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farewell in "that room which looked like a room to die in," we cannot help feeling a certain affection for Aunt Anne. We should like to shake her on every page, and still we pity and almost love her in every chapter.

Mrs. Lucy Lane Clifford is the widow of William Kingdon Clifford, a man of extraordinary mathematical powers, who was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a professor of applied mathematics in University College, London, and the author of a number of valuable scientific books. He died some twelve years ago, from overwork. Mrs. Clifford's first production, "The Dingy House at Kensington," was published in 1881. "Mrs. Keith's Crime," which appeared some years later, was very popular, both in this country and in England; and "The Love Letters of a Worldly Woman," noticed in these columns only a few months ago, attracted a great deal of attention. Mrs. Clifford is hailed by some of her British critics as a woman who has taken a unique position in her native country as a writer of short, analytical stories; and she is even called the British Maupassant and Bourget. When Aunt Anne, while turning Alfred Wimple out of doors like a whipped cur, is moved to give to that wretched creature the cough-lozenges bought for him before his baseness was discovered, Mrs. Clifford certainly rises to what is almost a point of analytical inspiration; and these two latest works of hers unquestionably show throughout unusual powers of mental dissection and vivisection, and an undoubted knowledge of the various scientific methods of resolving intellectual operations into their primary principles.

MR. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS said once of a certain philosopher, whose name, by-the-way, was not Thomas Carlyle, that "he was sometimes thoughtless, as most thinkers are." There can be little question that the evil wrought in his family circle by the great thinker of Chelsea was wrought by want of thought rather than by want of heart. "He was gey ill to live wi," his mother said of him in his youth, and so his wife undoubtedly found him in his maturity; but his dyspepsia was physical before it became mental, and the heart - burn from which both he and Mrs. Carlyle suffered was an uneasy sensation due to acidity and regurgitation which rose into his æsophagus from his own stomach; and perhaps a little of it may be traced to the cardialgia of Jane Welch herself. Thomas Carlyle is the latest of the long list of "English Men of Letters" who have figured in Mr. John Morley's series bearing that general title. "Express biography of me I had really rather that there should be none," said Carlyle in his will, signed in 1873, seven years after his wife's death, and eight years before his own; and immediately his friends and his enemies began to write of him express biog raphies. That of Mr. Fronde, of course, is the longest and the fullest, and probably the most

misleading. Mr. Charles Eliot Norton says of it that "it may be a striking picture, but it is not a good portrait." Mr. Norton contents himself with printing some of Carlyle's letters, that they may serve as a partial autobiography, and illustrate his character by unquestioned evidence. They do not indeed afford a complete portrait, as he remarks, but so far as they go, the lines will prove to be correct.

"How delicate, decent, is English biography, bless its mealy mouth! A Damocles sword of respectability hangs forever over the poor English life-writer (as it does over poor English life in general), and reduces him to the verge of paralysis." Thus spake Thomas Carlyle in his review of Lockhart's "Life of Scott." Mr. John Nichol's Life of Thomas Carlyle' is an English biography after the heart of Thomas Carlyle himself. It is delicate and decent, and respectable enough, but it is never mealymouthed. The author is just and generous, and perfectly sane in his estimates of the personal character of his subject. He shows Carlyle's good side, while frankly acknowledg ing the existence of the bad, and he emphasizes neither. If the bad happens to predominate over the good, it is the misfortune of Carlyle, rather than the fault of Mr. Nichol. As an English life-writer Mr. Nichol has already shown his powers in his biography of Byron published in this same series some years ago, and it is rather interesting to note his comparison between the half-Scot and the whole Scot in the present volume. "One had by nature many affinities to the Latin races; the other was purely Teutonic. But the power of both was Titanic rather than Olympian; both were forces of revolution; both protested in widely different fashion against the tendency of the age to submerge Individualism; both were, to a large extent, egotists, the one whining, the other roaring against the 'Philistine' restraints of ordinary society. Both had bot hearts, big brains, and an exhaustless store of winged and fiery words; both were wrapt in a measureless discontent, and made constant appeal against what they deemed the shallows of Optimism. Carlylism is the prose rather than 'the male of Byronism." This seems to cover very nearly the whole ground.

When Mr. Nichol in his closing chapter speaks of the "great artists, as Millais, Watts, and Boehm, who vied with each other in painting or sculpture to preserve his [Carlyle's] lineaments," we cannot help wondering if Mr. Nichol is ignorant of the existence of Whistler's marvellous portrait, but we can discover very little fault to find with his own work, and we regret that we have so little space to devote to it here. It is the latest of the portraits of Carlyle; it ought to be the last; and it is, next to Whistler's, almost, if not altogether, the best.

