The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
called AN Old-Morld Mooine

Macedonia called IAN OId-World Wooing''
and the author is Adeline NJ Jenney, B.
A, Of the University Of Wisconsin. In
AT Third Hand" an interesting psyche
logical question: is treated by Mir. Howells
with the deftness of touch that is a dis
tinsuishing trait of his literary style In
the second OF his Some Americans
Abroad Charles Batell LOOMS takes
The Man from Ochre Point, New jersey
as an extreme case of The traveller who
goes about with his eyes shut. A very
different note is struck in Henry Eolcomb
Benefits "A Council of Six" and also in
The Steer with the Marked Hoof,'' where
in Walter Armsby records a tragic Incl
dent of ranch life in Tehuantepec. Ches-
ter Bailey Fernald, in 1.-The Lannigan
System with Girls tells Il tale in which
humoc and pathos are blended; and 1.-THE
Play Devil" by Earle Ashley Walcott,
would be {, tragedy if it were not a, story
OF Chinamen; but in The Women" u
monologue by Ruth McEnerv Stuart, the
aushable side of things is always in view.
The 'RN'' with which doctors begin their
prescriptions is the opposite title of a
short STORY by Lily y. Long. THE Helmet
of Navarro" by Bertha Runkle and Ham
lin Garlands Her Mountain Lover are
continued and there is a new Policeman
Flynn story by Elliott Flower.
Other features are Richard Bougleton's
.'Humor and Pathos of the Savings BANK
THE Helping Hand in East London;''
The Last of Resant's East Londc.l
Series" 'sThe Steel Industry of America
by Professor Robert Fl. Intrusion, OF Cor
nell University, and Professor T. n.
Thorpe's sketch OF the late Dr. William
Pepper, OF Philade:phia-one of the most
remarkable Americans of the nineteenth
century. 1.-The People at the Top of the
World is the first instalment OF an ae-
count. by himself, of Jonas S.adlings
search for Andee and his balloon. Mrs.
Amelia Gere Mason, author of Women Of
the French Salons s,sks-and answers.
the question: rs Sentiment Declining?'
and Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis writes Of
AN English Passion Play" AS usual. the
magazine is profusey illustrated, the spe-
cial art features being Il frontisptece en-
craving by Timothy Cole from Sir Edwin
Landseer's '.Dr. John Alien" reproduc-
ton Of Frederic P. Vinton's 'Aianaon w.
Beard and four frll-page m!dwinter
scenes in New York, Reproduced from re-
cent pastel drawings by Everett Shinn.
1.-THE Stage "Reminiscences of Mrs. Gil
BERT which are begun in Scribners
Magazine for February, are full of vivaci-
ay, incident and entertaining recollect.ons
of great actors of the past half century.
Henry Norman, NJ. p, in his fourth Rus
sian article describes the region OF Cen
trail Asia opened up by the Trans-Caspian
Railway Thomas +. Willard. the war
correspondent, sends from China re-
markabe summary of the international
conditions prevailing there at present,
and very sl1rewd analysis ofSthe part
played by the various armies and the
representatives OF their Governments.
The description of Modern Athens is
completed by George Horton, recently
United States Consul there. Ernest c.
PeiXotto exhibits his skill as an artist in
pen and ink in q continuation of his series
of picturesque sketches made from old
French architecture. In short fiction this
number contains a story by Edith Whar-
ton entitled 1.-The Angel at the Grave,
which has all her accustomed charm of
style and subject: theSsecond ..Rafies''
story by E. w Hcrn.ng describes the
theft of a valuable antique from the
British Museum illustrated by Yohn)
Arthur Cotton tells the tale of n group of
boys in u Connecticut town with some
thing of the charm Of Kenneth Graham's
idyls of childhood. Under the title of
..rhe Sense OF Nonsense Carolyn Wells
writes on the verses of that group of
poets of which Lewis Carroll, W. S. Gill;
bert and Lear are the best known exam
pies There are poems by George Cabot
Lodge, Joseph Russell Taylor and others.