Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-06-06
JUNE MAGAZINES

The June magazines are filled with
attractive summer reading. While 1t
Is impossible for everyone to read
all of them 1t Is almost equally as
hard to select from the large number
of periodicals.
Woman's Home Companion for June.
Five hundred photographs of Pres
ident Roosevelt, all assembled in one
big double-page picture 13 by 91s
inches in size, is an extraordinary
feature of the June Woman's Home
Companion. The five hundred photo
graphs were taken in almost every
state In the Union, at all periods of
Roosevelt's public career, and show
his wonderful versatility and energy.
In the June Companion appear the
first chapters of Harvey ]. O'Higgins'
great story. "A Grand Army Man, .
based on Belasco's famous play of
the same name, in which David War
| field starred all last winter. Other
fiction in this delightful summer
magazine is by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, zona Gale, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Temple Bailey and Clinton
Dangerfield.
Kellogg Durland, who of late has
spent much time in Russia, tells the
dramatic and thrilling story of one
of the bravest girls of the Russian
Revolution. Margaret e. Sangster
writes on the American woman as
social engineer. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale devotes his monthly page to
some working rules of life. Grace
Margaret Gould, the fashion expert,
gives many practical suggestions for
summer dressing. Sam Lloyd's Own
Puzzle Page is a mine of interest for
the puzzle lover.
American Magazine.
The June number of The American
Magazine is up to the high standard
OF excellence now maintained by this
periodical. 1t contains humor, stor-
les, an dan abundance of interesting
and important information. ''Mr.
Dooley," who Is writing for nobody
but the American Magazine, contrib
utes an article on Diplomacy. Will
liam j. Locke, author of 1.-THE Bel
loved Vagabond," is Just beginning
his new serial, Simple Septimus."
Lincoln Steffens contributes "AEs
Apology for Graft" Ray Stannard
Baker writes Of 'The Negro in Poll
tics"
David Grayson, author of "Adven-
lures In Contentment" and THE
Open Road" writes a great essay,
"On Being where you Belong"
Fiction is contributed by jose
phine Daskam Bacon, Marion Hill, |
Dorothy Garfield, Lindsay Denison
and p. H. julien, Jr.
Other contributors and illustrators
are: Margaret Steele Anderson, John
T. McCutcheon, J. H. Gardner-Soper,
Nora May French, Edwin B. Child, j.
G. Chase, James Montgomery Flagg,
Dan Sayre Groesbeck, r. M. Crosby,
Thomas Fogarty and T. A. Daily.
Century.
A very Jolly feature of the June
Century is the series Of Harvard,
Yale and Princeton "Old College
Songs" Fair Harvard" 'I-eel"
md "Old Nassau with drawings,
eight pages in all, by John Wolcott
Adams, who has done his work with
| quaint touch.
OF altogether different quality, but
llso marked by timeliness, is Mrs
saac l.. Rice's condemnation of
Our Barbarous Fourth whose
grim statistics probably furnish a
adder commentary on human folly
han that afforded by any other ceie-l
,ration In the world'- a helpfully ,
as we'll as destructive,
discussion of a very live question.
The serial features OF the maga- ,
inc would alone make the issue not
.ble-"The "reminiscences of Lady
Randolph Churchill" Professor Per-
ival Lowell's very interesting
Proofs of Life on Mars" DR.. George
:. Shrady's General Grants Last
Days." and the magic of THE Spell
f Egypt" with Robert Hiehens's
lowing word pictures, and reproduc- !
ions In full color of Jules Guerin's
aintings of the Court of Amenhotep
H., and the Great Colonnade. Luxor, J
be Colossi of Memnon, and the Tenn
lie of Medinet-Abu I
What's In Mc'CIure's. \
The illustrations alone would
lake the June Mc'Clure's notable 7
umber. Besides the st. Gaudens !
there are two charming
dior reproductions of Gilbert
tuart's portraits of Don JOSEF de 4
audenesy Nebot ald his young Am
rican wife with a short article on 7
lem by Samuel Isham. Miss Terry's !
lonthIy instalment, My First Ap-
earance I'm America" affords an OPP 4
for unusually interesting 4
lustration.
There Is an abundance Of good \