Tan Moammiss.-7-The Canadian Magazine is a credit to the Dominion
and to the Ontario Publishing Company in Toronto which issues it. While it is equal to all but the beat of its enterprising British and New York contemporaries in the quality of its paper and illustrations, and in the abundance of • its light literature, it does not forget that portion of Greater Britain to which the majority of its readers belong. Thus the first article gives the beat account we have seen of the great Ottawa fire. The second is devoted to "The Pagan Indians of Canada," and the writer of a third, in speculating on " The Future of Imperialism," does not leave out of consideration the demands of "a free and united" Canada,. Some of the stories are a trifle too slight, like "The Romance that Failed," but there is Kiplingesque power in Mr. W. A. Fraser's "The Salvage of the Santa Maria."—There are too many evidences that the once eminently promising Open Couk is falling off. At all events, and apart from Mr. Carus Sterne's artioletlfaillustristionis Of which are fully equal to the letterpress—on Copernicus, Tycho Brahk, and Kepler, the con- tents of the July number are the veriest snippets.—The August "summer number" of the Sunday Strand contains, in addition to the usual instalments of Dr. Watson's "Life of Christ" and other serial works, special articles on the Keswick Convention and the work of Sir William MacCormac and his colleagues in South Africa.—The new number of the School World is a good one ; it contains, besides special educa- tional matters, many " miscellaneous " and informing papers, the variety of which may be gathered from such titles as "Some Century Ends" and "The Social Status of Women S cheol-teachers."
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