work is shown; examples of the work of Low, Vedder, and Cox in the group of papers on Amer ican illustrators; pictures by Eugene Morand, a French artist new to an American audience; and reproductions of sketches in chalk by Washington Allston. Of particular interest to lovers of art and literature are the articles on " Paris Theatres and Concerts," by William F. Apthorp; " Bayreuth Revisited," by H. E. Krehbiel; "American Il lustration of To-day," by W. A. Coffin; and "Some Unpublished Correspondence of Wash ington Allston." In the January Arena Hamlin Garland's muchtalked-of novel of the modern West opens brill iantly. The publishers of the Arena claim that this will be " the great American novel; " and cer tainly it bids fair to be by far the strongest work that has yet come from the pen of the brilliant "novelist of the West." This issue also contains strong papers, by Alfred Russel Wallace, on "Human Progress: Past and Future;" Prof. A. N. Jannaris, Ph. D., of the University of Greece, Athens, on " Mohammedan Marriage and Life;" Henry Wood, on " The Universality of Law;" Ex-Gov. Lionel A. Sheldon, on " Louisiana and the Levees; " D. G. Watts, on " Walt Whitman;" Charles Schroder, on " What is Buddhism?" and several other able papers.

The January number of Lippincott's Magazine is marked by several new features : the first of sundry stories and sketches illustrating journalistic life and labors : the first of a series of articles on athletic subjects; an editorial department headed "As it Seems," containing brief essays and com ments on various topics of the time, literary and other; and notices of several recent books, given in the form of dialogue. The complete novel, "The Passing of Major Kilgore," is by an expe rienced journalist, Mr. Young E. Allison, formerly of the Louisville " Courier-Journal."

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Westminster Review," by C. Marion D. [Robert son] Towers; " Down by the Shore in December," by Thomas William Parsons; " The Creed of trie Old South," by Basil L. Gildersleeve; " The Missing Interpreter," by Herbert D. Ward; " The Greatest Need of College Girls," by Annie Payson Call; " Why Socialism appeals to Artists," by Walter Crane. The personality of no man in America to-day possesses greater interest for English-speaking peoples all the world over than that of Phillips Brooks, the newly elected Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most interesting articles in the New Year's magazines is that on " Phillips Brooks," by Julius H. Ward, in the New England Magazine for January. It gives an account of the great preacher's early manhood, his homes, his haunts, and his work. Among the other articles in this number are " The Master of Ravenshoe," by Ar thur L. Salmon; "The City of St. Louis," by Prof. C. M. Woodward; and " Stories of Salem Witchcraft," by Winfield S. Nevins. There are several short stories of unusual interest. The Cosmopolitan begins the new year well, and its January number is filled with good things for its readers. " Old New York," by James Grant Wilson, illustrated with views of the city in the last century, will make young New Yorkers open their eyes as they contemplate the vast changes which have taken place in the last hundred years. "The Columbus Portraits," by William Eleroy Curtis, contains many rare old portraits, and much valuable information. Joseph W. Richards has an interesting paper on "Aluminum, — the Metal of the Future." " In Camp with Stanley," by A. I. M. Jephson; " A Daughter of the South," by Mrs. Burton Harrison; and " The Special Cor respondents at Washington," by T. C. Crawford, are included in the other contents.

BOOK NOTICES. The January Atlantic presents the following attractive table of contents: "Don Orsino," I.III., by F. Marion Crawford; " Boston," by Ralph Waldo Emerson; " James Russell Lowell," by Henry James; " Birds and ' Birds,' " by Edith M. Thomas; " John Stuart Mill and the London and

Selections from Leake's Elements of the Law of Contracts and Finch's Cases on Con tracts, arranged as a Text-Book for Law Stu dents. By William A. Keener, Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law in Colum