Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-05

The Seine. river of laughter ant
sighs," is the study by Marie Var
Worst, in her series descriptive of rivers
of the world. which opens Harper''
Magazine for November. The text /.
supplemented by the paintings of Andre
Castaigne shown in tint. ITO the Colo
Land of Fire. is Charles w. Furlong's
narrative of a hazardous trip of eX.
ploration, undertaken for the magazine
through TERRA del Fuego, in regions
unapproached since the time of Darwin
Norman Duncan tells of a night on the
Arabian desert, repeating the stories
told by him by an unVeracious came
driver, and Robert Kennedy Duncan
brother of Norman Duncan, discourses
"On the Trend of Chemical Invention
1.-THE Sea and Music" is an uncommon
critical study by Lawrence Gilman or
the moods of the sea as a motive fol
composers, and "A Hero of Inkerman'
is battle story told to Robert Shackle-
ton by an old English artillery SER
geant. Noteworthy art features in this
number are the drawings by Edwin A.
Abbey, r. A., eXpoSit1Ve of Coriolanus
Horatio Walkers paintings, reproduced
with discussion by Charles H. Chaffin
and several etchings by Charles Henry
White to accompany his spirited argu-
ment upon Pittsburg as one of the
most picturesque cities of America.
The Century, in the November issue,
begins group of articles appropriate
to the Lincoln centenary year with
Frederick Trevor Hills '"The Lincoln
Douglas Debates Fifty Years After" a
new account of this famous forensic
"seven days battle" Mr.. Hill has pre-
served the local color of this unique
episode in American history, weaving
his story from material, much Of it un-
familiar, based on the testimony of eye
witnesses and documentary evidence.
First of another unusual series of
papers is "a Conversation on Music
with Paderewski" 1t is the record, set
free and intimate chat at the great
musicians table. touching, among other
interesting matters, upon modern
French composers and their music.
Robert Haven Schauffler begins a
series of papers on his impressions of
Dantzic city of romance, with illustra-
tions by the German artist Scherres.
Later papers will treat of Berlin, Pots
dam, Brunswick, LeipSic, Meissen,
Dresden, Hildesheim and other cities
of romantic Germany.
OF countrywide interest are the
article by L. H. Bailey, director of the
college of agriculture, Cornell univer-
sity, and chairman of the commission
on country life appointed by President
Roosevelt, and the paper by John Gill
mer Speed. Mr. Speed writes about
horse breeding, denouncing as "bane-
full the supposition that the thorough
bred is useful in improving the breed
of horses, and urging that the greater
number of American horses should be
bred by the average farmer. Prof.
Bailey has much to say-and he writes
interestingly and with authority-of
college Men as Farm Managers.
The opening article in the November
Scribner, "On the Old Boston Post
Road" is by Stanley NJ. Arthurs, the
artist. 1t recalls with humor and spirit
the time before railroads and steam
boats, when a journey between Boston
and New York meant days in one of
the great numbering tallyhos. The
scenes along the way, the changing of
many horses, the hoadhouses that con-
tributed so much to the social and
creature comfort of the journey, the
rivalry among the competing lines and
the drivers, are described in the text
and pictured in series of paintings in
color.
In the third and last article dealing
with the career of Richard Mansfield
these of course are only very small
part of the complete life, which will be
shortly published In book form-Mr.
Wilstach tells of the actors great per-
formance of "Cyrano" and of the ardu-
Gus labor he put into the preparation
of that play. 1t will be a pleasant rev.
elation of the man to read a series of
letters in this article written by him to
his little son Gibbs. They are full of
and humorous fancy and re-
veal a remarkable understanding and
sympathy with the child mind.
Taft at Yale is the leading article
in The Outing Magazine for Novem-
ber. Ralph d. Paine writes it and the
article is illustrated by many new pic
lures of Taft's ancestors, of Taft HIM
self as a boy, as a young man, and of
Taft at later reunions.
Other articles in the number are most
readable and interesting. Oliver Kemp,
the we'll known artist-writer, contrib
utes a thrilling travel story, illustrated
by his own drawings, entitled "The
Last Pirates of the Spanish Main"
'Basketry in Mexico is an attractively
illustrated description of a leading in
1ustry in the republic to tho south of
US. con an Oregon Farm" is a val
liable social study of the great state
Of the northwest, well illustrated with
"a Camp in Deepest Ar
eady," is chapter VII in "The Tent
Dwellers," by Albert Bigelow Paine,
over with humor' and prov
ing throughout that this series is the
best story of outdoor life published in
years.
In the issue is much good fiction and
several full page Illustrations.
leading. features Of McC,Iure's Mara.