Show The Century A genuine midsummer number is The Centum for August with its opening article on The Stream of Pleasurethe River Thames by the Pennellshusband and wifewho have written about and minutely min-utely pictured that gay and thronged resort of boats and boaters Mrs Footes Afternoon Af-ternoon at a Ranch has also a midsummer air and all inland vacationists will find matter of interest in Dr Weir Mitchells profusely illustrated article on The Poison of Serpents Remington artist and writer describes with pen and pencil his outing with the Cheyennes and a group of wellknown goodengravers French Kingsley Closson and Davis I scribe in their own language and with drawings and engravings beach b-each a woodengravers camp on 10 the Connecticut river as well as the methods r meth-ods of the American school of wooden graving Of other articles nothing is mores more-s important than the chapters of the Lincoln History A highly interesting chapter in the Keenan series describes State Criminals Crimi-nals at the KaraMines Professor David P Todd in a strikingly illustrated article shows How Mans Messenger Outran the Moon at the time of the recent eclipse George W Cable gives the true and extraordinary extra-ordinary history of The Haunted House in Royal Street Edward Bellamy author of Looking Backward Back-ward has a short story called A Positive Romance and in his number is begun a threepart story by Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus entitled The Old Bascom Place The illustrations are by Kemble One of the most interesting the old masters Fra Angelico is presented in this number in the ColeStillman series engraved from the originals by Mr Cole There is an unusual number of poems including in-cluding a long one by Robert Burns Wilson r Wil-son A Song of the Woodland SpiritS Spirit-S and shorter pieces by Harry Stillwell Edwards Ed-wards Mrs Moulton Frank Dempster Sherman Celia Thaxter and others The Century company New York |