The Republican journal., 1900-08-30
I1rERARY NEWS AND NOTES,

The August number of The Ameri.
can Boy has been received from the
publishers, The Sprague Publishing
Company of Detroit, Michigan 1t is
issued monthly at 81 a year, and al
though it has not quite completed its
first volume has more than so, 600 boy
readers and an unnumbered host Of
| grown-up friends" While the magazine
has stories it is not a story paper, but is
designed to amuse, interest and instruct
the average boy. Parents should rejoice
in such publication, for its influence
and teachings are decidedly in the right
direction.
cone Hundred Years in the White
House," opening the September Ladies'
Home Journal gives some highly inter
estlng glimpses of the social life of the
century, and of the home life of our
Presidents since the time the Adamses
moved into the Executive Mansion as
its first occupants, in November. 1900.
The "Romances of Some Southern
Homes" in the same issue, pictures the
most notable historic mansions of the
South and recalls the incidents which
made them famous-their brave men
and beautiful women. Some new anec-
dotes attract further interest to the be-
loved Phillips Brooks, as man and as
preacher. They are characteristic,
and exceedingly we'll told Anticipat
ing the rat her radical change that fash
ion has decreed in women's attire. ten
special articles are devoted to the fall
and winter modes. The pictorial feat
llres Of the September Journal include
page drawing of ''Loiterers at the
Railroad Station, as A. B. Frost sees
them; "The Wonders of California
Gardens" and the beauties of Yellow
stone Park. There are numerous prac-
tical articles and much else that is help
ful in the departments. BY The Curtis
Publishing Company, Philadelphia.
one dollar a year: ten cents copy.
From cover to cover the contents of
Everybody's Magazine for rSeptemberare
the most interesting of any issue of that
remarkable periodical yet published.
In praise of the cover itself, too much
cannot be said of the beauty of its de-
sign, which is not only effective but
quite original: the march of improve
ment in the process of printing is no
where better shown than in this speci-
men of multi-color work A new short
story by S. r. Crockett, entitled "a
Scientific Symposium is written in his
peculiarly delightful manner: the reader
looks at the characters drawn through
the spectacles of good natured, quizzi-
cally observant physician who tells the
story, and the doctor does not hesitate
to turn \ rays on human foibles. "How
Great City is Cleaned" is the subject
of a very interesting article, and ''Oyster
Farming is the title of an article in the
Great American Industry Series, and
its pages contain much more of greater
interest than would be imagined by the
uninitiated. The Simple Explanation
of the month is of 'The Light of the
Sun, which subject affords great deal
OF simple and entertaining instruction.
Among other illustrated stories and
articles, of which there are many, are
ARTISTS Models" beautifully illustra-
ted with photographs: the continuation
OF Stuart Robsons delightful autobio-
graphy, "A Lucky Hazard" by Mary
Moncure Parker, and Queen Victora
and Her Family as Artists" with illu-
strations from drawings by the Queen
and her daughter the Empress Fred
rick. Altogether a great ten cents
worth,