Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Evidently effort has been spared to
make The Ladies' Home journal tor August
positive boon to its readers during these
warm midsummer days. Its light readable
articles, bright stories, clever poems, charm.
ing music, and numerous beautiful illustra-
lions afford the easiest and pleasantest kind |
OF entertainment for leisure hours. Enchant.
ing views OF the lovely scenery in the
Engadine Valley and among the Swiss and |
Italian lakes, as well such delightful |
articles as 1.-THE Singing Village OF Germany
and "What Girl Life in Italy Means" allure |
the thoughts to foreign lands, while there are
timely suggestions about 1.-THE Picnic |
Basket" Excepting House Cool in the Dog |
Days." and "Sea-Side Toys and How to Make |
Them" Other thoroughly interesting con-
tributions are 1.-THE First White Baby Born in |
the Northwest" "My Boarding School for |
Girls" and the usual serial and department |
articles. By the Curtis Publishing company, |
Philadelphia. One dollar a year. ten cents a
copy.
When the mercury is striving not in vain
to "break record" ones thoughts natur
ally turn to shady spot, swept by cool
breezes, and to stories so fascinating as to
cause the reader to forget the discomforts of
the flesh. The stories must be original, must
have variety, must be cleverly written, and
must be absorbing in their interest. Every
story In the Midsummer Fiction Number of
McClures fulflls these conditions. From the
artistic medallion cover designed by Kenyon
COX 10 the last article, the August magazine
Is replete with entertaining fiction and
enriched with beautiful illustrations.
When the Cosmopolitan, in its April
I number, published an essay, mt once clever
and philosophc, on "The Ideal Wife,
demand was created for a paper on 1.-THE
IDEAL husband" by the same author-Lavina
Hart. The August Cosmopolitan contains an
essay on this subject-on which few people
agree-which is certain not only to prove
" fftnfr hut n
cussion. In the same number Mrs Van
Rensselaer, Cruger (Iulian Gordon tells the
story OF the life of the French wife with all
its tragic commonplace narrowness. "The
woman OF small capacity puts up WITH and.
perhaps, does much toward maintaining
present conditions" says the author "but
there are women of brains who die at an
early age of no disease known to doctors, but
simply from utter WEAKNESS"
Scrlbner's magazine for August is the
annual Fiction Number, and II contains seven
complete short stories, the beginning OF a
new serial, and special illustrated articles
and poems. The color printing is shown at
its best in the exquisite work of Maxfield
Parish, who has found very congenial sub
iect in CUTLER COUGHS story OF the Cornish
coast, which has to do with a classical legend.
These drawings are the most remarkable in
color which have been yet attempted. There
is also a beautiful cover design by Albert
Herter, which it has taken ten printings to
reproduce. OF the fiction is n novelette, by
Richard Harding Davis, entitled,"A Derelict,"
which depicts the character of brilliant but
erratc newspaper correspondent, who writes
the best story of the destruction of the
spanish fleet at Santiago. 1t Is a thrilling
narrative, and the illustrations by Walter
Appleton Clark are the most effective yet
achieved by this artist
Entomologist Howard, OF the United states
department OF agriculture, contributed to the
nf fDp -n1,, "a l..
article on Mosquitoes as Transmitters OF
Disease" In the course OF this article DR.
Howard describes the remarkable expert
ments conducted under the direction of the
war department by DR.. Reed in Cuba which
have demonstrated beyond question the
part played by the mosquito in transmitting
yellowfever germs.
"Home Thoughts" by &C" "a. S. Barnes 4
Co., \. Y, II mo-. 800 pages, $3.50 Is one O
the most refreshing books we have read in &
long time. 1t deals with very practical sub
Iects In a most delicate and interesting man
, ner, and forms a pleasant contrast to mucl
of the trash which is in circulation these
days. Both young and old profit by
reading ii, as 1t not only gives advice t
parents, but does this IN such simpl,
language that children can understand tn,
meaning and learn many lessons therefrom
The author has covered many. IL not most, o
, the trying questions which come up in home
life, and accomplishes this in such a way, tina
while the reader sees and appreciates tn
difficulties IN them yet can also see a hope
full way of correcting them. We hope tn 4
many other essays OF like import may TO
, low from the same pen. The book is yer,
attractive in appearance, the cover bein!
decorated with a tuft of hepaticas and
, gold distaff
beginning with the August number TIL
Metropolitan magazine Will be reduced il
price from twenty five to fifteen cents pc
n m no u lon will ha q
+. Each number of this remarkably successful
2 periodical will hereafter contain, beside
many illustrated articles of timely interes
at least six short stories by famous: America
; authors. The new Metropolitan will be e1
e ceptionally strong in fiction, and each stor
( will be illustrated by wellknown arts
n The tone OF the Metropolitan has Away
been one of decided patriotic principles. "a
: American Magazine for the American People
has been its slogan. and nothing has been c
( will be admitted to its lavishly illustrate
: pages that is not in accord with the spirit {
Our country and the hest that is in