The times., 1901-04-28

cookies out of bakers pan, each hotter
and more full of ginger than the last.
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co s150)
The May Magazines.
'Harpers Magazine" for May can only
be called a magnificent number. 1t is
particularly notable in it's illustrations,
which quite eclipse those of its nearest
rival, The Century" The latter has re-
Gently, 1t would SEEM discarded its artis-
tic traditions and gone in for yellow jour
nal supplement methods which are any
thing but pleasing. The rich brown pho
togravures which illustrate the leading
article In this months Harper s''-Ben-
jamin Constants paper entitled MY Por-
traits s'-are a pleasing contrast to pic
lures in a similar article published some
time ago by its contemporary, which pre-
sented more the appearance of an illus
trated essay on some artistically adver-
tised soap than a serious essay on art in
a reputable magazine. The Constant
leader is, as regards its pictures, the
finest in the magazine; but the fiction.i is
particularly worthy of attention, and also
the poetry Perhaps the best of the short
stories is a pathetic little tale. The Co
Away Girl" by Frances Aymar Mat
thews, who seems to have caught the at
mOSpnere or Chinese nfe more success
fully than any other romance writer who
has yet tried it. There is a whimsical
sketch, "A Mate for Melinda by Esther
y. Tiffany, who should keep on writing
just such things; Elise" is a story of
Partisan life by Aubrey Lanston, and
other stories are Cupboard Love" by w.
W. Jacobs, Sir John and the American
Girl, by Lillian Bell this is good one);
''Toteheap," by Marion Alexander Has
kelI, and "Hamza's Adventure: A Folk
Tale of Islam," by Henry Iliowizi. There
are poems by John Burroughs. Virginia
Frazer Boyle, Sara King Wiley, and
Frances Du Bignon.
The Atlantic Monthly" for May con-
tains the first installment of Mary john
ston's new novel. Audrey" There is a
charming article on "Moosilauke." by
Bradford Torrey, who is seldom anything
but delightful in his nature studies
Among the other serious articles are
The Ku KIux Movement by William
CARROT Brown, who treats of the In
visible Empire" as it began in Tennessee;
American Prose Style" by j. d. Logan,
and The Distinction of Our Poetry" by
Josephine Dodge Daskam; The Teaching
of English by Albert S. Cook, and Pro
ductive Scholarship in America by Hugo
Munsterberg The short stories are Mr.
Hapgoods Gospel by Will Payne, and
The Professors Chance" by Robert Her
rick.
"scribner's Magazine" FOR May con-
tains an illustrated article by John La
Fargo, entitled Passages from a Diary
in the Pacific;' one on Gen. Christian De
Wet, by Thomas F. Millard, and one on
st Pierre-Miquelon," by James Clar-
ence Hyde There is a remarkably sensi-
BILE paper on Saloons" by Robert Aston
Stevenson, which ought to be read by
people interested in that phase of muni-
cipal politics. "A Summer in Sabots'' is
an article by Mary A PeixottO Illustrated
by Ernest c. Peixotto. Walter A Wyck-
off writes of his experiences with Iowa
Farmers and there are poems by
Martha Gilbert Dickinson, Rosamund
Marriott Watson w. j. Henderson. r. s.
Martin, and L. A. Ellington Valentine.
"The Forum" for May contains as its
leading article "Aguinaldos Capture and
the Philippine Commission" by Marion
Wilcox. Prince Eropotkin writes of THE
Russians in Manchuria.' Arlo Bates
makes a strong plea on THE Negative
Side of Modern Athletics" 1t must have
taken some courage to espouse that side,
for Mr.. Bates is college professor, but
there is much sense In what he says Gus
tav Kobbe writes of Events of the ORA
matte Season" considering the leading
ones TO be the production of "L'Aiglon''
and Henry v" w. S. Scarborough, Vice
"
makes a strong argument in his paper,
The Negro in Our New Possessions"
How London Was Saved, by John Mar
tin, is a paper which ought to interest
everybody who is interested in municipal
reform. Other articles of Importance are
Foreign Bonds as American Invest
ing Of Railway Cars" by George D.
Shepardson. and "A New Class of Labor
in the South, by Leonora Beck Ellis
In "The Worlds Work" for May. possi-
bly, the most important article Is ''Russia's
Conquest Of Asia" by John Kimberley
Mumford. J. D. Whelpley writes of Pres
ident Diaz and his successor, and Hon. o.
II. Platt of the solution of the Cuban
problem. The Political Status of Europe
Austria Hungary is the title of paper
by Sydney Brooks. There is an article by
Franklin Fyles on How to Go on the
Stage and 'Terror-a Deer Story" by
MaXimilian Foster; Making Rain by
Electricity" "A Remarkable Medium -
and several other interesting articles and
stories.
'AfnsIee's Magazine" for May contains
an article on the two bosses, PIatt and
Croker, illustrated from photographs and
cartoons. Earl D. Berry writes of THE
Men That Control the Railroads" There
is poem by Bliss Carman. and there are
St'iANo ~ -. iA'iitS bWtiihOlSlt ONtIiOlls
Rodrigues Ottolengui, Mary Sherburne,
and Henry T. Gardner.
Dreyfus' account of his trial and i'm
prisonment is soon to be published Ac-
cording to the announcement of Mcclure
Philips & Co, who have secured all the
English rights, the book is to be publish
ed May !, under the title, Five Years of
My Life" 1t will contain, in addition to
recital of the salient points of the writ
err life during the period, his Devils ISL
and diary, and letters written by Madam
Dreyfus to her husband, with several let
ters of the captain to his wife, hitherto
unpublished.
English Politics in Early Virginia His
tory" by Alexander Brown, D. c. L., is
an interesting study, from old private and
company letters and documents Of the
origins of American government as in
huenced by English court politics.
New Books Received.
GREAT COMMANDERS: GENERAL MEADE BY
Isaac r. Pennypacker. Edited by Gen James
Grant Wilson. With illustrations and maps
New York; d. Appleton & Co. 81 30.
THE SPANISH PEOPLE; THEIR ORIGIN,
GROWTH, AND influence. BY Martin A.
s Hume. Santiago Cierra Espana - With
index and bbliography New York: ID. APP
plcton & Co. $50.
Edward White. New York: d. Appleton &
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