The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-12

William Martin Johnson. An edtf.9n ds tu1e-
limited to $50 signed copies-will also be pup
/ lished, printed on the finest quality OF WINE
handmade paper, the text in black, the mar
ginsl illustrations in tint
Among the new books to be published In Oc-
tober by Harper & Brothers are "Art and Crit
cism," by Theodore Child; "The Boy Travellers
in Northern Europe" by Colonel Thomas w.
Knox; "Hints to Amateurs. Handbook Oh
Art" by Mrs Louise Topley; Literary Land
marks OF Edinburgh" by Laurence Hutton /;
.studies in the wagnerian Drama" by Henry
E. KTehbiel; "The warwickshire Avon, BY A.
T. uiler-Couch, illustrated by Alfred Par
sons; and a volume OF the COLLECTED Writings
and Memoirs of the Late Field Marshal Count
Helmuth Won Moltke."
A new feature OF the Cosmopolitan, and one
which is original with that magazine, is the pub
LEGATION each month. in the forms OF foot notes.
of a number of little portraits with brief bio
graphies of the writers of the various articles
However widely read one may be, there Is apt
TO be something OF information lacking regard
ing the vast number OF writers who appear In
the periodicals of the present day, so that these
brief biographies and small portraits are prov
ing very satisfactory to the average reader.
Those who may regard landscape gardening
only as harmless "fad" to be INDUCED in by
the wealthy RAY gain some new ideas concern
ing this art from paper by John De Wolf In
the October number OF the Engineering Magazine,
New York. The writer points out many con-
ditions under which landscape gardening may
have positive worth in enhancing the value OF
property, whether the art be employed by single
lsnd-hoders or by entire communities. Good
wagon roads are of more Importance in many
localities than railways, a consideration which
has led to the making of some practical sugges-
tons on the future of country road building by
Mr.. William Claypoole, o typographical and
civil engineer. I'm the October number.
There are three articles IN the Ne,c England
Magazine for October, which will appeal to a
very wide circle of readers. The one which viii
perhaps attract the greatest number of people
the general reading public-is benjamin
Buffers Boyhood." by himself. This is a chapter
made up OF extracts from the autobiography
which the general is preparing for early pubiica-
ton, and about which there is 20 much specu-
lation. 1t is very characteristic, and will GER
tainly interest Americans from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. The other two articles are more
valuable. although not OF so valuable a char
acter. They are Edward Everett Hale's "James
Russell Lowell" and pleasant and instructive
commentary on LowelPs old magazine, The Pho
neer, by Edwin d. Mead, the senior editor of the
magazine. Dr. Hale is always interesting what
ever his subject, and the fact of his having been
for many years an intimate friend of Lowell's
gives his essay a personal sympathy which no
reader can help feeling at once.
The frontispiece to The Californian OF October
shows one of the artistic corners of old Los
Angeles, fine old date palm on the Dominguez
homestead, its branches overgrown with ivy.
The initial number contains fourteen articles
b. well-known writer's. four or five OF which are
illustrated. The mayor of Los Angeles, the
Hon. E. +. Spence, who has been a prominent
figure in the development of the country, writes
entertainingly of the City of the Angels, the
illustrations showing bits of Chinatown, some
artistic old adobes. the city hall, the old plaza
now historical-and q most artistic sketch of q
Mexican girl and duenna, glancing through a
Mexican barred window. H. NJ. De Young, edi-
tor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and vice
president of the Worlds Columbian exposition,
writes on Caifornia's opportunity 10 display
itself at the Worlds fair. w. c. Morrow, the
well-known San Francisco short-story writer,
gives an example of his weird stories in "The
Removal Company" which pre-supposes firm
to kill people pleasantly at low rates. One of
the most interesting papers is by Judge B. 8.
Eaton, the well-known authority on the Sierra
Msdre Range, who describes the new electric
road of Professor T. S. C. Lowe, the longest in
the world. now being built up the sierras. The
line Is twelve miles long, passing over some OF
the most remarkable scenery in America. The
illustrations show the famous Eaton canyon;
the location of the two depots in the same day;
the lower, sbounding In ferns and flowers; the
upper, deep in the snow of an Eastern winter,
showing that in Southern California the tourist
can pick oranges in the forenoon and order
sleigh by telephone, and spend the afternoon in
slelghing on Wilson's Peak.