C. E. Lorrimer's entertaining article, "Across the Ten Province Pass of Japan," will not be published until August, on account of the illustrations being delayed.

Preparations are going briskly on for the August issue of the Overland Monthly which will be known as the "Automobile Number." Everything pertaining to motor carriages will be fully written of and beautifully illustrated. An account of the Automobile Club of California will be part of the article, and the past, present and future of horseless vehicles will be thoroughly discussed. An interesting feature will be pictures of automobiles in the least accessible parts of Yosemite.

Among the notable attractions in the August number will be the first installment of a series of pictures representing the work of California's best painters, sculptors and designers. This series will run through twelve months, and will be known as "A Year of Art in California." There will be several of these reproductions in each issue-all engraved in the best manner, and each worth many times the price of the magazine. Another embellishment will be several pages in each issue of the finest examples of photographic art that can be produced in California. The fairest daughters of the State will be the subjects of these illustrations.

An entertaining article about a rubber plantation and the production of com

mercial rubber will appear in our next issue, and will be fully illustrated. It will be of especial value to teachers and students.

"The Building of a Battleship," by George William Dickie, appears in this number, and is the first of a number of interesting articles we intend to run on industrial topics. They will all be profusely illustrated. "Devoted to the Development of the Country," which appeared in the first number of the Overland Monthly July, 1869, is still the magazine's motto. It's especial efforts toward the development of the West makes it worth sending to your Eastern friends and relatives.

Writers should take notice of the announcement in the advertising section regarding short stories.

There is now in active preparation a Bret Harte Memorial Number, to appear August 25th as the September number, which will contain varied and entertaining matter relating to the early days of the Overland Monthly; Bret Harte's editorship of the same; his life and writings; his best stories and poems, fully illustrated, such as the "Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Tennessee's Partner," "The Heathen Chinee," and others. A facsimile of the entire manuscript of the "Heathen Chinee" will appear; also portraits of the early contributors, with a short ac

count of each; and notes, reviews, criticisms relating to Bret Harte's writings. Many of the best known writers will contribute to the memorial issue, which will be one of the most interesting magazine numbers ever published.

Besides the memorial features there will appear articles on the progress of education, art and science in California, and a special article on "California's Part in the Commercial Conquest of the Pacific."

Notwithstanding the greatly increased cost of this number the price will remain unchanged, and magazine readers the world over can obtain a copy of the Bret Harte Memorial Number for ten cents.

Undoubtedly there will be a great demand for the Bret Harte Memorial Number, and copies should be ordered early. Dealers especially should take note and order accordingly.

This is the anniversary month of the Overland Monthly, the first number of

which was issued with fear and hesitation in July, 1868. Bret Harte, then unknown to fame, was the editor. The first issue contained a poem by him, "San Francisco from the Sea," which is considered by many his finest poem. The next issue contained "The Luck of Roaring Camp," which is one of Harte's masterpieces. The Overland Monthly was received with no very great enthusiasm by Californians until the verdict of the Eastern States was received. When the word came that the Overland Monthly was approved by the Atlantic section, that a standing order of 1,200 copies per issue came from New York, and that one firm contracted to take everything that Harte would write, there was a rapid change in sentiment.

Harte's work on the Overland Monthly secured him fame and fortune, and ever since the Overland Monthly has been one of the best-known magazines.

The Bret Harte Memorial Number will be issued in September, and will fittingly commemorate the birth of the magazine and the death of its first editor.

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