10 SEPTEMBER 1887, Page 23

In the September Scribner, we have the last instalment but

one of the Thackeray correspondence. In one of the fresh letters (written in 1854) Thaokeray gives his reason for resigning his connection with Punch. " There appears," he says, "in next Punch an article so wicked, I think, by poor —, that upon my word I don't think I ought to pull any longer in the same boat with such a savage little Robespierre." Who was this Robespierre ? Among the miscellaneous articles in Scribner that call for notice, are Mr. Wilson's " The Modern

Nile," "Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone," and Mr. Monoure Conway's "An Unpublished Draft of a National Constitution, by Edmund Randolph." There are some unpleasant truths in Mr. Sher- man Hill's "English in Newspapers and Novels."