Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-04
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LernaLlonal DlcDl0nary, Dut II. Will be
well to shun the numerous dishonest
Imitation and reprint, editions.
The genuine edition is that published
by q. & G. Merriam Co, Springfield,
Mass.
The Midsummer Fiction Number of
.McClure's Magazine, with a cover, by
Louis Loeb, suggesting by its rich,
warm coloring the lassitude of the sea-
son, and with a strong list Of we'll
known adopts in the art Of story tell
ing, produces at once a pleasing i'm
preston. To this number Frank II.
Spearman contributes the first of a
new series of railway stories, telling
Of the exciting race of a train of yell
lowstone Park excursionists with a
runaway freight" Jack London, the
young Californian, mas in this issue a
tale Of the p%erilous journey of a K1on-
dixie miner and his Indian wife to OBJ
tain relief for a starving camp; this
story is imaginative in the highest de-
gree, and possesses striking local color
and extraordinary pathetic force. An
other strong story is "A Bill from Tiff
fany's' by Josiah Flynt, the well
known explorer Of tramp and criminal
life, and Francis Walton.
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China and the iron trade, the two
topics of absorbing interest, occupy
the leading positions in the August
number of The Engineering Magazine.
Mr.. George II. Hull, writing on the lat
ter topic, offers striking evidence that
misunderstanding blooms" and para
lying depressions have their source
solely in abnormal fluctuations in the
price of iron. The rise of 1899 will be
followed by disastrous stagnation
less the great iron masters are wise
enough to put prices down promptly
to nearly normal figures. Mr.. John
Foord, secretary of the American
.Asiatic Association, sees in the present
turbulence the regeneration of China
Sin carnival of blood and rapine, a
new China has been born" The out
come of the present season of horror
will be a rapidity of advance rivalling
that Japan, with a progressive govern
ment, supported at first by a wise con-
cert of the western powers.
The August number Of the North
American Review affords a most sug-
gestiye illustration of the splendid SER
vice which a great editor renders his
readers in conducting a great maya
zine. While the general contents are
as varied as the more important inter
ests of the hour, the topic which is fill
ing the mind and absorbing the sym
pathies of the world is treated with a
fullness and comprehensiveness which
will illuminate the situation for those
who are anxiously seeking light upon
it. Seven articles are devoted to "The
ICrisis in China" and each of them re-
CARDS it or discusses it from a different
point of view. John Barrett, who WA
formerly our minister to Siam, defines
The Duty of America" at this mo-
mentous juncture. Lieutenant Carl
yon Bellairs, of the royal navy, who
was naval attache to the British lega-
ton at Pekin, points out "The Respons-
Utility of the Rulers" for the lament
able conditions existing in the Celes-
tial empire. Demetrius C. Boulgsr ex-
presses the fear that the partition of
China is inevitable, and insists that
America must prepare to take her share
of territory unless she would suffer
commercial effacement in the far east.
George B.. Smyth, president of the
Anglo-Chinese college at Foochow,
gives the best account that has yet
been published of the Causes of Anti
Foreign Feeling in China" A Japan
ese diplomat tells what his countrymen
think of the situation. Robert E.
Lewis, IN American gentleman resi-
dent in Shanghai, who has travelled in
nearly every p~rovinceeeof China, de-
scribes, in an article entitled "The
Gathering Of the Storm outrages
which have been Systematically perpe-
trated upon foreigners in China for a
space, of two years; while Charles f.
Holder demonstrates, in Americas
Treatment of the Chinese" that the
United States is not without blame for
the resentment cherished by that peo-
pie against the nations Of the west
What to Eat" for August is up to
the usual high standard of this maya
zine. It is astonishing how interest
ing the publishers are making this
magazine to the general reading pub
lie. The magazine has been a success
away beyond the expectation of the
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