The record-union., 1897-07-04

In spirit and sentiment the July
Ladies' Home Journal (Philadelphia)
is Interestingly in accord with that of
our national bfrth-month. An article
on THE Greatest Nation on Earth" by
William George Jordan, pictures, in a
most vivid way, the vastneSs of the
United States. Allied in patriotic SEN
timent is Clifford Howards article,
when Dolly Madison Saved the De-
claration of Independence" The
Womens Patriotic Societies gives the
aims and purposes of these organiza-
tions and the requisites for member
ship Fifty Years of Postage Stamps"
brings to mind that just a half century
ago our Government made and sold its
first stamps George w. Smalley's ar
ticle on THE Personal Side of the
Prince of Wales" is timely. Edward
W. Box addresses girl graduates, and
discusses Going Away in Summer" In
his series of Bible lessons, Evangelist
Moody takes Love" for the text, and
"Droch'' writes on the timely theme of
Outdoor Books" THE Bright Side of
Disa greeable Things" reveals Robert j.
Burdette's cleyerest vein. Lovers of
fiction will share with "Cap'n Bill' the
joys of his wedding invitation, and en-
ter heartily into the tender wooing of
Her Lad" Along more practical
lines are Mrs. Rorer's lesson on making
salads and salad dressing, and the care
of the house in hot weather; Ruth Ash
mores What Empty Stocking Clubs
Can Do,' gives a novel idea for new
clubs. The first article in a new series,
The Ladies' Home Journals Moder-
ate Cost Houses" by it's own architect,
gives minute detail and practical sug-
geStion for model suburban house.
Articles on needle-Work for summer
hours give many valuable suggestions.
An artistic feature of striking interest
is Alice Barber Stephens drawing of
the American summer girl, the opening
illustration of the number.
II
THE Bookman," illustrated literary
journal (New York; has these contents
for July: American, English, Miscel-
laneous," with portraits of the author
of THE Descendant" A. Conan Doyle;
Shan F. Bullock: Book plate of Sam
uel Sewall, the New England Pepys;"
and a drawing by Ethel Reed; THE
Poet" by Robert Adger Bowen: Song
for the Funeral of a Boy" by Frederick
Herbert French; 'Old Boston BookseI-
lers," with portraits of James Brown,
Augustus Flagg and Charles Little, by
Edwin NJ. Bacon; Two Odes of Keats.
II. Ode to a Nightingale" by William
G. Wilkinson; THE Scientific Mother"
comedy in one act, by Annie Nathan
Meyer; American Bookmen. VI The
Historians, especially Prescott and
Parkman," Illustrated, by NJ A. De
Wolfe Howe; I'm Kedar's Tents" chap
ters XIII, XIV, and XIV, by Henry Sc
ton Merriman; Greek Sculpture" CA
Handbook of Greek Sculpture), "An-
cient Greek Literature" The Art of
Organized Living" tHousehold Econom-
les and Domestic Service), "Johnston's
Latin Manuscripts Mr. Francis
Thompsons New Poems,' 4" THE Disa-
bilities of Humour" (Sketches in Laven-
der, Blue and Green), Seventeenth
Century Studies" a History of Cana
da," Modern French Literature" "A
Puritan Pepys," "A New Irish Novel
ist," by Thrasna; 1.-The Green Book. -
Early English Literature" Roger
Sherman" American Lands and Let
ters,'' George Meredith on Comedy
an essay on comedy, and the uses of
the comic spirit; "A Shropshire Lad"
"Novel Notes. THE Bookmans Ia
BILE, and THE Book Mart
y =
The complete novel in the July issue
of 'Lippincott's" Phiadelphia) is "A
Mountain Moloch,'' by Duffield Os-
borne. The scene is an otherwise un-
known island in the Pacific, settled in
remote ages by Phenician exiles. and
ruled by their descenants The hero
is an American navel officer. who leaves
his ship for love of a native princess:
and the adventures and bloodshed are
worthy of Rider Haggard in his palrni-
est days. Other stories are ''William's s
Spree" by Louise Boynton. and THE
Haunted Burglar" by the late w. c..
Morrow, author The Ape, the Idiot,
and Other People" DIR. Francis E.
Clark, founder of the Christian En-
deavor Societies. who is now visiting
the trees of his planting in remote parts
of the earth, furnishes vivid sketch
of "A Plague-Stricken City," written
during a recent sojourn at Bombay
when the bubonic plague was at it's
hight. The article will be of special
interest to the Endeavorers, and to
readers in general The Evolution of
Newspaper Advertising is traced
through it's various stages by Oscar
Herzberg Ingram A Pyle has a paper
on THE American Drama" and Ellen
DuvaIl one on THE Decline of the
Allan Hendricks describes an experience
which the reader will be 10th to emu
late. Annie Steger Winston writes ap-
preciatingly on The Fantastic Terrors
of Childhood" Lawrence Irweu tells
of the theory and practice of Suicide
Among the Ancients," j. e., the Greeks
and Romans; and Quarantine for Cat
tle'' in this country-an unfamiliar sub
ject-is illustrated by H. H. Bowen.
The poetry of the number is by Mary
Z. Stickney, Carrie Blake Morgan and
Clinton Scollard.
The July Month (New York; has for
frontispiece a portrait of DR.. Andrew
D. White, United States ambassador
to Germany. Among the other por-
traits are those of Eleonora Duse, Mrs
Burnett, Mrs. Madeleine Lucette Ry-
ley, the author of that successful COM
edy, THE Mysterious Mr. Bugle";;
Chester Bailey Fernald, the author of
The Cat and the Cherub," and other
tales of Chinese life; Miss Ellen Glas-
gov, the young writer of the powerful
novel, The Descendant Nathaniel
Hawthorne, etc. Mr.. Lang's transla-
;or of tho pope'S attn moan, IN ,,yo CO
of frugality is given in full; and there
is an article on DR.. Antonin Dvorak,
apropos of his approaching return to