The long-promised new cover appears on the June number of the Manhattan which may now congratulate itself on having as beautiful a cover as magazine ever had. An American painter, Henry Roderick Newman, is the subject of the opening article, written by H. Buxton Forman. Another brilliantly illustrated article is a second paper on "The Gunnison Country," by Ernest Ingersoll. There are four portraits, illustrating the first part of "Retrospections of the American Stage," by John Bernard. There are two purely literary papers, one on "The Brownings," by Miss Kate M. Rowland, of Baltimore. The other literary paper, by J. Heard, is a singularly cogent argument to show "Why Women should Study Shakespeare." The poetry is not abundant, but comprises such names as Celia Thaxter, John Vance Cheney and Louise Chandler Moulton.