The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-31


graphic account of the great and de-
cisive victory that marked the conquer
or's crossing of the river Hydaspes
Milder matter is furnished in Jonas
Stadling's picturesque People on the
Reindeer" though even here there is
adventure enough, on snowshoes ana
reindeer-sl eds; and something more
than mere adventure is to be heard OF
in John r. Musick's description at hrSt
hand of a town ''In the Whirl OF q
Tornado" and the accompanying
learned article on 'Tornadoes, by
Cleveland Able. Paul l.. Ford's Many
Sided Franklin" treats this month OF
Franklin as Jack of All Trades; and
Frank r. Stockton's "Vizier" of that
immortal's relations with Moses and
Joshua, Petrarch and Laura. Short
stories by Chester Bailey Fernald, Mary
Tracy Earle and Seumas McManus tend
to round out the number. And the
twin arts of poetry and picture-mak-
ing are exemplified on many a page,
one of the more striking features OF
the magazine being 'The Night Walk, "
a poem by George Meredith
Ledge, off Cohasset, Mass, is the sub
ject of the frontispiece of the August
"St. Nicholas" (New York; and of =
by Gustave Kobbe In "Colored
Suns" Dorothy Leonard tells of other
suns than ours-blue suns, and red ones
and green ones, that bathe their plan
cts in lights that would make a Wis
iting stranger from this world feel very
strange indeed. ''PhiPs Second Bubble
Show" by Meredith Nugent, gives the
reader a new conception of the posi-
bilities of soapy water and a clay pipe;
for it tells of bubble poised on a
spinning top, bubbles cut in two, or
run together, and of e. bubble that lived
happily for fifteen minutes in a bath
of steam. Lacrosse is described by an
arch admirer of this fine American
game; and 1.-The Dozen from Lakerim"
continue their deeds of derringd do. "a
Fairy Story About a Philosophers
Stone" appeals strongly to one class
of readers, while another will prefer to
hear the surgeon of the Rough Riders
tell how he raised the first American
flag on a captured fertilization in
Cuba. The serials jog along interest
ingly-Mrs. Bars Trinity Bells" Miss
Wells STORY of Betty and Mrs.
Richards Quicksilver Sue; and there
is a full line" of pretty or amusing
verses, and graceful or comical pie
lures, including Gelett BURGESS
"GoopS."
-'Lippincotts Magazine" for August
Philadelphia) presents these papers
among others: fortunes Vassals,' Sa-
rah Barnwell Elliott; THE Court of
Judge LYNCH Maurice Thompson;
1.-THE Illumination of Lee Moy," DR.. c..
w. Doyle; Our Islands, Hattie Whit
ney; 1.-TWO Must Be Two" Madge
Morris; "Noah's Ark" 1. Zangwill;
Woman: A Phase of Modernity,'' Ellen
Olney Kirk; wireless Telegraphy
Through Scientific Eyes" George F.
Barker, LID; THE Salon in Old Phil
adelphia," Anne Hollingsworth Whar
ton; 1.-The Devils Bridge" Charles NJ
Skinner; Books of the Month";" wal
nuts and Vine
Readers of the August number OF the
Critic" New York; may notice the
absence of Mr. Dickson's paper on
''Thackeray's c o n t + i b u 3
to Punch. " 1t has, we are told, been
held over to make room for "A Re
pentance,' a drama in one act by John
Oliver Hobbies (Mrs. Cragie), which is
given complete in this number. There
is an article on Charlotte Bronte and
her two friends. Miss Taylor and Miss
Nussey, by Marion Harland. The article
is illustrated with a portrait Of Miss
Nussey by Miss Taylor and portrait
of Branwell Bronte by the same hand
There is, also, an appreciation Of the
late Augustin Daily by A. 1. dupont
Coleman, who admired Mr.. Daily the
man as much as Mr.. Daily the manager.
This article is illustrated. \ notable
contribution to this number of the
Critic" is poem called, The Song
of the Nebraska Cattle Country" The
frontispiece of the Critic" is a repro
duction of Falguiere's Balzac. In THE
Lounger" there are portraits of Car
lyle, Winston Churchill, Mrs Ella Hig
ginson, Seums MacManus and Mrs.
Kate Chopin. The Polish rider by
Rembrandt, supposed to be the only
equestrian portrait he ever painted, is
given in this number.
"Appleton's Popular Science Month
ly," edited by w. ]. Youmans. publish
ed by D. Appleton & Co., New York,
has these contents for August: Pub
lie Charity and Private Vigilance" Pro-
fessor F. H. Giddings; Recent Legis-
lation Against the Drink EVIL Apple
ton Morgan; Teachers School of Sci
ence,' Frances Zirngiebel; Proper OBJ
Of he fov
the. Advancement of Science" Edward
Orton Race Questions in the Philip
pine Islands," Ferdinand Blumentrite;
do Animals Reason?" Edward Thorn
dixie; THE United States National Mu-
scum" Hon. Charles D. Walcott. Are
Jews Jews?' Joseph Jacobs; Mental
Fatigue Professor NJ. V. O'Shea;
Best Methods of Taxation" part II. -.
the late Hon. David A. Wells; "Prac-
teal Philanthropy" Harriet A Town
end; Herbert Spencer at 79'; Edi-
or's Table," Scientific Literature"
Fragments of Science
9TH Woman's Home Companion" for
August (Springfield, o. has eleven
bright short stories, copious and hand
some illustrations. The title page is a
seaside sketch, very cool, breezy and
seasonable. The issue is a mid sum
mer fiction number and certainly a very
attractive one. In addition to the
stories there is a great amount of other
reading matter. instructive. entertain
ing and expostory. In short this is
one of the best numbers we have had
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