Thomas Carlyle. By JOHN NICHOL, LL.D.. A M. 12mo, Cloth, 75 cents. [In the English Men of Letters Series.] New York: Harper and Brothers.

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The Title and Contents of Volume LXXXV. of HARPER'S MAGAZINE, June to November, 1892, will be furnished upon application to the Publishers.

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Illustrations. From Photographs. Engraved by MERRILL, PETTIT,
LEVIN, TINKEY, CLARK, and FABER.

Arafat.-Mosque El-Khiff: Camp of the Egyptian Pilgrims.-Pilgrims
round the Kaaba in the Mecca Mosque.-Medina.-Mosque of Medina con-
taining the Prophet's Tomb.-General View of Mecca and the Mosque.

Portrait of Mary E. Wilkins

After a Photograph by A. O. ELWELL, Danvers, Massachusetts. Engraved
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Jane Field. A Novel. Part VII. (Conclusion.) . . MARY E. WILKINS 828 With One Illustration. By W. T. SMEDLEY.

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Illustrations. By A. LEPÈRE and P. RENOUARD. Engraved by LEPÈRE
and FLORIAN.

Avenue des Champs Elysées.—L'Arc de Triomphe: Return from the Bois after a Shower.--Le Grand Coiffeur.—Boulevard des Italiens at Sunset.—Rue de la Paix, from the Place de l'Opera.-Place de la Madeleine.-In Front of the Opéra on a Wet Night.

The Designers of the Fair

F. D. MILLET
Portraits. From Photographs by ROOT, BRUND, HESLER, MORSE, and
MELANDER AND BROTHER, Chicago; SARONY, New York; NOTMAN,
Boston; and PIROU, Paris. Engraved by KLASEN.

D. H. Burnham, Chief of Construction.—Frederick Law Olmsted.—Henry
Van Brunt-Richard M. Hunt.-Charles F. McKim.-Charles B. Atwood.—
W. L. B. Jenney.—George B. Post.-Louis H. Sullivan.-Francis M. White-
house.-S. S. Beman.-Henry Sargent Codman.-Sophia G. Hayden.-Henry

Ives Cobb.

The Rivals. A Story

FRANÇOISE COPPÉE

With Three Illustrations (including Frontispiece). By ALBERT E. STER

NER.

A Collection of Death-Masks. Third Paper.. LAURENCE HUTTON
Illustrations. From Photographs.

Napoleon Bonaparte.--Napoleon III-Oliver Cromwell.-Henry IV. of
France-Charles XII. of Sweden.-Frederick the Great.-U. S. Grant.-George
Washington: Houdon's Mask. -Benjamin Franklin.—W. T. Sherman.—
Aaron Burr-Thomas Paine.-Daniel Webster.-Henry Clay.-John C. Cal-
houn.-Abraham Lincoln.-Lord Brougham.-Florida Negro Boy.

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Miss Mary E. Wilkins's Stories

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Editor's Study
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
The Responsibilities of Literature.-Moral Recklessness of Fiction.—Results
of the Downward Tendency of Realism.—Mr. Charles Wagner's “Jeunesse,”
and the Reaction in France against the Materialistic Spirit.-The Works of
Mr. Laurence Hutton.

Monthly Record of Current Events

Political Intelligence.-Disasters.-Obituary.
Editor's Drawer. With Introductory Story by THOMAS NELSON PAGE
The True Story of the Surrender of the Marquis Cornwallis (THOMAS
NELSON PAGE; Illustration by A. B. FROST).—Broad Views.-Thanksgiving
Day-Scagg's Mare Polly.-At Our Boarding-house (Illustration by W. H.
HYDE). Every Man His Own Newspaper.-A Hard Position.—Too Quick
(CLIFFORD TREMBLY).-Not Available as an Interpreter (C. B. MOORE).—
Branched Out (Illustration by A. B. FROST).

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ARPER'S MAGAZINE for December, 1892, beginning the Eighty-sixth
Volume, will be a brilliantly illustrated Holiday Number, containing :

A New Light on the Chinese. By HENRY BURDEN MCDOWELL. With Ten Illustrations by THEO. WORES;

Tryste Noel. A Christmas Carol. By LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.

by F. V. DU MOND;

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Giles Corey, Yeoman. A Play, based on a tragical episode of the Salem Witchcraft delusion. By MARY E. WILKINS. With Four Illustrations by HOWARD PYLE ; A Christmas Party. A Story, located in Venice at the American Consulate. By CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON. With Two Illustrations by C. S. REINHART ; Types of the Virgin. By THEODORE CHILD. With Eight Illustrations from Paintings by GIOVANNI BELLINI, FILIPPO LIPPI, SANDRO BOTTICELLI, ANDREA MANTEGNA, PIETRO PERUGINO, LEONARDO DA VINCI, RAPHAEL, and HANS MEMLING; Nourmedee. A Poem. By THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. With Four Illustrations by W. T. SMEDLEY;

