Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-04
AUGUST MAGAZINES.
Scribner's Magazine.


many attractive features of the 1902
Fiction Number of Scribner's Maya
zine. The many beautiful illustrations
reproduced in colors, and the note
worthy list of authors and illustrators
all combine to place this number we'll
at the head in magazine enterprise.
Among the long list of artists repre-
scented are noted the following well
known names: Howard Pyle, Howard
Chandler Christy, Walter Appleton
Clark, A. B. Frost, and F. c. Yohn.
The table of contents gives the names
Of many of the most prominent writers
of today, as follows: Wireless" Rud-
yard Kipling; over the Brink" Edith
NJ. Thomas; Engine No. g." Caroline
Duer; "Sinbad on Burrator," A. I.
CUTLER Couch; 1.-The Little White
Bird j. NJ. Barrie; "A Break in
Training Arthur Ruhl; 1.-The Fortunes
of Oliver Horn" F. Hopkinson Smith,
"Chieftain," Sewell Ford; "A Mid
summer Weeks Dream" Edith Whar-
ton: 1.-THE Grandfathers of Bob Mary
r. S. Andrews; Captain Macklin,"
Richard Harding Davis; An Idyl of
the Wood" Arthur Cotton; Frank r.
Stockton" Dora Wheeler Keith, and
THE Stranger Child" Josephine Dodge
Daskam.
Atlantic Monthly.
Maine readers will note with pleas
ure the fact that the names of two of
the States most charming writers ap-
pear in the table of contents of the Au-
gust Atlantic: Martha Baker Dunn
who is represented by thoroughly
entertaining article, entitled, THE
Browning Tonic" and Annie Hamilton
Donnell who contributes pathetic
story of child life, 1.-The Princess of
Make Believe." Other contributions to
this splendid number are: I'm the Fear
of the Lord" Norman Duncan; 1.-THE
Revival of Poetic Drama" Edmund
Gosse: "Midsummer's Day." Harriet
Prescott Spofford; 1.-THE African Pyg-
miles," Samuel Phillips Werner; Iii
Wan the Fair" Jack London; my
Cookery Books Elizabeth Robins
Pencil; THE Cave of Adullum." Alice
Brown: 1.-THE Moonshiner at Home"
Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.; Bret Harte,"
H. c. Merwin; and Books New and
Old; Summer Fiction H. w. Boyn-
ton. The Contributors Club" pre-
sents much pleasant reading.
Woman's Home Companion.
The lover of good fiction will find an
abundance of the same between the at
tractive covers of the August Woman's
Home Companion. In addition to the
fiction many special articles Of interest
are given and the household and fash
ion departments present their usual
quota of seasonable matter. Chief
among the stories and articles given
are noted: How the World Will
End" Hudson Maxim; "A Bank Mys
terry" Robert Barr; "A Lake Country
Elopement," Lewis Pendleton; "A
Chemical Comedy" Morgan Robert
son: 1.-THE Folly of the Rutherfords,"
Octave Thanet; 1.-THE Baby Parade at
Asbury Park" Haryot Holt Dey; "a
Japanese-American Love Story"
Onoto Watanna; Little Journeys to
the Woods and Fields" Ernest Harold
Baynes; "A Hot Day in a Great CITY,"
Rheta Child Dorr. and Woven with
the Ship" Cyrus Townsend Brady.
The Worlds Work
for August shows the Republic at
Play. and is an especially seasonabie
number. Upwards of one hundred
half-tone illustrations add much to
the readers pleasure. Among the i'm
portant contributions which are
grouped under the head, 1.-THE People
at Play" are THE City as a Summer
Resort" An American Forest Pre-
serve" "A Tramp in the White Moun-
tains." Zone State and the Summer
People Industry" "a Commonwealth
of Resorts. 1.-The Great North Woods"
Along the St. Lawrence" Across the
Canadian Border Fishing in Wis
consin Lakes "a Vacation Trip from
the Rockies to the Coast" and pic
turesque Islands off the Pacific
Coast" Frederic Palmer contributes
an interesting and handsomely illus
trated paper on West Point after
Century" The editorial department.
The March of Events" furnishes an
admirable review of the leading af-
fairs Of the day.
Everybody's Magazine.
The August Everybody has among