The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
MAGAZINES.

Lippincott's Magazine for August
provides feast of fiction for idle days.
The opening novel, by Elizabeth Duer
is called THE Green Dragon" and
possesses all the qualities desirable in
magazine novel. Marion Harland
contributes a powerful story called
'"The Seventeenth of August, 1874" The
title smacks of history, but the pa
thetic tale is pure fiction of the most
appealing sort. The way a medical
man sacrifices himself for a friend,
whose wife finds some compromising
letters in her husbands pockets is told
under the title Another Mans Elk.
cuses," by E. Spence de Pue. This
sounds true. Edward Boltwood's
sketches of Western camp life are well
liked. That in Lippincott's August
number, entitled Cupid in the Horse
Camp" is one of his best. A single ex-
ception to fiction is a paper entitled
Father Kneipp and His Cure" by
Maud Howe. The verse of the month
is up to the usual high standard. Lip
pincott's Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Midsummer Holiday Century is
characterized by articles on unknown
regions, by a varied personal interest
and by an appeal to artistic taste both
in color-work and in black and white.
The most out-of-the way articles are
New Light on Lhasa, the Forbid
den City" with unpublished photo
graphs taken by a Kalmuk pilgrim
which Mr. Rockhill, the Tibetan trav-
eler, in a predatory note, pronounces
of extraordinary interest, and AN
Artist in the Antarctic" by F. w.
Stokes, whose pictures are the first
news in color from that still mys-
terious region
The personal articles comprise,
Chapters, from a Diplomatic Life"
"reminiscences of people and events by
Andrew D. White, and "Wesley's, Days
of Triumph" a pen portrait of this
great preacher and interesting char
acter by Prof Winchester.
The fiction includes a short tale by
David Gray "a horse-sale story !;
"Overhauling the Politicianers," a
humorous sketch of the Maine coast
by George S. WATSON; "Chills," and
other stories. The number is an ex-
ceptionally good one. The Century
Company, Union Square, New York
The fiction in The McClure's for Au-
gust is exceptionally fine. The leader is a
delightful little story of child life by
May Kelsey Champion. 1.-THE Method
of Charles Stuart" with illustrations
in color by Jessie Wilcox Smith, of
exquisite charm and feeling. Then
follows an altogether novel brace of
love stories by Mary r. S. Andrews
called 1.-TWO Sides of Street." the
idea of which is that a husband awaits
the heroine on either side of Fifth
avenue George Hubbard has a clever
love story of society folk, THE Re-
quirements of the Situation" and
James Weber Linn a romance of the
Arizona desert, THE Girl at Dukes"
each excellent in it's kind. Lincoln
Steffens' article on Jacob A. Riis" is
the best character sketch of 1.-THE most
useful citizen of New York" that has
been written. 1t is the sincere and
intimate view of one friend by another,
and of one newspaper man by an
other. So also is John McAuley Pal
mer's paper called Colonel Lumpkin's
Campaign" McClure's Magazine. AL
1876 East Twenty-fifth street. New York
city.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine has rea-
son to be we'll pleased with its August
number. 1t has an exceptionally fine
table of contents. The leading article.
by David Belasco, is handsomely Illus
trated and contains a great deal of in
teresting information. 1t is entitled,
Dramatic Schools and the Profession
of Acting" An article that will attract
attention is entitled "A Great Public
Service" and is by Frank Moss. La
vinia Hart has a readable antlcle in
this number, entitled. THE Way to
Win Woman" The articles on Cap
tains of Industry" are first class, and
the one in the August number is par
ticularly good. The Klondike. as a
mining center is dealt with in a way
that conveys a great deal of informa-
ton about that section of the world.
It would be difficult to make a more
entertaining number than the August
one. The Cosmopolitan, Irvington,
New York.
The Black Cat for August has half
a dozen excellent stories. The leading
one is entitled Mrs. Knapp's Lion"
All of the stories are well worth read
ing. The Short Story Publishing Com
pany, 144 High street, Boston, Mass.
CentraI's Earnings.
Earnings 1903 1902.