Evening journal., 1903-08-12
THE LITERARY WORLD


The Fiction Number OF scribner's
Magazine has become an institution.
For fourteen years II has appeared
every August with It's wealth of beau
tiful illustration, much of IL in color;
its short stories by famous writer's,
and the FIRST remarkable stories Of en-
.tirely unknown writer's who soon be-
came famous. The Fiction Number
this year is "a notable successor i'm this
series. AS the earliest attempts att
color printing In AN American Maga-
zine appeared here. il Is fitting that The
best modern color pictures should
adorn this number. They are of great
variety In method and design. The
cover is an elaborate and beautiful re-
production of a design by A. T.. For
niger The frontispiece. by Walter
Appleton Clark. (who illustrates this
and succeeding numbers of Mrs. Whar-
toms serial Sanctuary IS a charm
ing drawing in a delicate color scheme
of grays and mauve Frank Brang-
wyn, the eminent British marine ar
tist, has four full-page paintings OF a
sea-fght in the eighteenth century.
These are reproduced i'm color. Draw
ings by Child and j. J. Gould are re-
produced In tint. Altogether this num-
Der is artistically one OF the most
sumptuous produced by this magazine.
The Engineering Magazine for Au-
gust has several articles of great inter-
est and some of unusual technical i'm
portance. Foremost I'm both qualities.
probably. is the paper on the study
of alloys, by Prof Henry NJ. Howe, one
of the leading metallurgists of the
world. He describes very clearly the
objects and the methods Of the new
science of Metallography which by
revealing the long-kept secrets OF the
physical structure OF metals has Won
derfully advanced engineering con-
struction in all lines.
Other articles of much interest I'm
both text and engravings are those by
Joseph s. Shultz. on floating dry-docks
and by NJ. emile Guarini on the use of
electricity in the mines of the Con-
tinent. Professor Willislon has "a
valuable summary of the question of
fuel oil versus coal for power purposes
j. II. Van YORK. Jr.. describes an inn
portant and very practical modiiica-
tion of the piece-work plan. and II. S.
| Knowlton makes an instructive study
lof the storage battery as applied es-
ipecially to railway work The num-
Der carries the usual comprehensive
Review and Index of the Worlds En-
gineering Press.-The Engineering
Magazine, New York.
The Metropolitan Magazine for August
In a new summer dress. refined artist,
and wholly pleasing, is notable issue
| So
the new management and is, for the mos
part a magazine of illustrated fiction
There are fourteen short stories, all b,
well-known authors and all strongly hi
man in motive and character. Among th'
contributors to tbe August Metropoiitai
are Maurice Hewlett, (best known, per
} haps. as the author of "The Forest Low
ers'), whose latest story "rhe Queen,
QUAR-" began its serial appearance I'm th'
last issue; Charles G. D. Roberts, Henr.
Harrison Lewis Henry Tyrrell, w. A
Fraser, Charles b. Slower Carolyn Wells
, II. b. Marriott Watson, William Deai
Howells Clinton scoliard, and man
others OF literary note. The illustration.
+ Of which there are fifty. are superb work
I OF art. Published by The Metropolita
/ Magazine Company, New York. $3.50
a'NA FAiAHNN NAiANH AZ NNAAAns
outing for August is mid-summe
number. The breath of the woods is {
the opening article and pictures, "Goin
to the Woods. by Leonidas Hubbard. Jr
and the smell OF the sea in A. J. Ker
eay's story of Small Boat Sailing;
Emery Politics. sketch IAN Island Sun
mer." and Robert Dunns characterize
ton of the Atlantic summer shore, III
last illustrated by some striking draw
lngs by Henry McCarter, who also d'
: signed the attractive seashore cover
this number. Photographs fun of huma
interest illustrate Vance Thompson
2 story of Paris Race Courses" and 9TH
Fishermen of Gloucester" by VictG
slooum. People interested in nature-stud
will enjoy l.. ". Brownells "Nid-Sun
mer Musicians" fishermen and the
wives viii like Fishing Trout Stream
, by w. c. Harris, and Angling as We've
, by an Anglers WIFE," by Justina Johi
son. Those who like to be amused wi
, enjoy Some Snakes I Have Known" I
W. s. Dunbar and everyone will rea
. Edwyn Sandys' "Woodcock Philosophy
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