The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28
Magazines for July.
HARPER's

HARPERS
The July number of Harper's Magazine opens
with a paper on General Washington and the
period of the Revolution, by Woodrow Wilson.
Rarely has a historic parsonage been made so
real and human as Washington here appears,
in camp and on the battlefield no less than in
the Virginia House of Burgesses or at his
Mount Vernon plantation. In commemora-
tion of the centenary of the settlement of
Cleveland the number contains illustrated
paper on the distinctive characteristics of
Ohio as shown in the development of the
State, by President Charles F. Thwing of the
Western Reserve University. piquant
description of English elections, by Hon.
Henry Cabot Lodge, gives the result OF some
personal observations in England last sum-
mer, showing that the United States is not
alone in its need of political reforms. Laurence
Hutton will contribute an attractive article
on Literary Landmarks of Venice" with
illustrations by Frank V. Du Mond, including
the houses in which Byron, Browning and Pc
trarch lived. There is presented the opening
chapters of 1.-TWO Mormons From Muddlety,' g
three-part novelette,, by Langdon Elwyn
Mitchell, whose scene is laid among the West
Virginia hills and whose characters are the
rude population OF a primitive community,
enlivened by the visits OF two Latter-Day
Saints engaged in proselyting. The story will
be illustrated by Gilbert Gaul.
JOHN h6HuTlCk DdDSS AuIHOIOuS IOmdHCcy
.A Rebellious Heroine is concluded. Archi-
bald Lampman contributes an essay on "Hap-
piness," and Charles Dudley Warner in the
Editors Study discusses popular belief that
everybody is an undeveloped author. The
Editors Drawer opens with amusing lecture
by Kate Douglas Wiggin on supposedly new
Wagnerian opera, with examples of the music
LIPPINcoTT's.
The complete novel in the July issue OF Lip
pineott's is "a Judicial Error by Marion
Manville Pope. 1t is a strong story based on
murder for which the wrong man was con-
victed and hanged. He has a friend who de-
termines to prove his innocence and does it.
"a Twenty Dollar BILL by Algernon Tassin,
is q pathetic tale of honesty among the very
poor and in the face of the strongest possible
temptation-to save a sisters life. Gillian w.
Ford tells about 1.-THE Rector's Game
cock" which came 10 the minister in
singular way and was thenceforth
bird of peace. Jean Wright relates
briefly Gan Old Story"-whieh is not
familiar or commonplace one at all-of the
army A Russian, who for various reasons with
holds his name, writes forcibly on the "Decsd-
ence of Modern Russian Literature" His array
of facts shows clearly the benumbing effect of
despotism when vigorously exercised through
a censorship of the press. "Pennsylvania and
Her Public Men," by Sydney G. Fisher, is an
other startling article, presenting facts which,
though common property, are enough to set
one thinking. "My Rural Experiences" is one
of the last papers which the lamented Profess
| sor Boyeson wrote, and one cf the best. He
| loved his summer home on Long Island,
reveled in his peaceful vacations there, and
enjoyed to the full mis- communion with
| Nature, escaping from the man-made town.
John Sheridan Zelie supplies little essay, ION
Being Fond of Ones Thoughts" "With the