Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-08-04
LITERARY LORE.
What The Various Magazines For
August Contain.

| ~'0tADAaA ludkdLlDt IOr august
carries, IN addition to its regular
table OF contents, forty pages of brisk
text and attractive pictures under the
general title sPortland's Fair and the
Great Northwest, - by Joe Mitchell
Chapple. The cover design further
carries out the idea of Lewis and
CLARK number, and Edna Dean Proctor
brings the final artistic touch to this
feature OF the magazine in her bril-
liant story poem 'Sacagawea, cele-
brating the glory of the Indian girl
| who led the explorers across the Great
| Divide to the Pacific. Poultney Bige-
low writes merrily of his experiences
IN the recent ocean yacht race; Dallas
Lore Sharp and Ernest McGaffey con-
| tributes out of door sketches; Robert
MoCaw tells the thrilling story of his
| experiences as a prisoner of DeWet.
The magazine is illustrated with many
portraits of current celebrities and
other pictures
When some of the newspapers were
printing funny stories about William
Loeb, private secretary to President
Roosevelt, during the last campaign,
alleging that he was the champion
blametaker in America, because he
was always so willing to assume re-
sponsibility for anything that went
wrong at the White House, Mr.. Loeb
laughed with the very men who wrote
the yarns But, one day his patience
was taxed. The Presidents train had
been delayed seven hours between
Philadelphia and New York while he
was going to Oyster Bay. Next morn
ing one of the New York dailies had
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Train Water bound-Loeb Not to
Blame. - See here, boys, said the
secretary, next morning, at Oyster Bay,
chats going too far. 7" Very well, :"
said the reporter who had written the
story, I'll correct it tomorrow and say
you were to blame. Success Maya
izne.
The eargerly awaited conclusion of
Miss Tarbell's character sketch of John
ID. Rockefeller is in McClure's for
August. 1t builds upon the founda-
tions laid in the first paper clear and
interesting estimate of the most sig
nificant personality in contemporary
affairs. Eminently. calm, giving him
always the benefit of the doubt, the
real Rockefeller, judged by his deeds,
is examined and compared with the
man -JohnsD. Rockefeller lets the pub
lie see in the Sunday school, in phi
lanthropy and in business activity.
His character is barred of all its pre-
fences, that the lesson his life teaches
may be plain. In the years of Miss
Tarbell's study of Standard Oil she
has acquired minute knowledge of
John ID. Rockefeller's business career,
which gives her first advantage as his
biographer, but it is through her mar
velousIy rare and temperate view
point and her training as historian.
that this character sketch becomes a
great and lasting work. The second
paper leaves nothing to be said of John
ID. Rockefeller. 1t places him in his
final relation to the history of his
time.
The Pilgrim for August is a mid
summer fiction number, and, as such,
promises to be the most successful
issue of this interesting magazine ever
published. The great success of The
Pilrgim seems TO give the lie direct
to those wary publishers who have, for
so many years, commended that a maya
zine of general interest and of the
higher class cannot be published west
InllAuGkpild duu NtM lOIh. ENtn
in the matter of short tales, q reading
of The Pilgrim for August shows that
these elusive bits of literature may
we'll be gathered in the Middle West.
The stories in The Pilgrim for August
are not only the best stories this mag
azine has ever published, but are
among the best in the summers entire
crop of fiction. Authors well and
little known are represented, but the
tales of everyone are vastly superior
in interest and. in the manner of the
telling to the majority of short stories.
Moreover, the variety offered is so
wide that if one reader does not like
the first he is rather sure to like the
second or the third-or the tenth. All
the valuable departments, moreover,
are maintained, and, in word, The
Pilgrim for August is the most enter
tanning issue thus far offered of this
magazine.