10 AUGUST 1889, page 24

Apart From The Stories, Which Both Short And Serial, Are

of more than average excellence, there is not much in the August number of the Quiver that calls for special attention. And yet there are several papers that will be found......

Editing, The August Number Of The Illustrated Naval And...

Magazine is highly readable. Admiral Colomb's paper (the second of a series) on "Naval Warfare," and Mr. Philip Revell's on "The Canalisation of the Thames and Defence of......

Current Literature.

The August number of Harper's Magazine is one of the best, as regards both variety and quality of contents, that have appeared for some time. Mr. Theodore Child's truly Parisian......

London Ltittough French Glasses.* - Under The Growing...

travellers of one nation are developing of writing books about another, we are getting pretty well used to all kinds of judgments on ourselves, our characteristics, and our......

The August Number Of The Atlantic Monthly Is An...

strong one. It is worth reading for Mr. Russell Lowell's poem alone, of "How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes," with such lines as :— " In your pent lives, as we in......