St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-11
IN THE MAGAZINES.

A glance at the table Of contents of the
July New England Magazine will convince
any one at all doubtful of the fact that this is
a national and not merely local magazine.
The number opens with an interesting paper
on THE Heart of Chicago" by Franklin II
Head. IL gives an account of the character.
istics OF the inner circles Of the Great West,
ern metropolis and is finely illustrated with
Illuminating pen and ink sketches by
others. The frontispiece of the number is
a scene among the Chicago wharves, and
IS drawn by Charles Ii. Woodbury.
Don Cayetano Romero contributes N
of Mexico" the second in the South Ameri.
can series to run through the summer
months. 1t is illustrated from photographs
specially taken. Prof. Elihu Thomson out.
lines the possibilities of electricity in dOmes-
TIC and commercial life in valuable article.
Future Electrical Development" He thinks
that before long electricity will solve the do,
mesGc servant question. rapid transit. and
completely revoiutionize manufacture and
our Social economy. The article is we'll illus
! trated by Ii. Martin Beal. Prosper Bender
contributes an interesting paper on
The French Canadians in New Eng
land showing how they are inyad-
has fine poem. with the true ring in it, iii
Crowded " ays." William Clarke, the well
known English essayiss gives q sketch of
Edward Augustus PREGNANT; and Edward
Grub. another English author, writes ON
showing Hosea Bigelow's sympathy with
real socialism, Walter Blackburn Harte
a, contributes an essay on the antiquity of the
short story in literature. Thomas Went
has poem. AN American Stonehedge,l, =
that fully sustans his high reputa-
ton. William Howe Downes scores impress
nionism Ill painting. W. ID. McCrackan, who
-IsaC a.
writes Of "The True Benivard, the Prisoner
OF Chillon." Charles Frederick Danforth
contributes a timely article on ''Black Bass
Fishing in New England" The stories of
the number are "A Modern Lear by
Ethelwyp Wetherald and Toms Liza" by
Edith Elmer. The number is rich III good
poetry, other poems worthy of mention.
being Two Souls" by Minna Irving. and
stricken in England. by Anthony p De
Freitas. Edwin d. Mead writes his Editor S
Table, as usual, dealing with Gen. Arm
strong and the work of the Hampton Insti-
tute for Negroes
The art of giving lawn parties, and score
OF new ideas for all kinds of. outdoor fetes
make the subject of an excellent paper By
Mrs A. e.. Lewis in the July Ladies' Home
journal. The same magazine presenting an
other striking feature in Mrs. Potter Prlmer's
exhaustive paper on Women and the
the Board of Lady Managers of the Worlds
Columbian Commission speaks with author
ity upon subject with which she is entirely
familiar. All article which will likewise
elicit interest is "A Day in an Adirondack
Camp" by Jessamy Harte. the eldest daugh-
ter of Bret Harte. Miss Harte makes her lit
erary debut Ill this number of theJ ournal. Miss
Fanny NJ Johnson contributes sketch with
portrait, of Mrs. Edward Bellamy the wife of
the celebrated nationalist and Alice Graham
McCollin gives the first authentic sketch ever
published of Anna WilIess Williams the
young lady who posed as model in 1878 for
the head of the Goddess of Liberty. which
low adornS the face of our silver dollars
Mrs Beecher continues her "reminiscences of
her husband: Harold Goodwin is delightfully."-
reminiscent of William Cullen Bryant and
Kate Tannatt Woods of DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. '.W omen's Chances as Bread Win
ners'' in the field of tele ,raphy are instruc-
lively written of by Mrs. Randolph and BY
j. b. Taltavali, while both Ends of a Bell
Wire" are charmingly touched by Florence
Howe Hall. The Rev. Dr. Talmage takes q new
Race Track" Bobert j. Burdette writes
pleasantly From New Inks:and" and
THE Brownies visit Independence hall.
The fiction of the number includes. besides
the conclusion of Sarah Orne Jewett's story
An Everyday Girl" two excellent short
stories. The ByrnteIl Golden Wedding by
Majorie Richardson, and 1.-The Story Of Two
Hearts" by isabel A. Mallon. The poems
are by Ohm Kendriek Bangs, Robert Love-
man, Annette Rittenhouse and Charles h.
Going. Women who love dainty neediework,
are remembered in pa,e of exquisitely
Illustrated designs for table linen, ana in, /,
The Revival OF fatting.'
In Poet Lore for June-JuIy Biornstjerne
Bjornson's play. "a Glove" is concluded;
The play is built along the same lines. and
deals with the phases of life that Ibseu has
made his life work. Svava Riis, the heorine
is high minded girl of the slightly NJ orbid,
analytical and intense kind. She is be-
trothed to ALT. whom she apparently loves,
but discovering disgraceful intrigue in his
life, she breaks the engagement, only to find
that her father. whom she has always con.
ty of life, has been repeatedly untrue
to his marriage VOWS. The utter
horror with which she accepts life is pitifnl
in the extreme. The play is boldly painted,
Standard of morality Tor The SEXES is in,eT
esting in the extreme. Lovers of Ibsen and
students OF sociology as well as iiterateurs
will welcome The Glove" to English gladly