The Century.

The Harvard sportsmen and followers of Izaak Walton will find a most readable article in the May Century on "Game-fishes of the Florida Reef." There are many college men who make annual uniting and fishing excursions South, and these cannot fail to find much valuable information in this most excellent article. A graphic description is given of the different gamefish of the southern reef and the various ways of landing them, and there are interspersed many piscatorial anecdotes which add a zest to the whole.

The student of French history and literature will enjoy a profusely illustrated article by Amelia Gere Mason on "Salons of the Empire and Restoration." The salons of Madame de Montesson, Mme. de Remusat, Mme. Recamier, and other brilliant women of that age are vividly described and penpictures are drawn of the wits and geniuses who frequented them. The causes that led to the decline of the salon are indicated-chief among which was the rise in power of the press, for when the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned.

In "Pioneer Mining in California," Mr. E. G. Waite protests against the flippant style and eccentric rhetoric of those writers who have made the early California miner a terror, or "who, seizing upon a sporadic case of extreme oddity, some drunken, brawling wretch, have given a caricature to the world as the typical miner." Mr. Waite draws a clean-cut picture of the early mining years and the early miner which is delightfully interesting.

Some excellent fiction appears in the number, among which is "The Squirrel Inn," by Frank R. Stockton. The poetry of the number is up to the Century's usual standard.