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| torlal presentation OF the great fTeHch
| Exposition A great deal of Information
about Rapid Transit in New York. has
appeared in the daily press, but the hrst
presentation of exactly what 1t means and
how 1t will be carried out, and how the
tunnel and its stations will actually APP
pear, is contributed to this number by
William Barclay Parsons chief engineer
of the Rapid Transit Commission. Moth
ing has been more remarkable in the his
tory of the West than the entire change
in Colorado in a few years from silver
producing to a gold-producing state. just
little while ago the gold output of Col
orado was So, 900, coo a year; 1t is now more
than $780, 000, 900, the greater part of 1t COM
ing from Cripple Greek. Francis Lynde,
the well-known writer, describes this ire
mendous industrial development In an ar
ticle on Cripple Creek" In fiction this
number contains EGG Island" story
of a marvellous adventure on yacht In
the southern hemisphere. 1t is an alb
sorbing tale of mystery. There is also
another O'Connor story called princess
Royal" which reveals that delightful
Irishman in a most ingenious situation.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
One of the secrets of the success of the
Woman's Home Companion is revealed in
the May number, in that the great va
riety of reading matter offers something
many excellent stories, including a serial
by Mrs. Burton Harrison and the opening
chapters of a summer romance, called
''The Confessions of a Camper" clever
dissertation on managing burglars is CIV
en- by John Kendrick Bangs in The Idiot
a t Home" papers. Woman's Home Com
panion, Springfield O.
In the May number of the Ladies'
Home Journal, Rudyard Kipling drolly
tells of 1.-THE Beginning of the Armada
los" Mary B. Mullet writes of The Real
Thrums of Barrie" Clifford Howard of
THE Flower That Set a Nation Mad"
Mabel Percy Haskell Of "A Famous Bos-
ton Belle" and the Rev. Cyrus Townsend
Brady continues his experiences as "A
Missionary in the Great West" Ian Mac
laren's article answers the query rs the
Minister an Idler?" and Edward Box
writes of early marriage and of domestic
science in the schools. The number of
writ ers for the Journal is large and most
of them are we'll known throughout the
entire country Ladies Home Journal
Philadelphia.
The story of everyday life, of a prosper
Gus people and of great warriors of 5000
years ago has been brought to light by
the University of Pennsylvania excava-
tions at Ancient Nippur. Dr. Hilprecht
the famous Assyrian scholar, is the leader
of the expedition, and his wonderful dis
coveries are the subject of the principal
article in Ainslee's for May. Lieutenant
Commander Calkins, Admiral Dewey's
navigating officer at Manila, contributes
much interesting flrst-hand information
in 1.-The Filipino Leaders" Street &
Smith, publishers, New York.
The May Atlantic opens with a thought
full paper Nations and the Decalogue,"
by Henry D. Sedgwick Jr., who discusses
the grounds of national morality and ex-
poses the Weaknesses and folly of the ira
ditional methods of conducting interna-
tional relations, and believes that the time
is coming when all nations will be con-
solidated into one, and national distinc-l
tions will merge INTO one grand cosmopol-
itan Brotherhood. Edmund Gosse gossips
| delightfully."- about the history of The
| Milton MSS" at Trinity College, Cam
bridge, consisting of some thirty folio
leaves and contain nearly all MiltonS ear
| lier poems, in his own handwriting and
with all his changes and corrections. Prof.
| Hugo Munsterberg, presents a thought
! full and interesting paper based on his
| German schooling, and shows why and
! how far German methods excel our own.
Prof. Munsterberg argues strenuously
against the policy of extending elective
/ privileges lnQlScrlInlndlely 10 young anu
| uniformed minds. Mrs. Wiggin relates
| '"The Debut of Patricia one of the most
| ENTHUSIASTICALLY romantic experiences of
| the inimitable company of Francesca,
| Salemna, and t. which, like Sam Well
| er's valentine, will make their many
! friends and readers wish there vos more
| Bradford Torrey supplements his other
| White mountain papers with a sketch of
| May in Franconia, which breathes the
| breath of spring and makes the reader
| long to be In the midst of the birds and
| the buds and the blossoms pictured by his
glowing and loving pen. Houghton, Milf
| fin & Co., II East Seventeenth street,
| New York.
| Quite appropriate to the May number of
the New Lipplncott, which issues on April
| q, is the title of the complete novel,
| april Showers" by Alice Brown, author
| of the delightful ''Tiverton Tales" The
| title fits the story. TOO, in which clouds
| and sunshine chase each other in quick
| succession. Miss Brown Is, like Mary E.
! wilkins, a New England woman, clever
| and forcibe, and her characters are
| drawn from the same soil. S. r. Crock
| ett's story, called 1.-The Troubler of
Israel" cannot be excelled in humor and
| tenderness, and is entirely worthy of the
| author of 1.-THE Stickit Minister" "At
| NirhtfaN" by George Gissing an English
| told by sick man TO his trained nurse
| about the only woman in the world he
| cared for. This woman had strong con-
| victions and the courage to live up to
| social law in which she believed. This
| is a case where the point-of-view makes
all the difference. Mrs Hudson's fifth
| Mormon story, 1.-The Avenging Angel"
| has a CLEAN of humor in il to Tighten
the otherwise tragic tale about Scotch
woman who adopted the Mormon faith
| and dragged out an existence among the
| elect Her husband Joined the murder
Gus Danites and became IAN Avenging
! Angel" The coming total eclipse of the
sun is Iucidly described by Julia MacNair
Wright in a paper entitled The Event
| of Nav IS l9OO" 1.-The Siege of Plevna,"
| Stephen Cranes third article in his series
| on Great Battles of the World" bears
with timely significance on Ladysmith
and Mafeking J. b. Lippincott, Phila-
| delphia.
The American Queen for May is resplen-
dent in a most appropriate cover by Alex
ander Rummler, entitled Plating the