The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02

ST. NICHOLAS.
The midsummer holiday season is fully OBJ
served in st. Nicholas. "An August Outing
is full-page picture drawn by NJ O. Kobbe,
and l. W. Taber sets forth the Minuet at "The
Grasshoppers' Ball" "The Little Duchess and
the Lion Tanner" is Russian story by Fanny
Locke Mackenzie, telling how q brave and
quick-witted child saved the Czar from assas-
sination. Ernest Ingersoll, in "The Tricks of
Torpedo Boats describes the night prac-
tice of these dangerous little craft when
they are maneuvered against the great
battle-ships. Harry NJ. Lay shows the
possibilities of "a Sand-Pile" in the way of
furnishing subjects for realistic photographs.
He had pile of sand in the yard of his city
home and with the aid of toy soldiers, horses
and cannon made the most surprising battle
scenes. Two papers are full of kindly remi-
niscences ano anecdotes of Eugene Field, the
chiIdren's poet. They are written by Mary ].
Reid and Henrietta Dext ter Field and Martha
Nelson Yenowine
THE CENTURY.
The midsummer holiday august Century
makes its appearance in distinctive cover
The opening paper, "An Island Without
Death" by Miss E. R. Scidmore the author
of "Jinrikisha Days." gives an account of a
visit to Miyajima, a sacred island in the
Japan. A paper on 1.-THE Viceroy Lii Hung
Chang" is contributed by the Hon John W.
Foster, who, it will be remembered, was lately
confidential adviser to the Emperor of China,
and in that capacity accompanied the Viceroy
to Japan, where the treaty of Shimonoseki
was negotiated. General Foster, who is to be
the host of Ii Hung Chang in September, and
is one of his most intimate friends by
this relation and by intimate experience of
Chinese affairs, has had unique facilities for
the preparation of this paper. There is printed
the first of group of articles from the Jour
mails of the late E. J. Glave, who crossed Africa
in the service of the Century in exploration of
the slave trade. The article deals principally
with British Raids on the Slave-Traders, I" and
is fully illustrated with photographs ana draw
ings by the author. Among other features are
four short stories-one of life in the Chinese
quarter of San Francisco, by Chester Bailey
Fernald; one of Minnesota from tier town. by
Marion Manvllle Pope; one of the Maine
woods. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and
one OF the New Orleans Creoles, by Kate Chopin.
scRIBNER's.
The fiction number of Scribner's Magazine
contains six short stories and little comedy,
in addition to several special articles of wide
popular interest, including the first paper in
A. F. Jaccaci's picturesque account of his
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's "Old Gardens" de-
scribing the old-fashioned f1ower-gardens that
still persist in some New England villages.
Artistically, this issue contains several novel
features. Virgie, the great French illustrator,
seldom seen in periodicals, has made twenty
FIVE drawings for the Don Quixote article
Miss Cecilia Beaux. an American painter who
has achi eyed distinction also in France, fur
nishes the frentispiece of this number-her
first illustration for any magazine. Orson
Lowell, whose reputation has been made as an
illustrator by his work in this magazine, has
made numerous unique drawings to accom-
pany brilliant little play by Annie Eliot
called Gas Strangers" The cover, printed in
twelve colors, is from drawing by Will H.
Low, and is very elaborate.
LIPPINcolT's.
The complete novel in the August Lippin-
colts is 1.-The Great K. & A. Train Robbery"
by Paul Leicester Ford. The scene shifts from
one part OF the West to another; the action
has some rapid and surprising turns, espe-
| cially when the actors are considered; and the
result is readable and lively narrative
Clarinda Pendleton Lamar is evidently at
home 'In Louisa County" and writes with
full knowledge and affection. Her story
brings vividly before us the rural Virginia of
old, with its hospitality. its unworldliness, its
primitive and peculiar charm. ''Golden-Rod
| and Asters," by Meth Boyce, is tale of youth
renewed after long interval, and of middle
aged reunion. George Montbard, French art
ist in London, tells of "a Narrow Es-
cape'' which he and comrade had during
the Franco-Prussian war, the result of a rash
adventure on the outposts. "Heraldry in
| America" may appear to many an unpromising
| subject, but Eugene Zieber has much to say in
exposition, defense and praise of it. Rhoda
Gale writes of "Immigration Evils" and sus-
tains her argument by figures and facts. The
poetry of the mum Der consists of a sonnet by
John B. Tabb and quatrains by Edith NJ.
Thomas, Clarence Urmy and Arthur W. Atk-
inson.
THE ARENA.
All lovers of Whittier, and for the matter of
| that, all who love a beautiful life, will be in
terested in the article in the August Arena en-
ksxI~ ul.ft4 rL1 rt,so =.