REVIEWS. The New England Magazine for June is fully up to the high standard of this popular periodical. Its most noteworthy articles are " Art in Chicago, by Lucy B. Monroe; " The Government of Cit ies," by Moorfield Storey; " Work and Wages," by Charles Edwin Markham; " General Armstrong and the Hampton Institute," by Edwin A. Start; "The Ship Columbia and the Discovery of the Oregon," by Edward G. Porter; "The Christian Endeavor Movement," by Rev. Francis E. Clark, Amos R. Wells, and John Willis Baer; " Three Letters to ' Dorothy Q.,' " by Henry Collins Walsh; "The People in Church and State," by Edward Everett Hale. The contents of the Arena for June embrace science, history, ethics, economics, politics, lite rary criticism, education, psychic science, and fiction. Among the contributors are Prof. A. E. Dolbear, of Tufts University, Rev. Minot J. Sav age, B. O. Flower, W. D. McCrackan, A. M., au thor of " The Rise of the Swiss Republic," Louise Chandler Moulton, Rabbi Solomon Schindler, Fred erick Taylor, F. R. G. S., B. F. Underwood, and Hamlin Garland. The June number of Harper's Magazine is rich in illustrations, and in the extraordinary vari ety of its contents. Its most striking literary fea ture is the beginning of the series of papers on "The Old English Dramatists," by James Russell Lowell, — papers which will attract universal atten tion as representing the maturest critical thought of their distinguished author upon a subject which was to him a life-long favorite. Another article which will elicit the especial interest of thoughtful readers is Dr. Charles Waldstein's " Funeral Ora tions in Stone and Word," suggested by the recent discovery of a remarkable bas-relief in the exca vations on the Acropolis at Athens. This article is accompanied by several illustrations (including the frontispiece) from photographs. A minute and comprehensive description of " The Austro-Hungarian Army " is contributed by Baron von Kuhn, and appropriately illustrated by T. de Thulstrup. The popular series of Danube papers, " From the Black Forest to the Black Sea," is continued by F. D. Millet, who describes the voyage of himself and fellow-canoeists from Belgrade to the Bulga
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rian frontier. The fiction of this number is con tributed by Mary E. Wilkins, Wm. D. Howells, and Sarah Orne Jewett.
The principal contents of the June Century are " Budapest : The Rise of a New Metropolis," by Albert Shaw; " The Nature and Elements of Poetry : IV. Melancholia," by Edmund Clarence Stedman; " Mount St. Elias Revisited," by Israel C. Russel; " The Fight of the ' Armstrong ' Pri vateer," by James Jeffrey Roche; " The Chosen Valley: II.," by Mary Hallock Foote; "Early Political Caricature in America," by Joseph B. Bishop; " The Atlantic Steamship," by Titus Munson Coan; "The Chatelaine of La Trinite* : I.," by Henry B. Fuller; " Christopher Columbus : II. In Search of a Patron," by Emilio Castelar; "The Naulahka : VIII.," by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier; " Characteristics : VII." by S. Weir Mitchell, M. D.
The complete novel in Lippincott's Magazine for June, " John Gray : a Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time," is by James Lane Allen. Murat Halstead furnishes the " Journalist Series " with a paper on his " Early Editorial Experiences " that cannot fail to attract a re-awakening interest in the series. Hon. John James Ingalls contributes an article on the West, entitled " Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way," bearing the impress of the ex-Senator's powerful style. The short stories of the number are by Maurice Thompson and Patience Stapleton.
In variety of subject and popular treatment the contents of the June Cosmopolitan furnish an attractive standard. The magazine is leading a movement for the solution of the problem of Aerial Navigation; and Hiram S. Maxim, the great inventor and foremost authority on the subject, gives the result of some recent experiments under the title, "The Aeroplane." The maga zine opens with a charming Philadelphia story, by Janvier, with artistic illustrations from Wilson de Meza. Miss Hewitt, daughter of ex-Mayor Hewitt, gives some very sound advice regarding fashions and counterfeits in bric-a-brac. Other important articles in this number are "The Working of the
