The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-31
April Magazines,

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April Magazines.
| The April number of the Atlantic
Monthly" contains as its leading article
Politics and the Public Schools by G.
w. Anderson Other features of interest
are THE Anthracite Coal Crisis. by Tai
colt Williams; The State of Washing
ton, by w. d. Lyman; "Dante's Quest
of Liberty" by Charles A. Dinsmore;
THE Renaissance of the Tragic Stage.
| by Martha Anstice Harris; The Foun
tains and Streams of the Yosemite, by
John Muir, and THE Next Step in Mu-
nicipal Reform by Edwin Burritt Smith.
Roswell Field contributes whimsical
| sketch entitled, "'rhe Passing of Moth
er's Portrait" and there are two stories,
The Weaker Sex" by f. ]. Stimson,
can Unfinished Portrait by Jennette
Lee. The poems are by John Burroughs,
Henry tombstone, and Grace Richardson.
| The Contributors Club" contains a re-.
markedly clever and appreciative cri-
tique of Mrs Minnie Maddern Fiske's act
ing.
"Scribners Magazine for April begins
with the first of series of articles on
The Southern Mountaineer," by John
| Fox, jr.J and no one is more competent
| to write on this subject than he. Two
| Centres of Moorish Art is a paper by
| Edwin Lord Weeks, Illustrated by the au-
| thor. Walter A. Wyckoff contributes a
paper on the hobo problem. which he calls
"A Day with a Tramp" Possibly the
clevcrest bit of work in the magazine is
THE Marvels of Science by George Hib-
bard. which is much better than its title,
being dialogue between young woman
n ,,I,.
Marguerite Merington, Charles Henry
Webb, John Badmus and II. Arthur Pow
ell.
The April number of the Popular Sci
ence Monthly contains seven articles of
nearly equal interest. They are NAL |
pighi Swammerdam, and Lee'iwenhoek,"
by Prof. William A. Locy; Two Con- |
temporary Problems in Education" by |
Prof. Paul II. Hanus; "A Study In Brit |
ish Genius by Havelock Ellis; Suicide |
and the Weather" by Prof. Edwin c. |
Dexter; Recent Progress in Aerial Nav
igation,' by Charles II. Cochrane; THE |
Foreign Trade of the United States" by |
Frederic Emory. and The Planet Eros"
by Prof. Scion /. Bailey. Among the SUBJ
jects discussed in the editorial depart
ments are Chicago University. the origin
Hypothesis. and Stanford University.
'Harper's Magazine" for April contains |
an unusual number of interesting things. |
particularly in the line of fiction There |
are descriptive articles and historical ar
ticles well; Serpent orshippers of
India" by Walter Ii. Tribe; The Austria
Ian SQuatter,' by Fl. c. McIlvaine; THE
Rise of Berlin by Sidney Whitman. and
Colonies and Nation the fourth of a
series of papers by Woodrow Wilson
Mark Twain contributes an amusing bit
of fancy which he calls Extracts from
Adam 3 Diary and which lives up to
its name. There are two particularly
clever stories, or rather character stud
les, Druce Fearing" by Marie Van
Worst, and "A Friend of His YOUTH by
Gelett Burgess. George Bird Grinneu
an Indian folk-tale which he
entities The Medicine Grizzly Bear" E
w Deming is responsible for the illustra-
tons. which are good There are poems
by John Finley HildegarIe Hawthorne |
and Elizabeth w. King. There is also q |
story, The Chohan Bride by A. Sarath |
humar Ghosh, the scene of which, it may
BE explained, is Rajputana.
The Easter number of ''Ainslee's Maya
zine contains several good stories, two of
he best of which are The EIopement,"
IN amusing sketch of rural life by Eu-
gene Wood, and Before the Fact a Gu
'ious study in statistics and psychology,
~ Rodrigues Ottolengui. BY all odds the |
most interesting of the other features
$ Chinese Childrens Blocks" by Isaac
Taylor Headland.
THE Worlds Work for April con-
aims as its leading feature an article on
Andrew Carnegie, with full-page por-
raft. There is also an article on Pier |
,ont Morgan, with portrait Among the
ther public characters discussed in this
ssue are Archbishop Ireland, Prince Kro-
'otkin, and Stephen Phillips, and there
5 an interesting paper ON The Rise of
he Russian Jew
'McCIure's Magazine" for April con-
aims many good things. among them an
rticle on New York. by Josiah F1ynt
Ihich is likely to startle some of the re
Ormers in that city and elsewhere There
re also several good stories, among them |
clever little sketch called Limitations"
y Edith Wyatt. who is doing some of the
est work yet done in the line of realis-
&C fiction. Her especial field is Chicago,
nd her heroes and heroines are drawn |
rom its great middle class.
Industrial topics are prominent i'm the |
ltorial discussion which occupies the
pening pages of the April Review of
eViews." The editors comments on the
of the "bllion-dollar'' steel |
ompany, and on the threatened strike
the anthracite coal miners are pointed
nd instructive. There are also several
paragraphs ON the recent rail-
rad consultations, the question of gov
nment ownership in Canada. and mod
n transportation problems in general,
an exposition of the American |
mai policy.
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