buted by William Archer. The very interesting series of " Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne," by Horatio Bridge, is continued. "Athelwold," a tragedy in five acts, by Amelie Rives; " The Little Maid at the Door," a story of the New England witchcraft delusion, by Mary E. Wilkins; " Marie," another of William McLennan's inimitable French-Canadian sketches; and " Fin de Siecle," a delightfully entertaining character sketch by Robert C. V. Meyers, make up the fiction of this number. Beside the complete novel, " Roy the Royalist," by William Westall, in Lippincott's Magazine for February, an interesting table of contents is pro vided for the readers of that popular journal. Mr. Chambers of the " New York World " contributes an interesting paper entitled " The Managing Editor;" and Mr. Hermann Oelrichs a solid article on "The Science and Art of Swimming." Topics of national importance are handled by Julian Haw thorne, who has lately been interviewing the heads of departments at Washington, in " Secre tary Rusk's Crusade," and by Henry Clews, who writes with authority of " The Board of Trade and the Farmer." Scribnkr's Magazine for February contains an unusual number of illustrated articles, namely : "Station Life in Australia," by Sidney Dickinson; "A Model Working Girl's Club," by Albert Shaw; "American Illustration of To-day," second paper, by William A. Coffin; " The Revenue Cutter Ser vice," by Percy W. Thompson and Samuel A. Wood; " Washington Allston as a Painter; " and "The Arctic Highlander," by Benjamin Sharp. The fiction includes short stories by Octave Thanet, Edwin C. Martin, Bliss Perry, and the sixth instalment of " The Wrecker," by Robert Louis Stevenson. A mere glance at the table of contents of the February Atlantic discloses a feast of literary good things. The bill of fare is as follows : " The Pageant at Rome in the Year 17 b. c. " by Rodolfo Lanciani; " With the Night," by Archibald Lampman; " Don Orsino," IV., V., by F. Marion Craw ford; " The Nearness of Animals to Men," by E. P. Evans; " A Venetian Printer-Publisher in the Sixteenth Century," by Horatio F. Brown; " Her Presence," by Louise Chandler Moulton; " The
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Descendant of the Doges," by Harriet Lewis Bradley; " What French Girls Study," by Hen rietta Channing Dana; " Home-Thrust," by Char lotte Fiske Bates; " An Echo of Battle," by A. M. Ewell; " A Journey on the Volga," by Isabel F. Hapgood; "Studies in Macbeth," by Albert H. Tolman; " The Border-State Men of the Civil War," by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler; "The League as a Political Instrument; " " The Short Story; " " Indian Warfare on the Frontier."
Sir Edwin Arnold, who has been enjoying an interesting trip through the United States, has made a careful study of the conditions which gov ern the family in Japan, and embodies his ideas in a paper called " Love and Marriage in Japan " in the February number of the Cosmopolitan. The article is illustrated by the quaintest possible Jap anese sketches, running down the sides and across the bottom of each page. An excellent photo graph of W. D. Howells serves as a frontispiece, and his work as a writer of fiction is reviewed in the same number by H. H. Boyesen. The Presi dent of Johns Hopkins University gives a most practical paper for parents on " Boys and Boys' Schools," illustrated by cartoons of the famous Attwood. Murat Halstead turns back lovingly to his early farm days, and tells of the "Pets and Sports of a Farmer Boy." The petroleum indus try, fully illustrated : "An Afghan Story," by Archi bald Forbes; " The Story of the Brazilian Repub lic," by Adams, late minister to that country; and "The Leading Amateurs of the United States in Photography," are other leading articles of the month.
BOOK NOTICES. The Study of Cases. A Course of Instruction in Reading and Stating Reported Cases, Com posing Head-Notes and Briefs, Criticising and Comparing Authorities, and Compiling Digests. By Eugene Wambaugh, Professor in the Law Department of the State University of Iowa. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1892. Law sheep, $3.50 net. Cloth, $3.00 net. In this work Mr. Wambaugh treats of a subject of the greatest importance to legal practitioners, and one which, strange to say, has never before engaged
