Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-07
LATE MAGAZINES

The current topics of the stage and
sportdom receive ample attention in
the June number of the Gentleman S
Journal. Under the heading of Facts
and Fancies," Queen Wilhelmina OF
Holland, nature studies, Miss Doris
Keane's success in "A Happy Mar
riage, the new Tarkington-W Wilson
play, "The Man from Home" Clyde
Fitch's "The Bachelor" the opening OF
the racing season, and full chronicle
of up-to-date golf and auto news are
treated or compiled for masculine con-
sumption.
Golfers editorials (June 8 issue) will
continue to furnish targets for number
less brickbats and bouquets. Among
them is an appreciative tribute to 1.-THE
Soul of Meredith" Moxfield Parrish
has created a fine frontispiece portrait
of Charles w. Eliot THE Art OF
Pitching" is the latest of Will Irwin's
expert baseball dissertation. We learn
pictorially how the estimable rhinoceros
is photographed, A. Radcliffe Dug
more furnishing the specifications. An
drew Carnegie-none other-writes on
Fifty Million Dollars for Housing
Books Charlotte Perkins Gilman
bursts out with a passionate What
Are Women, Anyway which makes
a loyal male humbly grateful they are
not all Charlotte Perkins Gilmans. Ed
win Balmer has a 'snappy story, The
Choice" The usual departments are
ably conducted.
From the pictures of the Wrights, SO
famed for their flying machines, to the
character study of the new sultan OF
Turkey, Current Literature sounds in
its June issue the timely stops in the
lutte of life here and now, Every man
and every event combining to give a
historical Importance to the month last
past is chronicled, commented upon and
caught in q current of narrative, style,
picture and text Perhaps the sultan
now on the throne in Constantinople is
as queer as we are told. Perhaps the
account of Porfirio Diaz in this number
of the timeliest of magazines which
makes out the master of Mexico as a
sort of Tiberius, is a veracious one. In
any event it is interesting. OF Mr.
Taft's attorney general there is like
wise a study. New light on the stormy
courtship of Thomas Carlyle was
worth shedding, and there it is shed
luridly, appealingly and scandalouSly
The last of the giants-that is the CEN
tral theme running through the study
of Swinburne. The late Marion Craw-
frod is dealt with. We are asked, In
another section whether Immortality is
desirable. Can the fact be doubted
As for the pluralistic philosophy to
which the name of Professor James is
affixed in tag-like fashion, it is worthy
of examination There is a capital re-
ply to the theatrical muck-raker," and
all who follow the trend of modern
scientific thought will be set wondering
by the attempt to explode the theory
of evolution.
The June number of the North
American Review opens with an article
by Archibald r. Colquhoun on 1.-The
Achilles Heel of Germany" w. d.
Howells presents a study of Robert
Herrick's Novels" Judge A. T. Clear
water criticises severely the loose con-
ditions under which Medical Expert
Testimony" is introduced into trials.
Gen. George w. Wingate sets forth
1.-The Truth as to the War of 1912, -
which sadly negatives the popular be-
lief as to the prowess and solderly
effectiveness of the unframed Ameri-
can citizen. Judge Spargo expounds
the views and aims of the modern So
cialist as to Private Property and
Personal Liberty in the Socialist
State" H. A. Austin endeavors, from
present conditions, to forecast CUBA
Future" In an article entitled THE
American Boy and the American Me-
chanic" Rear Admiral George w. Mel
vile denounces as a menace to our
national interests, the trade unions
course in putting an end to apprentice
ship. Richard Burton contributes an
extremely interesting article on "Stev-
enson's Prayer Book" Prof. c. A.
Briggs writes of Modernism Mediat-
ing the Coming Catholicism" A. H.
Ulm urges "The Plea of the Child La
borer." George r. Parkin describes
the surroundings and opportunities OF
American Rhodes Scholars at OK
ford" In the literary department the
following books are noticed: Jones'
studies in Mystical Religion; Baron
Friedrich Won Hugel's THE Mystical
Element in Reigion;" Gardner's saint
Catherine of Siena;" Traherne's "Cen-
turies of Meditations;" Sndermann's
John the Baptist" Wells "Tono-
Bungay:" Orcutt's "The SPELL" and
Elinor Mccartney Lanes "Katrine."
The department of world politics con-
tains communications from London,
Paris and Washington.
The June number of the Atlantic
Monthly opens with the first INSTALL
ment of Gen. Morris Schaff's new Sc
ries of war memories, 1.-The Battle of
the Wilderness" Those who recall the
charm and interest of General Schaff' s
earlier series, THE Spirit of Old West