispiece an excellent portrait of the well-known writer Walter Besant. Albert Shaw contributes an interesting article on "London Polytechnics and People's Palaces," which is profusely illus trated. John Lafarge continues his "Artist's Letters from Japan," with his own illustrations. Perhaps the most notable article is the second paper by Amelia Gere Mason, on "The Women of the French Salons." The accompanying por traits include Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Anne de Rohan, Madeleine de Souvre, Anne d'Autriche, Queen of France, Catherine de
Medicis, and Francoise Bertaut. "A Modern Colorist " gives some excellent specimens of the pictures of Albert Ryder, who, by the way, is a Massachusetts man, being a native of Cape Cod. "Joe " Jefferson's delightful Autobiography is continued, and this number is devoted to his ex periences in Australia. In fiction we have the opening chapters of a new serial entitled the "Anglomaniacs; " and there are short stories, "Trusty No. 49," and " Mere Marchette." Some interesting " Memoranda on the Life of Lincoln," are given, which are contributed by several writers. The American public is happy in having the first laugh over Alphonse Daudet's new Tartarin story. " Port Tarascon : The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin," the translation by Henry James, beginning as a serial in the June number of "Harper's Magazine," will be pub lished complete before the French public can share in enjoying the immense drolleries of the original. The illustrations by Rossi, Montegut, and others are delightful. Another distinguished Frenchman, the Vicomte Eugene Melchior de Vogue", member of the French Academy and au thor of the vivid papers on Russian Life in this magazine last year, contributes to the same num ber an account of what he saw during a trip "Through the Caucasus." The short stories are by the bright new American writers George A. Hibbard and Matt Crim, and the clever artist and author F. Hopkinson Smith. Among the other contents are: "The Enemy's Distance," by Park Benjamin, Ph. D., explaining Lieut. Brad ley A. Fiske's important invention for range-find ing at sea by electricity; "The American Bur lesque," by Laurence Hutton, richly illustrated with portraits of leading actors of the past and present; " Fiirst Bi smarck," by George Moritz Wahl, with plate portrait of the ex-Chancellor; "The Best-governed City in the World," a strik ing paper upon municipal polity, by Julian Ralph; "The Young Whist-player's Novitiate," by Prof. F. B. Goodrich, with diagrams, illustrating some practice hands for beginners; and " Chapbook Heroes," a picturesque article on Claude Duval, Jack Sheppard, and Dick Turpin, by Howard Pyle, with illustrations drawn by the author; " Three Sisters," one of the four poems in the number, is a strikingly modern production, by a new poet, Angie W. Wray.
