The times., 1898-05-03
MAY MAGAZINES.

Harpers Magazine for May begins with
trotter, Julian Ralph. on Awakened
Russia" Another long article of con-
siderable interest is East Side Consider
ations," by e. 5. Martin, which is copi-
ously illustrated. There is one of Fred
eric Remington's Indian stories, iIlustrat-
ed by himself. and one of Margaret De-
lands "Old Chester Tales" Another bit
of fiction is 1.-The Thunder Chief by Ge-
lett Burgess, and still another. THE
Bishops Memory" by Marguerite Mer-
ington. carefully illustrated article is
'Varallo and the Val Sesia,' by Edwin
Lord Weeks. University Life in the
Middle Ages gives some interesting
glimpses OF the building-up of learning.
and is the work of Prof. W. I. Hewett.
There is a sonnet by Guy Wetmore Car
ryI. entitled Remembrance. and some
poems by John Vance Cheney on the sub
ject of Spring.
The leading article of the Century
Magazine for May is THE Beethoven Mu-
scum at Bonn" by H. E. Krehbiel. It is
fully illustrated and written in Mr.. Kreh-
bieI's usual careful and mastery style.
Another article of particular interest is
'An Effort to Rescue Jefferson Davis.
by Gen. Joseph Wheeler Andrew d.
White contributes a paper on "A States
man of Russia; Constantine Pobedono-
stzeff.'' THE Secret Language of Child
hood" by Oscar Chrisman, will have
reminiscent delight for many people ana
Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer, contrib
raf
Greater New York" In the line of fic-
ton are THE Canal-Dwellers,' by Julia
Schayer, and ''Gallops; His First Race, >,
by David Gray. In the department called
I'm Lighter Vein there is a remarkably
clever drawing by Oliver Herford called
"A Literary Lion"
The Cosmopolitan for May contains
daintiIy illustrated article on The Wis
taria Shrine of Kameido both writing
and pictures by Theo. Wores; an article
on the Coronation of Wilhelmina of Hol-
land by Cromwell Childe illustrated
with many portraits of the little queen;
and an article on THE Wilderness We
Bought from France. by Charles F.
Henderson, which deals with the Louisi-
ana purchase. The last mentioned paper
will prove very interesting to most peo-
pIe. 1t is hard to believe that the acqui-
sition of our great West was strenu-
ously opposed by men from Virginia and
New Jersey who stated in their speeches
that it would be impossible 10 admit
members of Congress from the far West.
because it would take them the entire
year, with the exception of two weeks,
TO travel to and fro between Washington
and their homes But so il was, and there
is much other interesting information in
this article In fiction there is a story
by Brander Matthews. entitled Her Let
ter to His Second Wife and one called
The Mills of the Little Tin Gods by
Vaughan Kester The poem of this
issue is called Love" and is by Paul
Laurence Dunbar.
The first paper in the May Seribner's
is undergraduate Life at Wellesley" by
Able Carter Goodloe. who has cOntrj
buted much TO the literature about col
leGe girls. 1t is copiously illustrated from
sketches and photographs. The initial
number of THE Story of the Revolu-
tion," by Henry Cabot Lodge. appears in
his number, and the third paper on
THE Workers" by Walter y. WyckOff.
The New Reporter" is newspaper
story by Jesse Lynch Williams, and
there is u poem called THE Hunting
Call of Spring" by Marion CouthOuy
Smith. A. b. Frost contributes some of
his inimitable drawings, which he calls
Bicycle Pictures
Lippincott's for May contains as its
complete novel THE Cncalled." by Paul
Laurence Dunbar. 1t is a work abso-
lutely unique in that it is a study Of the