Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-07
IN THE MAGAZINES


T HE heroism of secret service men
during the Civil war is the theme
= of William Gilmore Beymer's S
story. "Rowand." in Harper's Maga-
zine for June, Howard Pyle has il
lustrated it. Richard LIE Gallienne has
contributed a fairy story. THE Stolen
Mirror. Charles w. Furlong illus
trates his own readable article on "The
southernmost People of the World.
The anonymous novel, 1.-The Inner
Shrine" is concluded Mr. Howeils in
the Easy Chair contrasts womans po-
sition in republics and monarehies.
Baseball is coming into its own IN
the pages of the magazines. VIM IT.
win has a very thorough historical ex-
position of the development of the
modern game in the current Collier s.
the second of a series. James Hopper
writes of Training With the Glants
in the June Everybody.s.
"Robbing the Hand That Feeds" by
Forrest Crissey, in the June Every
bodys is a frank attack on commls-
sion men for the prices charged IaTIil- IN
ers for truck produce. Frederick up
ham Adams initiates into Tricks OF
the Wall Street Came" Will Irwin has
an entertaining article on 1.-The Drama
in Chinatown" There are stories OF
VARYING merit by Eleanor Halloween
Abbott, Robert Dunn, Anna Yeaman
Condict and Porter Emerson Browne
Ainslee's for June follows its set
tied policy of giving the reader a
straight diet of fiction and verse, with
an occasional assay as salad. Inc
names of owen oliver, VIII Lexington
Comfort Marie Van Worst and Harold
McGrath are on the page of contents
Harper's Bazaar for June continues
its series of essays on rs There EX-
istence After Death?" with an aHlIIIia- d,
tive answer by John Bigelow Ruth
McEnery Stuart has story by name
"The Haunted Photograph" There are
several bright bits of verse, woman s
suffrage article by Ida Hustled Harper
and the usual quota of dress and mousse
hold novelties.
Country Life in America-The color
feature is I'm the Canadian ROCKIES
with a Camera" by George ~. FrdtC'
an amateur sportsman and photogra-
nher of wide experience. The article
is illustrated with both blac kand white
and autochrome photographs by the
author
other illustrated articles are; "Ang-
ling. One of the Privileges of the MO
dern Woman" by Elizabeth shaw Ol1-
yer: What England Can Teach US
Ahout Outdoors" by Wilhelm Miller
"The Camp Fire and How to Make
IT." by A. Radcliffe Dugmore; "Goit
Strokes That Will Improve Hour
Score" by Walter j. Travis; camp
ing in the High Sierras, by Anna
Botsford Comstock; "Cabinboat Travel
SnH1rC. "A
Tramp up Rifle Creek Canyon" by
claude p. Fordyce; "An Automobile
Trip to Blowing Rock" by Osmond L.
Barringer; "a Country Flat, by Mar
tha Haskell Clark; "An Old Colonial
Homestead Born Again" by lsaoelle
Platt; camps l Have Made, py u
Emerson Brown.
Green Book-The triangular DIVISION
of interest between theatrical gossip
short stories and light verse is CON
tinued. S. r. Kiser's Love Sonnees
of a Call Boy have for their theme
the charms of "Billie" Burke. Viola
Allen writes on Changing Styles in
Acting" Short story writers are Cleve-
land Moffett, Charles w. Collins, II. b
ALLYN and William Collins. Herber'
Keicey. Olga Nethersole, Hattie VIII
liams Lawrence Irving and Channlne
Pollock are some of the stage authori
ties who lay down the law on various
interesting themes.
Century-Leading place is given to
a curious piece of fiction called with
the Coin of Her Life" the first OF
three stories turning on the popular
superstition Of thirteen at table. The
authorship of these stories is not now
announced, further than to say that
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, owen Wister and
Margaret Deland are the contributors
to this symposium-which was suggest
ed by a private discussion of the in
fuence of point of view on human
judgments. The stories were written
without any one of the three having
knowledge of the plots to be worked
out by the other two. Aunt Amity S
Silver Wedding" is a delightfully."- hu-
morous story by Ruth McEnery Stuart.
The serious articles cover wide range
and include paper by DR.. Grenfell
on his work in Labrador: President
Tafts Opportunity" as William Gar
rott Brown sees it; an authoritative
account of a new Egyptian discovery;
a description of the finding and cutting
of the worlds two largest diamonds,
by George F. KunZ, the well known
expert on gems; 1.-The Power of the
Speaker" discussed by the present
speaker of the house of representa-
tives, and an essay on THE American
Business Man." by A. Barton Hepburn,
president of the Chase National bank,
New York. Among the pictorial fea-
lures of the number are eight illus
trated pages of "Old College Songs" "
relating to West Point and Annapolis.
by John Wolcott Adams, and the color
frontispiece. a charming portrait by
William M. Chase.
Red Book-"The Greek God" is in
Jacques Futrelle's typical manner.
Jack London has a tropical sketch,
liam Hamilton Osborne contributes a
story, 1.-THE Ruling Passion"
Worlds Work-Notable articles are
the second installment of DR.. Rains
ford's hunting series, Hunting Ele-
plants and Riding Lions" Charles H.
Grasty's "The Best Newspaper in
America President Van Hise's "The
Future of Man in America" John Fos-
ter Carr's us English Supremacy
Worth a WARP" owen Wilson's 'Trav-
els of a Plant Hunter" the first in
stallment of H. o. Tanners autobi-
ography, 1.-THE Story of an Artists
Life"
Mcclure 'S-GeOrge hlDDe IurHer eN-
pounds "Tammany's Control of New
York by Professional Criminals" r.
T. Brewster contributes 1.-The Animal
Mind from the inside" Marion Ham
ilton Carter writes on "The Conserva-
tion of the Defective Child" "Cleve-
land and the Insurance Crisis is
treated by George F. Parker. The con-
clusion of Mrs. Humphry Ward's
Marriage a la Mode" is presented, as
also an article by President Taft on
Judicial Decisions as an Issue in Pol