The San Francisco call., 1909-07-25

ID. Appleton & Co. beg TO announce
that they have decided to discontinue
the publication of AppIeton's Maga-
zine with the June number. Arrange
ments have been made with the pub
fishers of Hampton's Magazine by
which that magazine viii be supplied
to subscribers to Appleton's Magazine
during the unexpired terms OF their
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hope that this adjustment will be en-
tirely satisfactory To their subscribers.
ID. Appleton & Co. fully appreciate ths
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seribers and patrons, for which they
take this opportunity of expressing
their thanks.
George Meredith let fall one spark
ling drop of criticism on the shining
mirror of Henry james literary sur
face, which has been eagerly caught
up again by Meredith story tellers of
the last few weeks. 1t touches James
book on America which the Harpers
published a few years ago.
You know my dear James book,
wrote Meredith, which he describes as
an account of America revisited The
substance of ii all Is not revisiting
of America, but a tour of James own
inside He doesn't tell about America,
but about how he felt when he saw
this or that in America. Now and
then he goes so far as to lead you
10 a little window in his anatomy and
shows you a glimpse or landscape that
he says is America. But taken all in
all, it's very little one sees beyond
the interior of my dear James"
The recent assertion of a prominent
physician that 90 per cent OF the busi-
ness and professional men In American
f0r rsa1
heart trouble or ehrenie Indigestion,
simply because they will not take any
bodily exercise. brings home one OF the
most astonishing truths of the pres
ent day, and one that should be rec
ognized by every man and woman in
the country, says the Bookkeeper for
July Every day the metropolitan pa
pers contain scores of notices OF the
illness of lawyers, bankers, merchants
and others of their kind. who have
heen forced into retirement by the con-
tinual strain of business without the
saving aptidote of physical training.
Any day when business is at its height
a physician can point out scores Of
men on the streets and in office build
ings who are sallow and irritable with
1ervous disorders and any perSon may
see hundreds OF old and young men
hurrying about their daily routine with
drawn faces and staring eyes. almost
on the verge of collapse. In almost
every bank, store and efice in the city
are clerks with hollow chests and
trembling hands whose labors are a
constant strain upon them and whose
leisure brings no reeuperation. All OF
these are truly goins the pace that
kills. In a short time, no matter
what the number of their years may
be- they will be decrepit old men. their
vigor sacrificed in the rush and strain
OF business. And the panacea for all
these ills is--exercise,
The Williamsons are very fond of
the Riviera. whittier they go in the
early autumn just when the English
gardens are beginning TO fade. BY the
middle of October. or course. there is
summer on the Riviera The roses are
still in bloom and the fresh. new grass
is green as emerald. This is an early
time to come to the Riviera, but the
williamsons have a private villa not