The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
SIGNIFICANT FEATURES
 OF THE JUNE MAGAZINES


 historical fiction. moving with rapid ac-# ton, never dull, and unchoked with the 2 unimportant detail which the averae8 1 amateur writer endeavors so laboriousfyl ! to set down. Nor is the narrative in anX3 way sectional nor colored with pre5udicost It will please and instruct both NcrtheruI and Southern readers.
 Tn the same maga zine there is an ar@I ticle on Italian trees. with some of th0i most artistic photographs that have everi appeared in an American magazine. The1 pictures themselves are not only waod4 but the reproductions are also. everythfnfl that could be expected. On the wh0l4. 4 and taking its average issuess scribnsztsl has the best art department of any 0Ef the magazines. John Fox's serial ssxhei Little Shepherd of Kingdom Ccms.~ mkfxzI continues. x3
 It is hard to choose any very uzsfin%I guished feature of Munsey'a Mawnxinss| for Munsey's has no very high anal tional mission: it's sole end is to amused and to instruct without straintng xhat mind.
 This is not said in disparagennent of tha3 Magazine. for none of them is abpvu3 amusing it's subscribers. and Munaeyso} is eminently readable. Even Mr. Ho&-l els has admitted that he occasioupl1yt reads Munsey's. though he admitted thatl he did 1t with the same sort of exuussf that he would have given for going toI an afternoon tea,-that he was too tirexI out physically and mentally to attsmpE anything else. But for all that, the rnag-l azine is readable. It is much better than the Sunday newspapers, and for thaSl matter is far superior to most of kh@l cheaper magazines. In the June numhsrI there is an interesting account of theI tfn hn0A n4 AA gether with some additional biography. Ade seems to have superseded Mfr. Doolsyt in the hearts of the public. and neces-l sariiy in the literary columns of the pal pers and magazines. Perhaps the greaferl amount of art in his humor has made his popularity the more lasting. Per- haps, too, the reading public Is begfn- ming to realize that there is more litera- ture in Mir. Ade's fables than 1t orfgIn- ally suspected.
 Formerly reporter on a Chicago pa- per. Ade in very short time was given a column to fill every day with some kind of fiction, Many of these sketches he afterwards embodied in his Artie book. This however, made no great hit, and for six years Ade tried to find some me- dium which would please the public. He finally decided that slang was the me- dium, slang that was not coarse and vul~ gar, and which expressed truth and phil osophy. Hence the fables. His fame as a writer of comic operas was also in the nature of an accident It was while on visit to Japan that he saw the real complications between the Sultan of Sulu. his harem, and the American officers. The situation struck him as being a novel one and peculiarly adapted to comic opera, and onlhis return to America he attempt ed to stve it to several managers FaiI- ing in this, he finally collaborated with
 NNE write the opera. Manager Savage, hear ing that Ade was tinkering on a comic opera, offered to produce 1t, with sue cess which Is now well known. Myself when slim did eagerly frequent Delsarte and Ling, and heard great Rr@
 gument Spent on my Modiste what I'd afwaym
 spent!'
 Miss Daskam still continues her Omar for Ladies in the humorous depaTRmene1 of Harper's Magazine. and it is by all odds the funniest thing theres as th0l above excerpt will prove. Miss Dasi<aru has before this at public dinners. and fnl a serious mood, expressed rather old fashioned views of her sex's duties cou- sidering the fact that she herself. as far as achievement is concerned, might eas~t fly belong to the ranks of the new wo@ man. Hiding behind Omars she has 8tiili another fling at the little weaknesses of her sisters of the clubs. whose philosophyI at bottom is as old Omar'ss though per- haps more conventional.
 MT. Alden, fin a characteristic editoraais makes some interesting distinctions be-I tween classic literature and romance. and again between romance and historical fic-I ton, two things which he devoutly hopeal will not be associated together in the pop-l ular mind. Roy Rolfe Gilson still con- tinues his scenes of childhood. the pres- ent installment bearing the title ''old Witch"
 Through Mir. Jerome and his methods every man, woman and child in New York City stands on a freer plane than two years ago."
 In an article. Jerome vs. Crime" in the June Pearson's. Harrie Davis recites and with something of the devotion of Boswell-having been Jer- ome's secretary-the story of Jerome's raids on the vice and corruption in New York City. The article is along the gent eraI lines of Lincoln Steffens descrip- tions of the exposures of Minneapolis and Pittsburg, except that in this case the crusade is against vice rather than dis honesty. e4
 This is pre-eminently the season of those magazines devoted to scenes out Of doors, and that they take advantage of it is shown by the splendid appearance they make during the spring and sum- mer months. Outing. Country Life In America, and Recreation are specially att tractive particularly in the pictoral eff fects The photographs of men catching A trout in the shade of Vermont stream. of evening boat rides on quiet Swiss lakes. of the coast and its dashing spray. of fine old country houses at the end of spacious lawns with hammocks swung here and there,--these are scenes that drive prisoners in office buildings wild with longing. and make them regret the cynicism they are wont to regard the with during the cheerful winter days in town.
 It is a healthful sign of the country that people are coming more and more to re- gard vacations as necessities, and that many of them are establishing permanent homes for the summer months. These magazines are catering to this growing taste. and the gllmpses they give of out-of-town retreats are tempting in the extreme. If their articles on How to Spend a Vacation Cheap" are some- what overdrawn, and, 1t is to be feared. not always practicable. they at least make fresh and delightful reading, and keep up our interest in things bucolic.