Evening journal., 1909-06-28
LITERARY

Fiction and serious articles are pretty
evenly balanced in the July Century, with
the second Of the anonymous Thirteen at
Table" stories to pique curiosity anony-
nous in the sense that the reader may
judge whether each story is written by
Margaret Deland or DR.. Weir Mitchell OF
owen Wister. This second taie-called
.'The Waiting Hand"-is based upon a
gruesome extract taken from a singular
will. actually drawn in Maine in 1874. How
the prophecy of the will is fulfilled makes
an unusual and startling story. The author
has given the story's gay, fashionable,
motor-tourist characters a dramatic sett
ing against a generation-old New England
tragedy. Leading place in the magazine
is given to a complete novelette, by Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell, a tale of strange doings in
Paris during the Third Empire entitled
''The Society Of the Guillotine." There are
other short stories. aboundlng in fun, by
Lucy Pratt and Charles d. Stewart
A paper on Limitation Of Animals" by
Prof Robert NJ. Yerkes. Assistant Pro-
fessor OF Comparative Psychology, Har-
ward University. has both popular and
scientific timeliness. While the psycholo-
gists who have taken up this subject with
scientific precision are cautious as to
final conclusions. their experiments are OF
a nature to interest the general public. and
some Of the results already attained are
surprising. Nowhere have certain observa-
tions been carried on with greater thor
oughness than at Harvard.
The All Around Bookkeeper.
Binkins glared at me Indignantly. "Am
a bookkeeperY" he snorted in plainly in
creduious astonishment. We'll, should
say I am a bookkeeperi I'm the book
keepin'est bool1keeper that ever posted
a three fer an eight an then plugged a
trial balancel I can keep books any old
way-single entry. double entry iiu-jitsu
system. catc-as-catch-can. blindfolded. OF
with both hands tied behind mel I can
bookkeep with anything from a ten penny
nail 10 a cross cut say. II runs in our
whole family. Even my Uncle Rufus is q
boolmaker and my brother Bill, who
makes his lvin' by holdin' better poker
hands than tn other feller, uses the card
system I'm his business. We'd rather keeT
books than eat when we're hungry-why
my little sister Sue opens up books fol
/ recreation. She opened one yesterday-s
neighbors pocketbook I've kept books al
over the civilized world and in Chicago.
remember-"-From the Book-Keeper fol
July.
Science.
Among the articles that have appeared
I in the weekly issues OF Science during
/ the past month may be mentioned an i'm
portant review of race problems in Amer.
I lea by Professor Franz Boas. Of Columbia
University. in which he considers the ef
fects on the country. both Of the immi
grant and the negro. Other articles are
on the problems Of the physics teacher. by
| Professor c. r. Mann. Of the University
Of Chicago: the new College Of Engineer
ing Of Northwestern University, by Dr
John F. Hayford; on minimal quantities
Of food preservatives. by Professor j. S
Smell. OF McGm University; on typ'
heredity in man, by DR.. Robert Benne
Bean. and on the philosophical zoologist
by Or. Henry F. Osborn, of the American
Museum Of Natural History.
Contents Of the July Success"
The Precedent Breaker, Orison SWEET
Marden: shirt sleeves at Foreign Courts
Henry NJ. Hyde: BY Minerva the En-
chanting "a story Jeanette Marks
cities that Pay Dividends, FRANKLIN Clark
in: The Transit Of Venus "a story Joseph
/ G. Lincoln: The New West from a Post.
mans Cart. Robert Haven schauffer
supplication (verse) Leigh Mitchell Hod.
ees: The sky Man (serial story Henry
Kitchen Webster; The Meadow (versel
Blanche Allyn Bane; The Autobiograph,
| of a tsolen Kiss Ca story)Vale Downie The
/ Sweet Tooth. and Why 1t Is SO Keen
Woods Hutchinson. AN. NJ. D.; Demi
gods Of the Diamond Oouble-Page Pic
ture Featured