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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

1 Drought together in curious way LUCIA
Chamberlain writes delightful western story
called October Twenty sixth" Grace Mac
) Gowan Cooke, whose studies of child life are
unfailingly witty. has one of her best stories
) In this ISSUE called THE Word That Went
} from Him. In direct contrast are stories by
Olivia Howard Dunbar Roland Franklyn An
crews Ruth Kimball Gardiner and Kate Mas
terson. In addition, there is story in the
original French. and verse by George Sylves-
Ter Vlereck, John g. Neihardt, Charlotte Beck
er Archibald Sullivan, Grace Dufneld Goodwin
ana Edward Wilbur Mason.
Those who have been, or are going abroad
tnls summer will find Arthur Stanley RIGGS
story, The Full Moon of Righteousness" In
.ne august Lppincott's of special interest to
them 1t depicts the strange scrape" that
American girl gets into through the too free
use Of camera on shipboard and may prove
d warning 70 the tourist photographically in
chned' cousin Christopher story by john
son Norton in the same magazine should also
appeal forcibly to the summer traveller for it
tells amusing experiences of two young Ameri-
cans while touring the continent when
Spring Comes Late"-an ant title for 1oo7-the
complete novels by Marie Van Worst This
is sure to be liked by both the traveller and
the stay-at-home.
| The world at large is especially Interested at
present In the awakening to it's possibilities Of
that long sleeping country. China. The Popu-
lar Magazine for September contains a story
! by George Bronson Howard entitled THE Door
of the Double Dragon which, in a way nre-
sages this awakening, and tells in dramatic
| fashion of rebellion such as has never he
| fore been recorded in history in which the
master spirit is an energetic American, who
holds commission captain of cavalry in the
| Chinese army. The three SERIALS 1.-THE Devil's
Pulpit" by II. b. Marriott Watson; THE Man
| Who Was Dead" by Arthur w. Marchmont
| and 'Zollensten'' by W. B. NJ Ferguson, fur
nish in this number chapters full enough of ex-
element to satisfy the most exactng. Besides
the above, the Popular for September contains
short stories by Edward Lucas White C. T.
1tevere, Edward Marshall, K and Hesketh
| Prichard, B. M. Bower, T. Jenkins Hams
FRANCIS Whitlock and Scott Campbell.
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| The August Travel Magazine follows the pol
| icy OIL the two preceding summer numbers and
| devotes itself chiefly to American Vacations.
Inc cover shows the beach at Ostend the
North sea- and the odd appearance the women
| bathers present with their brightly colored
parasois is attraotively brought out.
Through the White Mountains by Motor
Car and on Foot by Walter Prichard Eaton,
| is account of a trip in which mountain
climbing for sunrises; GOLF hotel dances and
camping charmed a month away. Picturesque
Marblehead,'' by Mary H. Northend tells
about one of the charming examples of that
American develorment-a modern summer re.
sort on an old town. Jean McIlwraith's "a
salt Water Vacation in Canada describes the
delights of summer vacation on the shores of
the st. Lawrence. In Cruising in a Rowboat''
Gardner Richardson writes of making the cir
, cult of Manhattan's thirty-five miles of water
Ilie' "A mover exploit Tor a summer day in
town. "Automobiling in England" by Charles
Quincy Turner, describes trip from Plymouth
to London through the Lorna Doone country.
In "a Calendar OF Travel learn what to
dc and where to go in the month of August
"A Great Work of Irrigation in the West - by
c. j. Blanchard, is the story of a sixty-two
mile ride by motor car over government roads
to the town % Roosevelt, where one of the
worlds greatest dams is being built.
Success Magazine for August contains a very
significant article by Frederick Upham Adams
upon the unprecedented increase in the worlds
supply of gold Mr.. Adams points out the
causes of this deluge of the precious metal and
declares that gold as standard of values is
inevitably doomed.
Henry Beach Needham contributes the third
and last of his articles on professional baseball.
The psychology OF the fan and the inner
workings OF the baseball trust are the phases
dealt with
Acquaintancrs OF the coyote will be interested
in Ernest Thompson Setons contribution,
Dogs of Song, in which the habits of that
animal are Interestingly described.
Josiah Flynt. III the eighth installment Of his
autobiography. leaves the underworld and deals
with the hish-class crooks of Wall street.
Transportation interests. both by rail and
waterways, claim considerable attention in the
August issue of Moody's Magazine. George E.
Walsh shows that a country we are appar-
emily entering upcn an of canal building
as enthusiastically we did upon railroad
construction quarter of a century ago. The
whole eastern United States is likely to be
gridironed with canals, and If the plans of the
present are realized in the future we will have
an inside water Ioute from Boston to Florida
and traffic connection through the Chicago
drainage canal OF the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi. Franklin Wood shows how mig
gardly have been the appropriations for the
improvement of waterways in this country m
comparison with the sums spent in the i'm
provement of foreign ports, and points out the
immense saving from improved waterways
Tha oil dc .a.s.,r
transportations and the newly created inland
waterways commission is looked to to recon-
mend the comprehensive utilization of our
terway resources.
Municipal ownership problems come to the
front again in article by Lucien II. Tying,
on private public ownership of gas compa-
MES. The author says public operation means
lax management and private operation more
energetic and efficient management and IA
greatly increased Use of gas. Furthermore. the
ability to handle and develop gas enterprise
by the most aggressive and intelligent methods
is something municipality cannot buy at
salary.
The August fiction number of McClure's is
an excellent illustration of the development
which has taker place in this magazine during
the past year. The fiction number of 1906 was
remarkably good The fiction number of 1907
shows marked growth in the distinctive
quality of it's stories, the power and authori-
tative value of its articles, and the general
broadening and deepening of its editorial pol
ity. THE Power of the Dog" by NJ. Gauss.
is a love story OF great imaginative power.
written in a totally and individual style.
THE Great North Road" by Mary Watts.
revives some of the best romantic traditions
in a tale of splendid gallantry and fnesse.
Maude Radford contributes another of her SYM
pathetic studies of the working classes. Will
Adams in 1.-THE KEucke- Pusher," writes with
robustness and humor of barrack room life.
strong story of the Philippines, by James Hop
per; a remarkable mining tale, THE Long
Shift" by Eugene Rhodes; and one of Lucy
Pratt's delicate and unique studies of negro
childhood, ezekiel in Transit" complete the
list IAN Evening Song" by VILLA Sibert
Gather, and ITO A. E. Houseman," by Blanche
Allyn Bane, make up the verse in this num-
Der.
The Popular Science Monthly for August
opens with an account of the changes in the
cells of the body with age, being one of
series of Lowell lectures problems of age,
growth and death. by Prof Charles S. Minot
of the Harvard medical school. The article
is extensively illustrated and in it problem
of great general interest is discussed by the
leading authorit:, in the country. w. K Greg