The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29

of passages from suggestive writers
 which we'll bear out the phrase she ap , plies. to them-"bits of ore from ricl
 mines' The volume takes a welcome
 place in the now we'll known Nugget
 series beside the other two of her com
 pilation-"Don't Worry" and "Philoso-
 phic" Nuggets. The passages selected
 in this volume are from Maurice
 Maeterlinck, inspiring calm serenity
 in accepting whatever life has to bring;
 Professor Joseph Le Conte, who, like
 John Fiske, shows the grand view of
 the divine method in the evolutionary
 philosophy. and lucidly explains It's ap-
 plication to spiritual as we'll as physical
 development; Victor Hugo, dauntless
 portrayer of the evils of society, points
 forward to "a. nobler future; and Horatio Dresser, whose inspiring idealism fur nishes much of the helpful contents.
 A portfolio of Mature Portraits" by
 the editor of Country Life in Ameri- ca," is forthcoming from the press of | Doubleday, Page & Co., which will
 show forth it is said, the skill requir- ed to get views of live birds, mammals, 1 fishes and insects. It will contain tif-
 teen full page plates, reproductions in | full colors, artists proofs and photo gravure plates, showing deer, antelope, wild ducks, salmon, Kadiak bears and 1 foxes woodcocks on the nest, mouse and it's young, owls and so on.
 The April Era is better than any of
 it's predecessors, its table of contents showing greater variety and even l oo,Ai- | tai features are all brimful of amuse- | ment or instruction, while the articles, l stories and poems complete the har- monious whole Canton, the home of u Hung Chang, is pictured by W. G. Irwin; Katherine Louise Smith writes of "Children's Flower Gardens and Their Uses"; "The English Regalia' is described by George Ethelbart Walsh, while Lucy c. Lillie chats about "rhe Browning of the King" The artistic reader will welcome Robert Reid's
 Mural Decoration in New State House
 at Boston," by Charles Henry Hart
 Articles of critical nature are contrib
 uted by Penn Steele and Alfred
 Mathews. "The Cause of Good Govern
 ment" finds a doughty champion in
 Benjamin c. Potts; William s. Walsh
 questions whether women have intui-
 tion. There is an installment of Joel
 Chandler Harris story, Gabriel Tol- liver" as well as "The House of Me
 Cann"--the latter the first of series of character studies In the guise of fic-
 tion, by Karl Edwin Hartman, who
 has found material in an isolated com munity of fisher folk dwelling, on an is- land in one of the great lakes. John Trotwood Moore, Theodosia Garrison and others contribute poems. And the aforementioned is only part of the read ing matter offered (not to speak of the many excellent illustra ttons) for ten cents
 Les Arts, published by GoupiI & O. | of Paris, is a new monthly which is de- signed to cover the whole range of the | plastic and graphic arts with especial | attention to private collections, current f exhibitions, and additions to the muse ums. In the present number M Andre Michel describes the proper use of works of art, their chief end in his esti- nation being the public museums; Paul Villas begins an account of Mir Alfred | de Rothschild's collection of eighteenth-l tliSs NdSltT NlRPOH Qe- | scribes recent accessions of the Louvre; the veteran curator, M. F. MMoliner, comments upon remarkable examples of ighteenth-century French furniture In foreign possession; the great Ro- Delacroix, is M HemeFs sub feet, and the late J. c. Cazin is M Thie- oault Sissons: Roger Marx writes on the renaissance Of the decorative arts, chiefly of goldsmithry; and a depart nent of news notes on sales and mat CTS of current art interest completes he table of contents. All the articles Ire of exemplary brevity, and the mag lzine, in spite of it's notable list of con- will evidently depend chiefly lpon it's pictorial features. The illus rations of the present number are well hosen, and from their large scale, use- ( ul, but all of them are in half tone of r cry ordinary execution An English 'erson, too obviously made in I Trance" is appended.
 Lippincott's magazine for April-The l omplete novel in love-story of the ( Vest Indies, by John s. Durham, ex- minister to Hayti and Santo Domingo ', 'he setting of Diane, Priestess of ( Tayti," is therefore drawn from sight, yhile the plot shows marvellous imag- ' nation There are several admirable ( hort stories Billy Baxters Hoi- \ ay," by the witty Irishman, Seumas | facManus, is as full of humor as any hing he has done General Charles | .ing contributes his latest military tory, called Like Father, Like on" This is tale of the draft in the S vil war. And Other Considerations, O y Mary Catharine Hews, is a pathetic tory with humorous side to it. A pa- CT containing Some Advance Hints to travellers" by William Howard Fran s warns the traveller of inn ositions he will meet with on le other side of the Atlantic Eben . Rexford presents one of his prac- N cal papers Tt is about "A Gar ir an of Native Plants" With Germany p well to the front, the article by J. c;
 Rosengarten on German Influence b. in America is a valuable addition to u