Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-06
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

l.. Radford's Setting Hearts at Rest"
and THE Derelict" by j. Gordon Smith
VIII serve to illuminate the extraordi-
nary naval genius of Japan.
The July Century is 'fiction num-
per, with fiction enough to satisfy the
most omnivorous; new chapters of the
Two serials and q number of short
stories, chiefly by popular writer's. Mrs.
FRANCES hodgson Burnett's "The Shut
tie" and Elizabeth Robins "Come and
tlnd Me" grow in strength and in in
terest. Abby Mcguire Roach's Mani
rest Destiny long short story of
fascinating fellows multitudinous love
affairs, has six pictures in tint by I'm.
derwood' Thomas Nelson Page con-
tributes a story of lifo on the Maine
coast, full of character, humor and
pathos, entitled "Leanders Light" This
has an illustration in full color by
Schoonover. There is another of l..
Frank Tooker's rollicking Kerrigan
stories, "The Freedom of the CITY" and
James HunekeI has strange tale of
eastern magic, with a Partisan cafe
setting, The Magic Lantern" Other
contributors OF fiction are Florence
Moloso Riis, Elizabeth Moorhead, Mary
Austin, Dorothea Deakin and Emma
Client Curtis. OF these three are de-
butantes. at least so far as the Century
IS concerned-Elizabeth Moorhead with
a penetrating portrayal of two women
and a physician, "The Standard of
Reality" a very feminine story; Mrs
Curtis with a romantic and altogether
masculine western story of love and
adventure, "In the Dark of the Moon,"
with a picture by Wyeth, and Miss Riis
with another western story, boldly
handled, called 1.-THE Blood of Vikings"
Mrs. Austin'S mining story, "The
Hoodoo of the Minnietta," also relates
to the west. Charles Battell Loomis
has a merry account of THE Next
Craze"-when the airship comes, with
all its dangers.
No more vitality interesting article
has appeared in a long time than
Brain and Body in the July Every
body's. The author, DR.. William Hanna
Thomson, a recognized authority, pre-
sents what to most of us will be an
entirely new conception Of the brain,
facts of the greatest practical i'm
portance in mental training, and he
puts 1t In simple, easily comprehended
form unusual in q scientific writer. 1t
Is notable contribution. Fiction oc-
cupies a suitably prominent place in
the July number with such writer's as
Mary r. S. Andrews, Stewart Edward
White, o. Henry and Lloyd Osbourne,
but the editor finds space besides for
a number of interesting articles. One
| Of the most entertaining of these is
1.-The Aristocracy of the Circus" by
Hartley Davis, a historical account of
certain famous circus families. 1t is
illustrated with a number of unusual
circus photographs.
The Popular Science Monthly for July
contains the following articles: What
We owe to Agassiz," by Prof. Burt
| G. Wilder; Notes on the Development
of Telephone Service" by Fred DeLand;
"The Great Japanese Volcano Aso," by
Robert Anderson; Control of the Colo
RADIO River Regained," by Charles Alma
Byers; 1.-THE Value of Science" by M.
H. Poincare; 1.-The Newer Hygiene"
by Professar Wilfred H Manwaring;
"The Forms of Selection with Reference
to Their Application to Man." by G. P.
Watkins; illustrations of Medieval
Earth-Science," DR.. Charles R. East
man; Benjamin Franklin and the
American Philosophical Society,"" "The
Celebration of the Bicentenary of the
Birth of Linnaeus by the New York
Academy of Sciences" THE State UNI
versities and the System of Retiring
Allowances of the Carnegie NFounda-
ton"
A London editor pronounces Current
Literature the best magazine In the
world This is not so surprising as IL
may at first appear when 1T is remem-
| bered that this clever eclectic news
magazine counts among its contriou-
| tors. in a sense all the editors and re-
| porters of the world. Every month we
| find between it's covers the cream OF
what has been said in politics, liter
ature. science and religion. Inc un
usually brilliant July issue tells with
absorbing interest the story of Harry
Orchards Confession" 1t discusses the
WAR for the Sake of Peace, tne
"Jingoes in Japan" and the Colils
Crisis in Ireland" Striking character Ter
sketches of Knox, Fairbanks, anu 'nS
the Car will make you forget TOT the
tima beinR the sultry heat or Juiy'
while articles on edwin Godkln' the
"Glittering Genius of Edgar Sallqs,
''Huysmans, the Decadent WHO ,
came a Mystic" Arthur Symons, elie
whistler of the Critics, ana ,,i1,s
discovered Genius" with quaint NUS
| trationS) Will at ollce 9'iii'
light the mind.
"The Message" by A. j. Dawson, Is
q stirring. realistic tale OF love, war
an5 ,,oiitics. in which the scene is laid
- E!ngland at the latter end OF the
nineteenth century. The story relates
| the imaginary conquest or Englano py
a continental rival, who finds her inert
| and unprepared, as result or ions
period of overconfidence and neslectsc
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the country in her trying need by the
unexpected assistance of her colonies
and the resulting readjustment and ina
nroyenent of her relations with those
Colonies, likewise the dawn OF a new
era of sanity and patriotism. Many
striking characters are drawn and
thrilling love story forms an important
mart of the narrative.
The Message. BY A. ]. Dawson. Bos-
| +on. Dana, Estes & Co.
In "Holder's Half Hours with Nam
mails" by Charles Frederick Holder
Eclectic Readings, the story Of the
mammals has been presented in sim
pie and untechnical language, and IN
a most interesting manner. DR.. Holder
is we'll known as writer, and in this
volume he gives the student good
general idea of the structure Of the
mammalia, the principal species, their
Geographical distribution and their rel
ative economic Importance. Many
notes and incidents from personal ex-