Fan's Mammy. A Christmas Story. By EVA WILDER MCGLASSON. With Six Illustrations by A. B. FROST ;

Crazy Wife's Ship. A Sketch. By H. C. BUNNER. With Full-page Illustration by E. A. ABBEY;

Le Reveillon. A French Christmas Story. By FERDINAND FABRE. With Six Illustrations by GEORGE ROUX;

"Do Seek Their Meat From God." A Sketch. By Professor C. G. D. ROBERTS. With an Illustration by F. REMINGTON;

Lord Bateman. A Ballad. Illustrated from Drawings by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. With Comment by THACKERAY's daughter, ANNE ISABELLA RITCHIE ; A Cameo and a Pastel. By BRANDER MATTHEWS;

How Lin McLean Went East. A Story. By OWEN WISTER. With Four Illustrations by W. T. SMEDLEY;

The Dancing Man of the Period.

MAURIER ;

Full-page Illustration by GEORGE DU

Editor's Study. By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER;

Editor's Drawer. With Introductory Short Story by THOMAS NELSON PAGE; Literary Notes. By LAURENCE HUTTON.

Harper's Magazine for 1893.

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON.

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HE arrangements made by the publishers of HARPER'S MAGAZINE for the ensuing year include important enterprises in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, engaging the work of popular writers and artists upon subjects of vital moment and interest to all readers.

As heretofore, in every department of the MAGAZINE, American life and character and American interests will hold the foreground. The popular articles on recent remarkable developments in American States and cities, by JULIAN RALPH, will be continued. Four of these articles will be upon Southern topics: The Old Road to Dixie-as seen in the steamboat travel of to-day down

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the Mississippi; New Orleans-Our Southern Capital; Along the Bayou Teche; and Our Own Riviera-a new view of Florida; all beautifully illustrated by W. T. SMEDLEY. Other features of Western life will also engage the attention of this writer: modern municipal ideas, as novel and original as those already presented, the border warfare in Wyoming, etc.

The articles on Western subjects which Mr. RALPH has contributed to the MAGAZINE during the past year have commanded the attention of all readers. Some of these have brought into general notice novel features of municipal regulation which have suggested important national legislation.

Prominence will also be given to Eastern topics in MAGAZINE articles-to the Atlantic seaboard cities, to our great pleasure-grounds in park and forest, etc. To an early Number, T. A. JANVIER Will contribute an entertaining article on The Evolution of New York, which will be followed by articles on Greenwich Village, Paisley, and Chelsea, long ago absorbed by the growing metropolis, but still showing old landmarks of curious interest, which will be presented in W. A. ROGERS's illustrations for these papers. HENRY LOOMIS NELSON will contribute two or three papers on Washington Society, official and intimate, illustrated by C. S. REINHART. Other topics of pop

ular interest will be presented-Our Pension System and its Administration, Important American Industries, etc.

In fiction the most striking story of the year will be The Refugees, an American Historical Novel, by A. CONAN DOYLE, the author of "Micah Clarke." The early scenes of the story are laid in France, at the court of Louis XIV., but even in these some of the most characteristic figures are American. The author's narrative of the conflict between Madame de Montespan, the king's mistress, and Madame de Maintenon, who became his wife, is one of the most vivid portraitures in historical romance, and is based upon recent and authentic disclosures that clear the fair fame of Madame de Maintenon, leaving upon her memory the single blot of her influence exerted for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Refugees, the victims of this revocation, came to America, and the rest of the story is a tale of exciting adventure in the author's best vein. The novel will begin in the January Number, and will be richly illustrated by T. DE THULSTRUP.

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Later in the year a new novel by WILLIAM BLACK will be begun, entitled The Handsome Humes, illustrated by WILLIAM SMALL. A new American novel by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, entitled For Better, For Worse, will run through the greater portion of the year. The scene of the story will be laid in North Carolina and Florida.

JULIAN RALPH.

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS will give, in a series of bright and attractive articles, his impressions of a season in London. These articles will be illustrated in the best style.

One of the important enterprises undertaken this year in the interest of the MAGAZINE had for its object an exposition of popular and military social life in the western provinces of Russia. POULTNEY BIGELOW, accompanied by FREDERIC REMINGTON, undertook this mission, and the expulsion of these gentlemen from Russia will greatly emphasize the public interest in the experiences which they will have to recount and illustrate. Mr. BIGELOW will also give an interesting personal account of the German

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