The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-04
THE MAGAZINES.

THE ARENA.-The leading feature, of the
Arena for August is paper by Helen
Gardener, giving the history of recent age
of-consent legislation in the United States.
Professor George Fl. Emmott writes on an
arbitration treaty between Great Britain
and the United States. B. 0. Flower has
an attractive paper on the present age.
which he calls 1.-THE August Present"
The symposium for the month is num-
Der of brief papers by representative
women on the single tax.
ScR1BNER's MAGAZINE for August Is a
fiction number and a notable one. Presi-
dent Anderson's history gives way-goes
over until September-before the insatiate
demands for space of the short story, and
we have blessed respite until the same
time from Robert Grants inanities on the
cart of Living" There is, however, one
and only one-important and serious paper
in the mum Der. Theodore Roosevelt writes
upon six Years of Civil Service Reform"
and writes with the personality, the ability
and from the standpoint to command at
tention and respect.
THE DRUM for August has character
istic article by w. II. Mallock, entitled
'Is an Income-Tax Socialiste9p . Probably
no one ever thought that it-was, save Mr..
Mallock, who has a peculiar facility in
setting up men of straw and earnestly de-
blowing them over. "The Deep Water
WAYS Problem is an article by. E. V.
Smalley, editor of the Northwest Maya
zine, that will interest Western readers,
and the literary feature of the magazine is
paper of literary "reminiscences by Maui
RUS Jokai, the Hungarian author.
Los Angeles has magazine called "The
Land of Sunshine" that is in every way
credit to California. tits edited by Charles
F. Lummis, himself writer of charming
Western stories, sand he has gathered about
him an able staff of contributors. The
half-tone illustrations appear to be for the
most part produced in Los Angeles. They
are we'll made as general thing, but some
times lack that certain quality of develop
ment" required for good effect. This is
particularly true of the reproductions on
page 141 of the current number.
THE COSMOPOLITAN for August finds it
possible to give stories by Sir Edwin
Arnold, Henry B. Fuller, w. G. Barnes and
w. Clark Russell, together with number
OF papers and articles by other literary
notables for 10 cents. Whether cheapness
will continue to be compatible with this
degree of excellence is a problem which we
fancy the Cosmopolitan has still to solve,
but the merit of the present number is un-
mistakable.
HARPER's MAGAZINE continues to ex-
plot Julian Ralph. That puissant trav-
eler gives us commonplace account
of Everyday. Scenes in China" in the
August number and Poultney Bgelow's
study of "The German Struggle for Lib
erty" is continued. There is suitable
amount of midsummer fiction and an arti-
Gle by Frederic Remington, who is al
ways admirable. like his own drawings, on
Cracker Cowboys of Florida"
MooDs-"A Journal Intime' announces
that feature of its forthcoming volume
will be The reply of Gigadibs, dramatic
monologue, being the reverse to the OBJ
verse OF Browning's Bishop Blougram's
Apology" Moods does not say SO, but it
is probably written by the Idiot of the
Oddlot of what the sage meant when he
| said "All the fools are not yet dead"
The Traveller for August is up to its
usual high standard, both in regard to the
quality of the letterpress and the illustra-
tions. Among its many good features may
be mentioned an article on the evolution
of the bicycle or velocipede, which is timely
in view Of the present rage for the wheel.