St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-01

there is besides the usual amount of
fiction and verse.
Harper's Magazine for July is par
ticularly attractive number. The con-
tents include "Some Ina aginative Types
in American Art by Royal Cortissoz.
with ten illustrations, including the
frontispiece; I'm the Garden of
China" by Julian Ralph the first of
what is evidently to be d series of pa
pers on The German Struggle for
Liberty" by Poultney BigeIow, illus
trated with drawings and maps; the
fourth of the Joan of Arc papers;
Americans in Paris" by Richard
Harding Davis, and an historical
sketch of the University of Pennsyi-
vania, by Francis n. Thorpe. The
number offers besides the usual ouan-
tity of verse and short stories by
Candace Wheeler, Rosamond Marri-
ott-Watson and Margaret Sutton
Briscoe
Boys and girls will find the true va
cation spirit in the July number Of
st. Nicholas. There is also that
breath of patriotism that seems de-
manded in July periodicals in Amer
lea. The frontispiece, 'Blackbeard's
Last Fight" illustrates Howard Pyle's
serial, Jack Ballister's Fortunes"
which reaches its climax of interest.
The expedition under command of
Lieut.. Maynard penetrates to the
stronghold Of the pirates, kills the
leader, and utterly routs the entire
band of sea rovers. Theodore Roose-
welt, in his series of Hero Tales from
American History" describes the bat
tie OF Kings Mountain, one of the
most striking Of the contests between
the 1rCntiersmen and the British dur
ing the Revolutionary war "A
Daughter of the Revolution" by Alice
Balch Abbot, is the story of a New
England girl who discovered that she
had a Revolutionary sire, and who
proved herself a worthy descendant of
him
Life at the Athletic Clubs" by Dun
can Edwards, is the leading article in
the current number of Scribner's Mag
azlne. Mr. Edwards was a famous col
lege athlete in his day, and has q. per
sona1 knowledge of many of the clubs
which he describes. Mrs. Humphrey
Wards novelette,, THE Story Of Bes-
sic Costrell," reaches a most impress
I've conclusion in this number, and an
other very timely article is Robert
Grants discussion of ''The Summer
Problem" in his series The Art of
Living" in which he answers the query
w nat is the good American to do
with himself or herself in the sum
mer?"
The July Atlantic Monthly offers the
uSual lnstallment of Gilbert Parker's
serial The Seats Of the Mighty;'
Of
Fate by William Everett; the third
paper on Mars" which is devoted
to canals; ga National TRANSFORMATION
Department" by Henry J. Fletcher:
and verse by Louise Chandler Moulton
and Henry Van Dyke.
Beginning with the July number the
pr-ce of McClure's Magazine is reduced
10 ~ cents a copy and 81 a year. The
publishers Of the magazine promise
tnat the standard of the publication
VIII be sustained, and certainly the
FEATURES that are announced for pubIi-
cation IN the near future indicate that
the reduction in pr-ce is not intended
10 affect the magazine in any other
way than to make it possible for a
greater number of people to have il
in their homes. The July number con-
talns the usual number of Interesting
features
The Mid-Continent Magazine for July
has for its leading article an historical
sketch of roatans-The Lost COLONY
OF America" by Frances Jones Melton;
and the number offers besides a com
plete story by Maurice Thompson. en-
titled THE Defense of Dfssolution;"
Chicago Artists Exhibition. by EN-
ma Carleton; and ''The Negro in Amer
1ca," by Eugenia Parham.
The current number of Godey's Mag,
aZine contains the fifth paper by W.
A. Cooper on Artists in Their Stu
dos, which is devoted to Thomas Wa
terman Wood, president of the Ma
tional academy. Besides this the mag
azine offers the usual number of very
att''a tive features.
Among the special eatures of the Re- |
view OF Reviews for July are wall !
Street and the Credit of the Govern !
ment, by Albert c. Stevens, the editor |
of Bradstreet's Review; "The PoIiti- |
cal Leaders of New South Wales" by
j. Tighe Ryan, and "Mexfco as the
Cradle Of Mans Primitive Traditions,
by the editor.