The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-04


Illustrated article on Richmond.
All these books viii be reviewed IN TINS
column from time to time.
Harper's Magazine.
Harper Magazine for. November con-
tains a clever Chinese Story by FRANCES
Ayman Mathews. entitled "A Little Trag-
edy at TLn-Tsin.'' a Chinese girl fans
in love with an Anglo-SaXon reporter,
who is working at Tien-Tstn. She marrlss
a. Chinese me. cnant whom she loatnes.
The reporter me. with an accident ana
is taken to the home Of the Chinese
matron, where he is tenderly cared Tor.
Tx husband is absent, and when lie
returns and finds the foreign devil IN
his home he is hlled with jealous rage.
and-the reader may learn the dehoue-
ment by r-adns the story.
Another interesting feature Is an artlcie
on "Alcohol Physiology and Temperance
reform, by Professor w. O. Atwater,
and still other features are as follows:
Fruit Growing in AM RIGA" by Theo-
dore Dresser, illustrated by +. D. steele
and o. H. Bacher and from photogra pms;
Some Literary Memories of Cambridge,
bv William Dean Howels. illustrated from
photographs, and d awning by T. V
Chomnslsi: '.Blu jay Visits the GooSts,'
an Ind an folklore tale, by George Bra
Grinnell, illutrated by E. w. Deming:
The Forgiveness Of Creegan, story,
by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
The opening article in Frank Lesr's
Popular. Monthly ''Election-Day," written
bv l.. ]. Lang, who has been Il politica
reporter for twi MY years and more, draws
a remarkable picture of the revolution
wrought by the laws Of ballot reform.
and tells number Of stories OF political
methods under the old regime, when
to the voter of to-day seem simply incred
ible.
Another feature is a fair and intelligent
article Oh thu great coal strike in Penn
svlyania. by Earl w. Mayo. Mr.. Mayos
information is so recent that the n1a ga
z;ne has evidently been printed with a
speed altogether uncommon. when we
consider TIL excellence of both letter
press and Illustrations The article shows
a spirit of enterprise which the pubic
will we believe, fully appreciate
! Mr. Robert e. Speer has WRITTEN tor
: the No. a, most entertaining account Of
| the Chinese re9ple at rome: while still
! another article, written by the hero OF
! the adventure describes the exp rlences
| of Mr. w T. Hornaday. the present
| director of the New York geological Gar
| de-,s. in securing living specin-enF OF that
| rara avis t.t 'Cave-Bird of Trinidad.
The 0ia-aZincs.
r.-:,:ps the most timely article in Nc
| CIIJktI'S MAGAZINE for November, is
| A Wonan's Diary OF the Siege of Pekin.
| by Mrs F. X. Lowry, one of the besiesed
missionaries in the legations last summer.
Another article that will awaken gem
| real interest is that on The First Flight
| of Count Zeppelins Air Ship. by Eugea
| Wolf, the Counts assistant and compan-
| ion in the trial Interesting and sus-
| sestive is William Allen Whites character
f, sketch of Hanna.
The fiction in this number is of the
| usual high standard. \ Temperance
| Campaign. by G. *. Turnsr describes.
| how a couple of clever schemers played Off
! the Temperance people against the liquor
| Dealers to the advantage of the schemers.
! Confusion of Goods. by Frederic Carol
| Badly is a football story, and good
| exciting story too. Sheer grit and dog
| evident in the little sheriff VINO claims
| most of our attention In Charles War
| ren's story of How the Law Came to
| FeIlkins, Creek. Little Ha lujah's Con
! vert, by Alvah Milton Kerr, and The
| Love that Glorfies, by Lillian True Bry-
ant, are the other stories.
The Loveliest Woman in all America"
''The Future of the White House. ;"
The Man VINO wrote Narc:Ssuz." wait
| ing for the Malta page drawing by A.
| B. Frost-and How Aunt Sally Brought
| Down the House. a short story, are some
| of the excellent features of the Novem-
| Der Ladies' Home Journal. In the same
! issue Clifford Howard continues "I,he
| Story of Young Man" Charles Major
his "Blue River Bear Storias,' Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps her serial, The Successors
of Mary the First and Josiah Aliens
Wife funnily narrates the incidents of
her fourth visit Edward Box forcibiy
contends that the Americans show ext era
49,.
IAN American Mother convicts the
Americans of having bad manners. Plans
are given for "A Quaint, Od-Fastioned
House for So, 500 and interior views OF
THE Most Artistic House in New York
CITY right worthilg occupy two pages.
as does Through Picturesque America .
which pictures the scenic beauties of Cal
ifornia There are numerous articles on
the fashions and womalls work.
The great Trans Siberian Railway. de-
scr!bsd by Henry Norman in his series
on Russia of Today" leads in TIE
November number of Scribner's Maya
zine. Jesse Lynch Williams. who has
written a number of articles on the pic
turesoue aspects of New York. in this
number describes the "Cross-streets of
New York" Samuel Parsons. Jr., the
authority on landscape gardening, who
was recently chosen TO lay out the great
park at Washington, describes the
.T.andscape Gardening at the Exposi-
ton Some of the beauties of the
Worlds Fair, which is just closing in Paris
are fully illustrated by the camera
CT Dwight L. Elm rldorf. who has n,ade
a wondersui series OF photographs. Mrs
Rebecca Harding Davis under the title
"A Little Gossip. gives some new and
entertaining glimpses OF Hawthorne, En-
erson Miss Alcott and~other writers whom
she met in her youth. Henry James con-
tributes ..The Tone of Time'-the story
of a woman who tries to create a respect
able past Another of the short stories In
the number Is tale Of Russian intrigue
In China called 1.-The Tartar Who Was
Not Caught, BENJAMIN Paul Blood, aus
thor Of ',rae Lion Of the Nile" has
another poem in this issue entitled, nth
onus." Mrs. Julia G. r. Door also con-