The December number of the Cosmopolitan has just appeared. The number is bright and entertaining and several of the articles are of considerable literary value. A special feature of this number is the illustrating, which is unusually fine. The contents are as follows:

Frontispiece by Alfred Parsons.

"A Christmas Legend of King Arthur's Country,"

Arthur Warren and Leon Williams. "Love's Court," Eliztbeth C. Cardozo. "Actresses Who Have Become Peeresses," A. C. Wheeler.

"Game Fishing in the Pacific," C. F. Holder.

"The Great North Road," James Lane Allen.

"A Momentary Indiscretion," Sarah Grand.

"Dreams in Woven Thread," Mary S. Lockwood.

"At Cupid's Birth" (Poem), R. C. W. Bunny.

"Tonia; A Story of Crime from Poverty," Ouida.

"The Workshop of the Future," (Illustration).

"The Choice of Parents," I. Zangwill. "A Brief History of Altruria," Sir Robert Harton.

Some Examples of Recent Art.

The number is illustrated by Alfred Parsons, Jose Cabrinety, Reginald Machell, Alice Barber Stephens, B. West Clineduist, F. O. Small, F. G. Attwood, R. C. W. Bunny, G. H. Broughton, A. R. C. W. Bunny, G. H. Broughton, A. R. A., Eric Pape.

The American Economic Association will publish very shortly, through Macmillan and Co., two important monographs: (1) Letters of Ricardo to McCulloch, lately discovered, edited and annotated by J. H. Hollander, Ph. D., of John Hopkins University; (2) Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro, by F. L. Hoffman.

Mr. Douglas Sladen's new book, A Japanese Marriage, which has had an immense run in England, no novel except Trilby being more in demand at the libraries, has just been issued in America by Macmillan and Co. In it Mr. Sladen advocates the most advanced hedonistic theories, and declares himself a strong advocate of the "New Woman" movement. "Any age," he says, "is golden in which women are as freed as men."