Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Iii Scrlbncrs Mngaxlnc for August Er nest 8KonThomp5on the noted writer on animals IIIIM lie tlrst section of a biography biogra-phy of i wolf Tito It Is a curious study In wild lore Midsummer Is a I story in colored pictures lie first page of which Is I a reproduction of certain ancient an-cient I pngon emblems Richard llardlug I Davis tolls about Pretoria In War Time paper which should he rend by everybody every-body as It makes clear many things and shows certain phases of British character among the captlvo olllcers that can call I up no feeling but utter detestation J M Barrio continues his Tommy and Grlzel j and there Is much excellent fiction A welcome monthly always Charles Scrlb neru Sons publishers New York City The Successful American or July deals largely with men who have succeeded In the oil trade principally fu and about Pltlsburg though treating of Rockefeller and tho other great Standard OH breat 01 magnates mag-nates too I Is a magazine that should always be an Inspiration to the struggling business man bccauso or Its many brll llhnt examples of triumphs and time varied notes oC means by which those triumphs wero won rho Successful American 13U1 Park Row New York Frank Leslies Popular Monthly for August Is Midsummer Fiction Number It has n wealth of stories by F H6pkln son Smith A Conan Doyle Mary E Wilklns Marietta Hole Josluh Allens Wife and others It his poems and miscellany mis-cellany altogether a very good collection of attractive summer reading Frank Lcs lie Publishing House New York Tho nand IcNul Bankers Monthly for July has I Plan for tho Improvement Improve-ment of tho Banking System by Conrad N Jordan Assistant Treasurer oC Iho United States at New York I considers the commercial and financial outlook tho trust aueatlon tho Iron and steel trade peculiarities of Chinese currency the advantage ad-vantage of tbo gold standard anti has much financial and commercial Information Informa-tion Rand McNally Co publishers Chicago In McCluros Magazine for August r Lieutenant James C Glllmoro tells again 1 the story of his capture by tho Filipinos and gives a diagram of their hard and weary march A striking story In the number Is an Arctic tale by Jack London Grit of Women and hero aro many line stories and good things Including 0 porcuplno story of worth A very entertaining enter-taining magazine and most wclcomo every month The S S McClure Co New York Patriot or Pessimist In Uncle Sams Study of Expansion By James S Bar cus Published by tho EowcnMcrrlll Co Indianapolis A patriotic and able study of the conditions presented to the Immediate Imme-diate futuro of this country and a thorough thor-ough presentation of them to the public Tho author analyzes every phase of the subject takes up every adverse suggestion J sugges-tion of tim antiexpansionists and conclusively con-clusively proves the fallacy of It A timely time-ly I book that all having to do with this years campaign needs In his l business busless Tho Independent for July 28th has tho I stony of the streetcar strike at St Louis Margherlta Arllna llafcim tels St Tho I AntiForeign Movement In China and there Is story by S Crockett Bcadlo I and Martyr which as many oC his stories sto-ries would bo tho better of a gentLe UBO I of tho blue pencil The general contents I of the number aro admirable The Independent Inde-pendent Now York Tho Living Ago for I July 2Sth has PotiH fey Blgelowa review of the state of mind of tho people In Germany England and America Tho Professor and the Lay Mind Is a keen study by Henry Oakley Tho World In the China Shop is a I free and caustic criticism on the cxtrcm Usts a represented by the German Emperor Em-peror The Living 4 Ago Company Boston CassollH Llttlo Folks for August has a lot of handsome colored Illustrations and numerous agreeable rhymes and pointed pleasantries for tho children I Is f Joy to tho household Cassell Company Now York I Outing for August Is a raro number It might fairly compete with tho literary publications Hero Is an account of tho sports of tho Tibetans by Henry Savago Landor n story of tho Nome of 07 back b-ack London Jan > tho Unrepentant Pita Sportsmans ViewPoint by Casper Whitney and flno hunting and llghlng stories sports of oer amateur Kind every amalolr lfnd and > all told In the best of form nnd language Its story of A Centorboard CupDefend er for 1001 fllln one with confidence In tho outcome of any yacht match that may behind be-hind that jcar A great feature of tho number Is an account with photographs of the American athletes In London and Paris I Is I a deservedly popular monthly month-ly I Outing Publishing Company Now York Tho Engineering Magazine for August considers Industrial Depressions and tho PigIron Reserve tying that tho abnormal prloss for Ion aro tho direct cause of business stagnation China In Regeneration an Epoch and an Opportunity Oppor-tunity Is a paper of great ability by John Foord who considers tho present crisis a forerunner of enormous development develop-ment Waldon Fawcelt tells of Tho ShipBuilding Yards of tho United Stales giving their location growth equipment and output Albert W Buol sets forth The Material Development o the Inland of Porto Rico a very thoughtful > paper Local Transportation at tho Paris Exposition Is by Henry Harrison Suplee held to bo C demonstration demonstra-tion In Ito mechanical conveyance of a dense traffic Olhor articles uro Commercial Com-mercial Organization of the Machine Shop Electric 1 Mining Machinery In tho Urlllsh Collieries fully Illustrated The Futuro of Power Development and Heavy Motor Vehicles for Road Service Ser-vice I Is 11 very great practical I magazine maga-zine Engineering Magazine New York City The Forum for August opens with a paper by Sultan Mohammad Khan Tlio Present Status of Afghanistan then follow fol-low Somo Italian Problems by H Rcmsen Whltchouse late Secretary of tbo Legation at Rome Canada and Im lcgaton nnt j perlallsm by John Chnrlton M P member of the AngloAmerican Joint 1 High Commission Charles A Conanta 1 1 second paper on Tho United States asa I as-a World Power Child Study and Its I Relation to Education by G Stanley I Hal president of Clark University The 4 Present and Future of the Philippines I by F 1 llllder and this is about tho j best and most thorough paper wo have I I scan on the subject Charles Denby Into I U S Minister to China tells How Peace was Macho between China and Japan I I General C II Grosvonor a Representative Representa-tive from Ohio discusses The Negro Problem in the South T Kelr Hardle l 1 chairman of Independent Labor Party I In England tells about Labor and Poll j tlc3 In England Robert 1 Hill of thoU tho-U S Geological 1 Survay writes on Texan Tex-an past and PrejjQnt niul G H Perils I I djttcuasos Tolstoys ulumsln Ever J a magazine of vivid anti tlnjcly discussion f The Forum Publishing Company New I York |