Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-08

core" from the Italian OF Neera. and a
dozen short stories selected from the
French, German, Spanish and Swedish
It contains poems from the French; Ger
man and Japanese. Among the authors
represented are Paul verlaine, Catulle
Mendes, Francois Coppee, Paul Bourget
and Detlev Won Liliencron. Some of the
translators who have collaborated in this
number are Elsie Lathrop, Reginald
| Wright Kaufman, Edward Tuckerman
Mason, Sinclair Lewis and Grace Isabel
Colbron.
| In addition to the usual editorial pagAs
| OF foreign literary comment and book
reviews, this number contains the first
OF series of articles on "Contemporarv
European Literature" For this depart
ment, which Is to run through two years.
the publishers have obtained the SERVICES
OF Drs. John Glanville Gill and Frederic
Taber Cooper of Columbia university:
Dr.. Louis Delamarre of the College of
the City of New York; Grace Isabel Col
bron, Sinclair Lewis, Agatha M Bullitt
and l.. B. Gorin. This first article is by
Drs. Gill and Delamarre. 1t gives a de-
tailed biographical and critical study of
rour famous Frenchmen who have but re-
Gently died: Guy de Maupassant, AL
pnonse Daudet Emile zola and Andre
Theuriet
foliowing his discussion of three impor-
tant phases of the outlook on agriculture
as expressed by Cornell university stu
tIsn Isnts--Wny certain youth desire to leave
.he Iarm, why others desire to remain or
80, 70 remove there from town, and
wnat the agricultural college is doing for
'he larm youth-Prof L. HI Bailey has
prepared for the October Century a dis
ctoSsion or what can be done for the farm
|vouth by the common school TT Ia e
au.nor a. position that the present coun-
Try school should accept all wholesome
,,.,4 uui.,ohs IN which 1t is placed, beginning
In time, he propheses, nature-studv ana
agriculture Will be as much a part of the
country school as oxygen is a part of the
ara nature-study not something exter-
nal or added to, but "a means of educa-
tion, internal, central, essential, funda-
mental"
Ihe Pacihc Monthly for October is Home
seekers ana Irrigation number" notable, as
nslve o, peen all recent issues of this admirable
occidental publication for the excellence of
lts Illustrations. OF particular interest is
Clarence Edwards article on What Irrigation
IN California Has to Offer Immigrants" in the
ures: Pi' he
california is shipping $50, 100000 worth of
Gurus fruits every year; she is shipping s35-
100000 worth of deciduous fruits and nuts eyerv
year; she is shipping $50 OOo, 600 worth NJ ,v,ns
every year; she is shipping S. 900 900 worth
OF agricultural products every year: she is
senaing from her gardens s25 .OOO0 900 worth of
prodncts every Year. OF this vast total of
Value great amount Is received from lands
benefited by irrigation
other articles of timely interest are Wash.
ington's Vale of Plenty" "The Homeseeker
in the West" .Reclaiming an Emnire I" and
western Affairs at Washington" The ac-
tion and verse are up to high standard.
The Grizzly Bear for October ,,rrt. ,,,o,, 4,
lustrated articles on Santa Monica and on the
Yosemite valley. Special attention is given
the recent excursion of the Native Sons to
San Bernardino An interesting though brief
account of the Bear Flag war, compiled by p
Sioli, is included in the mafiazines contents,
and there is the usual amount OF western fc-
tion and verse.
Railroad building in the Philippines is treat
ed interestingly in the Worlds Work for octo-
ber, under The heading 1.-THE Dawn of a New
era In the Philippines" Perhaps of even
greater Importance. however, is an article on
CITY Government by Fewer Men," the author
of which is President Charles W. Eliot of Har-
yard university. President Eliot opens his
discussion with the statement that municipal
government in the United States has nowhere
been successful and after explaining why
this Is so. offers his solution. Other articles
include why Not Business Insurance?" by
Charles D. Whitefeld; Taft a Career of
Big Tasks" "A University Pueblo etc.
The first installment of Rose Macleod"
by Miss Alice Brown opens the October At
lantic. 1t Is a singularly sincere and charm
ing narrative of unusual humor and rare feel
ing. This serial will continue throughout the
rest of the year. ending probably in the late
spring of 1908. N''.t
There six articles of varied and excep-
tional interest. The Rev. c. C. Hall writes
on THE IDEAL Minister" this being the third
of series of which THE Ideal Lawyer" and
THE Ideal Teacher the others. 'The
Child and the Imaginative Life" by Louisa
Lane McCrady. is valuable addition to mod
ern child study. while George NJ. Strattons
thoughtful "Externalism in American Univer-
stiles" deals with problems of government and
administrative policy in the college world.
Business particularly are interested in
Shining by Syndicate striking essay, the
last of Edward Alswarth Ross brilliant and
merciless series of present-day commercial
methods, as we'll in Gold Output and
Higher Cost of Living" by Alexander Dana
Noyes, a timely article on the pressing finan-
cial problem. Mary Argyle Taylor's italian
Industries for Women is interesting ac-
count of out-of- -the-way customs and occupa-
tions.