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There are ten short stories for 10 cents in
Leslies Monthly for June, not to speak of
articles and poems and illustrations.
The June number of the World To-day
announces that, beginning with July, the
price of this great magazine will be 81
year. or 10 cents a copy.
There are sef-made men in Russia to-day
as we'll as in this country. Wolf Won
Schierbrand tells IN Les!ie's Monthly for
June of a number of these Russians, all
men of remarkable careers and of remarka-
bic ability.
Parsons Magazine for June is an invit-
ing number containing clever short stories,
interesting special articles, illustrated in
terviews with popular actors, and the arti-
cles of the home notes department., all we'll
illustrated.
1.-The Orator of the Day." a story by
Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly,
number of the Youths Companion There
is also fine commemorative poem by Mary
Austin-"Sailor Dead. Soldier Dead"
After a months respite Miss Tarbell
again takes up her History of the Stand
ard Oil Company in the June McClure's.
She discusses the thirty years struggle of
the competing oil men against the Standard
under the title, "A Modern War for indie
pendence."
Henry Lewis Nelson has been visiting the
middle West. and is pleased with the coun-
try and the people. as may be gathered
from his article, I'm Medals Res" in Har-
pers Magazine. He defines this region a
that which formerly constituted the old
Northwest Territory.
George Madden Marten, author of that
charming story of little girl. Emmy
LOU" is proving in her serial, 1.-The House
of Fulfllment." in McClures Magazine,
that she has talent for quite a different
class of fiction. She crowds many emo
tions and much tragedy into the chapters of
the June number.
Samuel Hopkins Adams, whose recent
study of the case of Caleb Powers. of Ken
lucky, in McClure's. aroused wide COM
ment, has another article from the land of
feuds and clans and Illicit whisky in the
June number of McClures. 1t is a dramatic
story of Dan Cunningham, a United States
deputy marshal. who has spent his life
fighting the lawless mountaineers, and with
success.
In the Cosmopolitan for June Is an IL
Illustrated article on Staging a College
Play which will be Of interest to a host
of young people Among the fiction is
a story in somewhat unusual vein by
Octave Thanet, whose name appears too
seldom in the periodicals Glass making
\ is the subject of illustrated paper in
| this number. IL is the first OF a series of
articles on the great industries of the
| United States.
1t is a vivid chapter on the Chicago labor
| situation which. Jean Driscoll contribute
| TO the Reader Magazine for June. With
| the art of graft so well understood and
! practiced by labor leaders and the anxiety
/ of many employers TO have peace at any
| cost together with the political phases OF
/ the matter. one must naturally wonder if
the efforts of Chicago business men to
/ break the strength of unionism can ever
/ be successful.
| In his second paper in the Reader Maya
zine on railroad accidents Francis Lynde
deals with some of the causes of collisions
| and other disasters Some of them he finds
to be the employment of men mentally in
adequate to meet unexpected emergencies,
! or of men who. through idleness or indif-
| ference, are criminally negligent of their
| duties The lack of proper training OF en-
/ ployes in responsible positions is another
/ source of danger. What he says is of inter-
est 10 the travelling public and should be so
/ 10 railroad companies.
| The June issue of the Twentieth Century
Home ISSUED by the Cosmopolitan Press.
Irvington, n. W takes up: Home Educa-
ton" by John Brisben Walker; 1.-The
Worlds 500 Best Books" by James H. Can
| field: THE Best Books of the Month for
the Woman Who Reads, by Harry Thurs
| ton Peck; Home observation-disclosures
| zation of a Debating Society" by r. c.
| Ringwalt: THE Fairyland OF Science by
| Garrett y Serviss; 1.-The Laboratory of the
| Kitchen by w. b. kaempffert; Studies
i'm Home Dressmaking," by Mrs. n. NJ
Slater; The Months Work." by Catherine
| Markham
The leading feature of the June Harper's
! is the opening installment of Mrs. Hum