The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-29

rms year she issues through the Lothrop
publishing company volume OF verse for
children, with the delightfully."- attractive title
or once Upon a Time"
The Pail Mall Magazine for September con-
tains many matters of interest. A beauti-'
fully Illustrated article is on ''Cawdor Castle"
which shares with CLAIMS, the traditions
of Macbeth. The authentic history of the
castle is quite as interesting as the legendary
and the article is one of the most enjoyable
that has appeared in the Castle SERIES ''Ele-
plant Catching in India is very graphic in
itself. and illustrated by instantaneous pho
tographs. There is more than the usual
amount of fiction. ''St Ives'' is continued,
and Mr. Quiller-Couch is still writing his
clever fragments, From Cornish Window
The first number of The American Jour
nal OF Palmistry, a magazine devoted to
paimistry, phrenology and graphoogy, and
edited BY comte de Saint Germain, is at
hand. The editor is the author of the Hand
Book of Modern Palmistry," and Practical
Palmistry'' and president of the American
Chronological society. This number of the
magazine contains lengthy article, with nu-
merous illustrations, on the Line of Life
besides shorter papers on kindred subjects.
An article in this number of McClure's that
gives novel as well as timely information is
an account of Life in the Klondike Gold
Fields" by a man who has himself had an
important share in it for years past. The
proverbial bad" of the mines, it ap
pears. is unknown on the Klondke. The
miners there enter and work their claims,
SetLle their disputes, ana govern their AFFAIRS
without violence or lawlessness. How they
live and how they work is very simply and
honestly told; and there is some valuable in
struction as to routes, proper equipment, and
the opportunities of the country, for peop.e
who are proposing to settle there. The article
! is illustrated from a series of recent photo
graphs, most of them hitherto unpublished.
Other features of the number are a strong
ballad by Kiplng; short stories by Robert
Barr, William Allen White, and others;
series of life portraits of Henry Cay most
n
per by F. G. Kenyon, of the British museum,
showing what recent discoveries of ancient
manuscripts have done toward answering the
question when the four gospels were writ
ten.
In the summer of 1896 when John Muir, the
explorer of Alaska and Sierra, the godfather
of the Muir glacier. came East to get an
honorary degree from Harvard, he delighted
his friends in New York and Boston with
certain dog story" the fame of which
had preceded him. The editor Of the Century
has prevailed upon Mr.. Muir to write out
this tale and the hair-breadth escape-for
such it is-will appear in the September num-
Der under the title, IAN Adventure With
Dog and a Glacier" By coincidence the
same number OF the Century will contain an
episode, with similar dramatts personae in
Mrs Marion Manville Pope's up the Mat
terhorn in a Boat''-one of the characters of
which is a dog, which by an extraordinary
series OF incidents is brought into relations
with glacier.
The beginning of the school year is signal
lied by the appearance of September st.
Nicholas. The frontispece is a reproduction
of the painting by Geoffroy, "A Village School
in Brittany" Virginia Cabell Gardner con-
tributes a story of old England, entitled "A
Girl of Winchester" telling how a little lass
was chosen to recite an epithalamium before
Queen Mary, on the occasion of the latter's
marriage to Philip Of Spain. Charles T. Hill,
| who has written number of papers on the
New York fire department, has another one
| on Floating Fire Engines" Mr.. Hill de-
! scrbes the powerful fre-boats of New York,
| which are equal, in the amount of water they
| can throw, to twenty ordinary fire engines.
! "A Brave Little Coward" by May Belleville
| Brown, is a story Of prairie fire. "A Right
| Royal Robe described by Frederic A. Lucas,
| is one made wholly of rare feathers, the work
| of scores of years, belonging to the kings of
| the Sandwich Islands.
| The September number of Current Litera-
| ture furnishes to the readers its usual feast
| of literary delicacies The editorial matter is
able and interesting, and the selections well
! chosen and abundant. The verse departments,
| which are always feature of this excellent
magazine, are this month enriched by the
| addition of two pages of love songs selected
! from the poems of the late Jean 1ngelow.
| The Critic of Aug q opens with a paper by
| Frances e. Willard, wherein set forth
! certain shortcomings in the Education of
Women seen and communicated to her
| by college-bred newspaper man. The faults
| indicated are of commission as well as onis-
! sion, the observer pointing out several flaws
! that well deserve the attention of modern
| educators. The paper is likely to provoke
considerable discussion among the heads and
| faculties of women's colleges.
/ G. P. sPutnam's Sons; announce that they
will include in their series of the Writings
of Samuel Adams. edited by Harry Alonzo
| Cushing.