Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1896-05-21
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

The complete novel in the May issue OF
Llppincotts is Gan impending Sword >"
by Horace Annesley Vachell. The hero
enters the service OF California million
alre, whose domestic peace is endangered
by the threats and wilcs of relentless
enemy. Some queer entanglements en-
sue.
"Reeaca," by Maurice Thompson, is a
Georgia story OF war-times. Carrie Blake
Morgan turns from verse to prose to re-
late cats escape "From the Valley O.
the Shadder." In Glove in the After
noon," Clara +. Laughlin tells the sue
cessful matrimonial adventure of an
elderly bachelor. What "The Fiddle
Told" through the pen OF Nora G. Frank
lin, was 4 story that abridged life term
OF imprisonment.
The poetry OF the number is by Hattie
Whitney, Ida Whipple Benham, Madison
Cawein, and Clarence Urmy.
"Life in Japanese Bungalow" pub.
lished in the May number OF Demorest's
Magazine, gives an account OF an Amcri-
can woman's housekeeping experience in
Japan which makes the reader wish that
the system and tke servants might be
transported bodily to this country.
Handsomely illustrated papers on
"Venezuala and Her Debatasle Bound
ary," and "Cuba's Struggle for Indepsnd-
ence," describe wildly the situation in
these unfortunate countries; and the
peculiar work Of the Salvation Army is
told by pictures and Ietterpress in "a
Mighty Power for Good" There is a
charming story, ga Knight OF the Nets"
by Amelia +. Barr, and one by Beatrice
Harraden. There are most excellent
suggestions for housekeepers in eur
nishing the Summer Home" and the
vital subject of "Headaches' is treated
OF in the Sanitaran Department.
Demorest's Magazine is published for
81 year, by tine Demorest Publishing
Co., 10 Fifth avenue, New York.
Three striking contributions to the May
Atlantic are the opening number OF Il
series Of letters from Dante Gabriel
Rossetti to William Allingham, ably
edited by George Birkbeck Hill, with a
delightful photographed sketch Of
Allingham; Kendric Charles Babcock's
discussion of The Scandinavian Con-
tingent. being the third paper in the
series on race characteristics in American
life; and an anonymous paper OF Mr.
Olnsy's fitness for the presidency.
Other features are a discriminating
Japanese sketch by Lafcadio Hsarn, "A
Trip to Kyoto, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne
Lathrsp's Memories OF Hawthorne, con-
cludad, The Preservation OF Our Game,
by CASTOR Fay, and the Teaching OF
Economics, by J. Laurence Laughlin.
Fiction is represented by = further in
stallment Of Henry Janes's The Old
Things, and a striking one-part story OF
western life by Mary Hallock Foote, en-
titled Pilgrim Station. Poems, book re-
views. and the usual departments COM
plete the issue.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
An attractlvely seasonablo flavor per-
wade The Ladies' Home Journal for May,
the rich bounties of spring being pre-
scented in poetry, in prose and in picture.
Among the more conspicuous features in
this direction, aside from the dainty
cover, which gives suggestion OF having
been touched with the brush OF water
colorist, is a drawing by W. Hamilton
Gibson, illustrating Frank Dempster Sher'
mama poem, Goods Miracle OF May.
Kate Greenaway also contributes page
of her winsome little people to illustrate
a poem. Among the articles alor " IRE
serious lines is ex-President Harrison g
paper on "This Country Of Ours" in
which he discusses most lucidly the
Presidents participation in treaty-mak-
ing. and his exercise OF the veto. The