New-York tribune., 1901-06-10
SOME MAGAZINE NOTES.
MR. wEILs's PREDICTIoNs-LUXUR IN
coLI.EGE-THE IRON DUKE.


carrier companies using motor trucks Tor the
conveyance Of goods: the development OF the
hired or privately owned motor carriage capaple
Of a DAYS Journey of three hundred miles or
more: the development OF the motor onhlpus
running on private roads If new sort upon
which their vehicles will be free 10 travel at top
speed-these are some of his predictions An
other rapid transit possibility, he thinks is 'he
moving platform-or seven moving platforms OF
various degrees Of speed-placed within clean
light well ventilated tunnel and set Win cohi-
Portable seats and neat bookstalls.
One consequence Of greatly improved means
Of transit will be- he holds, the diffusion OF the
great cities permitting the establishment OF
secondary centres" wherein all comforts, con-
veniences and Iuxuries may be as easily pro-
cured as in the present crowded city. Ihe oe-
velopnent Of the new inventions viii, moreover
bring into place new bodies Of educated. qualified
men The less skilled workmen and mechanics
Of to-day will he replaced in the year 2O0O by
q large. fairly homogeneous body of more or less
exnert mechanics and engineers. with certain
common minimum of education and living intel
ueence and a common consciousness new
body. a new force. in the worlds history"
Mr.. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. who does not
WELD the pen as often as his readers would like.
contributes TO the June Harper" one of his most
sketch Of matrimonial cross purposes. set in a
scene Of shore and sea. 1t sparkles like sun
beams on the waves and is altogether bit Of
bunnor 10 be thankful for. Mr.. Smedley's Illus
STATIONS in color are excellent accompaniments
Common sense marks President Hadley's dis
r4ssion in The Century of the question of al
legged luxury among college students. He notes
an increase in students expenses, but he does
not believe that the exhibition Of wealth has
nerverted ideals and interests in any consider
able number of colleges. While he recognizes
the necessity of preserving democratic stand
ards he thinks that prohibition of luxury and
repression of its several manifestations will avail
little toward this end. He recommends that the
authorities should make the college course
field for hard work so that "a man who carries
his pursuit Of personal comfort and social enjoy
rnent to the extent of excluding all other pur-
suits will soon find that such college is no
place for him."
Some will be deferred from even trying to en-
ter; others will be kept out by the entrance ex-
amnations: still others viii drop away before
the close Of their freshman year. Those who re-
main living in community of workers, will be
workers themselves. 1t has been our experience
AT Yale that the men who have the most money
ct their command apt TO be active in college
interests. II may not be in the line Of study or
writing or in any other strictly intellectual pur-
suit II is Just likely 10 be in athletics, or in
religious work, IN the organization Of the
various forms Of business for which the college
life gives occasion. But matter what may
be the particular direction taken the evils of
luxury are avoided when those who are able
10 practise il make II no longer their chief con-
cern.
Exceedingly attractive is the glimpse Of Fin
land which Mr.. Henry Norman gives US in
"scribners Magazine" 1t has singularly in
telligent and educated population and one that
IS thrifty industrious and progressive TO a high
degree 1t is a remarkable fact that with sterile
soil and in of the worst of climates. these
people in 1895 exported in natural and manu-
factured pro6nce nearly SIS worth per head of
the total population.
To the permanent literature of the South
seas'-there is not much of it, but what there
IS is goodwill be surely added the poetic and
picturesque selections, from Mr.. La Farge's
diary. Alas that We must believe that the beau
ty OF form and color he so charmingly describes
is even now passing; that the day is coming
when nowhere earth or at sea will there
be any living proof that Greek art is not all
the invention of the poet-the mere refuge of the
artist in his disdain of the ugly in life,"
There is a homely sweetness in Miss Jewett.s
story Of rural New England printed in Nc
clure's Magazine" Wholesome is the moral to
r
whose prosperous and comforta bic city life grows
more and more intolerable 10 him until at last
the spring weather woos him irresistiby back
10 his country home. There is a delicate sim
picity IN Miss Jewett's style that seems to suit
q natural and moving little tale like this as the
faint perfume Of the sweetbriar suits the flower.
An article Of special interest 10 NeN--Yorl,ers !
in The Worlds Work" is that devoted 10 |
Municipal Ownership" as established in F,urona
III Is story OF drastic change and civic expert |
meht ending IN business success; and the active /
agents, 1t is impressed upon US. have NOT been !
socialists, but steady-gong business men Of good
Htanding. The British cities" says this writer .
-'ane ruled by the same men who conduc+ ,to I
largest industrial operations IN them-nen who
are financially honest and display their civic low
atty py getting the same advantage for the COM |
1nunity as they would get for themselves"
Mr.. weiss First Men in the Moon" comes
apparently to its final end in the current Cos /
mopolitan," and We disappearing into the I
pianets depths the struggling figure of the in /
Nentor who brought TO pass the strange Journey |
thither- And yet there is. after all. nothing in |
this ending which need preclude a continuation |
OF his adventures with the wonderful insect men
OF the moon. Let us hope that the authors
fancy will return some day upon this track and |
that he may again find at hand the illustrator
whose imagination is as original and quaint as
his own
The Duke Of Wellington is the subject of an /
interesting article in THE Atlantic" Its author
Is Professor Goldwin Smith who In the a,,,a, /
last years, lived in the parish and well re-
members the stately old man riding about with |
a little cape over his shoulders, making his calls
and leaving his cards of ample size. The last |