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IN CURRENT MAGAZINES


tober number of The Worlds Work
are:
The Reason for Preparing the Remi-
niScences.
The Story of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
The Facts about the Oppression"
Stories.
How the Business Has Been and Is
Conducted.
The Modern Corporation: It's Regula-
ton and Future.
The Opportunities of Today as Com
pared with Those of Generation Ago.
The American Business MAN.
The Story of Neighbor Foley.
The Principles of Business Conduct.
Knowing the Facts of a Business.
The Trite and the Obvious-and HOW
Often Overlooked.
The Responsibilities Of the Business
Man.
Julian Harris, son of Joel Chandler
Harris. succeeds his father as editor
of Uncle Remus's-The Home Maya
zine, retaining also his original POSI-
ton as general manager.
Don r. Marquis, who has already
made a national reputation through MS
editorials, poems and short stories pup
lished in the magazine, is to continue
as associate editor.
The Home Magazine-reached these
two conclusions when they met 70 ais
cuss the death of Joel Chandler Harms
and to take measures looking to the
future management Of the periodical
of which he was the founder.
There are ten short stories to enter
tain readers of the August century:
| "To Build a Fire" a vivid dramatic
story of the Yukon wilds, by Jack
London; "The Blind" one of Charles
d. Stewards original tales; "A Tale OF
Two Burdens" a merry account OF
guide and a millionaire. by Irving
Bachelor; "Mulligan and Caspar,
delicious story of an Irish section BOSS
and his devoted dog, by Frederick wal
worth Brown; "The Calumny," mar
rative of certain curious happenings
at court, by Florence Martin; Love
and the Terror" q chapter of the
crude. boyish devotion of Thomas JEFF
ferson," by Annie Steger Winston;
"How Carly Carteret Proposed"
Jolly story of American horses ana
American horsemen in England, by
David Gray, author of the well known
"Gallops"; "Mre. Birkins' Bonnet"
pretty tale of life in an English VIII
iage; 1.-THE Last Curtain" the story of
the gallant passing of an old comedian,
by Walter Prichard Eaton; and THE
Tentmaker," a strong story or love and
revenge, with desert setting, by Wal
do Curyea Walker.
The August number of the Atlantic
Monthly, the first issue to appear un-
der the imprint of the Atlantic MONTH
ly company is full of fresh and In
viting material Charles D. Stewart,
the we'll known author of 'The Fugi-
tive Blacksmith" writes 1.-THE Story of
Bully" a stirring and full-blooded
tribute to one OF mans most useful
servants, the OK. The description OF
the tug of war in which Bully con-
quered his rival is as fine a piece OF
descriptive writing as has appeared for
many months.
The summer season is appropriately
recognized by a delightful paper on
Newport: the City of Luxury" by
Jonathan 7. Lincoln. Mr.. Lincoln is a
shrewd and discriminating observer of
the annual summer pageant at this
famous watering place. 1t is a far cry
from Newport to 1.-THE bleachers," but
Rollin Lynde HART describes onr
national game in one of his wise and
witty papers. Besides the seashore and
the ball field this issue pays its sum-
mer tribute to the automobile in a pa
per, 1.-THE Romance of Motoring" by
Henry Copley Greene and to the woods
in Mrs Fanny Hardy Eckstorm's
"Thoreau's Maine Woods"
The August Forum, which is its sec
ond issue since the magazine reverted
to the form of a monthly publication,
opens with its customary survey of
American politics by Henry Litchfield
West, who deals specifically with the
opening of the presidential campaign,
the party platforms and the probable
influence of the independent vote. Maui
rice Lon, in the department of foreign
affairs. discusses with his usual acu-
men the significance of the Anglo
French entente, and incidentally points
out that france is making a new rec
ord for herself as a conservative
among nations. Among the special
articles this month Prof. Harry
Thurston Peck contributes a thought
full and impartial estimate of the late
Grover Cleveland. both as man and
statesman.
Henry Van Dyke has achieved a re-
markable success in many literary
forms-fiction, lyric poetry, criticism
and lectures. In the fiction number
(August) of Scribner's he adds an
other striking achievement to his brill
liant career, 1.-THE House of Rimmon,"
a poetic drama in four acts. has great
beauty as a poem, the blank verse
having the swing and melody and per-
feet clearness which make 1t q pleas
ure to read. In addition, its dramatic
quality is unusual, and high authori-
ties have said that it possesses every
necessity for stage presentation. DIR.
Van Dyke visited Damascus, the scene
of the drama, during the course of its
revision.
The August number of The North
American Review opens with an article
by the late Prof. Henry Loomis Nelson
on "Grover Cleveland" which was re-
vised by the late Daniel S. Lamont,
and which is in. effect a political his
tory of the period during which Mr..
Cleveland was a conspicuous figure in
the national life. Jean Jaures, leader
of the Socialist party in the French
chamber, describes the attitude of
Socialism toward international arbi-
tration. Sir Martin Conway defines
1.-The Ideal of Egyptian Art" as being
monumental calm. Theodore Gilman
examines the provisions of "The Aid
rich Vreeland Bill which he believes
will protect the country against none
tary panics. Elizabeth Bisland writes
entertainingly of THE Morals of the
Modern Heroine" In an article on
1.-THE Northern Question" "Britanni-
Gus" considers the agreements as to
the Ialtic and the North seas recently
entered into by the powers whose ter
ritories adjoin these waters respec-
lively. The postmaster general, George
Won L. Meyer, advocates Postal Saw
ings Banks"
The August Nautilus contains a new
poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox entitled,
most Blest Is He" Concentration
and How TO Develop It." by w. r. c.