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SCRIBNER'S was the first of the Magazines to adopt the idea of making a special number which should contain an exceptional number ofrepresentativeshort stories, and many readers will easily recall stories, still talked about, that have appeared in the past in this number of the Magazine. The stories this year, as usual, have been carefully selected with a view to their quality, and in theme and treatment they cover a very wide range. There are stories of adventure, humor, mystery, sentiment; of childhood, little comedies of every-day life-all of them representative in their particular fields. The popularity of the short story has never been greater than during the past year. SCRIBNER'S has always had a reputation for distinctive work in its fiction, and each one of the special summer numbers has added a group of memorable short stories to the literature of our time. the aspects of the more notable places of the war-San Juan Hill, the Block-House, Bloody Bend, Kettle Hill, etc., and makes a plea for some suitable memorials to mark the places where so many of our men fought and fell. Incidentally he re May Wilson Preston. An article by Richard Harding Davis of very wide interest that will appear in the August number is entitled, "The Passing of San Juan Hill." It is the result of a recent visit paid by him to the Cuban battle-fields of the Spanish-American War. He describes and shows by means of numerous photographs the changes that time has made in calls some heretofore unwritten incidents of those days, the hardships, little comedies bits of heroism and humor that always give such a vital interest to everything Mr. Davis writes. He well says: "The human interest alone will keep San Juan alive. The men who fought there came from every State in our country and from every class of our social life. We sent there the best of our regular army, and with them, cowboys, clerks, bricklayers, football players, three future commanders of the greater army that followed that war, the future Governor of Cuba, future commanders of the Philippines, the commander of our forces in China, a future President of the United States. And, whether these men when they returned to their homes again became clerks and millionaires and dentists, or rose to be presidents and mounted policemen, they all remember very kindly the days they lay huddled together in the trenches on that hot and glaring sky-line." Few readers of the Magazine can have failed to be amused by the droll illustrations signed May Wilson Preston that have accompanied some recent stories, among them the late Guy Readers of James B. Connolly's story, "Tommie Ohlsen's Western Passage," published in this Magazine and recently included in the volume "Out of Gloucester," will be interested to know that the "Tommie" of that story, who also frequently appears in others, is drawn from the skipper of the little yacht Fleur de Lys, which recently took part in the great international ocean race. From all accounts c'd see of his face'd be the eyes and the jaw-his eyes and jaw stickin' out-the jaw like the counter of the Nannie. But that's all a man'd want to see, them eyes and that jaw. Lord Almighty! but he's a man to tie your hopes o' Heaven to, is Tommie Ohlsen in a blow." The unusual amount of discussion concerning Alonzo Kimball "Tommie" lived up to his reputation for "driving" whenever the opportunity offered. The following is a characterization of him by one of his Gloucester shipmates in the Nannie O: "And now do you b'lieve me when I tell you that no skipper out o' Gloucester ever made him take his mains'l in? I mind now the time, in my fishin' days on the Nannie, when I said to myself, 'Peter, if ever you see home again you're the lucky man. If ever you walk Main Street again you c'n bet somebody's been prayin' for you.' The times I said that, and b'lieved it, yes b'lieved it like my old mother b'lieves in prayers, and I b'lieved each time till I turned 'round and looked at Tommie. He'd be aft-buried to his waist maybebut there he'd be and I'd get a good look at him. All I Mrs. Wharton's fine story, "The House of Mirth," is a convincing tribute to its increasing power. There is an impression of tightening of the net of circumstances about the career of Lily Barl, the chief figure in the story, that stirs sympathy and excites the reader's interest in the possible outcome of the various complications of which she is a part. A great deal of curiosity has been caused by the title of the story. This I will be found in the seventh chapter of Ecclesiastes, fourth verse. "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." SCRIBNER'S MAGA ZINE has many times had the distinction of introducing to the public the work of young writers and artists who have taken high rank in their chosen professions. Among the latter, whose work has recently attracted more than usual attention, is Alonzo Kimball. He has an eye for beauty, a sureness of drawing, and a capacity for invention that have given his pictures in color and illustrations in the Magazine unusual distinction. Mr. Kimball has studied both in this country and Europe, and brings to his work a thoroughly well-grounded artistic training. The Standard Brands These cigars are acknowledged as over. 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