Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-06

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tanned from month to month. Pub
lished from the World building, New
| York.
| The Review of Reviews for the
month of June is number which
nobody who intends to go to the
Worlds fair at any time can well af-
ford to be without. However at
tractive the other departments may
be, it will be true of this Worlds
fair, as it was of the Centennial in
1876, that the great majority of the
visitors will derive more pleasure
from the pictures in the Art depart
ment than from anything else. The
Review of Reviews sent as it's special
representative to Chicago, in NAV,
| Ernest knaufft, well-known art
teacher of New York, who is also a
writer upon art subjects, and who is
known throughout the country as the
very successful and sympathetic di-
rector of the art studies at Chautau
qua from summer to summer. Mr..
knaufft has prepared for the Review
OF Reviews IN extended and discrim-
mating article, telling in straight
forward way what are the merits and
striking features of each portion of
the art exhibit, and his article is IL
Illustrated with outline pen sketches
intended as memoranda of the prin-
cipal pictures. The article serves as
an excellent general guide to the art
| department and as an auxiliary to
| the more formal catalogue which
| gives the names and mum bers of The
pictures.
How marriage proposal is made
and how it is worded always arouses
the interest IF girls, and to them the
| charming revelation made in The
Story of Five Proposals. which is
told with delightful frankness by a
western society girl, in the July La
dies Home journal. will have an I'M
| usual attractiveneSS. A. B. Wen
| zell, the artist, adds to the article
with five of his equisite illustrations.
| Just how to arrange a tennis tourna-
ment is also IN excellent article, as
timely as it is authoritative, since it
is written by Mabel Esmonde Cahill,
the champion lady tennis player of
the United States. A full page, very
well done, is that giving descriptions
of various ways of Entertaining in
the Country" Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox asks and answers Can a
| Woman Reform a Man," A most
beautiful page of periodical illustra-
tions is Nancy Mann Waddle's article
on the cultivation OF the orchid
"A Flower Of the Air." a. it is
quantity designated. A page of BIZ
| ography presents sketches, with por
| traits, OF Rosa Nouchette Carey"
and of The Daughter of Charles
Dickens Anna Robertson Brown
gives the first paper. in a series of
articles on The Girl Who Goes to
College" Mr. Box, the editor. dis
courses with forcible directness. up
on the perpleNing question OF corpo
raj punishment for children. writing
from the boys point of view. Mr..
Beecher's Imprinted Words a. re-
ported by his private stenographer,
are full of mob e thought and inspir-
alton. Good fiction is tonic. and
the charming Story of Dennis
O'Rourke, by Lucy Derby, with its
clever illustrations, will prove one of
the best Mr. Howells' story, The
Coast of Bohemia" grows in interest
and charm rs it proceeds. A
page of illustra lions from original de-
signs, entitled Dressing Without
the Corset" by May Root Kern, will
be read with profit, as will Mrs. NAL
Ions The Ideal Summer Blouse"
and "Odds and Ends of Wardrobe. :"
Palmer Cox has his inimitable
Brownies" this month climbing the
pyramids of Egypt, while John Ken
drick Bangs contributes one of his
delightful poems. The editors all
have something bright to say in this
July number, which, with its attrac-
tive summer cover, specially de-
signed by Frank o. Small, and its adj
mirable table of contents, is worth
many times its price of 10 cents.
Published by the Curtis Publishing
Company, of Philadelphia, for 10
cents per number and 81 per year.
The first thing that confronts us
in McClure's Magazine for July is
the latest portrait of the ever young
and ever charming young autocrat,
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the
next page you can begin An After
noon with olive Wendell Holmes, in
the company of DR.. Edward Everett
Hale. Such an afternoon! You are
never likely to forget it. 1t isn't
every day that i is our privilege to
| listen to the conversation of two
such masters of wit, wisdom and
eloquence. The article is beautifully
illustrated, with drawings of DIR.
Holmes birthplace in Cambridge;
the house where he studied medi-
cine in Paris; his Beacon street resi-
| dence in Boston: his summer place
at Beverly Farms; DR.. Holmes occu-
plying his favorite seat at Beverly;
bay window in the poets study, over
looking the Charles river; dorothy
| q. s" house in Quincy, Mass; and