The October Number,With a bright, fresh-looking'cover,hinting of autumn, The Book News Monthly, full of intertaining reading has just appeared. Articles on Robert W. Chambers, by James Barnes and Rupert Hughes, a continuation of Myrtle Reed’s “The Love Affairs of Literary Men,” with Alexander Pope for a subject, a delightful sketch on a visit to the Spanish town of Burgos, by Ezra Pound, and breezy editorials by Tal-cott Williams, Clara E. Laughlin,Albert S. Henry, Norma Bright Carson, and Carlos T. Chester, are only some of the interesting features. There are numerous pictures, and a study of the late Mrs. Craigie, by Charles Houston Goudits.The color frontispiece for the month is Fourth of July in Centre Square,” by Krimmell. There are the usual book notes and reviews.