New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-30
SOME MAGAZINE NOTES.
INTERESTING FEATURES FROM THE
JULY NUMBERS.


JULY NUMBERS
The FIRST article on the Beer war by Richard
Harding Davis is the star feature CT the July
"scribner's." though the first place is given to
the page on THE Slave Trade in America" by
John r. Spears and splendidly illustrated by
Walter Appleton Clark Mr. Davis writes with
good deal Of his old vigor; even If he cannot
always be relied for accuracy he makes vivid
what he has seen. The article opens rather
heavily. but lnbers UP as it goes on. Here is
an especially characteristic passage:
l.adysmitk was not entirely cut OF from the
world Kaf1r boys would for 500 carry mes
sages through to Chieveleys and the Photograph.
WIRES and being most scandalously insulted by
the Boer mirrors for doing 80. finally estab-
talked to 1t whenever the shone by day.
and by night with locomotive headlights and
searchlghts- The officer who finally called up
Ladysmith Is young Captain Cayser, ana the
story Of his efforts to communicate with the be-
sieged garrison is a most creditable and curious
one For many days he trudged up one high
hill after another and flashed his mirror. but
without response except from the Beers IN be-
tween. And theys2 when he thought he had
and undecsive hina by; some such pleasantly as
Flow do you like our pom -pons!" or go 60
hell!" Not discouraged. Captain Cayser con-
tinued to climb many hills until at last the mir
ror OF Iadysrnfth winked back at him. Who
are you?" Cayser asked. Il am walker. OF the
Devons." came back the answer. hut captain
Cayser had grown suspicious. and In order to
make quite sure who II was with whom he was
talking he flashed back Find Captain Sro Ga
tain Caysers country place in Scotland =
hurried search was made for BROOKS OF the
acquainted with the name OF your home In
Perthshire." Then use II Tor the cooe WcFus
Cayser commanded, and for the renamed on
the siege the name of Caysers country nome
was used to send every cipher message tnat
passed out Of Ladysmith over the heads OF the
Beers 1t is further related that wnen the sls,
Tsl officers found Brooks OF the Gordons. and
said Captain Cayser has JUST neIogIapneu II. u,
to ask you to tell him the name OF ms county
house the. officer remarked, Well always
thoueht Cayser was an ass. but didn't think
he'd forget the OF his own nome; Ane
picture Of gentleman hsiograpnnn ags he lived
into a beseged city to nnd out "nere ne Hseu
has certainly a humorous SIDE
last February DR.. John D. ouackenbos. of
This civ. attracted a good deal of notice by an
article contributed to "Harper's Magazine OF
the use of hypnotism as cure for moral DIS
eases In the July number Of the same pericdi-
cal he has an equally striking paper On the
educational Use OF Hypnotism" II the new
science can do ali he claims 1t is indeed revo-
lutionarv. Literary workers will be especially
interested in this passage: The writer has
had under treatment during the spring num-
Der of persons who sought increased powers OF
attention and concentration, as well as several
ladies who are making a profession Of action
writing. To these latter were impaired. in
hypnosis, first, a knowledge Of the canons Of
narration-viz, the law of selection which limits
the story teller to appropriate characteristic or
Individual circumstances; the law of succession,
which governs the disposal Of the selected incl
dents in the order of climax. and the law OF
unity: secondly, OF the laws of construction in
the case of the novel. its functions and tech
MIC and its legitimate material This philosophy
Is readily grasped. assimllated and utilized in
post hypnotic creation: and the mode OF in
struction puts out of countenance the conven-
tiona wrestling with the precepts of q text
book In the light OF instantaneous apprehen-
sion. barrenness gives place to richness OF asso-
ciation the earnest thought and honest toll OF
the old method to a surprising facility. disin-
clination to select details to zest in appropriat
ing whatever is available. Opportunity and
mood are thus made to coincide. and the sub
ject spontaneously conforms to the eternal prin-
ciples of style. Under the influence Of such in
spiration rapid progress has been made in the
chosen field of authorship
The July Century" is fiction number
containing eight complete stories. well as an
instalment of Dr. S. Weir Mtchelrs serial. DR.
North and His Friends" An eminently sensible
article on How TO Safeguard Ones Sanity" is
contributed by ]. NJ. Buckley, Ii. D. Sur
roundngs." says DR.. Buckley. lose their power
to withdraw the mind from care and fear so
from time to time the scene should be changed.
Those who postpone travel for several years
often find that they have lost the capacity OF
enjoyment: care is their courier. and they return
unrefreshed. frequent vacation OF two or
three days in a month would in many cases be
more beneficial than thirty-six days OF leisure
or change consecutively each year. The observ-
ance OF one day IN seven by a complete change
in subjects OF thought. and the suspension OF
modes OF activity required for six days. would
be philosophical even though II had no basis In
religion. In the first French Revolution the
attempt made TO have a holiday once in
five days. and again in ten. The intervals
were too frequent under the first plan. and did
not recur often enough under the second. Hence
those who hated the system which enforced the
Sabbath were fasn to return to Il The superin-