The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-07-04
MAGAZINES FOR THE MONTH.

The July Forum Is the most timely
and readable number published this
year. The startling revelations of
national pension abuses r continued
Pension Agency" by Col. G. McK.
Leoser, q civilAwar veteran, who sup
ports his assertions by actual citation
from the army's history. Prospects
of the Worlds Fair" are expertly dis
cnssed by Franklin H. Head, Vice
President of the American Trust and
Savings Bank, Chicago, who analyzes
the figures of "The Worlds Fair Bal
ance.Sheet," and by DIR. E. Fletcher
1ngals, retiring president of the Illi-
nois State Medical Society, who Of
ers valuable information concerning
"Chicago's Sanitary Condition" Gan
Actors Memory of Edwin Booth" is a
brilliant and fascinating paper by John
Malone, formerly n member of Mr..
Booths company. 1.-THE Fourth of
july" by Charles Leonard Moore, is
the first poem aver printed in this re-
view. DIR. Lyman Abbott Eliminates
pending theological ~perplexities by a
mastery article, What are q Chris
tian Preachers Functions :" James
Bryce furnishes a thoughtful essay on
THE Teaching of Civic Duty .; Ed.
mund Hudson, a well-known military
hAoAN e ptui vi uU1l1LIIlS
"The Army as a Military Training
SCHOOL,; and Louis G. Tiffany, in
american Art Supreme in Colored
Glass;" shows how the medieval art of
stained-glass painting has been ex-
celled and superseded in this hemis-
phere and q new and tempting career
opened for artists. John Basset Moore,
professor of diplomacy at Colum Dia
College, ends this notable number with
The Russian E%xtradition Treaty a
Reply to Protests" in which he un-
not so dangerous as 1t has been repre-
sented.
Life in the open air is the theme of
Harper's Magazine for July. The
opening article describes some his
tOric gardens of Italy, and its fourteen
illustrations, six of them full-page en-
cravings, are from photographs made
for the article. The scent of meadows
and the breezes of English uplands fill
the chapters of William Blacks "The
Handsome .Humes," which are con-
tanned in this number, while in "Three
English Race Meetings." by Richard
Harding Davis, the reader catches re-
freshing glimpses of q famous trio of
national outdoor festivals. The "Race
Meetings" are illustrated with nine
drawings by William Small. In CAL
gerian Riders" an illustrated paper by
Colonel Il. A. Dodge, U. S. A, the
reader gains an insight into the free
life of the North African tent-dwellers
owners of the bepraised and priced
Arabian horse. "Side Lights on the
German Soldier, " by Poultney Bigelow,
illustrated from nineteen drawings by
Frederic Remington, is q graphic de-
scription of the life of German officers
and privates in barracks and in the
field. Henry Loomis Nelson discusses
in an entertaining fashion the immi-
grafton Of the French Canadian into
New England and his qualities as an
American citizen. Julian Ralph, in
"Chicago's Gentle Side" writes appre-
ciatively of the public spirit and the
work of-women in the Western me-
tropolis, and Brander Matthews, in
The Function of Slang" gives credit
to the waits of language for enriching
and strengthening our vocabulary.
Besides an instalment of the "Hand-
some Humes," the fiction of the num-
Der includes chapters of Miss Wool
sons Horace Chase" in which the in
terest is constantly deepening. There
is q story of the French and Indian
War, by Miss Wilkins, called "Si-
l%ence," and Will Carleton contributes
"A .Vestal Virgin" a humorous
sketch. There are two poems in the
Number-"Sleep," by Alice Brown,
and "The Milky Way" by Wallace
Bruce. In the EDITORS Study
Charles Dudley Warner discusses the
recent naval review and other timely
topics. The EDITORS Drawer" in
cludes a short story by Thomas Nelson
Page, called "How Andrew Carried
the Precinct" and u f%ull-page drawing
by George du Maurier.