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acter in Politics", is by President J. H. 

 Seelye, whose exposition of ethical princi- 

 ples involved in the popular election of 

 candidates to high station in the Govern- 

 ment must command the attention of every 

 right-minded citizen. '' Benefits of the 

 Tariff System", a sequel to the article in 

 the September number on the " Evils of the 

 Tariff System ", is a symposium consisting 

 of three articles, written respectively by 

 John Koach, Prof. R E. Thompson, and 

 Nelson Dingley, Jr., who advocate the pol- 

 icy of protection of American industries 

 with great clearness and ability and abun- 

 dant citations of statistical facts. In ad- 

 dition to these most timely discussions of 

 high political issues, the Revietv has an ar- 

 ticle by the Rev. Dr. Augustus Jessop, en- 

 titled "Why 1 Wish to Visit America"; 

 " The Philosophy of Conversion " by O. B. 

 Frothingham ; " The Origin of Yellow 

 Fever", by Dr. C. Creighton; "Shall the 

 Jury System be Abolished ? " by Judge 

 Robert Y. Hayne ; " The Genesis of Tenny- 

 son's Maud ", by Richard Heme Shepherd ; 

 and " The Development of Machine Guns ", 

 by Lieut. C. Sleeman. 



The October Harper's Monthly contains 

 as a frontispiece a charming picture by Mr. 

 Abby of "Judith Shakespeare," the hereine 

 of William Black's story, which nears its 

 close, and has more of the delightful en- 

 gravings from the pencil of Dielman and 

 Gibson, illustrating E. P. Roe's "Nature's 

 Serial Story," part eleven. Both Mr. 

 Boughton and Mr. Abbey illustrate the in- 

 stalment of the former's clever " Artist 

 Strolls in Holland," which appears in the 

 number. Horace E. Scudder takes the 

 reader to Copenhagen, " The Home of Hans 

 Christian Andersen," and Rufus F. Zog- 

 baum to " The Home of Tommy Atkins," 

 who is quite an other kind of person. • Tom- 

 my Atkins is the popular name for the 

 British soldier, and the home described is 

 the great camp at Aldershot. Both of these 

 papers are fully illustrated by the writer 

 himself. A Mexican metropolis, Monterey, 

 is described and illustrated in an article 



called " The Gateway to the. Sierra Madre," 

 by Frank R. Brown. Two historical papers, 

 one on King's College (now Columbia), New 

 York, by John MacMullen, and the second 

 by Treadwell Walden, on Westminster Hall ; 

 and two biographical — one a reminiscence 

 of Mr- Darwin, with a portrait of him in 

 middle age, the other the remarkable story 

 of a slave horse-jockery, Charles Stewart 

 told by himself and edited by a Southern 

 lady, are features of the number. One of 

 miscellaneous papers, on " Municipal Fi- 

 nance," by W. M. Ivens, private secretary 

 to Mayor Grace, of New York, will attract 

 much attention, and there is the usual 

 variety of stories, poems, and departments. 



The Science Observer of September 14th an- 

 nounces that a cable message was received 

 on the 13th, at Harvard College Observatory, 

 from Dr. Krueger, Kiel, announcing the dis- 

 covery of a planet by Dr. Luther. The posi- 

 tion given, September 12.379, Greenwich M. 

 T., is the following: R. A. Oh. 12m. 4s. 

 Decl. + 10° 37^. Eleventh magnitude. 



The Art Interchange of September 11th 

 contains a charming design in color of a vase 

 decorated with pink morning-glories. The 

 addition of bronze to this design makes it 

 most exquisite for decoration in mineral 

 colors. The same issue also contains a 

 beautiful picture, of a girl in frilled cap, 

 which suggests the Cherry Ripe of Millais. 

 Price per copy, 15 cents. Pubished by Wil- 

 liam Whitlock, 140 Nassau Street. 



The Popular Science Monthly for October 

 is the closing number of the 25th volume 

 and is in full accordance with the ideal 

 purpose of its origination. The object of the 

 magazine has been to bring forward dis- 

 tinctively and prominently the higher hu- 

 man aspects of human inquiry, and every 

 one of the fifteen articles of the present 

 number sustains this character. The first 

 paper, by Dr. F. J. Shepherd, on " The Sig- 

 nificance of Human Anomalies," is an illus- 

 trated and very timely exposition of those 

 aberrations of structure in the human sys- 



