Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-31

leading article in the September number OF
the New Illustrated Magazine, which lovers
of birds will approve, but which may
| awaken a remonstrance from those who like
to deck themselves out with feathers.
The state. published at Tacoma, is a most
worthy representative OF the northwest.
Further announcement. Of the series on
New York in Fiction" to begin In the forth
coming number Of Tae BoOkman, indicates
that not the least Interesting and valuable
feature Of these articles, on a subject OF
great interest to all Americans, will be the
! Illustrations, which are 10 De numerous anu
Of a UNIQUE kind.
The leading article in ApDleton's Popular
Science Monthly for September contains a
very important discussion Of the problem
presented to all civilized countries by the
prevalence of the plague In the east. Inc
magnitude Of the eastern trade and the
large number OF steamships and sailing ves-
sells which are continually going and com
ing make 1t much more difficult to keep out
Of a country such a pestilence than 1t was
in the early days OF this century.
The Strand magazine for September is as
readable as ever.
Self Culture comes again to the front
with a magnifcently illustrated number for
| september. IL " 10 A
reveal high art work in the original photo
graphs and the most careful retouching and
reproduction. Published at Akron, Ohio.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for Sep
TENDER is a bright, breezy saltwater num-
Der. Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley,
"a Navaf Hero of Today figures at the
front in a c~apitally illustrated biographical
sketch, followed by a supplementary article
telling what Admiral Schley Said" in
his own picturesque and energetic language.
f. Hopkinson Smith, the popular artist and
writer, and who is also by profession a
practical builder Of lighthouses, tells OF
9TH Building Of the Race Rock Light
house." and illustrates the vivid narrative
with his own drawings.
The quality of timeliness, the supreme
virtue of today, is strikingly evident in
Ainslee's Magazine for September. From the
very first article, 9TH international Con-
gress of Women by Charlotte Perkins
, Stetson, to the very last, 9Th Industrial
War by an anonymous contributor, Aims
lees has a grip on the pulse of the world.
The September Century is a saltwater
number. In a general sense, this may be
said to be apropCs of the international in
terest in the yacht races for the Americas
cup. The special feature Of the magazine
Is the first OF a series Of four papers In
which Captain Joshua Slocum narrates, IN
a humorous and individual style, the story
Of his successful decentralization of the
globe, alone, in a forty-foot sloop, the
Spray, constructed by himself. This UMPIRE
cedented achievement involved two cross
ings of the Atlantic, and the rounding of
Cape Horn and the Cape OF Good Hope. In
the opening instaFlment Captain Slocum
takes the Spray from Buzzard's Bay to Glib
raltar and thence, in forty days, to Per-
nambuco harbor, with "all well on board"
and a great eagerness FOR the more peril
GUS experience of rounding the Horn"
The September st. Nicholas is not, like
the September Century, an avowedly salt
water number yet many of it's pages are
redolent of the briny ocean and its sandy
shores. The frontispiece illustrates the
lines,
Hey for a bucket, and hey tor a spade.
Hey for the silver sea!
from "a Song of the Sea-" by Eric Parker,
with which the magazine opens.
The complete novel in the New Lippincott
for September is entitled "The Duchess of
Nona,' by Maurice Hewlett. This is an
Italian story of the picturesque and dramat-
ic days of Caesar Borgia. A young English
girl of simple birth ascends the ducal
throne of Mona and is wretched in her rich
SuTTOunuluSS. pdsSlOu il an ldlid
lover brings on a crisis which has the charm
Of a great stage picture. Mr.. Hewlett's
handling of the plot is mastery and his
power has never been so evident as in this
magnificent scene.
September is the month for fishing and
outdoor sports, and Is the beginning of the
hunting season IN Canada and in Maine.
Scribner's for September has a number Of
articles with an outdoor flavor to them.
1t opens with an account by Frederic Irland,
OF what he calls 'the finest canoeing coun-
try in the world He made a 500 mile
journey from Mattawa to the
of the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers, through
a region Astounding in fish and moose. 1t
has been for centuries and is now the
home of the Algonquin Indian. The re-
gion through which Mr.. 1rland travelled with
Algonquins for guides is the best sports
mans haunt left in America. Much of the
wilderness is as yet uncharted. The illus
~trations are made from the authors album
dant photographs. He will be remembered
as the author of two former sporting arti
cles in Scribner's, one on New Brunswick
and the other on the Mingan Seigniory.
President Charles Kendall Adams opens
the September Atlantic with a review OF
1.-The Irresistible Tendencies" the spirit OF
the ages, the great movements of centuries
or generations, which change the face of
the world; instancing chiefly the spirit OF
individualism, to which he attributes the
wonderful advances in liberty and progress
of the last 400 years. He claims that the
fundamental fact is that the whole Of this
vast movement is the advance of ~civiliza-
ton upon barbarism. He maintains that
1t is the ever irresistible encroachment or
the modern spirit upon the spirit OF an
tiuuity: electricity driving out the rush
light; the white man ever civilizing the
red man or pushing him out Of the way.
And this great movement is in the inter
ests of a larger and a richer and a higher
humanity.