Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-01

count of the peace conference by Vance
IThompson to an informing study OF the
| great department stores by Hartley
Davis. Charles 70. Russell publishes
the second instalment of his series
Where Did You Get 1t, Gentlemen
and Allen Sansree PHILOSOPHERS brees-
lily on the fFea7ies of baseball fans. :
The fiction feature OF the number Is
THE Judgment of Eve" a novelette,
by May Sinclair, who boldly handles
what Is generally thought to be for
bidden theme for magazines.
| Howard Pyles remarkable new painting
of Abraham Lincoln forms the frontis-
piece of Harper's Magazine for Septem-
Der. 1t was made to accompany an
article continuing new and unpublished
facts about Lincolns last day, told by
William H. Crook his personal body
guard. The opening article of this num-
Der is "A Country Under Two Kings" by
Robert Shackleton, 8 description of the
only land in the world over which two
kings are in peaceful authority Fred
erick Trevor Hill writes an interesting
account of one of the most famous trials
in American history-a fight for the free
dom of the press. 1t was legally styled
"The United States VS.. Calender, was
held in 1900. and prosecuted under the
article on THE Language Of Insects, =
Dr. Henry C. McCook, president of the
American chronological society, de-
scribed the wonderful methods by which
ants and other small creatures commun-
icate with each other-an article rounded
on the patient observations or many
years. Mrs. Grace Ellery Claiming con-
tributes a humorous account of the 1T
tie Italian village of Saracinesco, wnere
many artists models live their quaint
and simple lives 1t is illustrated with
photographs of some of these people In
their homes.
Edwin q. Conklin, professor of zoology
in the University of Pennsylvania, writes
OF the remarkable advances in photo
microscopy--the science of making ell
larged pictures of microscopic op1ects'
He tells of the results in this work from
the use of ultraviolet light. There are
with the article. Tne PIC
lures in this number are particularly hne'
Besides Pyle's painting of Lincoln tnere
are beautiful pictures in color. py Eliza
beth Shppen Green. made TO illustrate
by James Branch Cabell. Cas-
taigne's mastery illustrations for Gilbert
Parker's novel, The Weavers, are no
table in each number. There are eight
fine short stories by writers new ana
writers already famous. In the Easy
Chair Mr. Howells speaks some incisive
truths about the overexacting and unjust
conscience frequently
known as the New England sort. Mr..
Alden continues. in the Study his re-
markahle critical essays on writers ana
which are attracting
worldwide attention. The Drawer is full
of good things.
Transatlantic Tales for September has
for its complete novelette, "Bigarreau,
by Andre Theuriet whose death occurred
only few months ago. 1t is romance
of green woods and running streams, told
with the inimitable grace and delicacy OF
this French master Besides this there
are eighteen short stories chosen from
the best contemporary fiction of France,
Germany, Italy, Spain. Russia and Ser
via by such authors as Gogol, lie Braz,
Heyse, Kaiser, Tovote, D'Annunzio, Bias
co. etc. Editors Chat and Book
Notes keep the reader in touch with the
books and authors most prominent in
Europe today. The price has been re-
duced to 15 cents. thessize remaining un-
changed.
The well-known Irish writer. Seumas
Mac Manus, in the North American Re-
view for August 16, describes the origin
and aims of the Young Ireland party
which has recently come into notice under
the name of "Sinn Fein." For several
years patriots an over the country have
been quietly endeavoring, in various
ways, to promote the national welfare
some trying to stem the tide of emigra-
tion, some reviving industries, some slim
ulating the study OF the Gaelic language,
etc. Naturally, the various groups that
were striving for the regenera ton OF the
Irish nation gravitated toward one an
other, formed themselves into the new
party, and elected national council. The
central idea of the party's policy, Mr..
Mac Manus explains, is that ''the sal
walton of a nation Is to be wrought out
by the people and upon the soil of that
nation" When the Irish Councils bill
was recently offered to the Irish nation,
with the consent of Mr.. Redmond and
his colleagues, the conviction became gen.
eral that parliamentary agitation for the
securing of Irish rights had proved futile
and was without promise, and the al
legiance of great numbers was trans
ferred from the old party to the new
Mr.. Mac Manus indicates that the
struggle for Irish rights is henceforth to
be fought, not in parliament but on the
soil of Ireland, by an earnest people in
tent on restoring the life of the Irish
nation, not only politically, but also
linguistically, industrially, educationally.
morally and socially. One important
reform the Sim Fein seems to have
effected Mr.. Mac Manus says:
"Still another practical work that young
Ireland is and has been successfully per-
forming is the eradication of the drink
evil Though, as shown by statistics, ard
despite popular tradition, an Irishman
drinks less than either the Englishman
or the Scotchman, the Young Ireland
party are determined that in the future
the Irishmans annual drink bill will not
bear comparison with that of English
man or Scotchman, or Frenchman. or
American. They hope by taking hold of
the rising generation and enlistfng them
in an anti-drink crusade entirely to
eradicate the drink habit here. The
workers in the new movement are al
most entirely non-drinkers; thousands of
them have come to consider it disgrace
full to enter public house. Recognizing
too, that the treating habit in Ireland
was responsible for far more drinking
and even drunkenness than was love of
drink itself. they adopted an anti-treating
pledge ,forbidding a man either to take
treat or give a treat, and have carried
on throughout the country an anti-treat-
ing crusade till now there are hundreds
of thousands Of people in Ireland pledged