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ties by Eva R. Gaillard and "A Hun
| garian Dinner.
Mary Proctor who writes of Five
Hundred Little Worlds in the August
ST Nicholas, is daughter of the great
| Proctor. the astronomer, and is living at
| present in New York city. She is small
| woman, exceedingly quiet, almost shy IN
manner, but has proved a successful lee
| turer and writer in the field where her
| father won distinction. q
The author chosen for literary presen-
tation in the August number of the Book
| lovers Magazine is that brilliant French
| man, supreme master OF the snort story,
Guy de Maupassant On One Of her ms translaf
! ed into English for the first time, Is ac-.
| companied by critical articles-the prin,
| cipal one, on the authors life work ana
| M PARROT, of Princeton. Several sug-
| gestive portraits and Illustrations give the
| article added value.
The anonymous "reminiscences of an
| interviewer in the Reader for August
| treat of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora
Duse and a new and intimate impression
| is given Of these two famous women
| Whoever the author of this series of ar
| ticles may be, he or she can be credited
| with having met all the dramatic. literary
| and political celebrities of the time ana
| is writing about them with unfailing en-
| tertainment Italy is the land where
every poet goes for the inspiration of his
| life, and whence people come to dig our
| sewers" says Mr.. Bernard G. Richards
| in his Countries Have Never Seen,
| and this opening aragraph is an indica-
| ton of the paradoxical spirit of the whole
| article.
Harper's Weekly for August 1 publishes
sympathetic and striking appreciation
an interesting portrait of the artist by
Rajon. when Sir John Millais was ask
ed what he thought of Whistler" says
| the writer, he replied with enthusiasm,
That was just it. Sir John struck the
keynote of that full chord which was
| Whistler, and which made it impossible
for Whistler to think Of or pander ., to
popular taste. Fully aware that In.
! dustry is not a virtue, but necessity,
he worked hard all his life long to prove
artistic assertions the truth of which
| is no longer disputed.
The fiction number of McClure's for
August is a triumph of editorial selec.
| the exceptionally fit The beautiful cover
showing still lake landscape viewed
from cool white portieo of marble pill
The leader is delightful little story
of child life by May Kelsey Champion.
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 Two Sides of a Street" the idea
of which is that a husband awaits the
heroine on either side of Fifth avenue.
To cross or not to cross is the question.
Both stories are told as if they We're
true, and to the reader is left the choice.
Gibson. is a rafting fine tale of a race
between two Mississippi packets in the
good old days, with a finish that makes
you hold your breath.
The sixteenth annual educational num-
Der of the outlook contains really
noteworthy group OF articles relating to
usual illustrated features which distin-
guish the monthly magazine numbers.
Among the articles having special rela-
toned: An editorial survey of the edu-:
cational history of the year; School
Houses and Beauty" by President Ira
Rssmsen OF Johns Hopkins q, university nse
Richards; "rhe Practical Religion of the
College Girl by Alice K. Fallows,- with
typical photographs of college girls drawn
by John Russell; The Educated Women
70 Tomorrow by Heloise E. Hersey.
American cities present the most re-
markable feature of the rapid growth OF
this continent in population and riches.
The stories of Terre Haute, Columbus,
Youngstown and Harrisburg, crisply told
and fully Illustrated in the National Mag
the mind Of even the least observant.
Charles Ferguson's article on 1.-The Rise
of Free Cities Under the New Industrial
Ordar,'' in the same number, makes clear
the larger meanings Of this rapid city
growth in America. The August National
contains also six brilliant short stories,
a dozen illustrated articles on various
phases of American life the usual chatty
departments on Affairs at Washington
"Our Army and Navy Timely Topics
of the Stage" Mote and Comment and
thoughts and deeds of men and women
the world over. The Illustrations of this
number are more than usually numerous
and attractive
The Metropolitan Magazine for August,
in new summer dress, refined, artistic
and wholly pleasing, is notable issue.
This is the first number appearing under
part, magazine of illustrated fiction.
There are fourteen short stories, all by
well known authors and all strongly hu-
man in motive and character Among
itan are Maurice Hewlett (best known,
perhaps. as the author of 1.-The Forest
Lovers'D, whose latest story, THE
ance in the last issue; Charles 6. D.
Roberts, Henry Harrison Lewis Henry
TyrreI, w. A. Fraser, Charles B. Slower,
William Dean Howells. Clinton Scotland
and many others of literary note.
The August number of the Housekeep-
er is up to it's usual standard of excel
lency and comprises a number of special
features which are exceptionally interest
ing. ''Womans Work at the Worlds
Fair by Ruby Danenbaun, is a timely
article on subject which is interesting
the whole country at this time, and the
illustrations to this article make the reg
ular center. page illustrative features of
the Q1ZlnP Jessie Ackorm9nn tells
Of her Visit to the ,Oddest. Tribe in the
are having some interesting experiences.
'Louise's Empire Wedding is described
in the series of "Ten Pretty Weddings
and Mrs. Hitler gives a lesson in Making
Frozen Desserts accompanied with a
varied list of dainty recipes.
B. L. Farjeon, a son-in-law of Joseph
Jefferson, and an English novelist of note.
| died recently at the Hampstead home,
from rupture of blood vessel.
In Harper's Magazine for August APP
pears a posthumous article by the late
M de Blowitz telling of the efforts of the
German government to discredit the ia
nous correspondents account of the real
facts in. connection with Bismarcks resig-
nation
Brander Matthews voices the need for
the development of a purely English Ian
guage, and criticiseS some of the present
characteristics of the language.
In his article on 1.-THE Luxury of Chill
dren," E. S. Martin amusingly makes a
comparison between the cost Of raising
son and that of keeping a carriage and