Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-16

ingly by Canadian journalist, ant
! there are photographs of the wreckagt
wrought by the mob during it's rioting
| "All the Comforts of Old Home Week
is a truthful, although seemingly fan,
! tast1c, record of visit to New Eng.
land town. 1t is admirably illustrated
| Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N, con
tributes a paper of much historical "a.
well as literary value, Sailing Home
1 to War" which records the conflict OF
emotions in the wardroom of the United
States steamship Congress. while thai
| ship was sailing homeward from South
America at the beginning of the Civil
war.
In the October number of the North
American Review Mark Twain con-
tributes the twenty-third chapter of his
inimftable biography. The late ex-
Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain sets
forth Some Conclusions of a Free
Thinker" to which Goldwin Smith re-
plies in an article entitled evolution,
Immortality and the Christian Relig-
ion.' Charles e. Woodruff discuss es
the cause of "The Failure of Americans
as Athletes" w. d. HowelIs presents
some OF his reflections "On Reading the
Plays of Henry Arthur Jones'" Pro-
fessor Joseph Jastrow suggests one vvav
In which The Advancement of Teach
ing may be promoted. ]. L. Bashford
answers In the negative the inquiry 'Is
Germany's Navy a Menace?" William
T. Ellis makes Some Guesses at
Japan"
Opportunities of Today" a new mag
azlne, again puts forth the problem of
what TO do with the college boys.
Not only are all of the old colleges
m L. |
ones nave come into existence" states
the magazine editorially. "These in
stitutlons are doing marvellous work in
furnishing the country with young men
VINO VIII succeed If given proper oppor-
tunlties. The colleges and universities
are training them in every branch of
human knowledge with large accent
upon the useful and practical
me trouble is, when the college has
zone lts educating. there has been no
system. provided whereby the COLLAGE
boy can be utilized. He is ser adrist
small percentage will drift IN tbe
right direction. Fortune favors them
helatlves or friends place them. But
the average college graduate has about
as much knowledge of how to find the
rlght opportunity as the average man
mas OF how to become president"
The movement for Industrial education
Is celebrated in the October issue of
Charities and the Commons. mo chance
TO learn trade today is a lament vo,,
TOO often hear, and with equal freouencv
comes the companion cry, 1--WE can't GET
skilled workers in the trades" The wav
to answer this supreme need in Amer,
lean life is the theme of the magazine.
business men and corporation directors
VIII find IN Shining by Syndicate" bv
=. A. Ross October Atlantic) a merci.
less attack against commercial .4nervev
and irrespoasibility. In vi, of past and
pending legislation, this article comes in
the nick of time. Sharp as a two-edged
sword, brilliant as the flash of the sun on
the polished blade, paragraph after para
graph smites the numerous self-eyident
corporation sins we labor against.
The fiction serial of the Century in 1903
will be new historical novel by DR.. s
Weir Mitchell. to be entitled '1The Red
City" This new novel by DR.. Mitchell is
a companion to his famous "IIueh
Wynne." While the former was a story
of the time of Washington the general
the new one is of the time OF Washington
the president.