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Harper,. Maaaziue for june,

Harper's Magazine for June.
%nki Sai iiinstra nsss t Pepd d.fre ere b be.
tween the points of view OF the usual
traveller who writes as an after thought
s and the n trained %5SSur waItinr w aSin traY has
been described often as q sort OF Pro-
letaria to the whole ear,th..a gigantic
Ralph found the garden provinces Of
Holland, and almost as clean. Mr..
Ralph,s assertions regarding the at attr Nc
Weldon's Illustrations of picturesque
landscapes and an active water popula-
ton; Our, Italian fellow-eitizens are the
subject of a vigorous short story by II.
C. ". Meyers in the June Harper's,e ntit-
led What the Madre Would not Have"
Rtshard Harding paws, consrihutes. sT an
Grand Prix and other Prizes" G. D.
Gibson's spirited illustrations add to the
attractiveness Of the paper. No more at
have ever appeared. than the Illustrated
papers contributed by William Hamilton
Gibson to Harper,s Magazine. "A Ea.
in the June number which describes how
a colony of hornets pre-empted a bundle
OF. painters brushes. Russian activity
in the Gear. What may be expected from
the autocrat of 100, 900, 900 subjects is indi-
Gated by Prof.E. Borges, Of the Lycsum
" l. ~ 81 ~ Ill OA AN
New Gar, President Seth Low. Of Coz
aumbia College, in discussing Some
Questions of the Day" advances the pro-
tai and working men and all abuses of
Should Be- settled from the standpoint Of
the point OF view of that commonly for
gotten and usually silent partner, the
general public. A few men have some
times. at Thermopylae and elsewhere,
made a strong stand against great odds
and been remembered afterwards. Gene
raj G.. A. Forsyth. of the United States
almost forgotten story of the brave fight
of forty cavalrymen at the battle of the
Arickaree Fork of the Republican River.
t Wasa s q a w thoasand ' iadia aape warrio rs.
rary New York." do not seem to have
us last year, He found the New York CT
1860 largely. given over to bohemianism.
rememibrano Of Nj. and Mrs. Richard
Henry Stoddard and of Mr.. Edward Clar-
ence Stedman and Walt Whitman. His
erranea is one of the mcst interesting
regions of the earth. It's present impor-
tance is sadly less than its past but
~ Mi ~ ne sn andH Sn Nv m tina, me &C eo u acfys Of
ing as ever to the traveller. The story of
Joan of Arc setting out on her campaign
Is vividly t0ld in the course Of the Per
that magazine. Beginning with the July
number. Mr.. Poultney Bigelow will give
II a series Of detached papers in Harper's
Struggle for Liberty during the exciting
period from 1906 to 1915.
McClure's Magazine for June.
4 new story by Rudyard Kipling. re-
I E5rlgn 5ne . a fanfastIe Of an a Ap RaIenae n \
by Robert Barr: and a brave story of
adventure by Stanley J. Weyman. akin
in its time and setting to Mr.. Weyman's
in themselves give the June number of
'McClure's Magazine. special distinc-
ton. But there is no iack of other sig
cry accomplish. and how they are some-
times blown to pieces. in the du Pont
powder mills; and how that "stppendous
aggregation" of tents and wonders, the
CIRCUS. gets planted, in the fields
at midnight. are the subjects of two IL
The conferences between Generals
and Bismarck, after the battle Of Sc
equalization, are described by Archibald
Forbes. who. as a London war cores
.pondent. was on the ground. and him
writes. Some very interesting pictures
accompany the article, while with it is
published a letter from General Sheridan
TO GeneTdl GTdut, WTitlGn d CIV Qdyo
after Sedan, and giving his observations
at that and other battles Of the FRANCO
ment that the American armies had
shown greater skill in our recent war
than the French and German armies
with the Unified States" BY. Miss Tar
bell, which shows how, with the most
friendly and. avowedly, even loving, at
titude to the United States, Napoleon
diligently piagea i cams ana Engla nh fan an
military employment at the outbreak of
the war, and bis beginning with g very
humble ~clerkship; and Colonel McClure's
account of "The Night at Harrisburg"
in 1861. when Lincoln was making his Sc,
cret Journey to Washington. to avoid
the possibility of assassination at Ralti-
more Ia Journey which Colonel Mcclure
himself helped to arrange. and on which
he saw Lincoln Off, are all notable pa
pers. An illustrated paper on Sardou
describes him in the. way Of daily life.
in his own home. and tells how he goes
about TO make one. of his unfailinsly
successful plays. John Ernest ,McCann
contributes a very sweet M clever