Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.

WnlIe everybody Magazine 20
making reputation for striking COW
ers, the cover design for July being
an unusually attractive piece of work,
1t is the liberal supply of high class
reading matter between the covers
that is placing this publication in
the front row. Mr.. Ridgway and
MIR. Thayer are justifying the wisdom
of their former employers, who paid
them the highest salaries in their re-
spective lines, and are surely making
splendid success of Everybody's
Magazine. The July number is espe-
cially strong in fiction, while the 9TH
er departments are even better than
In the past.
Leslie's Weekly improves with age,
the timely illustrations of current
events being feature which is most
popular among the readers.
While the July Century is distinc-
lively fiction number, there being
a number of well written pieces of
fiction, there is no lack of solid read
ing to be found in this most estimable
magazine. Nothing could be more
timely, in view of the bicentennial of
Wesley, than the life of the founder
of Methodism, by G. T. Winchester,
professor of English literature at
Wesleyan university, and well known
on other platforms as lecturer. The
July issue brings, too, the long expec-
tated Unpublished Letters by Sir
Walter Scott" edited by Horace P.
Hutchinson, with notes by Mrs. Mary
Anne Watts Hughes, to whom the
letters were written, and an introduce
tory sketch of Mrs. Hughes by her
grandson, Mr.. W. H. Hughes, the AM
erican brother of tho famous tom
Hughes" Poems from the pen. of Ed
ward Markham and John Burroughs
are also to be found in this number,
while the notable illustration of the,
month is the full-page Timothy Colej
frontispiece engraving of Menippus,l
by Velasquez, the seventh in the SO,
ries of old Spanish masters.
Apropos of Mr.. Chamberlain's i'm
perial tariff propositions, the Review
of Reviews for July declares that the
time has come when the high tariff
wall between Canada and the United
! States ought to be battered down.
The United States, says the editor,
| should propose a reciprocity which
| should ultimately, if possible, be
brought to the point of full CONNER
| cial union.
Mr.. F. w. Stokes, whose first pic
lures In color from the Antarctic will
| be seen in the August issue of The
Century, has had three paintings ac-
cepted and well placed in the Champ
de Mars salon in Paris this spring.
The Review of Reviews for July
gives many interesting facts in con-
nection with the Obrenovitch dynasty
in Servia, which came to so shocking
an end on July IL. The prospects of
the new reign and other topics re-
lated to political conditions and trans
formations in southeastern Europe are
editorially discussed in this number.
For the long, warm days, on the
sands, by the lake, in the country, st.
Nicholas has provided a notably rich
and full July issue to please the girls
and boys in many lands. A summer
magazine should have a decidedly out.
ofdoors flavor; and that is what dis.
tinguishes Ralph Henry Barbour's "A
Pair of Poachers," a story for boys re-
freshingly off the beaten track
Frances Courtenay Baylor's I'm the
Cavalry" pictures army life attractive
ly for both girls and boys. "Marjory's
First Celebration" is pretty Fourth
of July story. The July st. Nicholas
is also unusually rich in interesting
and valuable articles not strictly
classed as stories.