Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-07-30
THELITERARY WORLD

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The Cosmopolitan for August is. az
usual, rich in fiction, remark able beti
tor its vivid interest and its great
variety Irving Bachelor writes a re.
fTeshing story OF the Canadian big-tim-
Der region, ana Hering's drawing
catch the spirit of the scene perfectly
A. T. Quiller-Couch's cor pathetic
little tale cannot fail to enlist our
sympathies with the French exile who
broke his parole for love Richard Lie
Caffeine tells the most charming and
least known of the quaint "Old French
Romances THE love of honest Squire
Robin for the fair Jehane. THE Tenn
pie of Fate, the Flate Grant Aliens
clever satire on modern society. is
certain not onlyto entertain the reader
but also to set him thinking Francis
Willing Wharton writes pretty
story of fashionable Viewpoints society,"
a subject with which she is thoroughly
at home; while Phoebe Lyde and Eyer
ton Castle handle strong subjects in a
mastery manner.
Many a youth has been hampered
because of peculiarities which he has
allowed to creep into his personality or
manner, which. if realized by himself,
might easily have been pruned and
trained had he only been taught the
secret of habit-forming Young peo-
pie do not easily realize how much a
pleasant and agreeable manner has to
do with success. Everybody likes TO
he surrounded by agreeable people. Of
gentlemanly manners, not by those
who are gruff, uncOuth, peculiar and
disagreeable. We are all looking for
sunshine and harmony in this world.
We try to avoid the dark, damp and
dismal places and shrink from harsh.
disagreeable, discOrdant surroundings.
Even commanding ability will not al
ways cOunterbalance disagreeable pc
culiarities. Young men and women
often wonder why they lose their
situations when they have a good edu-
cation, ability and valuable experience.
Il is very often due to some striking
popularity or unpleasant mannerism,
which the employer does not like to
speak about, and he finds some other
excuse for filling the position with a
more agreeable person.-Success for
August.
Scribner's Magazine for August is the
seven complete short stories, the begin
annual fiction number and it contains
ming of a new serial, and special Illus
trated articles and poems. The color
printing is shown at its best in the
exquisite work of MaXfield Parrish.
who has found a very congenial sub
ject in Quiller-Couch's story OF
the Cornish coast, which has
to do with classical legend
These drawings are the most remark
able in color which have been yet at
tempted. There is also a beautiful
cover-design by Albert Herter, which
it has taken ten printings to repro
duce. The leading fiction is a novelette,
by Richard Harding Davis, entitled "A
Derelict." which depicts the character
of a brilliant, but erratic, newspaper
correspondent, who writes the best
story of the destruction of the Spanish
fleet at Santiago 1t is a thrilling mar
rative. and the illustrations by Walter
Appleton Clark are the most effective
yet achieved by this artist. Another
sea story by James b. Connolly. the
new writer, is filed with that vigor of
description and rapidity Of movement
which distinguishes all his work. This
one describes a race between a
Gloucester fishing schooner. and an
Englishman's yacht from Iceland to
Gloucester. 1t is fully illustrated by
Burns who is familiar with every detail
of the fishing feet.
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DR.. Shaw discusses the great steel
strike in its various aspects and COM
ments on many other matters of cur
rent interest at home and abroad. NJ
de Bloch's recent address at Paris on
the lessons of the Boer war is review
ed, and it's application to the military
situation in the United States, as well
as in Europe, is pointed out. The is
sue has an illustrated and statistical
article on THE Recent Great Rail
way Combinations" by Fl. T. New
comb. the editor of the Railway World.
Mr. NewcOmb is an expert writer on
railroad topics. and has had unusual
opportunities for acquiring facts re-
garding the great systems recently
amalgamated. John Graham Brooks
contributes a brief estimate OF the late
John F'iske The article is illustrated
with portraits OF Mr.. Fiske at various
ages. There is an article on Governor
Taft and Our Philippine Policy" by
RAYMOND Patterson. This writer gives
an interesting account of Judge Taft's
college life which brought out certain
INTELLECTUALLY courage and per-
sistency-that may be counted on as
valuable assets in the makeup OF the
first civil governor of the Philippines
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OF all the writers who have lately
become close friends of the public,
none has taken a firmer hold than
Ralph Conner. with his "Sky Pilot"
We have sen far too little of the pilol
himself and we feel this all the more
on reading the story of his last adven-
ture in "The Swan Creek Blizzard,
which appears in the August number