Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-08-04
August Magazines.


The Review of Reviews for August
contains an unusually varied list of
strong features and among the timely
articles we quote from "The Peace Ne
gotiators at Washington" as follows.
"Baron Jutaro Komura is one of the
most remarkable of the younger states
men of Japan. He comes from the
ministry of foreign affairs, post which
he has filed with dignity and success
since 1900. He conducted the Man
churian negotiations which led up to
the war in manner highly satisfactory
to the Emperor and the entire people.
Baron Komura is a Harvard man, and
speaks English with strong Boston
accent. He won his spurs in Korea in
1895, when Japanese diplomacy was so
discredited. Five years later, he went
to Picking, and participated in the peace
conference there, as a result of the
Boxer rebellion and the expedition of
the allied powers. During his stay at
the Chinese capitol he won the conf
dence of China so largely that there
has existed an unpublished but effective
alliance between Japan and China,
which has been very helpful to the
former during her war with Russia.
Baron Komura was japanese minister to
Washington preceding Mr.. Takahira.
His greatest triumph may be said to be
the long and delicate negotiations which
he, as foreign minister, conducted with
Baron Rosen, then Russian minister,
which eliminated in the great struggle
between the two powers"
In McClure's for August a nail is hit
suddenly and squarely on the head by
o. Henry, the humorist The tragedy
of giving shop girls too small pay to
live on, decently, is revealed. 1t is a
regular o. Henry yarn, but it has infinite
wit, pathos, sincerity, and brains. 1t is
really the story OF what is likely to
happen to anybody who is expected to
line up against the flesh and the devil,
backed by a giggle, soft heart, and
three dollars week.
Pictorially the Midsummer number
of the Metropolitan Magazine is extra
ordinary in the high quality of its offer
ings to the public. Here is the list Of
illustrators: A. B. Frost, George Gibbs
Fernand Lungren, N. C. Wyeth, Franz
Tenney johnson, Peter Newell, A. c.
Machefert, Henry HUT, H. C. Wall
F. d. Steele, Bendon Campbell, G. D
Hubbard, F. Strothmann, and Gartl
Jones.
Bright, refreshing, charged will
energy and inspiration from its example,
of successful country jewellers, the Au
gust Country Calendar will give, ever
to the most jaded sufferer from tn
"dog-days," a keener enjoyment of tn
glorious out-doors-from the golden
: yellow "Hay-wagon" on the cover
through the handsomely illustrated
pages to the end. Mabel Osgood Wrigh
describes the first of these experiences
. in the endearing style that has mad
! her nature-books beloved of multltudes
She tells the intimate story of the con
ception and growth of her own beauti
full home-"A Poor Mans Paradise.
Henry T. Finck, the widely-knowl
musical critic, proves that he is ais
a sharp animal observer and a worth.
amateur farmer" by his story o
| "Shep." E. P. Powell, in my Min,
, Acres and What did With Them,
communicates the enthusiasm by which
t he transformed retired clergyman'E
summer resort into the support of al
entire family. The Departments" con
densed and authoritative as they are
read little less antartaininplv than thf