Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-08-26
Among the Magazines.

Ths Designer for September is replete with
dainty fashions suitable for the autumn.
Trimmed skirts are given esp, cial notice and
are most attractively illustrated, and the
millinery pages show some very stylish hats
and toques for fall wear. Charming pictures
accompanied by full des criptions of the same
tell maids and matrons, also the little folks,
just how to wear their hair most becomingly
and fashionably. Apart from these pages
which are devoted to feminine adornment
this number Of The Designer contains Flori-
culture advice, book notes, directions for tat
ting, knitting, crocheting and fancy work,
Photographic helps, two short stories, CON-
tinued story, little comedy for child play ers,
a chapter on "Odd Furnishings" an install
ment of For Health and Beauty" explain
ing simple massage, the opening chapters of
"The kindergarten at Home" amply illus
trated, hints for housekeepers, and, last but
not least, receipts for "Twenty- Different
Ways Of Cooking Apples" In its own par
Designer easily takes the lead.
+! Self Culture comes again to the front with
magnifcently illustrated number for Sep
TENDER. The clearness of its half-tones
reveal high art work in the original photo
graphs and the most careful retouching and
reproduction. The interior views of :" Homes
of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington" are
delightful in the sharpness of every minute
detail in these richly furnished mansions
Equally clear are the landscape views in
:" Historic Msckinac," "The Land of Evan
of the Muskoka Lakes" "The Boyhood
Home of Admiral Dewey" and in "The
development of the Canadian West"
The most striking feature of The Century
for September, which will be a Saltwater
Number, is the first instalment of Captain
Joshua slccum's "sailing Alone Around the
World" This is the narrative of a daring
voyage of circumnavlgation, undertaken by
the author in 1895, in q 40 foot sloop built by
himself in Buzzard's Bay, and taken back
and forth across the Atlantic and thence
around Cape Horn and the Cape Of Good
Hope, without assistance or companionship
The distance traversed was $4,000 miles
Other contents of this number of The Century
are "The Way of Ship" by Frank T. Bull
len, author Of "The Cruise of the Cachalot"
The Atlantic Speedway" By H. Phelps
Hand;" and "salvage," by Morgan Robert.
son, author Of the forthcoming volume of sea
tales, "Where Angels Fear to Tread"
Mr.. Walter n. Page has resigned the edi
torship of The Atlantic Monthly and has &C
poo
in the direction of the literary work of the al
lied houses of Harper & Brothers and the
Doubleday & Mcclure Co. His successor II
the editorshlp of the Atlantic is Mr.. Bills,
Perry, known in literature as the author o.
1.-TWO novels and a number of ESSAYS and
stories. 81, ce his graduation from Williams
College in 1881, Mr.. Perry has been in the de
Ipartment OF English, first at Williams, and
afterwards at PriLcet ton University, where ht
was lately appointed 10 the Holmes Professor
ship of English Literature.
The complete novel in the New Lippincott
for September is entitled "The Duchess o
Nona," by Maurice Hewlett. This is al
italian story of the picture. que and dramatic
days of Caesar Borgia. A young Englisl
girl of simple birth aecends the Ducal throne
OF Mona and is wretched in her rich sur
roundipgs. The passion of an Italian love
brings on crisis which has the charm of
great stage picture. Mr.. Hewlitt's handlin,
of the plot is mastery, and his power ha
never been so evident as in this magniicen
| scene.