The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12


 tive manner of going there is by way of the splendid road that leads from Hartford to Manchester Green. and thence over the less easy stages of tray el beyond" Social Life at the White House." by Anne HOllingswplt's Whsr- ton, is an agreeable paper, vita many interesting illustrations.
 The "Boukman" for July has for frontispiece a fine illustration of the Capitol at Washington. D. C., repIo- duced from "The Gilded Age" The iI- lustratiOn goes with paper on Wash ington in Fiction" by Frances Weston Carruth, accompanying which there are many other attractive illust rations. Victor Hugo Paltsits contributes a pa per on Paul Leicester Ford as Biblio- grapher and Historian.
 That attractive little musical visitor the Musical Record. contains this month an unusual amount of interest ing reading matter. There is a portrait and a sketch of Anton Bruckner; an- other of Siegmund von Hausegger; a paper by Emile Frances Bauer on What Constitutes Art i'll Its Highest Form" How to Deepen Ones Musical Insight" by Mary Hallock; Music as a Mode of Motion" and Music as a Con- sOlation," illustrated by a series of pie lures, "A Coast Pastoral by Jacques de Lyon, and a number of articles that will interest teachers of music. The music of the number includes "A Water Lily Song" by Mary Turner Salter, and "Slumber Song" piano compo- sition, by Carl A. Preyer.
 The pictorial supplement to the July number of the Musical World, published by the J. B. Millet company of Boston, is portrait of George H. c. Ellsworth, the young baritone from Hartford who sang at one of the American concerts at the last Paris exposition as one who had received his whole training in this country. The music of the number is of the usual high class and includes two songs. The Rose and the Garden er," by Arthur Foote, and Der ceuse" with violin obligato, by Anton
  "Sylvana," an imnromptu by Carl Bohm, and a 'Menuet de la Cour," by w. c. E. Seeb0eck. The reading mat ter, illustrations and music of the num- Der are all of high class and the mag azine is to be commended to all musi- clans in search of such a periodical at low price.
 The July Cosmopolitan seems to be almost equally divided in interest be- tween men and women. An Expert ment in Domestic Finance" is another entirely novel article which will appeal to women, while some twenty pages de- voted to the Captains of Industry will receive the consideration of men in all classes of business. The COsmopoli- tan has undertaken to present a series of brief sketches of the men who are leaders in finance. manufactures and commerce, not prepared in an off-hand way, but by writers or the greatest abii- ity who have an exact knowledge of their subjects. The series thus far pro- duced has attracted wide attention.
 The special reports of Professor Rob- ert T. Hill, of the United States Geo. logical Survey, and pr. Israel c. Rus sell, of the University of Michigan, on the recent volcanic disturbances in the West Indies are published in the cur rent number of the National Geographic Washington, D. O.. The ar ticles are beautifully illustrated by pho- tographs taken by the authors. It wlli be remembered that Professor Hill and Dr. Russell were of the special expedi tion sent by the National Geographic society to study the cause of the terri ble disasters in Martinique and St. Vim cent. The reports of the other mem hers of the National Geogra phic society expedition, Dr. Angelo Heilprin, of Philadelphia, and Professor T. A. Jag gar, of Harvard university. will be pub lished in an early number of thim mag azine.
 The July magazine number of the Great Round World (New Yorf) offers a variety of reading that is instructive and yet not too heavy for a warm sum- mer day. With many touches of local color, Charles Fletcher Scott deschibes Sailors Snug Harbor," the ideal home for ancient mariners. Arthur J. Brown, who. by the way, has just com pleted a tour of the world in his official as secretary of the Presbyteri- an Board of Missions, contributes striking estimate of The People of Siam and Laos''-those remote AsiatiCs who have unexpectedly adopted so many of the best features of western civilization. The news of the week is sketched in interesting style, with just enough comment to lend piquancy to the facts, In "The Lookout" are a number of rambling ideas, suggestive to the man of action as well as to the thinker.
 The July American Boy Detroit, Mlch.) is full and running over with good things for the American youth, and this July number is patriotic number. The Star-Spangled Banner" by Jennie Campbell Douglass, is an ar ticie which tells about the composer of our great national song and the cir cumstances under which it was writ ten. Of practical interest to boys are the articles: How to Make Ball. loon;" Tricks With Handkerchief" and the usual departments; The Anna teur Journalist and Printer" Familiar