About The Century

Tlie September Century abounds in articles of timely interest, and in an unusual variety of fiction. No serial story of tbe present time is attracting so mncli attention as Mrs. Humpary Ward's "Sir George Tressady." Mr. Howells's liTely stoa-y of Saratoga, "An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, ' is continued ; ajid Mrs. Amelia E. Uarr contrlbutes the first part of a. iiovelette, "Prisoners of Conscience," which deals with life in tlie Shetland Islaads, and is striking'.y illustrated by Tx)-iis Loeb. The short stories of the nuxnber are "Sonny's Diploma." by Mrs. Ruth McËnery Stuart ; "Abner," by Iynn Eoby Meekins ; and "The Healing oí Meedsum," by Frank Crane. Mr. Richard Burton gives an account of the lifc of Mrs. Stowe, the ( uthor of "Uncle Toim's Oaibin," wMch is illustrat-ed by several portraits, including the frontispiece, from a daguerreotype taken in 1852, and a facsimilie of the original MS. of the story. A paper of tknely interest is an Artzona miner's account of his hard experiences in "The G-old-FieMs of Ouiana," illustrated by photographs, some of which show the manner of carryiug on placer diggings both in the Barima river región, of the disputed teiTitory. and in the Potaro river district to the "The Bicyelrt Outlook" is discussed by Isaac B. Potter, Obief Consul of the New York División of the League oï American Wleelmen.