People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — McClure's for September. [ARTICLE]

McClure's for September.

McClure’s Magazine, with a stirring barrack-room ballad by Kipling, a thrilling installment of Anthony Hope’s “Phroso”, a dramatic sea story by an actual sailor, and characteristic stories by Mrs. Spofford and Clinton Ross, maintains, in the September number, its usual enticing aspect. In scanning a table of contents of McClure’s, one never experiences, it must be allowed, the familiar difficulty of finding something one really cares to read. More interesting even than the fiction, in this number, are some of the graver articles. Mr. Low’s recollections of his art-student days in Paris and of the not able painters whom he came to knowmore or less intimately there; Mrs. Morton’s intimate account of the heroic labors of her husband, Dr. W. T. G. Morton, in overcoming incredible prejudice and obstruction and getting his humane discovery of anaesthesia perfected and introduced, and so giving painless surgery to the world; the vivacious, yet sympa thetic account of the painter Whistler (that most picturesque of men) and his eccentric ways and witty speeches; and Elizabeth Stewart Phelps's account of her life down among the Gloucester fishermen, —all of these are the very best of good reading in their several ways. All are fully illustrated with portraits and other pictures. Considering abiding value as well as immediate interest, the feature of the number is Lincoln’s ‘‘Lost Speech”— raised to the fullness of life as it were from the very dead. It is truly a great speech, as persons who heard it have always so ardently testified. Delivered at Bloomington in 1856, it practically created the Republican party in Illinois. But the reporters were so absorbed in listening that they forgot to report, and the speech was supposed until now to be irrevocably lost. Mr. JosephMedill, editor of the Chicago “Tribune”, who heard the speech, introduces it with an interesting description of the occasion.