The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-31
The MAGAZINES.

The MAGAZINES.
The August number of Short Stories
Will be of especial interest TO NEWS
readers, we guess, because ii contains a
story by Miss Grace Savage of the edi-
torial staff of THE News, the story being
the winner In prize competition devised
by. the magazine management. Rita
Liza" Is the title OF il, and IL is prettily
told genre sketch OF Nantucket folk with
lots of salt air and pathos in 1t. MIR.
John j. A Beckett also has prize story in
the number and the balance of home and
foreign fiction is quite mp TO the stand
ard of up-to-date story telling.
The summer number of the Pail Mall
Magazine is about as luxuriant an issue as
anything we have ever seen in the line OF
a monthly periodical. Its Illustrations
are notable for lavishness and variety Of
workmanship and there is some inn
mensely dainty color work among them
with charming decorative effects in the
pages. In literary way the Magazine
gives an amazing lot of good reading for
% cents in American money.
The July number OF Comfort that re-
markable Yankee product which probably
has a subscription circulation that is
unequalled for size in the world, appears
printed in five bright photographic col
ors and promises to keep up that pace for
rs cents a year until more progress is
open TO Ii.
The August issue of the Ladies' Home
Journal, that amazingly successful
caterer to womankind, is sweet and sum-
merry. The illustration which consti-
utes It's cover-design is reproduction OF
Albert Lynchs famous panel, "Spring,"
which won for him the highest praise
awarded by the Paris Salon in 1893. BY
artistic judges the figure presented is
considered to be superior to any femi-
nine figure painted for years. and it is
nh tlxa
seon in life or in print. A notable feat
ure OF the number is the first instalment
OF new story by Frank II. Stockton, to
be continued in September. IL Is, of
course, delicious reading.
The Nickle Magazine for August con-
tains four interesting stories, and an in
structive article by Il. b. Barry about six
celebrated painters; there is also some
thing about Murillo, the painter without
ambition, and Mildred Aldrich continues
her newsy," "Stage Successes of the Past
Season." This number is rich in illus
tration, containing beside many popular
reproductions of fine paintings, pictures
OF curious women i'm varied attire from
all over the world; there are also fine por-
traits of popular actresses and actors,
among them Fanny Davenport, Richard
Mansfield, Della Fox and lillian Russell.
No. 2 OF Vol. / of the Philistine is just
as sassy as the first issue, but no smarter
OF Zenda stories, i'm McClure's Magazine
for August, reciting a heroic love passage
between the beautiful Princess Osra and
brave Stephen the Smith, is charming.
The new Jungle story by Kipling is also
notable. In the same number are a story
by Stanley j. Weyman, wherein good,
hearty justice finally ove:takes an OPP
pressive tax-gatherer; and a California
story by Bret Harte. Miss Tarbell supplies
very interesting account OF Bishop John
III. Vincent and his work in founding and
developing the Chautauqua Assembly,
and also OF the wonderful growth and
usefulness OF that institution. The ro-
mantle story of the robbing of the North
ampton Mass. Bank OF upward of a mil
lion dollars in money end securities, and
of the long pursuit and ultimate convic.
tion of the robbers, is related from the
records of the Pinkerton detective bureau.
The Jewelry Magazine Is new TO the
trade with the July number, and is pub
lished In Providence. 1t is nicely printed
and its advertising patronage indicates
that the jewelry trade are inclined to give
the support il seeks
The high-lights of the Midsummer
Holiday Century are three beautiful
wood-engravings by Cole, after celebrated
pictures by Rubens, the cuts having been
made I'm the presence of the pictures
themselves; fully illustrated description
by Philo n. McGifiin of the battle of the
Gula River between the japanese and
Chinese fleets, in which the writer COM
manded the Chinese ironclad Chen
Yuen; comment on this memorable en-
gagement by the distinguished naval
critic, Captain A. II. Mahan, entitled
lessons from the Yalu Fight; a paper
by Nordau, author of Degeneration, - on
the criticism of that book; a biographical
sketch in the notable women series OF
Sonya Kovalevsky, the Russian mathe-
tpfa k.1 lIaDf fsp..u
biography have just been published; an
engaging illustrated instalment OF
Sloane's Life OF Napoleon, including the
second campaign in Italy and tire battle
OF Marengo, with maps, battle scenes and
portraits made especially for this work;
a continuation of"Casa Braccio,p - Marion
Crawford's tragic novel, with an illustra-
tion by Castaigne; "The Princess Sonia, "
by Julia Magruder, with an illustration
by Gibson; a charming story of n little
Chinese boy entitled 'The Cat and the
Cherub," by Chester Bailey Fernald,
author Of 1.-The Gentleman IN the Barrel';
also, four very short stories by George
Wharton Edwards, entitled "The Rival
ries of Long and Short Zodiac" " I'm
addition TO these unique features there
are several articles relating more or less
intimately to the holiday season. DIR.
Henry van Dyke contributes an article on
cold Fashioned Fishing In "a Bit of
describes the lilies OF Nola. an Italian
city, the "liliesn being turrets so or 80
feet high, representing the different
trades, and carried about on movable
platforms. "FoX Hunting In Kentucky"
by John Fox, Is n description of this
sport in the Bluegrass region. done with
a novel touch. The great summer resort
county OF Massachusetts Is the scene OF
delightful article by Henry Dwight Sedg-
wick emitted "reminiscences OF Literary
Berkshire" which contains beautiful
portraits of Catherine Sedgwick and
Fanny Kemble, and many other drawings
and portraits OF men identified with the
region. Among the poems OF the number
is 1.-THE Green Grass av Ovid Ireland,r
by James Whitcomb Riley. The editorials
are emitted "The Season OF Timidity in
Presidential Candidates, - 1.-THE Need OF
n City Party, " 1.-The Degenerate Stage"
and "The Heart Line i'm Fiction"
Harper's for August IL strong in fiction.
The "Pers onal Recollections OF Joan OF
Arcn relate the story OF Joan's eNamina-