The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-02
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u 20 full OF interesting material
tina, II is difficult to know just
where to begin to praise.
Jim" by Jacob A. Riis. 10 one
Of Mr. Riis' inimitahle character
sketches Of those New York street urchins
whose lives are full Of pathos
Harry stiliweii Edwards In Brother
Sims Mistake offers his readers genu-
Inc bat OF true darkey humor and human
ity. His Niger songs are real ebony.
Paul Leicester Ford has In 'Frankiin's
Relations With the Fair Sex q truly in
teressinx and instructive chapter on the
many-sided Franklin.
Gelett Burgess tells q unique story Of
Journalistic love-making In "A Romance
Invaded"
"A Day In Wheat" by Will Payne. tells
the story Of bears and bulls in wheat and
love story finds its way out OF the hurly-
burly Of the stock exchange. The story
r. charming. The Century for June. in
fact. II . winner.
McClure's tells a very good story OF
"The Automobile In Common Use." what
1t costs. how 1t is operated. what II viii
do. which Ii written by Ray Stannard
Baker.
william Allen White In william Sears.
Naughty Person." gives capital sketch
Of real boy.
Tho Gentleman From Indiana" by
Booth Harrington. has a thrilling chapter
or two, and 10 continued.
MINI
Tho Pail Mall for June Is happy in the
illustrated article on Architecture In Chi
cage" by Peter b. Wight. with Punch
Notes." by +. c. Burnaud, and some otncr
well written papers. among which "A
Modern Ananias." by r. Mesh. finds .
welcome as a quaint story.
The Marquis OF Lorne has done good
work in his translation OF Keller's verse.
MINI
The Cosmopolitan for June has a fully
Illustrated paper on Some Americans
Who Have Married Titles" by Frances De
Forest; an inane article on How to
Manage q Home on $3.50 a Day" which
would cause a smile to fit over the face
Of any housekeeper. and several other I'M
interesting things. Barring Count Leo
Tolstoi's continuation OF THE Awakening, :"
the Cosmopolitan seems TO have devoted
It's pages this month to the publishing OF
things which for one reason or another
had 10 be printed to be gotten rid OF.
rather than for any other urgent motive.
MN
The New Illustrated Magazine for July
should be called the Chamber OF Horrors.
Most OF the stories are of murder, suicide
and such gheui,sh fancies. illustrated to
suit the terrible romances Even The
Rose and Chrysanshemum'' series. by
Carlton Dave. tells m No. s. Miss Cherry
Riossom.'' story Of black murder
NM
The Wide World Magazine for July is
also given TO the horrors and shady side
Of life. The Tragedy OF Funffingerspitxe. ("
by Mrs Norman Neruda. In the Khai-
ifa's Clutches. or My Twelve Years Cap
tivisy IN Chains i'm omdurman." by
Charles Neufeid begins In this magazine.
Saved From Hydrophohia." by f. H.
Julian. gives a mans experience who was
bitten by a mad deg in England and who
went tc Paris to be treated by NJ Pas
teur This episode reads more like paid
advertisement than II does like q real
story,
Scrihner's Magazine for July contains
some more ~ those never-ending letters of
Robert Lewis stevenson n Resurrection
Of Daniel Webster" by George r. Hosr:
a story called ''Aum," by Mrs Rokert
Louis Stevenson. which e rather good in
the Stevenson style % mystery ana literary
clearness.
TORY. edited for schools and readers. by
Albert Bushnell Hart. professor OF his
terry In Harvard university. Published by
the Macmillan Company. New York. for
- cents
This mork il intended 20 he photographs
and I; wsli assist gae student In many
ways in rs groupings after truth. II Is
comprehensive. .ntellSil.e and gives In
sew words the historical pictures which IL
hssra.s car country Mr.. Hart IL fair
minded and accurate and has that charm
which makes the historian valuable He
has picked the good apples from the tree
Of ,fs ard left the rotten anss for the
nix>. he has nat attempted 70 smother
them n sugar and offer them 10 the pubic
IN y
New York. are publishing cute little books
Ger - cents each ~ standard authors
Mlitou's "Cosups i-setias" and other po-
ems. with Matthew Arnoss's address on
Milton. - the shense 81 che Of these little
eeoss
AacsAe- deSotes Itself 20 Byron ana CON
ssias 'chsiie Hareia's Pilgrimage" with
introduction ara Notes, BY Andrew J
George NJ A..
Tire making az these lis;ie books. sas,
snail enough 20 81 IRE travellers pcekes.
g at e-eTt IN THE right direction
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STUDIES OF LIFE AND ITS yARrA-
TfoNS. Fs =. J. Rayer rsaSIfsas. Ay
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