Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-26
RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

Parsons for August has more than
usual of light reading-to accord with
days when one Is not disposed to take
the world too seriously. A new serial,
DIR. Nicholas Stone" opens attractive
ly II Is a detective story, and prom
iscs to be full OF action and of human
interest Then there Is "A Sheaf Of
Ghost Stories" edited by the Duke of
Argyll, whose name Is guarantee for
their trustworthiness; a fine story by
Norman Duncan, THE Wreck of The
VIII o the Wisp;' chronicle of Don
O., by X, and Hesketh Prichard, How
He Balanced Accounts with a King or
Finance" an Indian nights entertain
inent story by A. Sarath Kumar-Ghosh
THE Casket of Kali" and four short
err stories, all very bright and enter
tanning. The solid matter consists OF
Albert Bigelow paines article on Mast
ard the Ring" in the Thomas Mast
series, the first Of Or. Cyrus Townsend
Brady's three papers on War with
the Sioux" In the Indian fights and
fighters series, and THE Combat on
Beaver Creek" by Gen. Eugene A,
Carr. The magazine contains the home
notes department as usual. The Illus
tratlons are good and in large number.
The cover is noticeable, being a repro
duction In color of Thomas Nasts
"Brains' cartoon that well known por-
trait whose head Is a money bag. As
TOR Place, New York city.
The August McClure's announces
editorially that the author of "The Sim
pie Life" Is to visit this country soon,
as follows, The thousands Of Ameri-
cans who have been reading THE Sim
pie Life and by the Fireslde' Will
be interested In the announcement that
Charles Wagner Is to make his first
visit to the United States this autumn.
While travelling primarily for obserya-
tion and recreation, Mr. Wagner VIII
deliver lectures and addresses wherever
he goes. owing to the shortneSs Of
tlme--he viii be here only during Oc-
tober and Noyember-he win coniine
his visit to the territory east of Chi
cago and north OF Washington Among
the interesting results of Mr.. Wagners'
tdp will be the record Of his impress
sions OF America, which VIII appear In
part I'm McClure's Magazine. What the
man who wrote and believes I'm THE
Simple Life win think of our COM
PICK and strenuous existence cannot
hut interest us all,--4i-46 East Thirty
third street, New York City,
Ralph Conner begins "The Pros
pector, in the August Fiction num-
Der OF Leslie's Monthly Magazine nd
the first chapters promise better story
than either "The Sky Pilot or BLACK
Rock" There are If other stories In
this number, by such people as George
Hibbard, Henry G.. Rowland, Alice
MacGowan, Holman Il. Day, II. J..
Greene and Rex h, Beach, and they
cover enarly every variety Of up-to-
date fiction. j Adam Bede, the humor-
list OF the house OF representatives, has
| a most amusing article on THE SPELL
binders" whom we may expect to listen
TO during the next few months, In
which he tells n number Of good stories.
There are also remarkable photographs
OF the st. Louis fair and portraits of
the men who created that exposition,
and a helpful little sketch of the cost
OF visit TO g. Louis this summer.
The delightful verse by Kennett Har-
ris, with some remarkably good draw
ings By Reginald Birch, are an attrac-
tive feature OF the number and Mrs.
| Calls monthly paper on THE Freedom
OF Life" as usual is we'll worth read
ing and thinking about-laast Twenty
fifth street, New York city.