The times., 1901-06-09

| ton of character and actions One is re-
iieved in reading the last story, "A Circle
in the Water in which Mrs. March re-
sumes her usual sway over the actions
of her husband and her usual disposition
to be responsible for the manners and
ethical development of the neighborhood
1t is more like what we expect to find
in book by Mr.. Howells. CNew York:
Harper & Bros $1.5O)
| June Magazines.
The leading article of the Atlantic
/ Monthly for June is Trusts and Public
Policy" by Charles J. Bullock. There is
| an article on wellington, by Goodwin
Smith, and on THE Opportunity OF the
Small College by Herbert w HorwiIl.
| ''Law-Abiding Citizens is a clever sketch
| of early conditions in Kansas, by William
! r. LightOn, and there is in it an under
| tone of serious conviction, which is worth
attention. The current number of the
| series Of articles on the reconstruction
! period is Washington During Recon
| struction,' by Samuel w. Mccall
| Broken Wings, by Katherine Head, is
a remarkably bright satire on the mania
| for dramatiZing novels. Other interesting
! features of this number are "A Hermit
/ Notes on Thoreau," by Paul Elmer More;
| AT the End of the Trail" by Maximilian
/ Foster; Rain in the Woods by Madison
! Cawein: Criticism and Esthetics, by
! Ethel D. Puffer, and The Jester, by
|
The June Forum is largely occupied
with the discussion of rational and inter
national affairs The leading article, by
| Prof Paul S. Reinsch. deals with the
! large question of Governing the Orient
on Western Principles" and considers es-
pecially the lessons of British expert
| ence in India Mr.. Albert G. Robinson
supplies an account of The Work Of the
| Cuban Convention, and suggests an eX-
! PLANTATION of the misundeIstandings that
| have arisen between Cuba and this coun-
| try. Mr.. Harold Martin, correspondent
| of the Associated Press. vigorously pro-
| tests against the methods of THE Manila
Censorship Mr.. Henry Litchfield West
! draws upon his long and intimate knowl-
| edge of Washington public life for an es-
innate of THE Place of the Senate in
Our Government. " Municipal affairs are
| represented by a paper in which Mr.. Gus
! tavus Myers. an authority upon the his
tory of New York City government, sets
forth The Secrets of Tammany Sue
cess" Mr. Jonn p. Young contributes
AN American View of the British In
dustrial Situation from the protecuonist
standpoint. European problems are dis
cussed in papers by Mr.. Karl Blind and
Mr.. Abraham Cahan, respectively, on
The kaiser's Speeches and German His
tory and Russian Nihilism OF Today
''The Smart Set" for June opens with
81 900 prize novelette, entitled The Mid
die Course" by Mrs. Poultney Bigelow.
Gelett Burgess contributes an amusing
story. THE Midnight Matchmaker" and
there is a scintillating article by Edgar
SaltuS entitled Vanity Square" Har-
riet Prescott Spofford writes a strong
psychological study, 1.-The Conquering
VIII" and a unique and fantastic $100
John Regnault Ellyson. There are two |
stories by titled contributors in the num- |
Der, The American Widow" by Prince |
Vladimir Vauiatsky. and "Of Many, One"
by Baroness Won Hutten, both clever and |
entertaining tales. 'The Man of One |
Vice" by Flora Bigelow Dodge. is a |
Hearts Delight" by Justus Miles For |
man. is delightful idyl of Southern |
France.
Misc Margaret Horton Potter, the au- |
thor of The House of De MafIIy," is |
the daughter of a wealthy and distin- |
guished Chicago man. This is her third |
book, and the history of her literary work |
is perhaps as remarkable as that of any |
American author of recent years. At the |
age of seventeen Miss Potter wrote a |
novel of Chicago life called "A Social |
Lion" The book attracted so much at |
tention that social Chicago was stirred |
to its depths, and Miss Potter became |
known throughout the country a writer /
of remarkable insight and ability. The |
next year she published book entitled |
"UncanoniZed, treating of life at court |
and in the Catholic monasterieS in Eng
difference of treatment, the equally acute |
knowledge and Interpretation Of life at |
two such different times and places, again |
bore witness to the talent of the author. |
Now, at the age of twenty. Miss Potter |
has written THE House of De Mailly,"
which depicts life in France and the |
American colonies in the middle of the /
eighteenth century with the same re- |
markable yerisimilitude.
Hamilton W. Mabie begins in the June
fsRnoIxruaO'' a pharap pter sketch entitled I
John Foster" 1t is descriptive story /
dealing with the life of man of poetic |
nature, with the gift of imagination, who |
ripens in close cOmpanionship with nature |
into a beautiful and rare character. but |
without the faculty OF expression; whose |
genius is, in the end, interpreted and eX- |
pressed by one who enters into his eXpe- !
rience and gives his thought form and |
shape for the world; a romance of the in
ner life in the vein of Mr MabieS Forest |
of Arden and of some of the chapters of |
his Study Fire.
Col T. AlIston Brown has arranged with |
Dodd. Mead & Co. to publish his History |
of the New York Theatres" 1t is to be
gotten up by subscription, and will be in
two volumes, while the price will be S25.
There are about $50 900 words in the work |
Colonel Brown has been forty-SeVen years
compiling this stupendous work, which |
commences with the first dramatic per
for1nance ever given in America Q730). |
and is brought down to the close OF the
present seasonal total of 10 years. 1t
begins twenty-five years earlier than Dun
lap stated the drama to have been intro
duced in America-at Williamsburg, in
1752.
"Casse,rs Magazine" for June contains
fiction by w. Pett Ridge. Menie Muriel
Dowie, and Richard Marsh. There are
also installments of kim" the serial by |
Kipling, also running in "McClure's.'' and
of a serial by Max Pemberton, entitled
The Giants Gate"
New hooks Received.
THE LUCK OF THE Walls: 4 Novel. ByE F.
Benscn. New York: D. Appleton Co.
$50.
THE CURIOUS COURTSEIP OF KATE POINS:
Romance Of the Regency. By Louis Evan |
shipman. Illustrated New York: d. Apple
ton & Co. $50
AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED. BY Al |
mon Dexter Philadelphia: 4. ". Fisher &