The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-08-28
Book Notices.

Dimes the last mOnIA OF trout uSuluS WILL
the first month of deer hunting in most OF
the great preserves. 1t is therefore APP
that the September number of
.Scyi6ner's should have an outdoor flavor
to many of its articles, and that the illus
trations should suggest sport and adven-
ture in many out-of-the-way places. Fred
eric Irland has become widely known to
the readers of Scyibner's by his canoeing
and hunting articles. This year he writes,
''In the Gameland Our Fathers Lost
"a hunting excursion il British Columbia
in the Fraser River region, where Rocky
Mountain sheep and wild goats abound,
and deer and caribou are so plentiful that
it is hardly sport to kill them. Mr.. r.
land describes his adventures with his ac-
customed felicity of style, and illustrates
them with his own photographs. John
Fox, Jr., the Kentucky novelist describes
an amusing fishing trip in the mountains
of Kentucky, entitled ITO the Breaks of
Sandy" The article is full of those hum
orous bits of character drawing which are
the charm of Mr.. Fox's fiction. Illustrat-
ed by F. c. Yohn.
Among the thirteen articles which make
M the September issue of The Forum are
many which from the point of view of
timeliness and interest can hardly be beat
en-. Indeed, The Forum, though laboring
under disadvantages which attend every
monthly magazine, manages to retain
great deal of that up-to da'e-iveness which
IS the happy endowment of live daily
With China as a burning question in the
September issue, we find Prof Paul S.
Reinsch considering the problem of
.sChina against the World" and Mr.. D. w.
Stevens, Counsellor to the Japanese Lega-
ton at Washington, setting forth "Japan's
Attitude toward China Turning home
ward, and taking the Presidential cam
paign for ba6ulNnn, the reader has Mr..
George E. Roberts clear explanation of
the meaning of "The Kansas City Finan-
cial Resolution" Mr.. II L. Vests thor
ougf, side by-side examination of the Re-
publican and Democratic Platforms and
Ex-Governor Stones presentation of 1.-THE
Campaign of 1900, from Democratic
Point of View"
Writing 'sAbout Clothes" in The Sep
TENDER St. Nicholas, George MacAdam
sketches the pedigree of the ful1-dress of
the present day. Long, long ago. he says,
when mankind was still in its babyhood,
some hairy lord of creation happened to
glance into quiet pool, and saw mirrored
in the water his own image. Comparing
himself with the birds and beasts, he saw
that he was plain and dingy and he be-
came envious of the Eri11iant-hued feathers
of the birds, and the stripped and spotted
ftlrs of the beasts. One day he discovered
a bed of ocher. Sticking his finger into
this bright-colored dirt, he saw that his
finger became colored like the dirt No
doubt he stared in wonder for a long while
at his strangely colored finger and then
there gradually crept into his simple mind
an idea which must have made him laugh
for Joy. .Ha, ha p he cried. Here's
my chance to give myself new complec-
tion-to make myself as bright and CANDY
as Mother Nature has made the birds and
beasts" So he daubed himself from head
to foot with different-colored ochers until
he was bright and many-colored. This
covering of ocher was the original ances-
tor of the clothes which you and 1 are
wearing at the present day.
'sFashion Number" is a fitting designa-
ton of the September Ladies' Home /oHr-
nal, which will gladden. womankind with
its great showing of fall and winter modes
The ten fashion articles are by the highest
authorities on feminine attire, and the
text is effectively illustrated. But the
fashion writer's and artists have by no
means monopolized the September Journal.
Rene Bache contributes lone Hundred
Years in the White House." which in a
most interesting way recalls the notable
occurrences in the Executive Mansion
during its first century. In the Gro
mances of Some Southern Homes" is re-
flected the social life of the beaus and
bellies of Southland in the good old days
succession of interesting affairs of the
81, IS IL
given to "The Anecdotal Side of Phillips
Brooks" because of the new light it cen
tres upon him as preacher and man. In
'Josiah and Go a-Visitin' the second
visit = 'Josiah Aliens Wife" writes of
their experiences in her irresistib1y hum
orous vein. Another fiction feature,
'Joey's Tobacker," is a well-told short
story. "The Church Engaged My Hus-
band, Not Me-" ''The Training of a Wait
ress,'' "When you Entertain or VISIT" are
few of the many helpful practical arti
cles The pictorial features include views
of California gardens, of the Yellowstone
Park, and page drawing of A. B. Frost's
81 oiterers at the Railroad Station" By
the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadel-
phia. One dollar year ten cents copy.
'sThe Influence of the Western World
on China" is the title of timely article in
the September Century, the writer being
the Rev. D. q. Sheffield, D. D., for thirty
years missionary in the Middle Kingdom.
DIR. Sheffield sailed from San Francisco on
June ~, having just learned ofthe burning
of the North China College, of which he
is President. The article, written shortly
before his departure, is wholly apropos
of thespresent situation, and it contains a
powerful protest against any dismember-
ment of the Chinese Empire. One can
learn much about the boxers from a paper
by R. Van Bergen on 'The Revolution in
China and its Causes" A second install
ment of Jean Schopfer's notes on s'Amuse-
ments at the Paris Exposition" treats par
ticularly of theatres, panoramas, and other
spectacles. The panoramic feature has
been carried to the last point of novelty,
and without leaving the Exposition
grounds one may journey to Siberia by
train, to the Mediterranean by boat, and
to the empyrean by balloon. Castaigne's
vivid pencil supplements the text with
many full-page and smaller picture. To
this latest word on the civilization of to-
day, contrast is afforded in Prof. Sterrett's
account with Photographic illustrations,
of his visits to the cave-dwel1ers of Turkey
in Asia, some of whose habitations date
back nearly four thousand years; and
primitive conditions are also described by
John Burroughs in the second and con-
Guiding paper of his notes on the Harri-
riman expedition to Alaska and Boring
Sea, which included as an afterthought, a
two hours sojourn in Siberia. Lovers of
personalia will enjoy TIL. Bentzons SYM
pathetic sketch of the late Pere Didon, the
great pulpit orator of the Madeleine, and
the third budget of DIR. William Mason S
Memories of Musical Life" in which
the principal figure is the Able List. Mr.
Morley brings us to the period of the mil
itary dictatorship in his life of Cromwell,
and Sir Walter Besant's illustrated paper
on East London is taken up with ''The
Thames from Mapping to Blackwall.' -
The editor of "The Century, is receiving inqui l.
ries about the author of The Helmet of Navarro -
the historical romance which began appear seri-
ally in the August number ofthat magazine. Miss
Bertha Runk1e is the only child of Mrs. L. c.
Runk1e a wellknown New York Journalist and
Best Literature" The present work is maiden
effort at fction-writing She born in New
Jersey a few and twenty years ago, never went to
woman, has Travelled little, and has never been in
France-which possibly accounts for her laying
there the scene of her romance.
The September number of McClure's Magazine
will contain an deliberately illustrated article by
Samuel Hopkins Adams on "The Training of
Lions, and Other Great Cats" The drawings by
Charles r. Knight. of the American Museum OF
Natural History because of the artists technical
skill and scientific knowledge, are doubtless the
most startling and 1felike portraits of lions that
have appeared in any magazine for a long time.
Hon. George S. Boutwell, will write i'll the same
Bonds in England"
How McGrath Got an Engine is the title of