St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22

rice Thompson on 1.-The Return of the Girl, -
furnishes ample food for opprobrium. Mr..
Thompson's affected sanity is almost as dis
agreeable as Mr.. Beerbohm's affected I'M
wholesomeness.
The Black Cat continues to have striking
covers and thrilling contents. The April num-
Der contains half a dozen stories chiefly of
murder and mystery. How Small the
World, by e. S. Maybe, is on other lines,
and is vivaciously and pleasantly written.
The April number of McClure's Magazine
will contain the opening chapters OF Anthony
correspondent who has interviewed Prof.
Rontgen in his laboratory, and new ballad
by Kepleny.. The chapters of Mrs, Phelps
Wards photographed papers will revive
the history of the burning of the Pember-
ton Mills. and will tell how she wrote THE
Gates Ajar."
Gen. A. w. Greedy will contribute to the
April Ladies Home journal an article upon
THE Personal Side of Washington" in
which he will endeavor to refute the charges
that the father of his country was an I'M
flial son.
Not Dead" the Lark publishes one Of the
most spirited and acceptable pieces of verse
that has appeared in any periodical for a
long time. The enyoi is as follows:
"God, keep my youth and love alive. that 1
May wonder at this world until 1 die;
Waking sleeping, l may fight the lie;
Romance is dead, say some-but | say nor
The complete novel in the April Lippincott
is by Owen Hail. whose exciting story of Aus
tralian. life THE Track of a Storm, was
much read some months ago. 1.-The Vivisec-
tionist,' by Carolyn Wells, describes the con-
duct Of novelist whose search for literary
material was not hindered by delicate seru-
pies An illustrated supplement by Anne Hol-
| lingsworth Wharton treats of 1.-THE Washing
tons in Virginia." and tells much about the
early life and legendary love affairs of the
father of his country.
The cover of the April Cosmopolitan is a
striking feminine figure, by E. Korlovsky. 1t
is the most successful of the magazines col
ored covers thus far. The frontispece, on the
other hand, is less artistic than last month.
1t is from a sketch made by Eric Pape, to
illustrate Miss Harradens California story,
the first part of which is published this month.
Frank Stockton begins a new tale, Mrs
Cliffs Yacht" Price Collier writes of golf in
England and Scotland; T. L. James describes
the development of the overland mail service
and Miss Repplier furnishes one of her de-
lightful essays.
Each chapter of the fragmentary tale, "Weir
of Hermston' in process of publication in
| Cosmopolis, increases the readers regret that
Stevenson did not live to complete a novel
which was undoubtedly finer and more am
bilious piece of work than he had yet eSsayed
1t increases the impression left by "Ebb Tide
that the production of powerful psychological
fiction was the goal toward which the writer
was travelling. Other contents of the current
number of the tri-lingual magazine are
Henry Norman's account of his "Peace Mis-
sion to America" a somewhat sentimental
| appreciation of Verlaisne, by Mile Blaze de
Bury; and vigorous estimate of Lord Leigh
ton, by George Moore, whose art criticism is
always interesting and usually offensive Her
man Helferich writes of the dead artist in the
German section, and Edward Engel discusses
the French Decadents and Symbolsts. In
the French section Jules Simon discusses the
penny newspaper, maintaining, justly, that to
secure the circulation necessary to make a
paper profitable at that price the best tradi-
tons of journalism must be debased Paul
Marguerite furnishes a story; Tolstoi an ar
ticle, religious in it's nature. written in an
swer to discourse by lola before the Stud
ents, association in 1898, and a letter by Du-
mas that appeared at about the same time.
Hughes LIE RouX furnishes an interesting
sketch on "Mahomet in Paris apropos OF
the contemplated erection of a mosque in that
city.