Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-24

hlGni. IeTi1DS ltt dIllNitS NAAASh
phasize this the most are: Thomas Lee
Woolwine's STORY of Law Enforce
ment" in Los Angeles; Prof. John Lee
Couter's Trying Cooperation IN TIE
West" C. M. Keys Battle Against
Pestilence," and Logan Waller Page 5
Good Roads the Way to Progress.
In the department called The way 10
Health" Edwin Bjorkman writes OF
The Unnecessary Curse of Sickness.
Alexander Irvine, the well known So
cial thinker, opens his autobiography
called From the Bottom Up ii. y.
Tanner, the painter, concludes his
STORY of an Artists Life, and Dr.
/ Rainsford continues his hunting series
THE Land of the Lion" Frederick
Burk brings his Bankruptcy of 'Edu-
cation" to a close; Dr. Luther A. Gull
| ick writes of THE New and More Glor-
/ ious Fourth" and Chalmers Roberts
/ contributes 1.-Two Personal Glimpses OF
! N-eredith": &C. NJ X" writes of "A
New Force for City Efficiency; the
monthly insurance article is What
/ Personal Accident Insurance Means .
and there is financial article called
THE Little Man and the High-Priced
Bond"
Young readers of the August st.
/ Nicholas are fortunate in having re-
produced for them two of Frank w.
! btllSOll > paintings y Nciilli -hNA inns
and his Portrait of My Daughters,
with his sympathetic appreciation Of
/ his work. given anonymously:
! Hidden somewhere about Mr. Ben
sons studio. l am convinced, there is
a little jar marked sunshine into
which he dips his brush when he paints
his pictures of the summer 1t is i'm
possible to believe that mere paint,
however cleverly laid on, can glow and
/ simmer and sparkle as does the
/ golden light on his canvas.
Perhaps it is this, more than any
other one quality, that makes his pic
/ lures of the kind that you can walk
/ scribeS it. AS you stand looking at
them the room in which you are seems
to fade gently away like the dissolving
/ view from a magic lantern, and you
are living in vacation time again-you
have walked into the picture Of "A
/ Calm Morning" shown as the frontis-
| piece of st. Nicholas this month. You
see the three children fishing from a
boat, and want to say, Don't you
/ know, little boy, that you should never
! stand up in "A boat? It's the easiest
way in the world to upset It," But
! these little vacationers would only
smile at you indulgently. for they have
summered beside the sea all their lives
| and swim like ducks or polliwogS.
And the artists daughters
they think when their father was
painting the picture that he was be-
| slowing upon them what the Spanish
Ponce de Leon travelled many weary
/ miles to find and missed at last-im-
mortal youth? For, as the years slip
/ by and the children of today become
| the grownups of tomorrow there will
still sit among the rustling leaves that
let the sunshine through in flecks and
patches just as they did on that happy
summer day.
Frank w. Benson was born In the
old New England town of Salem. Bos-
ton, with its art school of the Museum
/ of Fine Arts, was within easy reach,
so there he studied, later going to
| Paris. In the New York academy ex-
| hibitiOn of 1889 he took one of the
| prizes, and since then scarcely a year
| has passed that he has not taken one
or more in various cities here or In
Europe.
! The stories and pictures and rhymes
and sketches Of the number are all
that the offerings of a midsummer
| holiday number ought to be.
! Summer is the heyday of the anna
teur photographer. He uses his camera
more from the first of June until the
| of the year, and 1t is during these
few months that he most needs timely
suggestions from experts such as the
contributors to Photo-Era Magazine.
/ The July issue is, as ever, brimful of
interesting and practical information.
| H. r. Balfour describes how an in
/ genious worker can make a plate
adapter for his camera so that larger
| plates may be used when desirable.
/ Color-photography is given attention in
an article describing a new method of
/ development for autochrome plates
/ which renders the process exceedingly
! simple. Other valuable articles by
well-known authorities are devoted to
rendering color-values, correct ex-
posure and individuality in portrait
ure.
The departments of Photo-Era are
of particular interest to the beginner
because of several valuable and unique
/ features. Among them may be men
/ toned Our Illustrations, which crit
iclses both technically and artistically
| every one of the many beautiful pic
lures reproduced and gives the data
regarding them; 1.-THE Round Robin
Guild" which provides monthly prize
competitions with criticism by mail
of the prints submitted, and a query
department which solves the begin
ner's every difficulty free of charge;
THE Crucible" which reviews foreign
progress; Photographic Patents, y
which keeps readers in touch with new
inventions, and an exposure guide by
the use of which good negatives are
ensured under all conditions.
A remarkable poem by George Mere
dith, probably the last which he wrote,
leads Scribner's Magazine for July. It
is entitled ireland" and is a stirring
appeal for a generous treatment of
that peOple written with the Vigor