Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-26
LITERARY NOTES.
Midsummer Magazines.

Midsummer Magazines.
| SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE.-The open
| ing number of Scribners Magazine for
! July is THE Slave Trade in America" by
John r. Spears The subject is ably
handled and well illustrated. Charles
/, Warren presents an excellent, completed
story on The College Club Theatricals,"
which is handsomely illustrated. Trees,
by Frank French with beautiful illus
| tratlons, is very instructive and inter-
esting papers; Richard Harding Davis,
gives thrilling description OF The
relief of Ladysmith,,' with numerous
Illustrations. Harvard College Fifty
eight Years Ago" by Senator Geo. f.
be found unusually interesting. THE
| Vain Shadows" is a good story of the
| Nepigon, by Duncan Campbell Scott.
Gn;.o, Charming az serial Of Tommy and
THE Boer as a Soldier''-"The Tend
ency to Health" and 1.-The Field of Art"
MAKE up this charming number.
| THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
The following excellent table of contents
appears in the North American Review
| Tor July: China and Modern Progress
Mutual Helpfulness Between China and
the United States by His Excellency,
WI Fang, Chinese Minister TO the
| United States; THE Struggle for Re-
FORM by Charles Johnston; missions
ana an Missionaries in China by Poultney
Grosvenor; Notes on Spencer, Buckle
and Comte," by Leon Gambetta; Cam
Reinach; Lord Playfair,' by Mayo ".
Hazeltine; Our Opportunity on the Pa
cine: American Control of Ocean Trans
portation," by E. T. Chamberlain, United
States commissioner of Navigation; 1.-THE
Projected Gable Line to the Philippines"
Chandler Hale; "A Forecast of the
Twelfth Census" NJ. c. Mulhall. F. S. S.;
C ahe Plague Sat- at oporto" by Dr. Albert
| Children, by Henrietta c. Wright. South
African Prospects: The Settlement After
the War by S. G. Cronwright- Schreiner;
1.-THE Ultimate Triumph of the Beers, by
Cesare Lombroso.
FRANK LES LIES POPULAR
| MONTALY-The general contents of the
July number of Frank Leslie's Monthly
are as rich and varied as ever. In addi-
ton to its patriotic features it has not
! able leading article upon Rapid Transit
IN Great Cities by George H. Johnson.
Station" the tropical island of Tutuila,
with it's harbor of Pango- Pango is de-
scrbed and beautifully pictured by AL
pert dc Lautreppe; Photography as a
Philanthropy" by May Wilkinson Mount,
are interesting in their respective ways.
IN me E, fction for July includes Bath Come
dy,m quantity humorous New England
story by Rollin Lynde HART; and a Cape
Cod ldyn called I'm Old Manomet Viii
lage," by Eta w. Pierce. The poetry and
MdrSlnahla include contributions by
Edgar Fawcett William Hamilton Hayne,
Norman H. Pitman, Frank Lawrence
| Hopkins.
BRUSH AND PENCIL-The July num-
Der of Brush and Pencil is a charming
artistic production. The Exposition at
Parls is given full notice with articles on
-. American Sculpture" by dorado Taft;
| Exposition Architecture by Louis ri
Gibson, and a short article on STiffanv
Wares. by Gardner Tean. These articles
are all beautifully illustrated Bartlett's
statue OF Lafayette, which was unveiled
| IN Parls on the Fourth of July, is shown
| IN fun page illustration. The number
also contains some illustrations which
lnciude Winslow Homer's The Fog
Schneider, from an original etching: two
peautlfuI portrait pictures by Benson:
sculpture by Dallin and MacNei and a
stained glass window by Tiffany The
usual editorials complete an important
NUMBER OF Americas leading art maya
zine. Brush and Pencil improves with
each Issue and the successes of the past
are suggestions for the future. "Ameri-
can Art for American Readers is the
unique platform of Brush and Pencil.
" ilNG-The leading feature of Out
ing FOR July is Man Hunting in the
OF John Fox, Jr., in Kentucky Border
Life, The whole number is a very treas
ure island of pleasant pastimes in pleas
ant places and as instructing as it is
interesting. July is when one wants to
know practical Fly Casting" and 'tJp-
Stream Canoe Graft" about Salmon
Angling" and ''SingIe-hand Cruising and
Craft, and what is expected of THE
New Seventy-Footers" The approaching
nauonal championship In golf makes The
strokes of Golf especially timely Put
ting, by Walter J. Travis; Driving
by charles b. Macdonald, and Approach
ing, by II. Nj. Hartman, all illustrated
by instantaneous photographs OF adj
venture We 1tI. there is abundance. 1.-THE Growth
OF Grlndewald," early ascents of the jung
Irau, and legends of the glacier passes:
The Way of the Sportsman" by Cas-
per whitney, and contributions ION
achting, Photography as Applied by
SportSmen, ON Angling THE
thoroughbred" Notable Performances
undergraduate Athletics and Golf
round out very comprehensive number
THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE
VIEW OF REVIEWS-The special fea-
lures of this number are character
sketches of President Mckinley and Mr.
Bryan, the standard bearers of the Re
publican and Democratic parties for 1900:
a tully illustrated article on THE Pro-
vision for Children in Public Libraries
py MISS Katherine Louise Smith; plea
Tor the development of industries for
young men and women in the country by
Mrs Helen r. Albee; Cotton Mills in
Cotton Fields" by Mrs. Leonora Beck Ell
rs, and summary of the provisions of
the new Australian Constitution by
Hugh III. Lusk. THE Progress Of the
World" gives prominence to the national
political conventions; also summarizes
the war-like events in China and the
progress of affairs in Cuba and the Phil
topics is fully reflected in the Cartoon
Depart