The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
The MAGAZINES


McClure's (New York, 141-155 E Twenty
fifth streeD for February is very attrac-
tive number, leading feature being an
illustrated paper by Ray stannard Baker on
"Marconi's Achievement" Of which he can
write intelligently, having gone 70 Newfound-
land and witnessed the experiments and ot.
tanned from Marconi full account Of his
aerial telegraphing achievements. Marconi
having found that electric waves follow the
curvature of the earth, expects difficulty
sending signals 5000 or 10. 900 miles as easily
as 1000 There is very attractive illus
trated paper on Lieutenant Peary's Cam
paign for the Pole" by Sturgis Rand who
details his progress so far. Peary's most i'm
portant achievement is the discovery OF the
insularity Of Greenland. The art feature of
the number is wonderfully attractive. It is
on Raphael and his work, by John La Fargo.
who includes photographs of Raphaels great
est paintings as 1.-THE Marriage of the.
Virgin" the large Holy Family in the
Louvre, Paris the "Sistine Madonna and
Madonna of the Chair and *'rhe Vision Of
Ezekiel" There are stories by Alfred Olli3
want, Josephine Dodge Daskan, Hamlin Gar
land, Luel1a Lathrop and Mary Stewart Cut
ting A feature IS William Allen Whites
paper on Cleveland.
The Smart Sets completed novel is .The
Flash Of An Emerald a very thrilling story.
of some New York girls, with detective
episode in at. The conspicuous fool in the
story, Philippa Ford, infatuated with sleek
Polish scoundrel who posed as a martyr to
the cause Of Polish liberty, allows herself to
be drawn to the verge Of moral ruin by him,
but is saved by the ingenuity of a girl
| friend The number is full of amusing and
entertaining things.
The Open Court contains an elaborate de-
| Tense OF the Jesuits by Henri de Ladevaze of
Nice, who attributes the prejudice against
! them within and outside the Roman COM
l ~ o%o of1A 4~Ic nq a oyr
Eextremists among them The order has been
a disturber Of the peace in and out Of that
I communion. Pope Clement XIV. decreed the
suppression Of the Jesuits and through their
whole history, except a. the commencement,
when Loyola and his company went forth to
win the world for Christ in the genuine mis-
sionary spirit, their intrigues, chiefly political
have provoked justihable anip1osities and
drought EXPULSION upon their heads as in
1 France and Germany DR.. Carus, editor OF
4 the Open Court, comments caustically upon
the paper Of NJ. Ladaveze An article OF value
4 is Yorke Triscott's The Parthenon and Its
Possible Restoration r with Illustrations The
Parthenon nay be restored, but restora.
ton will not bring back the work Of the
original constructors. Had not the Venetians
bombarded the Acropolis with their cannon
at the close Of the seventeenth century, tt
ldisodge the Turks, most of the beautiful
original architecture on the acropolls Woule
! have been in place to-day.
Pearson's for February has some attractive
fiction features.s including a very creepy
Iindoo tale by Sarath Kumar Ghosh, and tn
rerial, The Suitors OF Yvonne.'' by Rafae
4abatini. There Is an entertaining Illustrate
| ! Nescrfntion OF Cecil Rhodes home In Soutl
t | Africa which bears the name "Groote Schur,
. Tor sGreat Barn. Z and lis situated five mile
. from Cape Town. Other features Of interes
8 are an account OF the recent annexation b
! Lord Rsnfurly, governor Of New Zealand. 9