The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-06
Among the Magazines

| The Living Age. for all its fifty-threee
years OF Efe, was never fresher. more vigor.
Gus or more valuable than now. Timely
and able articles on the eading questions
OF the day, papers of interest and value.
biographical, historical and scientific. are
| always to be found within its pages. The
following partial contents Of recen, issues
viii give a slight idea Of its worldwide
scope and variety.
Harper's Weekly of July viii; contain
the mist tas;alaent Of E r. enson's novel
or the Greek war of Independence The
vintage. which is said to be not only
timely In theme. but IN spirit and in cpl
sodes curiously Ike the experiences OF the
Greeks In their recent war with the Tarks
Among the pictorial features in the same
number of the Weekly there Will be dou-
ole-page drawing. by Zobaum, of the read
Ing OF the Declaration of Independence to
the American troops on the New York COM
mon, on July 10. IT'S. and an illustration OF
TIE celebration Of Veterans Day" at the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition
The first number of The New Time. the
successor of New Occasion, is considered
the best specimen Of a reform magazine
yet published in this country. It's editors,
B. o. Flower and Frederick U. Adams,
nave supplied Just what thousands of peo
pie have been locking for. viz: a high-grade
magazine devoted to such proposed reforms
as the initiative and referendum, natural
ownership of monopoIies and kindred topics
OF national interest. There is not a dull
paragraph in the eighty, pages of the July
number OF The New Time. and the wonder
is that such a magazine can be produced
for ten cents month or one dollar year.
With its July number the North American
Review enters upon the eighty-third year
OF its existence. The opening pages are
devoted to the presentation of the first por-
ton of a number OF what are simply en-
titled. General Grants Letters to g.
Friend" which now appear in print for the
first time, accompanied by an introduction
and notes by General James Grant Wilson.
The Greenback and the Gold Standard"
Is ably treated by the Hon Marriott Brosius,
and paper on Education in the Hawaii
an Islands," from the pen of Daniel Logan.
editor of the Honolulu Evening Bulletin,
merits attention. Miss NJ. z. j. Kelley
writes interestingly concerning 1.-The Union
Label" and Elizabeth Bisland discusses
the rather startling question Are Ameri-
can Parents Selfsh?"
THE Development Of College Architecture
In America" Is the subject of an article Of
unusual interest and value by Mr. Ashton
r. Willard in the July number of the New
England Magazine. lie begins with an ac-
count of the simple buildings which first
served our fathers as a shelter in the pur-
suit of the higher learning, and comes
down to the luxurieS of the Vanderbilt Hall
at New Haven and the classic structures OF
Columbia University which are now rising
on the high banks of the Hudson. College
architecture in America has gone through
several distinct and well-marked periods,
and these are tracei by Mr.. Willard in the
thorough and finished way in which he does
everything. His article is enriched by pic
lures of great numbers Of the dormitories,
recitation halls. chapels and society houses
which have risen in our college grounds
during the two centuries. and viii find
wide reading in all college circles. War
rem F. Kellogg, 5aPri Square. oston, Mass.