The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-27
August Magazine Notes.


The Midsummer Holiday number OF
the Century appropriately offers its read
ers-most OF whom are in their summer
homes-an unusual outdoor feature in THE
Woods of Ida" a poetioal masque in the
classic spirit. by Olive Tilford Dargan.
author of Lords and Lovers" The
Waterways of Americas-thei past, their
present, their possibilities-is a big sub
Iceland in view of transportation prob
lens a timely o~ne-handled By Charles D.
Stewart.
The special articles of the August Broad
way are: August Belmont" William
Allen Johnston; Painters of Sea and
Shore by Florence Finch Kelley; ''The
Midsummer Madness Of Society," Forest
Halsey; THE Chatelaines Of Bar Harbor, ?
H. d. Graham; Staten Island Herbert
Dutton Warren. There is much fiction be-
sides.
George Wharton James has contributed
an article to the August number OF the
Circle concerning "A Little Visit to the
Home Of Luther Burbank" which for sew
esal reasons is OF peculiar interest. Mr..
James Is a fellow Californian and an inti-
mate friend of Mr.. Burbank, and this lit
tie visit Is but one of many which have
made him thoroughly conversant with Btir-
bank. the man.. as well as with Burbank.
the horticulturist
Dark Horses of Democracy" the '.Yel-
low Peril" "A Setback for Uncle Sam at
The Hague Overthrow of the German
Court Camarilla.'' THE Jezebel of China,
This Man Darrow.' Our Foremost Liv-
ing American Writer American Heroes
in Bronze and Marble The Literary
Madhouse OF Modern Germany" a study
of Turgenieff, the greatest of all novel;
I -. - III N-A.-t4- - A
Puritan Mind and Bernard Shaw's So
luton of the Problem Of Evlr' are a few
of the subjects treated in Current Litera-
ture.
Next months ST. Nicholas will give its
thousands of young readers many happy
and profitable hours. Besides the serials.
Tom. Dick and Harriet "A Little Field
of Glory" Fritz and ''Pinky Perkins:
just a Boy" Georgiana Homer tells a
pretty story of The Spell of the Sea-" #.
Maud Smith describes ''Sylvia's Automo-
bile Party which has a hint for other
little hostesses; Beth Bradford Gichrists
"Jim's Experiment Is a story of a boys
and fathers friendship, and Temple
Balley's How Virginia Went TO the Pie
MIC is a sort Of undermined version Of
Cinderella. For the more solid part of the
magazine Is a detailed account of how a
boy may build easily enough a truss
bridge, with little outlay for materials
Edwin j. Prindle %recounting what one
boy has done. >. e. Forman continues his
Stories Of Useful Inventions" with ac-
count Of the evolution of the boat, and w
9. Fitzgerald describes the building of q
giant liner.
The August American Magazine is a
story number from beginning to end
Even the leading article by Lincoln
Steffens Is a story, 1t is an account Of
the early life OF Francis J. Heney. the
man who has prosecuted Abe" Ruef and
Mayor Schmitz IN San Francisco and the
land thieves In Oregon and elsewhere.
Mr.. Steffens describes Heney as "a
fighter who has fought not only for his
life. but for his principles.
In the August issue Of the National
Magazine the editor, Joe Mitchell Chapple.
publishes AZ series Of articles on 'aThe
Triumphs Of the Canadian Vest
In Uncle Remus's Magazine for August.
hof which Joel Chandler Harris is editor,
the editorial contributed BY that dis,
~tinguished writer deals with 1.-The Phiios-
ophy OF Failure There IS also 4 new
Uncle Remus story by this same versatile
writer. and every child in the land will
welcome with interest The story 81 ms
= Doodapg.' Tie coDtinnatiph Of Mr..