able literary men and women who have visited Berkshire within the past half-century or more. Mr. Sedgwick tells a series of interesting incidents and anecdotes concerning Fanny Kemble, Macready, President Van Buren, Dr. Channing, G. P. R. James and many others, and the article is full of por traits and other illustrations, including beautiful pic tures of Miss Sedgwick and Mrs. Kemble. Herbert Spencer opens the August Popular Science Monthly with the fourth of his papers on "Professional Institutions," in which he shows that the functions of the orator, poet, actor and dramatist are all developed from the acts of the primitive tribesman in welcoming his victoriously returning chief. Andrew D. White, writing on "The Continued Growth of Scientific Interpretation," describes the battle by which reason conquered tradition in English theology. In an illustrated article on "Art and Eyesight," Dr. Lucien Howe shows that artists are by no means exempt from the irregularities of vision that other per sons have, and hence that, to see their pictures as they see them, one must for the moment induce the same irregularity in his own eyes. In the series on the Development of American Industries since Columbus. John G. Morse describes "Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires," with many pictures of apparatus ancient and modern. Prof. E.L.Richards sets forth the importance of the "Physical Element in Education." Robert Louis Stevenson's last story, " St. Ives," was left at his death practically completed, so it is stated by those who have seen the manuscript. Many chapters had even received the author's final revision. Stevenson had been at work upon this novel for more than a year, and the first half of it had been entirely rewritten several times. " St. Ives " will be published serially in McClure's Magazine. The idea fliat ten cents for The Cosmopolitan means inferiority from a literary point of view is dis pelled by the appearance in the August number of such writers as Sir Lewis Morris, Sir Edwin Arnold, Edgar Fawcett, Tabb, W. Clark Russell, Lang, Sarcey. Zangwill, Agnes Replier, etc. Nor can we en tertain the idea of inferiority in illustration with such names as Hamilton Gibson, Denman, Van Schaick, Lix, Sandham, etc., figuring as the chief artists of a single month's issue. The most striking paper ot general interest in the August Arena, — the one that will surely be read from Atlantic to Pacific, — is Mrs. Helen H. Gar dener's review of recent age-of-consent legislation in
the United States. She deals with the bills that have been introduced in the various States, and gives the history of the three bills passed in New York, Arizona and Idaho, raising the age to eighteen. Mrs. Gardener bases this demand for fuller protec tion to young girls, not upon any moral or religious views, as these vary according to birth and training, but upon the legal rights which are recognized in property and citizenship. The August Atlantic Monthly contains several articles which are calculated to create widespread in terest. One of the most striking contributions is by Jacob D. Cox on " How Judge Hoar Ceased to be Attorney-General." Mr. Cox was a member of Grant's Cabinet with Judge Hoar, and this paper is an important chapter in our recent political history. Under the title of "Female Criminals," Major Arthur Griffiths, Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, furnishes an article to the August number of the North American Review presenting in a peculiarly attractive style his observations respecting many and varied types of female offenders. McClure's Magazine for August is a great short story number. Besides a new Zenda story by An thony Hope, and a new Jungle story by Rudvard Kipling, there is a California story by Bret Harte, and a story of adventure by Stanley J. Weyman. Harper's for August is strong in fiction. The "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc " relate the story of Joan's examination by the bishops, her ap proval by the church and the beginning of her cam paign against the enemies of the French king. Mr. Hardy's " Hearts Insurgent" is continued, and there are four short stories : " Bobbo," by Thomas Whar ton, is a humorous tale of Paris life; "An Evangel in Cyene," by Hamlin Garland, is a study of a rural community in Illinois; "Jimty," by Margaret Sutton Briscoe, is a love-story of Old Virginia and New York; and " The Little Room," by Magdalene Yale Wynne, is a mystical New England sketch. The complete novel in the August issue of Lippincott's, " Little Lady Lee," by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, narrates the vicissitudes of a faithful heart which found its true mate after its owner, obeving the customs of English high life and match-making fathers, had lost her freedom. " A Friend to the Devil," by Maurice Thompson, is an amusing story of Georgia superstitions. The " Applied Art" of which William T. Nichols treats was akin to that of the late M. Worth of Paris, but it did not prevent the artist from winning his ladylove.
