The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-10
LITERARY NOTES.

The July Chautauauan features
Twelve Tales Of American History"
These include: Into g. Silent Sea" (the
career of Henry Hudson as a variant of
fhe Rhine Of the Ancient MarineF'), by
Vincent Van Marter Beede; the remark
able evolution of Indian Corn" with
illustrations Of corn worship, etc.. by
Charles F. Millspaugh, curator Of the
Field Museum; Making Kansas a Free
State" by Col Richard j. Hinton (nle1n-
Der Of the Stowell overland party; t'The
Story Of the Little Big Horn from the
Indian standpoint), by Dr. Charles A.
Eastman. a Sioux, of the Indian School
at Carlisle; "An Alabama Warehouses
"a story OF French exiles IN Alabama,
by Martha Young; Memorials Of the
American Revolution" by Linda DeK,
Fulton; "Old Ironstdes as Sailors Saw
Her" by john r. Spears; "a California
Plymouth Rock" by Mrs Mary H. Field;
Salt in Early American History" by
Prof E. E. Sparks; 1.-The Chesapeake
and Shannon" and Raleigh" by Ed
mund Vance Cooke; and 1.-The Daughter
Of the Regiment" by Clinton Scoliard.
The July Forum Is Of such even ex-
eellence that among the thirteen articles
presented therein it is difficult to select
any one as especially worthy of mention.
II preference must be given we may name
Our Relations With Germany" by Will
liams c. Fox. of the bureau of American
republics; ''Kiaochou: A German Colonial
Experiment" by Hon Charles DENLY Jr:
Social Reform and the General Elec-
ton Gin England), by Thomas Burke;
The Shipping Subsidy Bill" by the Unit
ed states commissioner of navigation, E.
l. Chamberlain, and 1.-The Passion Play
at Oberammergau," by Prof. Hans Dew
rient. Other articles deal with the al
legged increase of crime in the United
States, the position of the United States
as world power, the real story Of
Hawaii Chinese civilization, the advisa-
bil1ty Of entering the government serv-
Ice, and the growth Of American outdoor
literature.
The Fourth was not forgotten when the
editor Of st. Nicholas made up" the July
number of that magazine for the young.
''The Battle of Santiago" July g. 1885 IS
the ffontispiece. It iHustra ties a paper by
Miss Jessie Peabody rockingham, in
which are chronicled Some Great Sea
Fights beginning with Manila and San
tiago and going back thence to the first
great event in naval warfare, the battle
cf Salamis and coming down chronology
ically, but by leaps and bounds to Actfum,
Lepanto the Armada. the Anglo-Dutch
fight on the. Downs in 1866 Trafalgar, and
Mobile bay. Porto Rico's First Fourth -
Is described by Frederick A. ODER, HHow
to Celebrate" is an acrostic in verse by
Helen M. Richardson; ''The Cannon
Cracker" is another timely bit of versif-
cation by Mary Marshall Parks and 9TH
or contributions dealing. more or less d.
rectly, with matters warlike are "a Lit
tie Daughter of the Revolution" by Mary
Bradley; 1.-The Siege of Number Six by
Rossiter Johnson; "Towser: A Sailors
Pet" on the old Monocacy; "Eleanor's
Colonel" an English soldier Of Revolu-
tionary times, by Anna Robinson Wat
son. and even 1.-THE Bulb of the Crimson
Tulip" Revolutionary story, by Lillian
L. Price. In Nature and Science we find
Fireworks From the Mud" and in st.
Nicholas League "The First Automobile
Gun. and several poems by youngsters in
celebration of the Fourth of July Yet
the magazine is by no means given over
wholly to war and wars alarms.