New-York tribune., 1901-07-16
MAGAZINE NOTES.
PAPERS WORTH READING IN THE
JULY NUMBERS.

is TO be made-the womans college is demo-
cratic in the best sense. and the honorable girl
who tries 10 earn enough to pay her college ex-
penses is on absolutely the same footing as her
Weather neighbor. But until the American girl
grows stronger than she is at present. 1t is
doubtful If the best results can be achieved by
her combination of brain work and hand work
The author reminds us that the girl working
her way must give most of her recreation hours
and part of her study time well, TO making
money and that all work and no play is not
hygienic rule. If the student" she adds. mas
a wide margin of strength and can burn her
candle at both ends without exhausting it, she
may pull through the year in safety, or with
nothing worse at the end than an intolerable
WEAKNESS, which the variation of summer tasks
will repair But the student who has not this
physical elasticity is likely TO carry through the
rest OF her life the effect of the overstrain of
her college years." Statistics showing the effect
upon girls of this double work ought to be avail
able and would be than usually interest
ing. Also IT would be interesting 10 know with
what motives girl enters upon this hard task
whether from an irresistible thirst for knowl-
edge or more worldly cravings.
Mr.. Harold Bindoss. writing in THE Monthly
Review" on Nigeria and its trade. gives har-
rowing picture of that region of fever haunted
swamps and natives half devil and half child
But the trade is profitable and Europeans will
probably continue to face these countless nur-
series Of disease loneliness and death Mr. Bind
loss speaks admiringly of the missionaries he
met in Nigeria but he adds:
1t is an unfortunate fact that almost the
wide world over, in West Africa, the Straits,
China and the Southern Seas, one rarely mas
either trader official speaking well of the ma
tive convert. OF course, that may be the fauit
OF the self-styled convert rather than OF ms
teaching and the trader is generally preJudiced
against the missionary, but the truth remains
that most factory agents prefer raw neathen
assistant to a converted one, while in the gov
ernment service where courage and fidelity are
requisite, the post is given to dusky Mosiem.
After some experience of serni-civilized black
men the writer would sooner trust his property
to a pagan Krooboy. for whom, indeed. he has
a qualified admiration. or an unsophlsticated
Jackery from the Nigerian bush
One at least. Of our critics. has not believed
that America has yet finally answered the
question as TO the possibility. the desirabiiity
and the permanence of government oy the
people The late Walter Besant, in his North
American Review" article on the twentieth cen
fury declares that the answer to that question
must be based on a long experience, and that
not for another hundred years will we be quail
fed TO give IT, How many Americans will agree
with hirn?"
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot's paper in THE Worlds
practical Americans would do well TO reflect
,,non There are still too many people who re-
gard with smiling contempt the question OF
forest preservation. We glad to note. how
ever, that they are decreasing in number The
details as to the Invaluable work already ac-
eomplshed by such forest reserves as we nave
secured. and the crying need for more OF these
are set forth by Mr. Pinchot in an article OF ao-
sorbing interest Intelligent forestry does not
tta ir,dlr
on the use of the woods; it simply means the
raer,ation of that use in a way TO insure the
continuance of material. the maintenance OF the
water supply of the country and the spread OF
fertility in arid regions
Parkman's sketch Of a journey through Lake
George written when a boy Of eighteen is an ex-
ceedngly attractive feature of the current
.scribner." The style is direct graceful and fin
ished-amazingly good for so young writer
Equally admirable are the writer's gift Of obser-
walton and his humorous turn No CLEAN OF run
escapes him. He finds matter for mirth in the
boy who shows him the cave at Giens Falls
evidently taking "The Last Of the Mohicans Tor
gospel: in the diabolicaly prim and saturnine
aspect of certain ancient befrilled DANES at
Caldwell; in the difficulties under which he
washed his own breeks a solitary island
Keen enjoyment of beauty and Of historical as
his gay disregard of discomfort is in winning
contrast with the iIl-humor of his more sybaritic
companion To all who know and love Lake
George this description, written in 1872 will be
thing of unusual attractiveness.
head and face suggestive of Greek sculpture,
a figure with its every movement gentle and
graceful-thus does Senator Hoar remember Ed
ward Everett in his most effective period Of ora
tory The mans voice he tells US in "Scribner.
was caressing, though at the beginning of his
speech a little cold. But presently 1.-THE Greek
statue begins TO move"
There has been a lamp kindled somewhere be-
hind the clear and transparent blue eyes. The
flexible muscles of the face have come to life
now. Still there is no jar or disorder. The touch
u pon the nerves Of the audience is like that OF
gentle nurse. The atmosphere is that of May
morning There is no perfume but that of roses
ard lilies But still gently at first, the warmer
feelings kindled in the hearts Of the speaker
and hearers. The frame of the speaker is trans
figured. The trembling hands are lifted high in
air. The rich, sweet voice fills the vast audience
chamber with its resonant tones At last, the
5rgle. the trumpet. the imperial clarion rings
full and clear. and the vast audience is trans
ported TO another world had almost said
as to seventh heaven
There is much excellent fiction in this months
Mcclure" but Mr.. Kipling's Kim OF course,
rises pre-eminent. If this story holds the reader
more closely with every new instalment it is not
because it is novel in the usual sense. If the
work have. indeed. plot, it is still vague and
il is quite without a heroine. But the strange
ness of the strangest Of ancient lands thrills
and grips us; each new character introduced has
its own fascination; and taken together. these
chapters of Indian life promise to reveal what no
but Kipling has had the vision to perceive