Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-06

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Mead, and War Correspondents, by
John Gilmer Speed.
Mcclure Magazine for March will
contain the first of series of articles
and pictures by Charles Dana Gibson,
depicting Egypt as he saw it last year
in a journey undertaken expressly for
McClure's.
In the May number of the Pail Mall
Magazine will be published the first of
five stories by II. &. Wells. the
author of The War of the Worlds. 8"
etc. These stories will deal with
the year 2 900 a. D.. and are instinct
with the authors curious fancy and
invention. They will be illustrated
by 5. ii. Slime.
Outing for March is seasonable
and satisfying number. which carries
many fine illustrations. Walrus
hunting in north Greenland, fishing
in Florida waters, snow shooting in
western wilds. shooting in South
America, articles upon terriers and
sPaniels, wolf hunting, bicycling and
yachting. afford a pleasing variety.
The proprietors of the Pail Mall
Magazine have commissioned William
Archer, the well known dramatic and
literary critic. to visit the United
States for the purpose of writing a
short series of articles on The Stage
in America. The yearly increasing
theatrical intercourse between Eng
land and America should make the
results of Mr.. Archer's tour of inter
est 10 theatre-goers on both sides of
the Atlantic.
In the current issue of Literature,
published by Harper IL Brothers. VIII
liam Dean Howells reviews Frederic
Remington's latest book, Shutdown
Lefiare, in his uSual mastery way.
Among NV Books is written by the
famous author of The Open Question,
Elizabeth Robins, and Sir Walter
Besant contributes his recent article
on the Pen and the Book. Other ar
ticles of more than ordinary interest
are Thackeray in Politics, Tennyson,
Grub Street Spanish Literature and
the American Academy.
1t has been estimated that there are
at the lowest count 800. 900 American
women who are directly interested in
some form or other of club work.
For u long time there has been 4
growing demand for 4 thorough dis
cussion of the interests of American
clubs in the pages of some leading
periodical. That such Il demand has
existed is fully proven by the wide
favor which has greeted Club Women
and Club Work, the department con-
Quoted for Harper's Bazaar by Mar
garet Hamilton Welch. 1t is enough
to say that in no other journal can so
complete discussion of this import
ant subject he found.
Despite his dislike to he photo
graphed, Pope Leo Mi mas permitted
to he pictured by the bio
graph, and a mum Der of the most in
teresting portraits will be found in the
March Ladies' Home Journal. They
show the venerable pontiff in the
grounds of the vatican, passing along
his favorite walks and drives, at
tended by his secretary, guards, or
members of his household. The pie
lures are exceedingly interesting in
showing the pope as he lives at the
vatican. and his surroundings, and
are doubly valuable because they are
the first pictures that have been made |
of the pope in a great many years.
Harper's Weekly presents a thor
oUgh discussion of tobacco culture in |
Porto Rico by William Dinwiddie, |
special correspondent in the Antilles. |
1t is stated that tobacco equal to the !
best Havana in quality can be grown |
very easily in Porto Rico, and that |
much of the tobacco imported from !
Cuba has been grown in the smaller |
island, and imported TO Cuba and !
branded with the magical word |
Havana. Mr.. Dinwiddie states that |
tobacco culture in Porto Rico affords /
an opportunity for an American enter |
prise and investment fully equal to |
the sugar and coffee planting, which /
industries he has so ably discussed in /
previous issues OF the Weekly.
Monitors, in a large degree. are !
vessels in which engineers may take |
special interest, and | am Il great be- |
lever in their efficacy when properly |
used. In the Spanish-American war. |
their record is considered to have |
been poor one, hut this. in my judy |
ment, was because they were diverted |
to uses for which thew were never in
tended. They are purposely designed
for operating near the coast, and have
neither the speed or the coal supply |
10 enable them to make long cruises.
= gallant captain of the United States /
navy stated that. if given the COM
nand of the Monterey. he would be |
'eady to fight any battleshiP alloat-
do not advocate the build
nc of monitors to the exclusion OF
-essels intended for the high seas,
Jut as coast-defenders l believe they |
nave no neutrality-suspicious.
:. w. Melville. in the Engineering |
Magazine for March.
The notable thing about the emf
lent public men now writing for
Scrihner's Magazine is that they are
'killful and entertaining writers as
veil as men of affairs. For this rea-
son the contributions of Senator Hoar
md Gov. Roosevelt are literary produc-
ions as well as chronicles of action.
The March number of Scribner's shows