Middletown transcript., 1898-07-30
LITERARY NOTES.

The American Monthly Review of Re
views for August reviews the Santiago cam
paign by land and sea from start to finish
| Winston Churchill, who wrote SO accep.
tably on Admiral Dewey for the June
Review, describes in this number the won.
derful battle with Ceryera's feet, and his
article is illustrated in part from Hem.
ment's remarkable photographs of the
Spanish ships taken the day after the fight
John A. Church, formerly of the Army and
Navy Journal, contributes full account OF
the Santiago land fighting. and his article
also is illustrated from new photographs
Park Benjamin writes on the work cut out
for the Eastern squadron under Commodore
Watson. Altogether, the Review agian
shows its ability to keep well abreast of all
impor tant military and naval movements,
and to exhibit clear pair of heels to all
its competitors in magazinedom.
The cartoons reproduced from Spanish
journals serve to indicate the density oi
popular ignorance in Spain as to the fact OF
the present war: For instance, one cartoon
shows Cervera's feet as successfully slipping
past Sampson at Santiago; another repre-.
sents Cervera as having Schley bottled up;
while in third Admiral Dewey figures as
rat caught in Spain's Philippine trap.
AUGUST CENTURY.
The August number of The Century
has a number of features of special
timeliness, Notwithstanding which the
endeavor has been made to keep up
The Century's standard in engraving
and printing. Mrs. Mary Bradford
Crowinshild writes striking romance
of a Spanish-American dictator, the
title of her story being "Sangre de
Cristo." Frederick A. Ober, late COM
missioner in Porto Rice for the Colum-
bian Exposition, contributes paper on
"The Island Of Porto Rico," in which
he describes the characteristics of the
land and the people, and tells of the
vast resources of the island. Osgood
Welsh, an American sugar grower,
brings out new facts in "Cuba as seen
from the inside" Both of these arti-
cles are fully illustrated. Walter Rus
sell gives the impressions Of San Artist
with Admiral SIMPSONS Fleet" with
sketches from nature of bombardments
and the capture Of prizes. Surgeon
General George NJ. Sternberg, of the
United States Army, discusses "The
Sanitary Regeneration of Havana"
DR.. Sternberg believes that it is possible
to stamp out yellow fever and other
epidemic diseases, hut that the task
will be one Of great magnitude and ex-
peEse. Hon. Frank A. Vanderslip,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
presents ''Facts About the Philippines,
with Discussion of Pending Prob
lems." Wallace Cumming, an Ameri-
can business man, pictures " Life in
MANILA" and there is reprinted from
one of the first numbers of The Gen.
tury an amusing article called ga Mid
dy in Manilla," written by Frederick
Fl. Paine. The destruction of the
Spanish feet in Manila Bay is described
by three e-witnesses, there being mar
ratives by Col. George A. Loud, Dr..
Charles P. Kindleberger, Junior surgeon
of the "Olympia," and Joel G. Evans,
gunner of the "Boston." There is also
given Col. Loud's diary, written during
the battle. The series of papers on
Confederate Commerce Destroyers is
brought to an end with accounts Of the
cruise of the Georgia." by James
Morris Morgan, and of the "Shenan-
doah," by John Thomson Mason. Gus
tave Kobbe tells of 1.-THE Trumpet in
Camp and Battle" A second by Her.
bert D. Ward on Heroes of the Deep"
is illustrated by Varian. Andre Cas-
taigne pictures two more Wonders of
the World, the statue Of Zeus and the
mauseleum; Timothy Cole eDgraves one
Of Sir William Be echey's pictures, and
there is fine reproduction of one Of
Gilbert Stuart's portraits. Mark
Train" is represented by a character
istic article, ''The Austrian Edison
Keeping School again." E. Kay Rob-
inson tells "How India has saved her
FOrests.u