(The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.) The Rose of Stars Prisoners of Conscience. A Story of Shetland in Two Parts. Part I. Amelia E. Barr CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1896. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Engraved by R. G. Tietze, after a daguerreotype owned by Mrs. Henry Ward Midsummer in Southern Spain With pictures by Joseph Pennell. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy. An Idyl of Saratoga: III William Dean Howells. 659 With pictures by Irving R. Wiles. 672 Abner... The Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin.” With pictures, portraits and autographs by courtesy of Mrs. Stowe's family and Prehistoric Quadrupeds of the Rockies With pictures by Charles Knight. In Absence The Gold-Fields of Guiana With pictures from photographs. Sir George Tressady. XI Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Exile and his Return: The Death Glave's Journey to the Livingstone Tree. Glimpses of Life in Map by J. Hart. 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"MODERN FRENCH MASTERS" is a collection of twenty biographical and critical monographs on the most famous of modern French painters, written by their American pupils and admirers, in each case an American artist chosen because of his knowledge and sympathy with the painter of whom he writes. The book is edited by Professor John C. Van Dyke, editor of "Old Dutch and Flemish Masters," and is illustrated with sixtyfive full-page pictures chosen from both wood-engravings and half-tones. It contains chapters on Gerôme and de Monvel by Will H. Low, Carolus-Duran and Manet by J. Carroll Beckwith, Bonnat and Laurens by E. H. Blashfield, Daubigny by D. W. Tryon, Corot by Theodore Robinson, Millet by Wyatt Eaton, and others. AMERICAN HIGHWAYS," by Professor Nathaniel S. 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(The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.) CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1896. Napoleon at St. Helena Engraved by Charles State, from the painting by L. Kratke. About French Children With pictures by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. If Only the Dreams Abide. With decoration by Henry McCarter. A Little Fool. By the author of "Our Tolstoi Club". With picture by W. L. Metcalf. The Silent Ones Frontispiece. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy: An Idyl of Saratoga. Conclusion. William Dean Howells 836 A Study of Mental Epidemics.... Boris Sidis... 849 Prisoners of Conscience. A Story of Shetland in Two Parts. Part II Amelia E. Barr. 854 874 879 Sonny "Keeping Company." By the author of "Sonny's Diploma." Ruth McEnery Stuart. The Eclipse of Napoleon's Glory. The Constitutional Empire Ligny and Quatre Bras-Waterloo — The Surrender— St. Helena.. William M. Sloane William Milligan Sloane. 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