The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03
MAGAZINES.

| Blue and Gray for September is an an
tletam number. 1t has some superb il
lustrations of bot battle fields, together
with portraits of the generals who were
| prominent in the battle. The other arti-
| cles in the number are we'll worth read
ing. The Current Publishing Company,
l,43O South Penn Square, Philadelphia.
The Forum for September contains
eleven articles, all of them on timely
topics and by leading writers. There is
not one of them that is not worth the
price of the number of the magazine
The Pay of Physicians and Surgeons, :"
by DR.. George +. Shrady has already at
tracted much attention. The Forum
Publishing Company, Union Square, New
York.
The Atlantlc's supply of fiction in Sep
TENDER is somewhat more than usually
large. There are three stories-"T ante
Cat'rinette, by Kate Chopin, the writer
who Is coming into deserved prominence
through her pictures of Louisiana life
For Their Brethren's Sake" powerful
tale of a Derbyshire town, during the
great plague, by Grace Howard PIERCE
and Mrs. Catherwood's The Kidnapped
Bride" the last of a series of early
Erench-American stories. "Old Boston
Mary: A remembrance, " by Josiah Flint,
tells the tale of a strange old woman of
the tramp class so wildly as to leave one
uncertain whether it is fiction or fact In
Mrs. Louise Herrick Wallis ssetch, In a
Washington Hop Field, f" too there is so
much of human interest that one may al
most think of IL as story. Houghton,
Miitiin * Co., IL East Seventeenth street,
New York. Il
There is more than the usual amount of
adventure to attract the youthful readers
TO st. Nicholas for September Decatur
and Somers, as told in Miss Molly Elliot
Seawell's serial, lead the American naval
forces in the memorable storming Of
Tripoli. Edwin Fiske Kimball tells the
thrilling story he took down from the
lips Of Nantucket life-saver of The
Wreck of the Markham, )" and the res
cue of the crew. Two School houses and
Shipwreck," by Isabel Marbury, is an
account of the succoring Of the crew of
an American vessel by the Japanese, and
of the building Of school-houses with the
money granted them by Congress for their
humanity Howard Pyle's sturdy hero
meets for the first time the heroine who
IS, presumably, 10 play an important part
in Jack Ballister's / ortunes." Natural
ist Hornady describes the Walrus, c. T.
Lummis has another Of his Pueblo folk
adventures of the beloved Brownies in
Kentucky. There is humorous story by
Tudor jerks, Anthony and the An
clients" The Century Company, Union
Square, New York
The frontispiece of McClure's Maya
zine for September is charming por-
trait of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson,
and the opening article is no less charm
ing relation by Mr.. Stevenson, Of how,
soon after their marriage, he came to
write Treasure Island, and Of the I'M
usual conditions under which he execu-
ted the work. Pictures Of the houses
and scenes in which the Stevensons lived
at the time, and several portraits Of Ste
vensOn himself. accompany the article.
In very sprightly illustrated article by
Robert Barr, an exposition is given of the
"savate," or Kick, as employed with
great skill by the French boxers. The
eminent French chemist, Prof Berthe
lot, in an interview with Henry j. w.
Dam, sets forth the grounds of his belief
that a time is coming when milk, pota-