Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-01
Magazines.

SCRIBNERS.
The July issue of SCRIBNER'S MAG
AZINE is a Midsummer Fiction number.
containing seven complete short stories,
four of them richly illustrated by such
artists as Frederic Remington, Robert
Blum, and Chester Loomis; and an I'M
usually exciting instalment of Mr..
Stevensons serial, "The Master of Bal
lantrae," the illustrations of which,
from a drawing by VIM. Hole, is the
frontpiece of the number. There are
also included the second article in the
new Electrical Series, and interesting
Poems.
GLOW the Derby was Won is a Ken
lucky story by Harrison Robertson,
Managing Editor of the Louisville Cour-
Ter journal, who has written one of the
most dramatic and picturesque descrip.
ions of a great horse race that has APP
peared in the literature of the turf.
1.-The Rock of Beranger," by L. Il.
Sullivan, is q story of comedy and SEN
timent, in an entirely different vein
from this authors previous romantic
ictions. The incidents of the tale are
grouped about walking tour made by
two young men in the mountains OF
Switzerland. The illustrations by
Chester Loomis are among the richest
which have appeared in this MAGAZINE.
The Electric Series is continued by
Charles l.. Buckingham. with 1.-The
| Telegraph of To-day" which is the
leading article in the Magazine, con
tanning very rich illustrations showing
views of the great Western Union opcr-
ating room, the Commercial Cable
offices, and many of the wonderful in
ventions of modern biography. MIR.
Buckingham explains with remarkable
clearness and interest the duplex and
quadruplex methods; the Wheatstone,
chemical automatic, and stock tele-
graph instruments; deeps sea telegraphy
and the methods of finding breaks in
cables; communication between ships
at sea without q wire, and telegraph
ing from moving trains by induction.
HARPER's.
Three artists join in the principal
poetical contribution TO HARPER's MAG
AzINE for August-Austin Dobson, who
writes a Prologue and Epilogue. and
Edwin A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons,
who evoke the spirit and intent of them
IN twelve drawings The two poems
belong to 1.-The Quiet Life" which is
said to be the title of forthcoming
book. to be published by Messrs Har-
per & Brothers. With his pencil Alfred
Parsons also makes of Wordsworth s
sonnet elbow Sweet it isl a poem beau
titled. In photography is to be ranked
as an art, another artist writes for this
Number Ill. Hepworth, who
describes the experiences of an amateur
photographer which are his own. Even
if photography is not now TO be ranked
as an art, j. Wells Cnampney looks
with tempered enthusiasm into the
future, when it may yet be acknowl
edged as one of the finest of the graphic
arts Mr.. Chapney express this hope
at the end of an essay ON ''Fiftv Years
of Photography in which he reviews
the remarkable evolution of the art
from its beginnings under Daguerre up
to the present period of its magical adj
vances. That Madame Tussaud once
had rival in Westminster Abbey will
be TO many surprise that will lead
them to read John Lilies interesting
illustrated paper on the Westminster
Eiligie.' James Lane Allen writes on
or County Court Day in Kentucky"
and Louis Parr upon 1.-The Fan. Both
articles are richly Illustrated. Y. A.
Adds tells of discovery which she
made in Mexico, and William G. Prime
explains its value to ceramic art. Mary
+. wilkins contributes y story, called,
"A Gentle Ghost" and NJ. &. McCleI-
land another, called "Mollie' install
ments of Jupiter Lights by Miss
Woolson, and of "A Little Journey in
the World by MIR. Warner, complete
the fiction. Richard Z. Burton and
Frances L. Mace contribute poems.
Two of the most important eontribu-
tons to this Number are Theodore
Child's article on ''The Kremlin and
Russian Art" Analysing into its con
stituent elements Russian art as re-
vealed III the architecture and treas
ures of the kremlin; and Dean Lichten-
/ berger's essay on The Religious Move
ment in Germany" thorough sitting
of the factors in the religious revolution
dating from the eighteenth century.
Among other subjects Treated in the
/ Editorial Departments, President Har-
rison's reported rule of conduct en-
cages the attention of George William
Curtis, and recent literature bearing
upon the social problem the attention
4 of William Dean Howels.