El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-19
The Library Table.

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they have slowed down and an ordinary
mortal can read them and find them
pretty good stories. light, frothy, but
bright and not without story. The
magazine does not pretend to any SER
iousness despits its jokes which are the
most solemn and weighty matter it
holds. The verse is usually clever.
The Century magazine for March be-
gins a new serial story written by IT.
wing Bachelor, the uthor of Eben Hol-
den, the book of this winter. ''D'ri
and l.. the new story. is one of 1872
and the war. and as the author says:
Two types of the men who have help
ed to make this country are set forth
herein. One was the pure bred north
ern Yankee. quaint. rugged. wise.
truthful; the other had the hardy traits
of the Puritan. with the romantic tenn
permanent of a Cavalier" The story is
not much unfolded in these first chap
ters but it begins we'll with an account
of the home in the wilderness of Yer
mont that the father. mother and son
made with the help of D'ri and of
voyage in the storm that D'ri and the
boy endured when they were floating
lumber down the St. Lawrence to Mon
treaI The first installment promises
of 1872 and of the vast wildernesses of
our northwest and the dangers and adj
ventures met with by hardy men who
first penetrated the forests and followed
the rivers.
Bertha Runkle's story is as gallant
and adventurous as ever. the hero gets
into a proper proportion of hair
breadth escapes and the heroine is be-
ginning to dare everything for the sake
of her love- She has left the castle of
her uncle and donned peasants skirts,
bodice. shoes. and cap and thickens the
plot perceptibly.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has little
dog story. Fee. which is an exceedingly
dainty and loving description of a
French poodle. 1t is a sentimental
sketch. rot at all like Ernest Seton
Thompson would write but it views the
little doggie with intelligent eyes and
interprets him for the ordinarily too
stupid mortal. There is a love story
which he brings to a conclusion. but
one is more interested in Fee and his
adoring mistress than in the man.
An Opportunity for Good Citizenship
is the heading of the March Century's
editorial for women. and points out
their opportunity and duty in beautf
flying towns. These editorials are. de-
lightful, crisp. short and to the point
in expressing the best of the woman
hood of these days when there are SO
many new duties that woman has taken
up that she ought not to have and so
many that she has not that she ought
to have taken up
The musical essay for the month is
George Henschel's Personal Recollec-
tons of Brahms. with a portrait of the
composer. Lille DevereuX Blake, the
witty New York woman suffragist. con-
tributes a clever half jolly, half serious
article on shopping in New York. which
is really something of the art of shop
ping everywhere and therefore will
prove interesting to every woman with
in reach of store. Surabhi is a story
of India by Flora Anna Steele. the au-
thor of On the Face of the Waters.
Charles Battell Loomis pictures the ex-
patriation of Jonathan Taintor in his
comic sketches of Some Americans
Abroad. 1t is not one of his best
sketches but it has humor-
Other articles of interest are a trib-
ute to Austin DObson. an account of
tri down the Rhine from Worms to
Coblenx. the People at the Top of the
World, an account of a tour through
Siberia in search of Andree; the second
of John McMaster's papers on Daniel
Webster. a poem by John Burroughs on
the snow birds: the Flight of the En-
press Dowager, by Luella Miner.
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Outing for March is beautifully illus
trated and full of freshness and vigor
out of doors. 1t grows better every
month. Off while its departments de-
voted to sports are kept up and in
creased. there is yet much reading and
icturing that everyone enjoys, from
cover to cover it brings the outdoors in
doors.
Winter sports in Quebec are describ-
ed in an article by Leon Vandervort al
so '-Norway's National Sport" by Tan
W. Schreiner of Christiania; in fact,
there are a number of papers on win
ter sports in different places. and also
some on the winters hunting. The
Making of the Artificial Fly" by John
Harrington Keene. foreShadowS the be-
ginning of the fishing season. The
March number has more than the us
ual amount of miscellany, which in
cludes many things from Diving for
Turtles to THE Beginning of Card
Playing