The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
MAGAZINE NOTES.

If all the gifts the summer brings us
are as brimming with profit and pleasure
as are the pages of the June Smart Set
It will be a very exceptional summer in
deed The magazine of cleverness, !"
though it is always much more than
that, shows a peculiar cleverness in
OF the season. Charming summer read
tributions!
The novelette,, 'sThe Bonbouiere." bv
Ethel Watts Mumford with setting in
the outdoors of sunny France. Is the
sparkling and beautifully conceived story
OF a mysterious influence of the olden time
upon a present-day American family in
French chateau. The daughter of the
house and her romance win the readers
heaEt-and hold it.
Following this winsome fancy comes
Barry PAINS 1.-The Dead Man Wins
an exciting adventure that affords look
into the inner life of a fascinating and
extremely extreme, c human gentleman criminal.
delightful little romance with huge
surprise at the end; Virginia Woodward
Clouds "A Special Dispensation' tells
with fine pathos-the kind Of pathos that
Is pleasing on June day-how a little
child sets right a domestic tragedy. In
"A Fictitious Venture" by Robert Adger
Bowen, a literary reputation is made and
unmade.
Something Of a Spotdolph Himself, y
by Hayden Carruth. in the June issua of
Ten Story Book. is an exquisite hit Of
hctiOn for summer reading. 1t abounds
with interest while the love theme is
Ieavened with smiles. Other stories no
less clever are listed. Axel Tegnier's THE
Pretty Rebel Of the Three Moons,'' is an
1nteRse little drama Of colonial days The
Hon. Buck Hinrichsen, Of Illinois. con-
culiar vein. called "A Compromising
Squiredon.'' - A powerful story The
Woman in Gray is by julia Fruit Bish-
opi one F1ckle Fool, by Kennett Har-
Tis, and "A Million Dollar Shampoo" by
Mary 5. Paden, are equally good and
more than worth while. The cover Is
again a feature and once seen will linger
IN IN the memory. The designer, Mr.. Earl
Shearer, gives his conception of Don
QulXote's famous tilt with the windmill.
ern Advertising, which has attracted in
terest throughout the country. is CON
Ilnued In the May number. The topic
I!o+il tor TINS n month is The Humors of Ad-
Hartt a clever journalist and essayist.
who treats the comic side of advertis-
ing IN most original and witty manner.
The first installment Of Mrs. Hunnphry
Wards story. THE Marriage of William
Ashe," opens the June number of Har-
bert Sterner present three of the new
characters. A picture of a girl, Lady Kit
ty Bristol, is peculiarly interesting and
quite original, both in color and treat
Lady Iranmore, and just being returned
TO parliament the second time, appears at
once IN the first chapter, which has the
same restrained vivacity that caught the
readers attention so promptly in the
opening Of Lady Roses Daughter"
Ell. G. Dwight, a new writer. whose
stories have recently appeared in Scrib-
neTs, viii have in the June number a
short story whose heroine is named after
one of Henry James Henrietta Stack
pole
Simeon Ford, the famous after-dinner
humorist, has no little fame as a golfer
as well. Writing in Country Life in
America he says that he is rival of
Walter j. Travis. though he thinks he is
better at "baWling a golf address" than
addressing a golf ball" Mr. Travis also
contributes an article to the same mag
azine on the practical subject of the care
Of putting greens.
A new novel by a new writer. Emerson
Clifford Taylor's "a Daughter of Dale"
is announced by the Century company.
The book is said to tell most entertain
ingly the story of Barbara the daughter
Of Dale" her devoted grandfather an
honored professor of Dale, and her two
rival Wooers. students in the graduate
school at Dale. Mr. Taylor is graduate
Of Yale. a Yale doctor of philosophy, and
an instructor In rhetoric at his alma
mater.