Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-23
CURRENT IIrEeArURE.

torial Interpretation OF the march OF
events is q very interesting department.
There are papers on President Diaz and
his SUCCESSOR, James j. Hill, the rail-
road msgnate the solution of the
Cuban problem, the political status of
Europe Austria Hungary /; the public
library and tbs public school, the
author and the publisher at peace, the
author as the printer sees him. 1t is
a splendid publication.
The Literary Era for May comprises
numerous papers of interest to the
bookreader. One Of these is on Hoosier
Literature and it gives credit to James
Whitcomb Riley for having caught the
true HoI sier spirit and turned old
prosaic farmers into rhapsodists to
natures Tyre. " Don't be discouraged,
my young fellow. Send them ont again.
Try again. Try like did. Try for 20
years." said Riley to young man
whose Literary table was covered with
rejected manuscripts. Riley had bad
many disappointments before he estab.
lished himself in the hearts of the
people. Edward Eggleston, Maurice
| ThomI son and Gen. Lew Wallace are
other famous Hoosiers.
In addition to the concise record of
I facts presented in Current History's
monthly digest OF the leading events,
movements and questions of the day,
this useful magazine now puts its
readers in full touch with the CO.
ordinate field OF opinion and discussion.
In the May nun Der is begun the pub
licaticn of monthly index to pericdi-
cal II erature, in which the reader who
desires fuller discussion or Conformation
on any topic he may be reading or
studying, can in moment find exactly
where to turn for the additional data
sought. Valuable as Current History
has proven itself during the past 10
/ years, its utility as comprehensive
and convenient record OF tho worlds
| progress is vastly enhanced by the
additi n of this new department. No
preaching issue has SURPASSED the May
number 10 variety Of interest and illus
tration. The most prominent topics
are the Chinese puzzle, Anglo
phohia, -" Boer Peace Negotiations. -
british Array and Tariff Reform, I"
decline of Oriental Trade, -
Probe us of Greater America, !"
Anthracite Coal Crisis" "Vene-
zuelan Asphalt Dispute, =" Canadian
Political Issues" ''Religion OF the
World" The number CONTAINS "a
portraits, maps, and other Illus
traiions. Boston: Current History Co.,
81. so year. Single number. 10 cents.
Sent three months on trial for 20 cents
The Literary Era makes q feature OF
illustrating its book reviews by cuts
taken from The books themselves. thus
giving its readers very fair idea of
what the artists are doing in current
hook illustration. This department of
the magazine in the May issue appears
fuller and better than ever, and in
connection with the BOOKS of the
Month";" in which The Era gives de.
scriptions and prices of books as they
issue. it affords full information to oil
who wish to keep themselves posted.
In the department called 1.-The OBJ.
server" William S. Walsh is interest
Ing as usual, and in his short essay he
calls attention to the important fact
that the extraordinary crazs for his
torical fiction has really stimulated a
demand for actual history. Mr.. Keenan,
has some specially Interesting matter
in his sold World, Themes, and
Charles Welsh writes entertainingly
about Mortimer Collins, most
picturesque character. Thackeiay
Gilkysson suggests curious specu-
lation as to the origin Of Emerson e
saying, Hitch your wagon to star, 81
which Mr.. Gilkysson thinks may have
originally applied to horse OF thai
name. Ii is difficult to say whether
he is really IN Jest or in earnest. DR..
Ellis P. Oberholtzer has paper on
"lIoosier Literature and Thomas
Allen Glenn one on the important
material In the hands Of the Historical
Society Of Pennsylvania.
A new writer of sea stories, James B.
Connolly, is now coming to the front
with his tales in Scribner's Magazine.
There was one in the April number
entitled "a Chase Overnight" and
the June issue will contain another,
ION the Echo o. the Morn" They
are the best Gloucester fishing stories
that have appeared in many year.
The author gets his material at frs
hand, and has been op many voyage.
skill could at any time secure position
on board one of tho Gloucester
sohooners as full hand. He has hac
most romantic career. He was a
Harvard in 1896, left the uuiversit,
and went to the Olympic games, wher,
he won first prize. He was in tn,
Spanish American War with Massa
chusetts regiment, and has been al
inspector and paymaster on government
dredging operations. He has alst
crossed the ocean several times IN thu
steerage, as a sailor, aud as hand OF
cattleboat. Mrs. Kate Douglas
Virgins amusing serial, "The Diar,
Of Goose Girl" IS continued in th,
June Scribner's, with Sbeppersnn'
illustrations. The setting lie quain
old English village, and the artist hal
reproduced the types faithfully. Ernes
Seton Thompson will begin 10 the JAM
Scribner's another OF his ANNA
biographies, the hero this time beinl
a mountain sheep known as ''Krag. tn
Kootenay Ram. 9he story will b
concluded in July, and, as in his othe
stories, the illustrations are all by Mr.
, Seton Thompson.
Walter A. Wyokoff, the author o
1.-THE Workers, - once worked on tn
Union Pacific railroad as section
hand, and he will describe the incident
of that experience in the June Serb
ner's. Some of the artistic features O
; the Pan American Exposition will b
discussed in the June Scribner's b.
: two eminent architects, Walter Cool
ard Jabp Al narrara