The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-06
MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER

HARPER S-Three contemporary mas
tiers of literary art-Rudyard Kipling.
Henry James and William Dean HOwells-
contribute distinction to the October num-
Der of Harper's Magazine The issue
opens with an important article, 'EXpl0r-
ing the Glaciers of the Himalayas,' by
Fanny Bullock Workman, F. r. S. @. 5 ,
OFFICER OF Public instruction, france
Robert ShackletOn interviews an interest
ing old survivor of the famous Indian
mutiny, who describes thrilling expert
ences in the Orient. Professor Watson of
Johns Hopkins writes a paper on How
Animals Find Their Way Home sub
tect which he has carefully studied The
quaint city, "Old Edinburgh is well
described by Archibald Henderson, whose
article is illustrated by unusually beau
tiful photographs in tint. Madge c. Jeni-
son gives an account Of THE State In
surance of Germany a subject of i'm
mediate and vital interest, There are eX-
Cellent short stories by hipiing tthe sec
Ond and final installment of The House
SurgeOn'D. Henry James, James Branch
Cabell, Alice Brown, Gwendolen Overton,
Una /. SilbeTrad, Elsie Singmaster and
Margarlta Spaldng Gerry. a pOsthumOuS
article, by William Sharp tknOwn also
under the name Fiona MaCLeOd'O, deals
with Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus,
end is illustrated by Edwin A. Abbey
sCRIBNER's great project which
has for a year attracted the widest at
tentiOn is begun in SCribner's Magazine
article on his African trip more than car
ries out the promise of unusual enter
tainmeut and interest It pictures a wild
and semi-savage region as il strikes MT
RoOSeVelts unusually receptive and acute
mind. He is having wonderful expert
ence and enjoying every minute of it,
and in this article the reader IS carried
with him through the JOY Of new sensa-
tiops and the perception Of wild and gro
tesque animal life as II appears from
time to time during his journey. The ar
ticle combines the Zest of the born hunter
and naturalist with the wide experience
of a man of great affairs. He pictures
the pioneers of this region and contrasts
them with those he knew in his wester !
days. He sees the whole region, from
the cOwcatcher of a locomotive. moving
by him like geological park. This first
article of the series, which IS to run q
year, is the best possible fOretaste Of
what is sure to be one of the greatest
narratives of adventure ever published.
The illustrations by Kermit Roosevelt and
other members of the expedition follow
very closely the text and add picturesque
realism TO Mr.. ROOsevelts graphic de-
scriptiOn. 1t is announced that the next
article in the series will have to do with
a lion hunt at Kapiti.
PUTNAM -Dr. D. A. Sargent, direc-
tor of the Hemenway gymnasium at
Harvard, follows up his paper on the
Olympic games in Putnam's for Septer-
her with one no less interesting, in the
October number on The Future of Ply
seal Education He is as firmly con-
WINGED as any college president that the
function of the gymnasium and the track
is TO make better men and better stu
dents and not merely to train a race of
half-eduCated athletes. Owing to the
writes sound sense and unTivaled expert
cree as a physical trainer of youth. his
words will carry weight with every IN
telligent reader
AMERICAN-The October number IS
the first issue OF the larger and ampli-
fled American Magazine, containing ad-
ditiOnal pictures, rev departments and
forty pages extra of reading matter. A
remarkable new series of articles begins
in this issue, by John Kenneth Turner,
entitled "BarbaTous Mexico" Few p6O-
pie in the world realize that actual slav-
cry is at present NOT only being carried
on in Mexico, but is tacitly protected and
encourag ed by the government Mr.
Turner's articles are bound to make a
profound impression, as he has been an
eyewitness of the things about which he
writes. Four import; Mt and remarkable
articles make this magazine touch the
high water mark of literary excellence.
THE STRAND-The October number of
the Strand Magazine is exceptionally rich
in material A prominent feature Is Sir
Thomas LiptOn's "reminiscences. The story
of his life. as told by himself, reads like
a romance, and shows what energy and