The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04
MAGAZINES.

MAGAZINES
1t is because THE Anglomaniacs" rep
sents novel aspect of New York life with
uncommon pith and wit that the third
part, in the August number of the Century,
will be probably that portion of the maya
| ziEe TO which most readers will first turn.
The short story of the number, THE Eman-
cipation of Joseph Peloubet," by John
| Elliott Curran, introduces a Frenchman
| who turns his back in disgust on the second
empire, starts a newspaper in New York
which advocates emancipation of the
slaves, and c1llapses, and who then returns
to his trade of baking until the breaking
out of the war, when he enlists, and his
ideals are realiZ ID and his life is sacrificed.
John Muir, who writes too seldom in these
days, contributes an important paper on
| 1.-THE Treasures of the Yosemite" In the
tenth part of The Autobiography of Jo-
seph Jefferson" the comedian writes most
entertainingly of John Brougham, Edwin
| Adams, Charles Fechter, George Holland,
and of other favoriteS who have not long
been absent from the stage. Presiden5
Eliot of Harvard contributes: "The For
gotten Millions" study of the common
| American mode Of life, as typified by the
permanent native population OF Mt. Desert.
In "Topics of the Time" there is discus
sion of the "Distaste for Solitude, - of The
New School of Explorers" as exemplified
| by Stanley; aud a brief comment on
Mistral and his poetic country of prov
ence." The Century, Union Square, New
| York.
| Prince Krapotkin's paper in the Forum
for August on the things possible yet to
accomplish by agriculture should command
wide attention. He holds that lands now
under cultivation can be made to produce
| ten times what they do, and he would like
| to see his assertion proved at the Chicago
worlds fair. He would have hundred
acres set apart. covered with glass houses,
and then made to do their best. DR.. A. P.
Peabody contributes the formative infiu-
ences" paper: it is paper which the wise
aud good will be charmed by. Elizabeth
| Stuart Phelps laments the decay of delicacy
in art, life literature and politics, quoting
| at the Artist Ruskin's assertion chat "all
real strength lies in delicacy." Goodwin
Smith, in the opening paper on Prophets
of Unrest" has much to say Of Bellamy
DIR. Brown-Sequard writes of experiments
that show we have two brains instead OF
| one. Mr.. Burdette, in a paper entitled
"Are We Frivolous People?" has some
thing to offer on behalf of the particular
lecturer to whom might be applied Artemus
| Wards phrase OF IAN amooZin little GUS"
| There is little fun in the business for the
lecturer, according to Mr.. Burdefte. The
Forum Publishing Company, 253 Fifth
avenue, New York.
st. Nicholas mas a charming frontispiece
for August 1t is an illustration by Birch
to the serial story Lady Jane" and shows
| the former dancing-master, who has be-
come green grocer. recalling his trlumphs
in teaching the pretty heroine the elaborate
steps in vogue during his youth. Some of
the summary features are The White
Mountain Coaching Parade" Of decorated
tally-hos in composition for prizes, described
in sketchy way by Helen Marshall North
"a Lesson of the Sea-" by w. J. Hender-
son, simple bit of strong descriptive
writing; "a Remarkable Boat Race, "
wherein Walter Camp describes the At
alanta-Yale race and its sensational feature
the leaping from the boat of Yales stroke
after he had broken his oar; 'The Sea Prin-
cess" pretty picture described in musical
verse by the artist Miss Katharine Pyle;
cupid aud Crab" an odd little fancy #
the sea shore, daintiy illustrated by
Albertine Wheelan Randall; "The Auda-
cious Kitten" one of Oliver Herford's jests
with pen and pencil. st. Nicholas, Union
Square, New York.
Tue August Magazine Of American His
tory is filled with pleasing variety of able
and popular papers. To the end of time
this magazine, as now edited, bringing con-
stantly to light fresh and invaluable mate
rial and leading in every important branch
OF history, will be priced in bound form on
library shelves, above any other periodical
of the century. The opening illustrated
paper this month. Historic Houses and
Revolutionary Letters" is written in felic-
itous style by Mr.. Robert Ludlow Fowler.
The second article, "Glimpses of Log-cabin
Life in Early Ohio" from the pen OF Emau-
delightfully."- picturesque bringing the log
cabin home to us in earnest, with all It's
limitations and ambitions The American
Magazine of History, 743 Broadway, New
| York.
The Arena for August has number Of
| a-ff hat Al.