The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-28
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| Continued from Seventh Page)
reading and promises well for the forth
coming volume, entitled Bellies of Amer
ica,' of which this is a chapter. curl
| Gus custom among Mormon "old folks
| is an annual dance. OF this we get
good idea in Mrs ]. K. Hudson's last
| Mormon story called zone of the Lords
| People" 1t has, beside the pathetic side
which is never absent, CLEAN of humor
and some fresh amusing anecdotes about
Brigham Young.
THE Swiss Passion Play" by Christine
Terhune Herriek. closes an unusually at
| tractive summer contents. This is an in
| teresting account of a play which is pre-
| sented throughout the summer season
every ten years, the present being the
year for its appearance. ]. B. Lippin-
colt, ga Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
The June Woman's Home Companion
contains a number of good stories. with
serials by Mrs. Burton Harrison and
Hester Caldwell Oakley Ward, together
with plenty of household hints and articles
on wide variety of social and domestic
topics; in short. everything that goes 10
make up a high-class popular magazine
Woman's Home Companion, Springfield,
o.
"Everybody's" Magazine for June is full
of that sort of literature that is easy to
read and hard to forget. The skilful ad-
mixture of information with interest.
which is characteristic of the articles in
this magazine is shown at its best.
The Simple Explanation" of the month
is entitled Electricity and Some Other
| Puzzles" The author disclams at the out
set any intention of explaining what
| electricity is. for he says no explanation
| has yet been given. But he talks breezly
along about the latest theories in regard
| to il and when the reader finishes he will
| have a very good idea of what 1t IS
thought to be, as wei as pretty clear
understanding of the hypothesis that con-
Germ light, heat, gravitation and the atomic
| and molecular construction of matter. The
North American Company, "A East Ninth
street New York.
The American Review of Reviews for
June has some notable features. Among
them are a character sketch of President
James ]. Hill of the Great Northern Rail
road by Mrs. Mary H. Severance; an ar
ticle on Paris and the Exposition of
| 1907 by Albert Shaw; a forecast of the
| work of the Tenement House Commis
sion recently appointed by Gov Roosevelt,
| by Jacob A. Riis; a. description of summer
| camps for boys, by Louis Rcuillion; "Au-
tomobIles for the Average Man." by Cleve-
land Moffett; and "Fhe Passion Play at
| Obermmergau, 1900" The Review of Re
views, No. u, Aston Place. New York.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland opens
the June Atlantic with the frst of his
recent Princeton addresses on THE In
dependence of the Executive" which have
been so eagerly awaited by the public.
The present paper traces the history of
| the relations between the President and
| Congress, and prepares the way for the
| discussion in July of his own controversy
| with Congress in 1886, from which, as is
| well known, he emerged triumphant.
| Prof Ephraim Emerton laments the dis
| appearance of the old-time combination
| of Gentleman and Scholar" and hopes
| for the recovery of the indefinable some
| thing which seems to him perceptibly
! missing in modern scholarship. c. A.
| Conant in Recent Economic Tendencies"
| gives thoughtful analysis Of the changes
| now arising and likely to arise hereafter
| from the recent alterations in the rea-
! lions of labor and capital, and discusses
| the future of combinations, either state,
| industrial, or by capital. Edwin Burritt
Smith contributes clear and animated
account of THE Municipal Voters
League of Chicago" showing by what
| simple means, if inspired by public spirit,
a great city can be redeemed from the
grasp Of the Doodle element, no matter
| how firmly fixed. The Atlantic Monthly,
No II East Seventeenth street, New
York.
The Cosmopolitan for June is partic-
| ularly interesting number The leading
article is by Charles Theodore Murray,
and is entitled ION the Road With the
Big Show" 1t is handsomely illustrat-
ed, and is a graphic description of big
circus. 1.-THE Great Boer Trek" by Ste
| phen Crane, is timely article and con-
| tains Just the kind of information that
is desired at this time. Frank r. Stock
| ton has a story in this number entitled
THE Conscious Amanda" that is well
worth reading Mr.. Stockton's stories,
however are always attractive features
| in the magazines in which they appear.
| The miscellany, the poetry and comments
of this number are an interesting feature
The Cosmopolitan, lrvington, New York.
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