The Century Magazine. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—It is with
the assurance of finding much that will be worth reading that one takes up a bound volume of the Century Magazine. And it a
to the departments other than fiction that we instinctively turn. For with the latter there is the, we suppose, unavoidable annoy- aim of finding stories the beginning or ending of which is absent.
Only a few chapters of a tale by the author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" is rather a trial. But then there is ample compensation amongst the miscellaneous articles. The Excelsior
and Cullinan diamonds supply one subject. And though Mr. Kunz has not such a tale of lurid romance to chronicle as attaches to
some other famous gems, his description of their discovery, and subsequent treatment, is most interesting. The London Police are well and amusingly depicted in another article. The writer, having himself been a police official in New York, is warm in their praise, though not going quite to the length of the Eastern potentate who is said to have desired to export the whole force to his own 'country. And withal there are illustrations of that standard of excellence which we have learnt to expect from American magazines.
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