7 JULY 1888, Page 23

We miss in the Argosy papers equivalent to those which

the new editor used to write under such a title as "Letters from Majorca." Their place can hardly be said to have been taken by such papers as Dr. A. H. Japp's on "Pearls," though that is an artistic mélange of literature and information. There is no falling- off in the quality of the short stories in the Argosy.