The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-30

the dutnOr lOucnes minor hOrdS in
singing of the love the faithful old
servant bears for "Missus' and
"Marsa;" of the prisoner serving
long sentence on the chaingang for
some minor offense; of the old and at
f1icted waiting patiently for the call
to heaven where gladness shall betheirs
in the sweet "by-en-by." The book
is illustrated with photographs \from
life, and is we'll adapted to fulfilling
the purpose for which 1t was designed,
that of being offered as souvenir of
the South to all interested in the "6ul-
lud race" and especially to winter
tourists from the North.
MAGAZINES.
The July number of the Atlantic
Monthly is an exceptionally good one,
The articles are on timely topics, and
are by writer's who have achieved a
reputation. The Buroness Van Bluten
begions a serial article on Our Lady
of the Beeches" which promises to
be highly entertaining, William f.
Willonghby discusses Two years leg
islation in Porto Rico" in an instruc-
tive way. Andrew Stead talks about
THE Negro" giving what he calls
another view. THE Spider-web'' is by
James Herbert Morse, and James A.
LIE Roy tells what Race Prejudice in
the Philippines" is like. Gerald
Stanley Lee gives us a few ideas ON
Reading Books Through Their Backs"
These are only few of the good things
in the number
The illustrated prose articles in
Scribnar's for July represent the best
work of such artists as VIII II. Low.
Walter Appleton Clark, A. B. Frost,
and others among the younger men.
The Martinique Pompeii' is an arti-
Gle, inserted at the last possible mo-
ment wildly describing The appalling
disaster at st. Pierre. Its author, pr.
James Robb Church of Rough Rider
fame, accompanied the relief ship Dixie
in his capacity as assistant surgeonN
U. s. A. DIR. Church saw everything
and pictures not only the terrible des-
olation, but some pathetic instances of
family life, which the ruins revealed
OF the many picturesque canoe brig.
AIDES, which used to bring the furs OF
the Hudson's Bay Company from the
Far North to market, only one sur
wives and in 1.-THE Abitibi Fur Brig
ade" Arthur Heming chronicles his
adventures on the romantic Journey
made from Lake Abitibi south to Mat
tawa. Mr. Heming is a skillflll artist
own article. 1t is seldom that a mag
azine has two such fascinating serials
as those by Richard Harding Davis
and +. Hopkinson Smith. In short fic-
ton there is a humorous story of life
in the mountains by John Fox, Jr.
entitled THE Army of the Callahan"
with very amusing illustrations by K.
NJ. Ashe. Charles Scribner's Sons
New York.
The July Century is a Summer Fic-
ton Number" containing contribu-
tons in this field from popular writ
ers and from newcomers. There is a
short story by the late Paul Leicester
Ford, entitled, Wanted: A Chaperon."
with illustrations by Gilbert, probably
the last piece of completed fiction by
the author of Janice Meredith" TO
DR.. Weir Mitchelrs group of Little
Stories" is added a piquant sketch en-
titled "a Dilemma" setting forth n
lady or the tiger"-ish problem; David
Gray, author OF 'Gallops," contributes
a car-horse story, entitled "Ting-a-
Ling" and Frank Norris q story of
the frontier West entitled, 1.-THE Pass
ing of Cock Eye Blackjack" Harry
Stillwell Edwards, author of Two
Runaways," prints a roliicking story
n.
The Little Unpleasantness at New
Hope" There are also stories by Lou
Use Collier Wilcox. VIII N. Harden
and Charles Bryant Howard, the last
a bit of West Indian local color The
variety Or this list is further extended
by the foISth part of the Comics
sions of a Wife" by Mary Adams, the
theme of which is Estrangement, as
those of the preceding portions have
been respectively, Eourtship Marriage
and Motherhood. The number is an
exceedingly good one The Century
Company. Union Square, New York
city.
Jack London is the author Of 1.-THE
Cruise of the Dazzler," the long-story-
complete-in-on which ap-
pears in the July st. Nicholas 1t
tells the exciting adventures Of a run
away boy in a cruise on the Pacific
coast. Though the hero receives many
a hard knock, the voyage is not with
out happy results, and he benefits by
his brief experience at sea. In the st.
Nicholas League department for July,
Marcia Louise Weber, aged II, corr
tributes a poem that certainly has the
right ring. Arthur Johnson Evans
raises the question: lis King Edward
Really Edward the SEVENTH He
speaks of little discussion he had
in England recently with some young
relatives of his, and he recalls to the
reader what a good many Of us have
perhaps forgotten. that there are at
least three Edwards whom history has
failed to designate with numerals. The
Nature and Science Department brings
forth many an interesting item from
the young contributors A novel meth
cd of feeding captive woodchuck
is described in letter IN this num-
Der. The Century Company Union
Square, New York city.
Lippincott's Magazine for July is
given over to fiction, with but one ex-
ception in favor of a timely subject. !
The complete novel this months is
written by Mabel Nelson Thurston
whose fame Is won as a short-story
writer. This more important achieve
ment places her among the elect as a
novelist. The title "0n the Road TO Ar |
cady" Is an inyitingly cool one well /