The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-11
JULY MAGAZINES.

In many respects parallel with Pro-
fessor Bryce's concluding paper on
South Africa, which appears in this
months Century. is w. Nephew Kings
paper in the same issue on Venezuela
and Guiana. These two articles, to-
Gether with Marion Crawford's lumin-
Gus description Of st. Peters and the
opening chapters OF a veritistic novel;
cite of Saratoga by William d. Howells
are the more prominent features of the
July Century. which is, however. 4
number OF unusual merit.
OF ths eleven papers in the Forum for
this month it is probable that four will
attract greatest attention. One OF these
Is Paul Leroy-Bcauliens THE Pres!-
dental Outlook as Europeans View It,
a paper eulos izing low tariffs and the
gold standard. another Is President
Eliot's Reasons for an Immediate Ar
bitration Treaty with England: third
Is Professor Pesbuly's discussion of
various "Si:hst!.Gtes for the Saloon
and the last is Goodwin Smiths reply TO
the question rs There Another Life
Each of these four papers is Instructive
to an unusual degree.
An article showing he economic Ill
fleets of tipping and one exposing the
fallaciousnesS of most arguments for
the government ownership II railroads
are notable features of Gu,!rnn's Inaga-
zine for July. Its digest OF current eco
nomics is characteristicalIy Sble. sue
cinct and valuable,
To laymen the most inte' Tst!nG part
of the Metaphysical magasi1e is that
which chronicles strange lssSehic eX-
periences For instance. H. the July
issue an account is given OF n man who
while In church one evening received
premonitory call to go tn she nome OF
his mother. ten miles distant. When
he reached there he found Reg aeao. al
though she had previously hsen IN good
health. The magazine nairatcs many
Of such experiences. and heits 10 cstab-
iish that there are things IN InsS world
by no means fully comp-ehenaed in
present-day philosophy.
Following are some titles Ut timely
articles in the July Popular Science
News. THE Tiniest of Rris;' 'To
the North Pole in n Ballooni' Breath
ing Property" "Vivisectioa," THE
Prairie Rattlesnake;" ''reiepathy;"
1.-The Coming Eclipse OF tie SUM-
SACRED Monkeys" Poison Hemlock
and Sweet Cicely;" wonder Worker of
the Sioux Mound Exploration In
Ohio;" Vacuum Tube illumination"
Luminous Bacterial" "Amscr:" THE
-, Bazin Roller Boat" ''l'emper!ng Small
Tools" Prof. Langley's Flying Ma
chine; "Resuscitant Animals"
Chap-Book for July is regular
hummer if we may be pardoned the
colloquialism. First. it's cover design
is the neatest thing yet put forth by it
the figure of "a sitting woman. in white,
green and black. Then there are poems
by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ethel
wyn weitherald, Layton Brewer and
John Davidson-the last a specially no
table "New Ballad of Tannhaeuser."
Besides Maurice Thompson contributes
q readable essay on THE Art of Saying
Nothing Well and Frankfort Moore pre-
sents second good historical story. this
time built round the famous David
Garrick. Chap Book is getting inter-
esting again.
We would like to say good word
Tor the Lark. which flies 10 US from
way beyond the Rocky mountains. 1t
lad lots of novelty in 1t once. But 1t is
wearing off. One doesn't want that
sort of thing all the year round. you
know. Like ARENAS Wards sugges-
tor 10 l.NfI DIT,
/ nineteen widows. 1t is too much"
\ i / i
| The current McClure's is Kipling
fnumber 1t gives portraits Of the Indian
: and also q series Of readable reminis-
cences of him by the editor of the news
paper for which Kipling once worked
at Lahore. Another extremely inter-
esting article in this number Is Annie
s. Peck's description of her ascent of
the Matterhorn.
II Il
The Cosmopolitan for July is adver-
dsed as a fiction and travel number. but
the articles in it that interest US most
come under neither head. They are
Hobart c. Taylor's study Of the mod
ern Spaniard; James r. Ponds recollec-
tions Of the great orators of the lyceum
days and Editor Brisben Walkers
paper on aerial Athletes and the Com
ing Race" Still. the fiction in this
months Cosmopolitan is good.
Il
"His Lordship," Mrs. Burton Har-
rison's charming novelette, describing
how wealthy Chicago girl retaliated
on titled Anglican fortune hunter, is
the chief content of the July Pocket
magazine, but Hamlin Garland's story
OF "A Lynching in Mosinee" Is almost
as conspicuous an attraction.
In the July issue of the Looker-On
appears the first of series of illustrat-
ed papers by Professor Hallock and DR..
Muckey on Voice Production, being the
result Of successful attempts by these
experts to photograph the human voice
In action. The next paper in the series
will appear in the September issue.
This series of articles should be read
with care by all teachers and students
of vocal music.
II
The chatty quality and piquant per-
sona1 flavor of the literary gossip in
the Bookman. from month to month
are shown to especial advantage in
the July number, which is. moreover a
number with a large variety Of bright
and timely reading matter.
description Of how Edward Everett
Hale came fo wrtfe his preot N, tr;o+;o