The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
MAGAZINES.
Godey's.

Godey's Magazine for April is q
bicycle Number" No less than a round
dozen of articles are devoted to the differ
ent aspects of the wheel. It's praises are
"sung in song and told in story; in fact
this months Godey's is an epitome of the
art and science OF cycles and cvcling.
Major-Gencral Nelson A. Miles opens
the ball with some observations on the
use OF the bicycle in warfare. He remarks:
"The French Government has found the
bicycle so practicable and useful that it
has adopted it as one of the appliances of
war, and any Government or commander
utilizing this means of transportation and
putting a large or small force upon the
cycle would compel an opponent to do
likewise, or else have him at great disad-
vantage. In the United States armv at
the present time there are nearly 5000
officers and soldiers who use the cycle,
either in service or for recreation"
T. A. EGan, in 1.-The Evolution of
Sport" relates the history and origin of
the cycle 1t is learned from this that as
were nightly occurrences. 1t is recorded
at one of these receptions that, ''among
the gentlemen who gave proof of their
skill was Charles A. Dana. who is an ex-
pert rider"
Isaac B. Potter discusses "The Work of
w uSelUeH IOI DeGtcT GdkluS OC-
casion to compare American with French
roads. to the disadvantage of the former.
Mr.. Potter thinks the cyclist of to-day is
in much the same position as Balaam's
ass, in so far as he protests against the con-
dition of the kings highway.
ga Cycle Show in Little" by Marina
duke Humphrey, is written to show some
of the curiosities and anomalies OF the
cycling trade. This article is very inter-
esting one to the ordinary everyday world.
Bicycling for women is well discussed in
several articles, and the magazine is we'll
to the front with its usual departments,
'The Bookery," Fashion, Fact and
Fancy" etc.
The Strand.
The Strand Magazine for the coming
mouth is full of good reading matter.
Principal among the articles in this issue
is one by James Walter Smith, who treats
of the American literary colony in Lon
don. Even as far back as the days of Ben
jamin Franklin London appealed to
the American writer as good field for his
labor. The number of American journal
lists and playwrights is being constantly
augmented by young men and women,
who find in London fame singularly
sweet and inviting prospect.
Among literary Americans resident in
London are mentioned the following: B.
T. Stevens, Bret Harte, Henry James,
Mrs. F. Hodgson Burnett. Robert Barr,
w. L. Alden, Gertrude Atherton, M. D.
Conway, h. J. w. Dam and Poulteney
Bigelow. "Between the Acts" is story
of the Franco-Prussian war translated
from the French OF NJ. de Blowitz, the
well-known Paris litterateur and CORE
spondent of the London Times. Charles
knight has lengthy article descriptive of
gymnastics in the British army. Mary
Spencer Warren shows the German En-
peror at home in her story entitled 1.-The
Palaces of the German Emperor" Some
Peculiar Entertainments" by Framley
Steelcroft illustrate to what remarkable
extent the modern Snowman will go to
entrap the elusive shilling from the pub
lie. Several other stories and descriptive
articles, well illustrated, go to form very
attractive number Of the Strand.