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"THE DIAL is the journal de luxe among American literary periodicals."
-THE ARGONAUT, San Francisco.

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HE Editor and Publishers of THE DIAL are pleased to announce the completion (with the April number) of the FIRST TEN YEARS of its existence. During this decade it has continued under the same management under which it was begun, and has followed substantially the lines upon which it was originally projected. The high and distinctive position accorded it in American periodical literature is fairly indicated in the following

RECENT NOTICES BY THE PRESS.

"We record with pleasure the completion of the tenth volume of THE DIAL. Among our literary journals it is unique in being wholly devoted to critical reviews, partly signed and partly unsigned, and in being a monthly. It has been well conducted from the start, with a serious purpose, and with much learned and intelligent collaboration, and we have had frequent occasion to praise it and to wish it a long life. THE DIAL is handsomely and correctly printed."-The Nation, New York.

"THE DIAL is very carefully edited, without any concession to literary sensationalism, and with a comprehensive outlook upon the literary interests of the country in general. Its success is matter of rejoicing for all lovers of good books and good writing."-Christian Union, New York.

"The publishers of THE DIAL have abundant`reason to felicitate themselves upon the successful career of this periodical. From its initial number it has been edited with fine taste and good judgment, and it is always fair and impartial in its treatment of new literary effort. THE DIAL is a model of typography, as well as an examplar of high literary excellence."-The Star, Kansas City.

"THE DIAL is one of the best literary journals, in breadth of learning and catholicity of judgment, that we have ever had in this country. Its corps of contributors comprises many of the first scholars both of the East and the West."-Home Journal, New York.

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"The ten volumes of THE DIAL, taken together, form the most valuable body of critical opinion in existence upon the American literature of the past decade. They have done for books published in this country what The Athenæum' and The Academy' have done for the English literature of the period. This critical excellence, in which THE DIAL has had no American rival, has been due to the fact that its reviews have generally been the work of trained specialists, who have, by attaching their signatures, assumed full responsibility for the opinions expressed. Its contents have been finished and dignified; its articles have been just, searching, and profound."-The Evening Journal, Chicago.

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"The look and bearing of the paper are refinement itself. Among our purely critical journals, there is none more thorough, more dignified, more scholarly, than THE DIAL. One wishes only that it were a weekly rather than a monthly, and so more adequate to trace the stream of current literature."- The Independent, New York.

"We are always glad to commend to our readers a paper so thoroughly scholarly and independent in its criticisms as THE DIAL has been throughout its entire existence." Journal of Pedagogy.

"We trust THE DIAL may continue to mark true time, for many decades to come, in the same admirable spirit and with the same fair external array that now distinguish it."—The Literary World, Boston.

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A Monthly Journal of Current Literature

CHICAGO, JULY, 1890.

HARPER'S MAGAZINE.-JULY.

PORT TARASCON: The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin. By ALPHONSE DAUDET. Translated by HENRY JAMES. Part II. With 24 Illustrations by Rossi and others.

TEXAN TYPES AND CONTRASTS. BY LEE C. HARBY. Illustrated by FREDERICK REMINGTON.

SOCIAL LIFE IN OXFORD. By ETHEL M. ARNOLD. Illustrations by JOSEPH PEnnell.

BALTIC RUSSIA. By HENRY LANSDELL, D.D. Illustrations by T. DE THULSTRUP and others.

A FAMOUS CHAPBOOK VILLAIN. By HOWARD PYLE. Illustrations by the author.

SOME COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS. By FREDERICK DANIEL.

ARCHITECTURE AND DEMOCRACY. BY ROBERT S. PEABODY.

TREASURY NOTES AND NOTES ON THE TREASURY. By L. E. CHITTENDEN.

GIOSUE CARDUCCI AND THE HELLENIC REACTION IN ITALY. BY FRANK SEWALL.

FIVE SHORT STORIES.

TWO LETTERS. (Illustrated.) By BRANDER MATTHEWS. THE SCARECROW. (Illustrated.) By S. P. MCLEAN GREENE.

A POETESS. By MARY E. WILKINS.

THE MOONLIGHTER OF COUNTY CLARE. By JONATHAN STURGES.

TRUTH AND UNTRUTH. By MATT CRIM.

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FINE FICTION.

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