May Magazines.

The May number of Outing is much more interesting to the general reader than usuall. The first article is "How the Major Learned to Fish." It is an interesting and commonplace love story with a little advice as to the best methods of fishing for pike and bass worked in. The heroine is a little stilted but she knows so much about fishing that we can forgive her. "A Jack-Rabbit Chase" by Belle Hunt, is brisk and amusing. The leading article of the number is "Queens of the Trotting Track." It is chiefly statistics and is rather dull reading to one not particularly interested in the subject. It is illustrated with several full page pictures of the "Queens" from paintings by Gean Smith. A very good story is "The Toltec Idol" by T. Philip Terry. It is a tale of Mexico and is perhaps a little over drawn. Another story "The letter of Credit" is written by C. C. Nott. It is a love story but the plot is original. John Corbin has a long article on "Starting and Starters." It is a description and criticism of different starts and is illustrated with two pictures of E. B. Bloss and one of A. H. Green. Of the other articles the only notable one is the conclusion of "The South Dakota National Guard." The poetry is of a very ordinary quality.

THE COSMOPOLITAN.To anyone who has read Dickens the opening article of the Cosmopolitan for May cannot fail to be full of interest. It is written by Harger Ragan and is entitled "In the Footsteps of Dickens." The author aided by many excellent pictures describes some of the spots made familiar in Dickens novels, such as the "Old Curiosity Shop" and Mr. Dombey's House. Camille Flammarion continues "Omega. The Last Days of the World." This installment is much like the last, interesting and fanciful, yet with nothing absolutely impossible. A very interesting article is "American Society in Paris" by Mary Ford. Its best feature is the number of pictures of the leading American ladies of Paris. "The Spoil of the Puma" is a capital hunting story of the West. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson contributes a brief study of Herrick Ibsen's poems in which is supplemented a portrait of Ibsen. "Crinoline Folly," is a sketch of the crinoline fashion in the past and the present and is very well illustrated. "A Revolution in Means of Communication" is a complete and very interesting description of the telautograph.