The editors of Scribner's, McClure's, 

 Ladies Home Journal, etc., with due re- 

 gard for the taste of their readers and 

 knowing full well how hard it is to do any 

 "solid" reading during "dog-days," have 

 catered to the popular demand and made 

 their August numbers, "fiction numbers." 

 SCBIBNER'S 



The cover of the mid-summer number 

 rivals in beauty even that of April, the 

 spring number. The red and gold color- 

 ing and the little child reclining upon the 

 lap of the mother crowned with poppies, 

 gives the effect of summer, warmth and 

 langour. The poem of Edward Sanford 

 Martin, entitled the "Sea is His, "is made 

 doubly attractive by the beauty of its 

 colored illustrations. "The Eocking 

 chair Period of the War," the first article, 

 contributed by Eichard Harding Davis, 

 gives an account of the long wait of the 

 troops at Tampa previous to their embark- 

 ation for Cuba. The Tampa Bay Hotel, 

 where officers and war correspondents 

 made their headquarters was so out of 

 proportion in point of size to the visitors 

 that might reasonably have been expected, 

 that one of the cavalry generals said "Only 

 God knows why Plant built an hotel here ; 

 but thank God he did." Mr. Davis says, 

 in speaking of the rations the soldierg re- 

 ceived while at Tampa, ' 'It seemed a fact 

 almost too good to be true, that the great 

 complaint of the New York men was the 

 super-abundance of beans served out to 

 them, and that the first complaint of the 

 sons of Massachusetts was that they had 

 not received beans enough. 'Beans for 

 breakfast, beans for lunch, beans for 

 dinner what t' hell' ! growled the New 

 Yorkers. 'And as for beans,' shrieked a 

 Massachusetts warrior, 'they don't give 

 you enough to fill a tablespoon!' " 



Among the short stories the two that 

 are rivals_in point of entertainment to the 

 reader,^though entirely dissimilar are "The 

 Amalgamated Bill," by Charles Warren, 

 and "A Saga of the Seas," by Kennette 



Grahame. The former hinges upon an 

 attempt to prevent the governor's vetoing 

 a certain bill, and in some respects has 

 such a similarity to a much talked of bill 

 and a governor not a thousand miles from 

 this city, that one wonders if the resem- 

 blance is wholly accidental on the writer's 

 part. The latter story tells of the wonder- 

 ful sights seen by the little hero in his 

 great voyage to foreign countries. To be 

 sure the vessel in which he sailed was a 

 small bath tub placed on towel-horse, and 

 the ambitious traveller did not go beyond 

 the walls of his nursery, but he had a 

 most wonderful voyage, nevertheless, and 

 saw marvelous things. 



MCCLUBE'S 



A pen picture of boyhood that carried 

 even the oldest reader back to the day* of 

 surprise parties, "kissin' games" and auto- 

 graph albums, is the story by William 

 Allen White entitled ' 'While the Evil Days 

 Come Not;" A Boyville Story. The note 

 to his "Heart's Desire" confiscated by a 

 heartless teacher and read before the 

 school, the tictac, the card with the legend 

 "If I may not C U home may I not sit on 

 the fence and C U go by?" Are all life- 

 like touches that bring before us the "King 

 of Boyville", as a living person. 



The first story is called "In Ambush" 

 and to say that Eudyard Kipling is the 

 author is sufficient to commend it to the 

 reader's attention. ''Love in a Fog," by 

 Hester Caldwell Oakley, is an original 

 and delightful little tale. The "Charles 

 A. Dana's Eeminiscences" contain a fac 

 simile of the order sent by C. A. Dana to 

 General Miles in 1865, to place fetters on 

 the hands and feet of Jefferson Davis, then 

 prisoner of war in charge of General 

 Miles. A portrait of the latter as he 

 looked in war times is also given, 



THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL 



contains in addition to its various depart- 

 ments, nine stories, and certainly earns its 

 title of the "story number. " Among them 



