Literary Notes

The Magazine of Art for September is as usual full of beautiful illustrations. George du Maurier writes and illustrates an article on The Illustrating of Books from the Serjgus Point of View; and Claude Phillips begins a short but important reries of articles on The Modern School of Painting and Sculpture, as illustrated by the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition. Cassell Pub lishing Co., New York. Tlie Jenness-Miller Magazine for September is full of things sure to inteitst women. This month the article on Physical Culture deals with The Hand and Arm. Various social topics ure discussed, and the paper on Fashions and Fancy sustains the well earned excellence of this periodical. The Jenneas-Miller Pub. Co., New York. The September Book Buyer has for its biographical sketch a survey of the life of Arthur Shelburne Hardy, professor of ïnathematics at Dartmouth college and the author of several mathematical reatises. Professor Hardy has written jeside these several novéis, among tbem, But Yet a Woman, and The Mind of Destiny. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Some titles of the interesting articles n the Ootober nutnber of the JennessMiller Magazine are: The Philosophy of Motion ; Politeness; Social Etiquette - Mournin?; ïapestry; A Classic Toilet. and A Girl Student's Year in Paris. 2.50 a year. JenneRS-Miller Pub. Co., 363 Fifth-ave, New York. A copiously illustrated account of Ancient Dwellings of the Rio Verde Vulley, in Arizona, will be contributed o the October Popular Science Monthly, y Captain Edgar A. Mearns, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A. It contains a descripion of ruined cliff-dwellings and ueblos exolored by Dr. Mearns, with lans showing the exact arrangement of the rooms on the five floora of one of the former, and pictures of the exeriora of seyeral dwellings, and of nany curious implements found within ,hem. I). Appleton & Co., New York.