Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-01
TO KEEP PACE WITH THE WORLD.

In these busy days the busy man is
often disheartened by his inability to
keep in touch with the things he feels he
ought to read. He needs to be more in
touch with things than ever before, but
the task of following the magazines and
books is beyond any human attainment,
and he is filled with despair at the con-
stant recurrence OF matters in his daily
life that he should be posted about but
is not.
The world moves rapidly and new
ideas are developing every day. To he
up with the procession, one must know
about the new ideas not only in his own
department of effort, bot in all others,
for, to-day, all things are becoming more
closely related and while success is to be
found in specializing, the specialist must
avail himself Of all side lights on his
speciality from other specialists and
other specialties. Out of this condition
have grown several publications that
profess to survey the field of thought
and work, select the essentially new and
salient and present it in such form that
the busy man may absorb the general
effect.
Pre-eminent among these publications
is Current Literature, to the editorship
of which Mr.. William Bayard Hale has
but lately succeeded. This magazine
every month condenses the best litera-
ture OF all the best newspapers, periods
Gals, magazines and reviews, the latest
poetry, the ablest book reviews, the
most striking aud informing scientific
articles, the cream OF religious discus
sion and artistic opinion, with stories,
sketches, witticisms and all the forms of
bright and helpful writing.
The man or woman who hasn't time
to read dozen magazines or papers
gets in Current Literature the choicest
morsels from one hundred publications
and those morsels so set forth as TO be
easily found and easily digested OF their
real mental nutriment. The person who
needs. in his line Of effort, the influences
OF cultured survey of the world of
higher effort finds it in such pnblica-.
tion and is relieved of digging for the
matter is not always in easily accessible
quarters. 1t will be noticed that for
the week after Current Literature ap-
pears the selections made therein are
gradually re-selected by the exchange ed
itors OF the great newspapers, so that this
publication acts as sort OF store-house
of good things from which all the scis-
sors editors take at will. Current Liter
ature is the salvation of many an article
that otherwise might have been lost. 1t
brings writer's from obscurity and sends
their work along through hundreds OF
papers. Such work has been called
snippet literature, but the work OF Cur
rent Literature is above any such char
acterization. 1t actually edits the pub
lications OF the world for the busy man,
and it devotes its energies to preserving I
only what is worth preserving, while it
supplies at the same time, under the |
new dispensation inaugurated by Mr..
Hale, great deal OF original matter of |
class comporting we'll with its selec-
tions OF the contemporary best.
1t ia publication that no busy man /
who yet must have dash OF cursory
omniscience and many-sidedness can
neglect. 1t plans no favorites in its
selections. 1t is non partisan In all mat
ters. 1t is a particularly American in |
stitution, and is not only useful one,
but is conducted along consistently !
high plane OF appreciation OF the things
that are true and right.
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