The Saint Paul globe., 1902-07-12

interest, Will hake a Sultry afternoon
pass pleasantly. All the stories are illus
trated in the artistic manner characteris-
Tic OF the magazine.
OF Prof. Guy Morrison Walker is one of
the interesting features of the current is
sue Of Leslie's Weekly. Prof. Walker
asks the question if the police are respon-
sible for the marked increase in crime in
our great cities, and he presents strange
array array OF facts facts to prove the affirmative.
Recent disclosures in New York city ST.
Louis and in Minneapolis, all give time
liness to this article.
The July American Boy is full and run
ming over over with good things for the
American youth and this July number is
patriotic. The front page illustration is
a spirited one showing an American boy
Hunter is the leading story for this
month. 1t is written by one of the most
famous writer's for boys, and tells how
1.-The FOurpenny Good Hopes is a story
of how a boy lifted mortgage from his
mothers home by his luck and foresight
and his knowledge of rare postge stamps.
The most conspicuous journalistic event
OF the day is the appearance of the new
unique position among the periodicals
of the world. With its first issue on
July 5, it effectively silences the familiar
can weekly" This radical change in size
and form of a periodical familiar for
many years to American readers is in
the line of the. virility Of its growth dur
ing the past few months: o keep pace
with the developnA3nt of American af-
fairs today, the most progressive and
stimulating journalism is a necessity.
Harper's Weekly has been from its in
ception, in 1857, "a journal of civiliza-
tion," but journal of nineteenth-century
civilization is not journal of twentieth
century civilization-and this new weekly
promises to be: The contributors include
such men as w. D. Howells, Mark
Twain, Anthony Hope, Richard Harding
ker, Henry Loomis Nelson Booth Tar
kington, John Kendrick Bangs, Carl Sny-
der, p. S. Martin, Thomas A. Janvier, E.
w. Townsend, Sydney Brooks, Hamblen
Sears, James Macarthur and many other
specialists.
has especial attraction in colored plate
of a delicately beautiful native flower,
Erigeron Philadelphicus. The colored
plates of which this in one of a series
issued monthly, are a most valuable pro-
duct1on, being botanically and artistically
correct; while the text accompanying each
are complete sketches of historical, physi-
cal and poetica1 research written in the
late Prof. Meehan'S we'll known popular
style. Another Illustration shown gives
evidence Of some strange purpose of
leaf-cutting insect.
In their recent advertisements of the
second edition of Charles Majors novel
Dorothy Vernon, of Haddon Hail." the
Macmillan company have very properly
called attention to the fact that since
100000 copies of this novel have been sold
two novels bearing almost exactly Similar
titles have been put on the market and
they advise purchasers to make sure that
they get the book they pay for.
The Atlantic Monthly for July contains
some Emersoniana of unusual interest
and Importance series of transcriptions
telling of his talks and walks with Will
liam Ellery Claiming. These extracts,
with their fine. racy flavor of transcen-
dentalism and quaint humor, are exceed
ingly characteristic and significant.