The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-06
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ty-seven editorials in the March of |
Events, including full page portraits |
OF Mark Twain, William II. ALLAN, |
James w. Van Cleave, and William r.
Wilcox To give an idea Of the wide
range of the Worlds Work, questions
of current interest in the following
countries ara treated; Cuba. China,
Asia, the Tropics, Mexico, Great Brit
ain. and 1.-THE Danger Spot of Eu-
rope" the Balkan peninsula. Helen
Keller has an exceedingly interesting
article in this number on what Might
Be Done For the Blind" First, pre-
vent much of blindness, then treat the
sightless sanely, and teach them use
fui things, is the gist Of Miss KelIer's
advice.
The August number of Country Life
in America is a typical summer num-
her, and contains articles which treat
of all the summer sports, yachting,
tennis, swimming, automobiling, out
door photography, etc. That exquisite
nature study of Mary c. Dickerson,
1.-THE Pageant of Nature" which is
one of the most charming serials in
the magazine, viii treat this month on
Sandy Beaches and win as usual be
illustrated by photographs by the au-
thor Allerton S. Cushman, in the Of
flee Of Public Roads, H. S. Depart
nent Of agriculture, contributes an
exceedingly timely and instructive ar
ticle on Fighting Dusty Roads-how
automobiles ruin roads and how the
use of tar can save them. sJoseph
Tracey contributes an article on 1.-THE
Care of the Automobile in Summer
Seine Facts Worth Knowing About
Tires and Lubricants"
The August Circle tells of visit to
the home Of Luther Burbank, the cali
fofnia horticulturist, answers the ques
ton who Is Governor Hughes, and
gives new information about the
weather bureau. The fiction and de-
partments are attractive and make
good summer reading.
From the past in the great treasure
house of the painter "The Strand
Magazine" for August reproduces a
half dozen notable pictures In colors
with an article on arts glimpses which
tells of the beauty of the pictures and
the genius of the artists Ten lessons
in sport in this August number, are
finely illustrated. and there are inter-
esting articles on holiday excursions
II English workpeople; the romance
which hangs about the great unvisited
mountains; q trip on the river Thames
! and a well written explanation on the
educational methods of teaching the
use Of the left hand az well as the
right The usual number of completed
stories are furnished, as well as the
several special departments.
The August number of thss Woman's
Home Companion is primarily an all
story number-except Of course, for
the 10 Indispensable departments that
appear in each issue The second in
stalment of Anthony Hopes love story
|" Helena's Path appears in this num-
Der. Shorter stories are contributed
by Annie Hamilton Donnell, Zona Gale
IClinton Dangerfleld, and others. Much
Ispace Is devoted to the vacation prob
lem, a theme which will interest many
readers. The whole number is finely
illustrated
Guy Elliott Mitchell in The World
To-Day (Chicago) for August shows of
how great value to the nation would be
Itbe draipnoa ~ 4la ero,, ', io,1d- ~ ~
United States; w. S. HARDWOOD de-
scribes the discoveries and chemical
tests made by Or. Stephen Moulton
Babcock, which have been of world
wide value to the dairy industry, and
Alexander Hume Ford furnishes an en-
PERTAINING sketch of The Congression-
al Tour of the Hawaiian Islands"
Other Timely articles discuss the in
crease of forest reserves, conditions in
South Chicago among the immigrants,
and the return home of Swedes.
Charles S. Mellen, the Railroad Lord
of New England" is by Frederick w.
Coburn; Enrique Creel, Mexican AM
bassador to the United States" by G..
III. Forbes Lindsay, and "Fannie
Bloomfield Zeisler,' by wallace Rice.
In the August issue Of the National
Magazine (Boston) appears a notable
effort in contemporaneous literary
work, The editor, Joe Mitchell Chap
pie, publishes a series of timely arti-
cies on 1.-THE Triumphs of the Canadian
West giving in one number COM
Iplete encyclopedia, up-to-date, terse,
lforceful and sketchily written, of the
great western empire. 1t has tre-
mendous power Of to-day about it. The
discovery that Lord strathcona was
the Cheeryble of one of Charles Dick
ems characters in Nicholas Nickleby"
has brought forth a fact that gives a
real Literary" touch. Whizzing over
the wheat fields of Manitoba into the
heart Of Saskatchewan, over the plains
land veldts of Alberta, delving into the
mineral and crossing through the tim
Der resources of British Columbia,
there is no phase of Canadian life over
looked, but all are touched upon in a
mastery manner.
The August 'Travel Magazine de-
votes itself chiefly to American va
cations with articles on a trip in
mountain climbing modern summer
resort, on the shores of the ST. Law
renee, automobiling in England, good
fishing at the end of Long Island
Americans in the north of France,
shooting Maine rapids, and a walk
along the Connecticut river. "a Great
Work of Irrigation in the West" by