The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-30


The October number OF EicClure's opens
with an article on 1.-THE Strategy of Ma
tonal Campaigns attractiVely Illus
trated by Jay Hambridse.
DR.. A. Conan Doyle is a contributor
TO this issue His Some Lessons of
the Mar which is a critique OF the
bearing of the British troops in the South
African campaign, exposes the faults OF
the various branches of the service,
and advances a somewhat startling plan
for the reorganization Of the army In
addition to these articles on campaign
tactics and the South African War, there
are others on Casting a Great Lens,
by r. s. Baker, describing the manu-
facttlre of the famous Jena lenses, and
on The Ancestry of the Horse" by f.
A. Lucas, with diagrams Illustrating
the family record OF the horse during
the past two million years.
The fiction of the number includes
stories by Anita Fitch, Gelett Burgess,
f. Hough, Edith Wyatt, Annie Webster,
Myra w FARRELL and Josiah FIynt and
Francis Walton. Mrs Fitch's The
Lady with the waterfall is illustrated
by Walter GIackens, the young artist
whose individuality of style has lately
brought him into prominence.
Among the leading articles in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly for october are
Problems on biology, by Sir William
Turner; The Origin of the Mammalia,
by Professor j. S. Kingsley; Religious
Beliefs OF the Central Esquimo, by Prof.
Franz I3oas: The Economic Life of
France, by DIR. Edward d. Jones; Mod
ern Monsols by DR.. II Oswald; Mental
Energy, by Edward Atkinson; The Scien-
tific Principles OF Warfare, by VIM. j.
Roe.
There are also important discussions
of scientific problems of the day, the bu
bonic plague automobiles, etc, and re-
views Of the various scientific journals.
The situation in the far East is stiIl
a question of paramount Importance
tnrciIehout ChristendGm, and the October
Century throws some very helpful lights
and sidel3ghts upon ii. Most novel among
these is "A Plea fer Fair Treatment"
by WI Ting Fang, Chinese Minister TO the
United States.
Mr.. WIS tecse and suggestive plea for
fair treatment and forbearance IS strong
~ reinforced by Bishop Potter, whose
..Chirese Traits and Western Blunders"
shows that on his visit last winter he
took 10 China an open mind as well as
open eyes. No less significant is a paper
by Sheridan p. Read, formerly United
States Consul at Ten Tsin on "The Chi
nese as Business Men.
Sir Walter Bszant continues in East
London Types" his picturesque studies
of sluln life in Lond3n, with pen-slletches
by Joseph Penne!l and l. Raven-Etjll
The fourth and concluding budget Of DR..
William Mason's Memories of a Musical
Life" teens with anecdotal "reminiscences
of Raft, Rubinstein, Won Bulow and
Paaerews!s... ana CT the yiolinists Vieux-
temps, Ole Bull, Weniawski. Wilhel1faj,
Joachim and Renenyi. In Miss RunkIe's
adventurous romance, The Helmet of
Nay-rre," Felix BrouX undertakes a mis-
! sion which proves 70 be full of peril, and
finds and makes friends with the heroine
! in strange circumstances. DR.. Mitt,eil's
..Dr. North and His Friends is concluded.
and there are short stories by Virginia
Frazer Boyle, The Child Perpetual !,
with picture by Potthast; by Annie Ste
ger Winston. .AIr GrigSby's Way with
a p:cture by Kel.ar.sand by Ellis Parker
Butler, THE Hanging-On OF BY Jocks. I,
with pictures by Steele: