The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-31
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Scribuer's Magazine Tor september.
ScTtbner'S Magazine for September
contains the fifth and concluding arti-
Gle in the successful Steamphip Series.
entitled THE Steamship Lines Of the
World by Lieutenant Ridgely Hunt,
U. s. N, a son of the late Secretary of
the Navy and Minister to Russia. Ut
is announced that the Steamship ar
ticles, like the Railroad and Electric
series. will be issued in a handsome
volume.) This number contains
three articles on essentially Amer
lean subjeets-on 'Odd Homes. =
from the dug-out to the
Adirondack cabin; on China Hunt
ing in New England" particularly
along the Connecticut River valley,
with an ccounU of many rare Ameri-
can plates, which it was once the Gus
tom to make as souvenirs of impor-
tant events; and (the third on the
present Ideals of American Univer-
sity Life, by Professor Josiah Royce
of Harvard, who pleads for the ideal
ization of our colleges, rather thai
their further adaptation to practical
ends. Other important articles in
this issue are "Browning's Asolo," by
Felix Moscheles, the artist and
friend of Browning. a pictur-
esque and personal account oil
the little italian village where
the poets last volume, 'Asolando,"
was written, with illustrations from
the authors own water color sketches;
a description of 1.-The City of the
Sacred Bo-Tree,n by James Relation,
a veteran traveller and Photographer,
whose account of this wonderful city
in Ceylon is abundantly illustrated;
Andrew Lang's Adventures Among
Books a sort OF literary autobiog-
raphy; the second instalment of the
serial story THE Wrecker,n by
Robert Louis Stevenson and LLOYD
Osbourne; and short stories by
Thomas Nelson Page and Charles q.
ID. Roberts.
Lieutenant Hunts article on 1.-THE
Steamship Lines of the World" is a
very compact account of the great
ocean routes of travel which connect
the principle ports OF the world, with
a description of the varying comforts
and luxuries of the steamers, the life
on board, and the striking features of
strange ports. This article combines
the interest of a narrative of
travel with an immense amount
of condensed information in re-
gard to time, distances and
cost, which everyone who travels, or
hopes to travel, will be glad to find
available in SO small a compass as a
single magazine article. There are a
number of attractive illustrations, a
chart of the world showing the prin-
cipal steamship routes. and several
statistical tables. The author has
travelled over most Of the great routes
described, and has the further advan-
tage of being connected with the
naval intelligence Office in Washing
ton, where all the facts in regard to
maritime affairs are collected.
The new serial, THE Wrecker," in
its second instalment introduces the
reader to varied scenes-student life
in the Latin quarter OF Paris; a
glimpse of old Edinburgh, and the
family of a venerable Scotch stone
mason; and then a long jump to San
Francisco, as it was a decade ago
The principal characters in this story
are Americans.
James Ricalton, who went round
the world in search of a fibre for Mr..
Edison. describes the ancient Cey-
lonese city of Anuradhapura, 1.-The
City of the Sacred Botree," which
is more than two thousand years old,
and the immense Dagobas of
brick which were erected here hun
dreds of years ago over relics of Bud
| dha, and which are only second to the
Pyramids as feats of engineering. The
ruins Of temples and palaces. which
mark what was once a city of 250, 000
population, are also described and il
lustrated from the authors W pho
tographs.
John r. Spears, who. as a journal
list, has travelled in many out OF the
way places of this country, writes OF
"Odd American Homes" illustrating
his text with photographs collected
during many years.