Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-02
MAGAZINES FOR JUNE.

" - &s L AlChtAAalls 4 lO IA III
s remarkably illustrated by such
,rtists as Andre Castaigne, Frederic
Dorr Steele, p. v. e. Ivory, e. Dalton
stevens and George A. Shipley.
TECHNICAL WORLD.
"The problem of human flight is
iolved," writes e. B. Grimes in Tech
lical World Magazine for June. lone
hundred and sixty times have the
notor-driven flying machines invent
I'd by Orville and Wilbur Wright, of
Dayton, Ohio, carried a man safely
through the high air. The Wright
4 iyer weighs about 925 pounds, in
,luding the operator. 1t is a true
lying machine-not a dirigible bal
loon-and owe nothing to the lift
'ng power of any gas. 1t seems to be
completely under the control of the
operator, who can send it up or
Town, anead or to either side at will.
Driven by a gasolene engine, said to
be Of twenty-four horsepower, it
dew on its last trip a distance of
"a 1-5 miles without a stop. The
speed during this fight averaged a
rifle over thirty-eight miles an hour.
Few inventions have had such tre-
mendous possibilities Consider, for
instance, what the exclusive possess
sion of such a practicable flyer, cap
lble of lifting heavy weight, would
J mean to a nation at war. From a
secure height, every movement of it's
enemy over a vast territory could be
constantly watched; a whole army
night be wiped out or at least thrown
into confusion by bombs hurled from
the sky; great cities might be easily
terrorized-war, 1t would almost
seem, would be abolished by the COM
mon consent of mankind.
FOUR-TRACK NEWS.
The June number of The Four
Track News teens with articles and
TENS of interest and value, from the
eader, Which is entitled "A Star in
lie Wilderness" and describes beau
iful Star Lake in the western edge
of the Adirondacks, to the closing
)ages Of dramatic notes and dates of
many OF the great conventions.
In an article entitled by the
River of the Vineyards Mary
catherine Crowley tells the story of
Monroe, Michigan, and in New Zea-
and's Yosemite" the wonders of that
country, its mighty mountains and
leep gashed fiords are portrayed by
J. Cowan; Leila Weekes Wilson tells
VI Boston's Literary Thoroughfare,"
nd also of THE Paul Revere Birth
llace;' With the Birds" by George
Wharton James, Is a particularly in
eresting description of some of the
california aviaries, and most satisfy
ng to the reader will be "a Catskill
Reverie," by Charles B. Wells;
Among the Lakes of Michigan by
l.. f. Brown, breathes the joy of the
;amper; and Hartley M. Phelps, in
n article entitled Last Remnant of
Fort Pitt" describes Bouquets Re-
loubt, and recalls dramatic events in
American history; with the Fire
Rangers" by Andrew f. Underhill,
tells of the stout-hearted, whole
souled WOodsmen of the Temagami
region; and Mary INLAY Taylor writes
n a most charming way of Madison
by the Sea-" when the Sea Serpent
Came" by G. R. Hervey, is most
timely, now being the most likely
late for his arrival; "a Bit of Blar-
ney," by Clifford Howard; Echoes
From the Campagna," by Mary Rich
ards Grey, and Tree Restaurants"
by William G. Fitz-Gerald, will be
found full of interest to the reader,
while the article of Grace Scott, en-
titled 1.-TWO School-teachers Abroad"
will attract more than usual atten-
ton. Added to these Is a page article
entitled California" in which
George H Daniels pays tribute to
that stricken land, also
other short articles on interesting
topics in various parts of the world,
reaching even into darkest Africa.
Several poems, prominent among
which is an illustrated one by Thorn
as C. Harbough, entitled Twilight
at Valley Forge" the different de-
partments and many beautiful illus
trations, combined with the man
longer articles mentioned, constitute
a strong nunber and one which cred
itably closes Volume x of the maya
zine.
CENTURY.
The sOlemnity and marvellous col
oring of a Jerusalem sunset are so
exquisitely reproduced in the June
Century, from studies in oil by Cor
win Knapp Linson, that 1t would
seem rs if the art of reproduction
could go on further. The artist has
written, to accompany his pictures,
a brief description of the semi-tropic-
al sky, "a vision of prismatic light
holding carnival in the air"
The June Century is a travel num-
Der. There is an account, by Wladys-
law T. Behda, of ''Tatra," a noun
famous region between Galicia and
Hungary. There are word and pic
ture memories of the charming river
| Marine from its source to Paris by
Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph
Pencil. Harry StilIwell Edwards,
| author of 1.-The Two Runaways,'
writes of 1.-The Negro and the South"
an optimistic, and, for a %southerner,
! an unusual, view of the black man in
America. Another of Camille Gron-