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.'Harper's Magazine" for October CNew
York;, richly and profusely illustrated,
has these special features: ''The STRAIT
egic Features Of the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea- with map),
by Captain A T. Mahan, U. S. N; The
Golfers Conquest of America" twenty
two illustrations), by Caspar Whitney;
"Kilauea. the Home of Pele" twelve
Illustrations, by Professor William
Libbey: THE Century's Progress in
Chemistry eight illustrations), by
Henry Smith Williams, M. D.; 1.-THE
Future Railroad Investments" by w.
A. Crane. The first installment of
Spanish John" a tale of adventure,
by William McLennan. The Great
Stone of Sardis." by. Frank r. Stock
ton, illustrated, reaches the fifth INSTALL
ment. 'eThe Kentuckians,' by John
Fox. Jr., illustrated, reaches the final
installment. The short stories comprise
Mrs. Upton's Device" by John Ken
drick Bangs; Psyche" by George Hib-
bard; "A Strange Tale of Gheel," by
Hezekiah Butterworth, and There and
Here" by Alice Brown. The poems
are by John Vance Cheney, Thomas
Dunn English, Rosamond Marriott
Watson and Richard Burton. In The
Editors Study Charles Dudley War
ner discusses "Collectivism" in Edward
Bellamy's Equality" THE Education
of Children" and THE Martian." THE
Editors Drawer opens with Serena
Goes A-Blackberrying, by Mildred
Howells, illustrated, and contains nu-
merous anecdotes and verses and pic
lures by O'Neill, Peter Newell, A. B.
Frost and o. Herford.
Appleton's Popular Science Month
ly'' (New York; for October has these
leading papers: 1.-The Racial Geogra-
ply of Europe. TX. Italy," by Profess
sor William q. Ripley dllustrated).
"Franklin's Kite Experiment" by Alex
ander McAdie Qllustrated). ''The
Psychology of Belief" by w. B. Park
er. 'F'ree-Hand Drawing in Educa-
ton" by H G. F'itz Gllustrated). "Prfn-
ciples of Taxation. XII" by Hon. David
A. Wells. Some Unrecognized Laws
of Nature" by Professor c. H. Hender-
son. Science at the University of Chi
cago," by Professor F. Starr Gllustrat-
ed). 1.-The Idea Of Murder Among Men
and Animals" by G. Ferrero. "a De-
cade in Federal Railway Regulation"
by H. T. Newcomb. "Early American
Chemical Societies. by Professor II. c.
Bolton. ''The Economic Value of Ami
mals,'' by Charles T. Holder Sketch
of Louis F'iguier," by Ida NJ. Tarbell
with portrait). Editors Table"
Scientific Literature" fragments of
Science" and the index to volume II.
The opening article of McClure's
Magazine for October CNew York; de-
scribes the rounding up of a wild ele-
plant herd. The article is very inter
estingingly illustrated. Another is
Bernard P Grenfell's account of how
he and his associate, A. S. Hunt, found
the lately recovered manuscript of the
Sayings" of Christ More than notable
is a series of life masks of Jefferson,
John Adams, Lafayette, Charles Car
roll and Madison, never before publish
ed. They were taken about 1926 by
the sculptor J. H. 1. Browere. The
story of the circumstances under which
they We're taken, and of the hiding of
them away by the sculptor and their
close concealment ever since, is a most
curious and romantic one. Other fea-
lures of the number are a description
of the process, moral rather than physi-
cal, by which, in the late war; bodies
of raw troops were made into actual
soldiers; a series of picturesque COM
parisons exhibiting the various points
of greatness in Greater New York.;
and some excellent short stories by
Octave Thanet, Stephen Crane and
others.
The cover and contents of the ''Wom-
ans Home Companion" for October
(Springfeld, Ohio are alike creditable
to the managers. The former brings to
US the atmosphere and the exquisite col
oring of the autumn woods in a picture
by B. Martin Justice: the latter a
choice variety of entertaining and in
structive literature. Among the stories
are 1.-The Daleford Sun" by Robert c.
V Meyers, illustrated; con the Road to
Marlet," by Will n. Harben, illustrated;
the continuation of Julia Magruder's Sc
rial, "A Realized Ideal" A second ar
ticle on washington Homes" by Mary
Nimmo Balentine, with illustrations
Other pleasing features are "A Chat
With Opie Read" by William Lightfoot
Visscher; Self Made Crosses" by Mary
r. Baldwin: Woman in Cap and
Bells" by Carrie E. Garrett; "Grace and
Health by Florence Hull Winter
burn; "A Corn Husking." by Grace Lo-
rena Weeks, and Home Amusements,'
by Hezekiah Butterworth; poems by
Edgar Fawcett, Ernest McGaffey, Ruth
Ward Kahn, Genesee Richardson. Hat
n.
ferent vein are Women as Designers
by Enid E. Bennett: Practical Lessons
in Dresmaking," by Mary Katherine
Howard: ITO Improve the Front Door
way by ]. Harry Adams; THE Wom-
an Who Sews," by Katherine Worden,
etc; Ella Morris Kretschmar's Helps
for Housekeepers.
.'Lippincott's Magazine" for October