The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-27
MAGAZINE NOTES

The Pau Mall Magazine for June con-
tains an unique contribution entitled
haf.lr Music. With Specimens OF War
Songs. Etc by Nora and William Charles
Scully.
Several examples are given, mostly of
battle songs. The article is fUn OF inter-
est, nor only 10 the student Of music. but
OF folklore and history, tracing as il
does. the origin and history Of many Of
the songs. with specimens or the music
which accompany the words
OF these songs the writers say: IN
spite Of their monotony, the songs have a
wild charm which is all their own. The
kaffrs are as loyal 20 their chiefs as
were the Scottish Highanders Of the I7th
and 18th centuries, Probably among no
other people in the world is the sentiment
of loyalty so strong. In each Of these
simple melodies a treasured story lies
emhalmed and fragrant"
There is also in this magazine a most
interesting installment OF Robert Louis
Stevenson's unfinished story. st. Ives"
Apropos OF this the London letter Of the
Critic Of june 5. says that the writer Sc
lected to finish this story is Mr.. CUTLER
Couch, and goes on TO say ''for If there
be any writer fitted by nature and by
sympathy To undertake the task. ii is
the author OF The Splendid Spur
How keen Mr.. COUGHS reverence and
affection were for Stevenson, he has told
US on more than one occasion. and the
student of style does not need TO be very
sustle In tracing the influence Of Steven
son upon Mr.. COUGHS own work. The
writer, however. continuing says: There
was really no need for the finishing touch,
and the precedent is a very bad one. 1t
is understood that only a fragment, a
chapter or so, was necessary to the COM
pletion of the novel. and that Stevenson
actually left synopsis OF the remaining
Incidents
The Overland Monthly for June has as
its leader a brightly written paper en-
titled The Sketch Club" which deals of
a well known San Francisco organization
and gives numerous examples OF the clov
erness Of its members in its illustrations;
1t is written by n. l.. Murtha. q member
OF the club Forest. Mccullough and
Myself. Recollections of the Great Days
of the Stage" by Alice Kingsbury Cooley,
contains many interesting anecdotes and
personalities of the great tragedians.
The Cosmopolitan for June is a remark
ably interesting number. Among a few
of its good things may be mentioned
Marlborough House." the London house
of the Prince and Princess of Wales. with
many fine illustrations of its exterior and
interior. The Secret History of the Gar
field Conkling Tragedy" is told for the
first time by Mr.. Thomas B. Connery. 1t
is fully illustrated by portraits of the
principal actors and by reprints from
Puck's cartoons OF the time Julian
Hawthorne. who has just returned from
India, whittier he was sent as a special
commissioner by the Cosmopolitan to in
vestigate the ravages of the famine and
plague. will shortly publish in this maya
zine the result of his inspection. Eight
and a half millions, according TO Mr.
Hawthorne. have already persisted. and
his graphic descriptions will open the
eyes of the world to a condition of affairs
that is almost inconceivable in this year
of jubilee.
The Chautauquan for June contains
charming paper on Historic Concord"
by Bishop John F. Hurst. LII. n. Charm
ing ii is both in text and illustration.
Here are given descriptions both by pen
and camera OF historic houses and
places. Among them THE Old Manse."
"Thoreau's House." Concord Bridge"
The Minute Man" 'Emerson's House"
The Wayside," "Alcott's School of Phil
osophy" and many other attractive and
interesting places.
The Month for June has as its from
tispieCe very fine portrait OF the Rev
DR. Lyman Abbott. Among other nor
traits of interest is one of Frau Agnes
Gorma, the famous German actress who
has just had most successful engage
ment at the Irving Place theater. Two
new poems by Rudyard Kipllng are print
ed in this number our Lady Of the
Shows" a poetiCai name for Canada and
The Vampire a poem written for the
picture by Philip Rurne-Jones in the new
gallery, and printed in the London Daily
Mail.
The June number of Current Iitera-
ture IS so full OF good things that il is
difficult TO particularize
WAR Songs of the Greeks" giving as
II does the Hellenic Marseillaise by Con-
stantine RhigaS. translated by Lord BY
ron. together With songs written by
famous American and English poets. is
most interesting contribution complied
by NJ. : Beeson. In the Editors SYM
postum Mr. Gable among other topics
writes of In How Far Can Bad Morals
Ee Good Literature" lie follows out the
same line of thought under the head Of
Current Literay Thought and Opinion
in two admirably written ESSAYS How
70 study Fiction" and Hypocrisy fer
Arts Sake y selected reading from
Henry James Spells Of Poynton" is also
gwen in thls number under the title of
Love In Fcjters'