Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-04
AMONG THE
MAGAZINES

or Latin In tne Michigan sJdJe INOIudl
College and author of various Latin
books published by Ginn G. Comapny,
has recently been given the degree
of Phi. d. the Universit of Bonn.
Miss Deristhe L. Hoyt has just
sailed for Italy to carry on further
study of the great paintings of the
world. Miss Hoyt is already well
known through her recent book en-
titled The Worlds Painters and
Their Pictures"
Professor F. P. Moulton, author of
Moulton's Preparatory Latin Compo-
sitlon" (Ginn G Company, has re-
Gently been elected a member Of the
American Pathological Association.
Professor George Hempl, author of
various German works published by
CHM G company, has been elected
president of the American Philologl-
cal society and of the American Dia-
/ lect society. He is also the chairman
OF the Language group of the Congress
, of Arts and Sciences which is to meet
at st. Louis. At present Professor
Hempl is engaged in the preparation
of Practical German Grammar which
will be a new and original present
alton of the subject.
Burkett, Stevens and Hills "Agri-
culture for Beginners" (Ginn G. Com
pany, publishers) has been adopted
for the exclusive use in the state of
Virginia for five years.
Indiana has adopted Frye's" Gram
mer School Geography" for the exclu-
sive use for five years. This is the
third time that Mr.. Frye's geography
has been given a five-year adoption in
this state.
Frye's Biographies, the Mother
Tongue" series. and Montgomery's
Beginners American History" all
published by CHM & Company, have
been adopted for five years in the
state of Virginia.
The House Beautiful for May. (Her- |
bert S. Stone, II Eldridge court Chi |
cago) has an array of 81 articles, fea.
lures and departments. 1t discusses
with pictures. a remodelled home in |
the country artistic treatment of a |
suburban place of one or two acres, |
women in modern industries, school |
gardens and home Of a craftsman on
the Pacific coast. There are a num-
Der of pages devoted to the home gar
den that are treated in an unusually
intelligent manner. Sold at the news
dealers, 20 cents per copy.
E. B. Treat & Co., publishers. Gal
243 west 23rd street, New York; have
Issued a little volume that ought to
help and encourage a great many
sufferers, entitled "The Self.Cure of
Consumption without Medicine" The
work is very intelligent and hopeful
and shows why the many nostrums
should be discarded. Instructions for
breathing, diet and prevention are
given very fully. Price rs cents.
The Review of Reviews for May
provides a group of entertaining and
instructive articles on the Russo-Jap.
anese war and cognate topics. In ad-
dition to the careful editorial treat
ment of the events Of the month in
The Progress of the World" there
is a sketch of the great sea-hghter.
Admiral Togo, written by a Japanese.
followed by Fifty Years in japan"
from the pen of a Japanese journalist
Adachi Kinnosuke, who sums I'D in
this paper the striking progress of his
people during the half-century that
has elapsed since the ships of Com
modore Perry opened Japan to the
influences of Western civilization.
There are also brief summaries of
What the People Read in Japan"
Japanese Opinion of the American
Attitude on the War" and "The effect
of the war on the Internal Affairs of
Russia and DIR. Frank Waldo con-
tributes an interesting. resume of
Climatic Features of the Field of
war"
Outing for May has many very at
.ractive features for spring number.
John Burroughs contributes his
second batch of interesting nature
notes to his regular editorial depart
nent, His brother naturalist Herbert ,
Job has some more photographs OF
he rare birds he saw ION Lonely Bird
Key" 1t is singularly appropriate that
he magazine containing these beauti-
ul products should publish an article
m "Tha Story of the Camera oranh