The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-27
SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES.

We are accustomed to associate the name
of Rudyard Kipling with stories of Indian
military life, but in hisnautical story, 1.-The
Disturber of Traffic. which appears in the
September Atlantic, he has struck an en-
tiyely new vein. The story is related of an
English lighthouse keeper. who tells of the
experience of another lighthouse keeper in
a little known part Of the world, who, half
maddened by solitude and a certain curious
optical delusion connected with the tides
flowing by his light, became to an alarming
extent a 'disturber of traffic." Another
short story. IAN Innocent Life" is contrib
uted by Lille B. Chacs Wyman, whose
Poverty Grass" is remembered as a col
lection of powerful short stories on social
questions. Mr.. Stockton's blouse of
Martha" is continued by a long INSTALL
ment. and Mary Hartwell Cstherwood gives
US four clever chapters of 1.-THE Lady of
Fort st. john" Thus fiction is quite fully
Atlantic. Octave Thanet has a
second paper on 'Town Life in Ar
kansas" John Burroughs has left his
fields for "a Study of Analogy Mr.. Brad
ford Torrey, however, still remains faithful
to his rustic haunts in a sketch of Overs
Hollow" John Fiske has a paper on "Eu-
rope and Cathay," which discusses the rsa-
sons why early Morse discoveries of Amer
lea were not Its real discoveries. A paper
on 1.-The Author HIMSELF" by Woodrow
Wilson; a charming description of the Jap
ansse Feast of Lanterns and the Market of
the Dead, by Lafcadio Hearn, and a review
- Me- fl;-LoASo &C. &c (NJ;-
plant lin itself practically a biographical
sketch of that extraordinary MANI, under
the apt title or "A Modern Mystic" are
amongth the other interesting papers. There
is poetry by Dr.. Parsons, Col. Higginson,
and Philip Bourke Marston. and reviews
and the usual Contributors Club.
Scribner's Magazine for September con-
tains the fifth and concluding article in the
successful steamship series, entitled 1.-THE
Steamship Lines of the World" by Lieu
tenant Ridgoly Hunt, U. s. NJ, a son of the
late secretary of the navy and minister to
Russia. ct is announced that the steam-
ship articles, like the railroad and electric
series. will be issued in a handsome volume.)
This number contains three articles on
essentially American subjects-on ''Old
Homes from the dug-out to the Adiron-
daok cabin; on China Hunting in New
England" particularly along the Connect.
cut River valley, with an account of many
rare American plates, which it was once
the custom to make as souvenirs of import
ant events; and (the third on the present
Ideals of American University Life by
Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard,
who pleads for the idealization of our
colleges, rather than their further adapta-
ton to practical ends Other important
articles in this issue are "Browning's
Asolo," by Felix Mosoheles, the artist and
friend of Browning. a picturesque and per-
sonal account of the little Italian village
where the poets last volume. "~Asolando.''
was written, with illustrations from the
authors own water color sketches: a descrip-
ton of 1.-The City Of the Sacred b. Tree
by James kicalton, a veteran traveller and
photographer, whose account of his won
derful city in Ceylon is abundantly illus
trated: Andrew Lang's adventures Among
Books" Fl sort of literary autobiography:
the second installment of the serial story,
The Wrecker," by Robert Louis Steven
son and Lloyd Osbourne, and short stories
by Thomas Nelson Page and Charles G. D..
Roberts.