The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-13
THE MAGAZINES.

In the March number of Romance there
are eighteen complete stories. One of the
best of these is a sketch by Frank b. Will
lard OF this city. Those who relish humor
Will enjoy three very funny translations
from the French. aud two which are almost
as amusing from the Italian; while admir-
ers OF ingenious plots, of romantic affection
and of touching pathos, will finu their pref
erences regarded in these carefully selected
contents. Among the original stories. as
usual, is one of especial strength-a study
OF life in the Southwest, full of local color,
by H. l.. Sargent.
The most interesting articles in the New
England Magazine FIR March are "RecoI-
Maria S. Porter; Harvard Clubs and
Club Life" by William Dana Orcutt. ana
Milwaukee," by Captain Charles King, the
military novelist.
That the late Christopher Pearse Cranch
did not take "Emerson's Limitations as a
Poet TO be so grave as to exclude him from
the company of the elect is sufficiently
demon strated by the closing paragraph of
posthum0uS essay printed in The Critic of
February 81: Whatever the technical i'm
Projections of EmersOn's verse it is beyond
question that we are lifted by his rare
though broken music Into chambers of
thought and mystical sentiment, to which
lew poets OF our day have the key. Ii he is
not a great poetic artist lie is great seer and
insDirer-and Of pr0se-poets our first.
ing description of wild sport in CeylOn's
tangled forests. Under the title of "a
Marauding Leopard" f. FitzrOy Dixon
gives an interesting account of the killing
oil great spotted cat which had for long
been terror to the herds of the native
embelish the article. "Cycing in Mid
Pacific" by Charles Z. Treyathan. a San
Francisco journalist, is concluded. num-
Der oil handsome illustrations complete the
attractyeness of an article which will
appeal directly TO wheelmeD, as i: describes
delightful trip over the coral roads of
dreamy Tahiti.
The opening paper in the March number
of the Magazine Of American History is by
President Charles Kendall Adams. LII d.,
entitled Some Recent Discoveries Concern
Ing Columbus" and nothing could be more
welcome To students, specialists and the intel
llgent public, particularly at this retrospect
tive period Of our country's affairs, than this
essay. President Adams demonstrates very
clearly how Columbus sailed around w at
lings Island and landed from the west
rather than from the east, and thus
entered the New World on the
Chicago instead of the New York side; he
also gives the reader the latest and most
authentic information as TO the rece dis
covery OF the burial-pIace and remains of
Columbus. There has been no end of con-
troversy on this theme, bnt Rudolph
Cronau, German traveller and historical
critic, reviewed the whole question in 1891,
and has now established the fact beyond
doubt that the remains Of Columbus are
still lying in the cathedral at San Domingo.
The paper OF President Adams embodies
ali thls, and much more, in the most con-
else. forelble and conclusive manner.
The Overland announces for April an
issue especially well Illustrated There is
to be an article on the water front of San
Francisco, illustrated from paintings and
drawings by Peixotto. Also series Of In
dian pictures OF unusually interesting char
acter Some of these are portraits; others
are from photographs taken on the field of
Wounded hnse by an eEterprlsing phOtOg-
rapher. who pushed to the front and got his
photographs before the dead were taken
from the places where they fell.
The March issue of Munsey's Magazine
contains many papers Of peculiar and con-
temporaneous interest A prominent place
Is given TO music. as there is fine full-page
portrait OF PaderewskL with a biography
In "A Morning With the Pope" by W. ii.
W. Campbell, great deal OF welcome liz
formation Is supplied regarding the interior
OF the Vatican. with many pictures
Those who are fond of angling will enjoy
reading the American Angler for March
As the hshIng season approaches the editor
and his corps of correspondents enthuse
over the prospect. and the natural result is
a magazine Drumming over with good things
for the lover of fishing.
The March issue OF the Worlds Column
biau Exposition forms the first number of
the second volume. The frontispiace is
iull-page engraving OF Mrs. Potter Palmer.
President OF the Lady Managers of the ex-
position. There are also engravings of
Mrs. John II: Rogers, Lady Manager from
Arkansas; Miss Mary G. Davis, Lady Man
aager from Nevada; Mrs. Agnes c. Paul,
Lady Manager from Virginia; Sarah II.
Blxby, Lady Manager from Maine.
The number for March begins the seventh
year OF The Forum, and for lis seventh year
several new enterprises in periodical work
are announced: First aud foremost, the
silver question, The discussion OF the silver
question has reached lis acute stage in Con-
gress and is, In consequence. before public
attention IN more serious form than ever
before. The March number contains two
papers on it-one by Mr.. Bland, who makes
his best argument for silver, and the other
by Mr.. Leech. Director of the Mint, who
writes to show that, in case of free coinage,
Europe would dump its silver on US.
The leading article in the Engineering
Magazine for March is one on tie Peary
expedition to Greenland and the relief party
which Is TO be sent out this summer, John
Beverley Robinson makes known some of
the secrets of his profession in q paper on
What an Architect Does for His Money"
Herbert Laws Webb treats of the effect of
the expiration of the telephone patents on
the Future of the Telephone Industry"
Leicester Allen describes the Manufacture
of Ice" by the leading methods in vogue,
aud DR.. Floyd Davis deals with the "Puri-
fication of Water" in which the quality of
ice for domestic use is also discussed. The
number is one of exceptional interest.
The March Cosmopolitan opens with an
article by Elizabeth BiSiand on the Cologne
cathedral beautifully illustrated. Adam
Badeau contributes some personal reminiS-
cences OF the grand danes of England at
whose house he was an habtuary, under
the title of strawberry Hill and the
Countess Waldergrave," and gives the later
history Of the favorite residence of Horace
WalDOle and its distinguished owner. The
number is full of good things.
An important series of articles on 1.-THE
Great Capitals of the World has been be-
gun In Harper's Weekly. The first intall-
ment is an article on Paris by Francois
COppee, describing the home life of the
Parisans, the sights and sounds and sug-
gestiye features Of the French capital.
familiar enough to its inhabitants, but full
of romantic interest 10 strangers.
The March Wide Awake Is an attractive
Issue of the favorite magazine. The most
important illustrated descriptive articles are
Mrs. Stanton's brief but interesting descrip-
tion of Gray's Forest-the famous tract of
the Burnham Beeches, near to London. and
the quaint churchyard of Stoke Pogis " here
the writer OF the immortal "Elegy" was laid
away, and Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore's
CAPITAL account OF visit to the palace of a
Chinese noble.