Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-11
LATE MAGAZINES

Harpers Magazine for August is one OF
| the best of the midsummer fiction num-
bers., Its illustrations, many of them In
the fine color work which gives this mag
azine an individual prestige, are all by
well known artists, and its table of con-
tents presents a list of most distinguished
names. Merely reading them gives one a
highly anticipatory pleasure. Howard
Pyle; Margaret Deland Mary q. wilkins
Freeman, William Dean Howells, Justus
Miles Forman and Gilbert Parker present
the fiction, while Richard LeGalliene and
Alice Brown are represented in the poems.
Capt A. Mahan, U. S. N, tells of old
days at the naval academy, and sven
Heden has a paper describing his audience
with the FASH Lama.
Carolyn Wells continues THE Emily
Emmins Papers in Putnam's this month.
Visiting Westminster abbey and preserV-
ing all the ideals at the same time seems
to be a difficult matter, the telling or
which is certainly amusing. That part or
Emma Hamilton's career which was con-
nected with Lord Nelson is described IN
a paper by George Street. and there are
nearly a score of most interesting artlcles:
81, overs'' is a beautifully written bit OF
fiction by Mrs Henry Dudenay, and Myr-
tie Reed tells of the love affairs Of Edgar
Allan Poe.
The Pacific Monthly for August presents
lengthy discussion of the various presi-
DENTAL possibilities viewed from west
ern standpoint, the question propounoeu
being which man will handale national
affairs in such manner that the Golueil
West shall receive the greatest posslple
good. The usual beautiful colored plates
make the magazine most deigntrul one
for its loyal western readers.
I iey "a -l
of the leading articles in this month
worlds Work 1t is the second part OF
the article by Eugene p. Lyle, jr., and
deals mainly with Tafts work in the pub
lie service. In this same magazine Helen
Kellar has some suggestions for helping
the blind and C. M. Keys has a most IN
teresting paper, copiously illustrated
| showing the railroad conquest OF the
mountains.
| The current Harper's Weekly contains
some good anecdotes illustrating the VII
| Of William M. Evarts who graced the
headship of the bar before .awyering was
so much of a trade as 1t is, and When
| LAWYERS had time for accomplishments
He was a scholar, but no more or Gre
clan than he should have been. yale
men used to think that Theodore Woolsey
knew more Greek than anybody else, and
Mr.. Eyarts was so we'll persuaded OF this
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given to Woolsey, that he and Woolsey
knew more Greek than any other two
men in the country"
81 saw a fine photograph of you, Mr.
| iIyarts. on my way down town this morn
ing. You've beautiful head, Mr.. Ev-
arts" :,
'Tm glad you think so well of it," sait
Evarts; "you know / stand on my head.
Here is one for the Liberal Arts club
One day a man came out of the Play
ers." next door to the Tilden house. nov
occupied by the Arts club, and met Mr.
Evarts There was probably never {
house constructed that was, and is, So
mortally ugly as that which Samuel j
Tilden built on Gramercy park. In ordei
that ingoers might escape quickly from
the sight of the front of IL there wer'
two front doorways. "Of>what school O.
architecture is the Tilden house, Mr.
Evarts?" say a player"
Tudor" said Mr.. Evarts.
Fiat justitia, ruat prandium," he onc'
of the Bar association.
Appleton Morgan, president of tn
Shakespeare society, one of the most In
fuential literary organizations in tn
country, speaks of Current Literatur
as the best magazine published in Eng
!, lish and, as far as he knows, in tn
world. On reading the August issue o
this wonderfully timely magazine on
feels that the editors have succeeded Il
living up to that reputation. There is n
, subject that is touched upon in Curren
Literature without being Illuminated