The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-07
Literary Notes.


Book Neaos for March covers the literary
field both broadly and in detail, and re-
cords not only the general literary progress
of the year but the specific development
of the book world in the past month. A
feature of more than passing interest is
the symposium by authors setting forth
above their autographs, in some cases with
amusing frankness, the aims which
prompted their respective works. Critical
correspondence from the publishing cen
tiers of the United States and likewise from
London, illustrated reviews of the more
striking books of the month, and a list of
those which are having the best sale in
our chief cities, combine to make the
March Book Meas very useful to every
book reader. John Wanamaker, Phila-
delphia and New York. Monthly, sc a
month; SOC a year.
The recent success of the British arms
over the Mahdists in the Soudan demon
strates that ever fauaticism cannot stand
against drill and discipline. But in earli-
er days, it is easy to understand why the
Arabs swept all before them. An ingen-
ious tenet of Mohammed taught his fol-
lowers that the hour and minute and sec
ond of death were fully ordained. There
fore the believing soldiers self-regardless
fighting was for a while invincible. Con-
fucius, Zoroaster, Buddha, Brahma, Mo-
hammed-each of these great religious
thinkers now has his followers beneath the
far-fuug flag of the United States. 1t is
consequently the highest political wisdom
to understand what each Of our new wards
believes The February number of The
Cosmopolitan contains the first chapter of
THE Founding of an Empire" by John
Brisben Walker. The first part gives a
bird's-eye view of Mohammed and his re-
ligion.
Major-Gen. Francis v. Greene has writ
ten for The Century Magazine the only
authoritative account of the military op-
e~rations at Manila yet offered to the pub
lie. In the March number he describes
the voyage of the second expedition, which
he commanded; tn" landing and intrench-
ing of the troops on the mainland; and the
interesting features of the situation while
Admiral Dewey and the military officers
were waiting for General Merritt and the
monitors The chapter includes a state
ment of the plans of Admiral Dewey and
General Anderson to meet the crisis which
would have been precipit ated if Admiral
Camara's fleet had reached the Phil
lippines. A second article, to appear in
the April Century, describes the means by
which the insurgents were removed from
the American front, and the thrilling
events of the assault and surrender, in
Guiding the stop put to the determined eff
forts of the insurgents to enter the city.
General Greene's part in the operations
was conspicuous and varied, and he de
scribes his experiences with the skill of a
military expert accustomed to write for
the general public.
"a woman who is blessed with good
sense does not consider at the start that
marriage is a role to be skillfu1ly and sue
cessfully enacted, or a grand frolic of
which she is to be the admired and in
dulged centre, or a mere incident in a life
crowned with other activities" writes
Helen Watterson Moody in the March
Ladies' Home Journal. "She knows that
marriage is a serious and steady vocation,
and that the true wife is one who enters
marriage not thinking how much she can
get out of it, but how much she can put
nto it. 1t is this lar ger conception of
marriage which makes women dwell by
their own fresides in sweet content with
what is commonly called the marrow linn
its of home knowing we'll that no true
home is narrow since it must give cover to
the whole primal mysteries of lite-food,
raimeut and work to earn them withal:
love and marriage, birth and death, right
doing and wrong doing-all these COM
monplaces of humanity which are most
divine because they are most common
place The way to make home a wide
place to dwell in is to bring a wide person
ality to dwell in it. Any home is Just as
wide as the maker, aud can be no wider.
When a woman understands this she is
able to keep her head steady and her
heart undisturbed over newspaper sketch
es about other women, in which each one
of them is made to do the most remark
able and unnecessary things.n