Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-28

The midsummer number of the New Illus
trated Magazine is most attractive both in
the matter Of contents and cover design
One of the features of the July Pail Mall
Magazine is an exhaustive article on the
various phases Of modern architecture in
Chicago by Mr.. Peter b. Wight a leading
architect Of that city.
The twentieth anniversary number of the
Art Amateur is in itself work OF art To
the student of art 1t is invaluable and for
the general reader with liking for art and
things artistic there is no better publica-
tion
Mrs, Robert Louis Stevenson. the widow
of the novelist has been spending the winter
in Madeira. 1t will be recalled that she col
Elaborated with Stevenson in some OF his
books. She has written a short story for
the July Scribner's, entitled Anne"
DR.. Charles c. Abbott, the geologist is the
author of an important article on The An
tiquity Of Man in North America" which
will appear in Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly for July DR.. Abbott believes that
the many attempts 10 modernize all traces
of man on the eastern coast of North Amer
lea, can safely be refegated TO the limbo
of misdirected energy"
Gilbert Parker has written for Ainslee's
| Magazine for July splendid short story of
| Egyptian life, entitled The Desertion of Mo-
hammed Saim." THE Coming OF the Cir
| Gus, by Eugene Wood, is a transcript from
| life as pathetic and humorous as it is real
| Almost everything there is to learn about
| the inside OF a circus is here set down in
| style at once simple and characteristic.
| Mrs. John A. Logan writes in Frank Leg
| lies Popular Monthly for July charming
| and sympathetic personal sketch of Mrs
Mckinley, The Gracious Lady of the White
House" number OF beautiful portraits and
views accompany this article including a
| picture which shows the invalid wife of
the president seated in the grand conserva-
| tory Of the executive mansion, amidst the
| flowers, like one of them"
! In this day, when the hope OF ultimate
| church unity is entertained so widely
| throughout Christendom 1t is interesting 10
note in Stephen J. Herben's account II
| The First Campmeeting in America" in
| the July Woman's Home Companion how
much the open-a evangelistic meetings of
the early part OF the century had 10 do
| with breaking down denominational mar
| rowness and creed intolerance.
! W. A. Fraser, the new Canadian author.
| has written a number of East Indian racing
| stories for McClures Magazine and the
! first one, entitled THE Luck of the Babe, ="
! will appear in the July number The same
number will contain short war story by
! stephen Crane, and a new 'Boyville" story
| by William Allen White. The last will be
| illustrated with some more of Orsen Low
ellis charming pictures of "Boyville" life.
Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Cornell.
| who has just been elected president of the
| University of California, is a distinguished
philoogist and Greek scholar for some time
director OF the American school at Athens.
and has written several books on the sub
| ject OF his special study. The only work.
however, in which he has appealed TO the
| public-a work which has awakened CON
siderable popular interests the history Of
| Alexander the Great, now running in the
| Century.
Prof. William Cunningham OF Cam
| bridge, England, opens the July Atlantic
Nrifh al kla 1tek
ism, in which he shows the gradual devel-
| opment OF English policy from the nation
| alism of a hundred years ago (which meant
| the exploiting Of all colonies and posses
| sons for the benefit of the mother country.
| to the cOsmopolitanism of the present day.
| which seeks the greatest good OF all
| through fair play and equal treatment of
| all men and all nations.