The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-02

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March number is beauty. and full Of
most refreshing topics and pictures.
Frank Lesie's.
The March issue Of frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly appears as the Charles
10 Exposition number, and includes some
thirty pages of admirable photographs of
the great fair, together with an intelli-
gent running commentary by Cuyler
Smith. This is the first full account of
the most elaborate attempt at Exposition
making which the South has ever tried,
and it is very interesting to compare the
buildings with these which the public SO
warmly applauded at Buffalo.
toye been called the Timely Number.
~ contains two we'll illustrated articles
upon Marconi-one upon the pesonality of
the, twenty-seven year old inventor, is
quite different from anything We have
seen in print, and leaves vivid impress
sion or an extra ordinary maj; the other
which concerns the marvellous expert
ments at st. Johns, written by z. 4.
Watson, a correspondent of the New
york Herald" Timely. also, is a good
account Of the American built imperial
yacht Meteor, by her builder, Wallace
Downev. He knows whereof he speaks.
An article of more permanent interest,
perhaps, is a paper upon the American
Gypsy, by r. M. Fletcher Berry, who.
has for years been making personal
study of the GYPSY habits and character,
and here presents a number OF facts most
surprising to the ordinary reader
feature of the number is a critical
study, by Norman Hapgood, of Mrs.
Fiske. whom most people on the stage
and MANY off it, consider the first OF
American actresses. This paper is ao-
companied by a portrait, drawn from life
for '.Leslie's Monthly and printed IN
colors, as a supplement.
The fiction in this number is notable.
1t includes half a dozen good STORIES one
or two of them illustrated IN tint
| "Tn snite of the enormous business re-
,i,al below Mason and DiXons line
saws Frank Leslie's, "the South has not
| vet learned to appreciate the essential
value of advertising, and after making
| fair that would delight the Northern Vls1-
! tor, the managers Of the Exposition nave
| not taken the SllShtesI pains ~ iouoe
| him to come.
Alone among the magazines Frank Les
HES Popular Monthly for March is sDe-
| cial Charleston Exposition number, and
| deyotes thirty pages to a profusehy Illus
trated account Of the great Southern lar.
This is the first time the Exposition has
| been adequately treated in a Northern
publication. and we think most Northern
erS will be surprised to realize the vast
strides which the South has been making
in industrial and artistic progress 1t
viii, surprise a good many Southerners,
| too, for that matter.
The Century.
| The Century for March contains two
| features in the field of popular science
| either one of which would give distlnc-
| tion to a number of the magazine-an
| authoritative record of Marconis recent
| work by P r. McGrath, with preta-
| tory note by Mr. Marconi authenticatlns
| the paper, and a popular article Dy Dr.
| Albert P. Ma thews entitled THE Nature
| of. the Nerve Impulse setting 1orth INC
details of the writer's lnVest'sat lolls'
| the recent announcement of which mas
| stimulated public interest and curiosity.
In the s.Year of American Humor are
| ,"The Modern Fable OF the Old Fox and
| the Young Fox by George AIDE, in which
| the former sets forth sage and entertain
| ing philosophy for the conduct OF lie
| and business; '.The Strike on the Schla-
| ferlatz Railroad" a Pennsylvania Dutch
stcry-quite a novelty in strikes-by John
! Luther Long, the author OF MADAME
Butterfly contributions by Oliver Her
ford Carolyn Wells, Wallace Bruce
Amsbary and others.
In the collectors Series Philip G..
| t1uEert, Jr.. nlTEdleS ~ totVdildu Di IL
a-Brac Hunt with illustrations.
In the papers on the West are 1.-THE
| Old Regime in the Southwest" recount
ing the reign of the revolver in New
| Mexico, by Albert E. Hyde; bioGraphi-
| cal articles on the late Bishop Whippls
| and James Jesse Strang, the Michigan
| usurper, and a paper by Bishop Fitz-
| gerald, of Tennessee, giving his personal
RECOLLECTION of Vasquez, a California
| bandit.
a second authoritative paper on the
| proposed improvements of Washington
| city is contributed by Mr.. Charles Moore,
| with illustrations; and there are other
| articles on Samoa, by Mrs. Strong; on
| "a Marionette Theatre in New York, .
with curious illustration by Keller; on
| Kubelik, by the musical critic, krehbiel,
with a portrait sketch by Cecilia Beaux,
| besides another of DR.. Weir Mitchell S
| ''LItle Stores,'' entitled "a Consulta-
| tion. An anecdotal paper of personal
! recollectons of Tennyson is contributed
| by Captain w. Gordon NIcCabe, of Rich
| mond, Va. President Gilman. of the
| Carnegie Institute. makes an authorita-
| tive statement concerning it. There are
| poems by Edwin Markham, Winston
| Churchill, Edith M. Thomas, L. Frank
/ Tooker. and others.
| Among the artists represented in this
| number are Glackens, Yer Beck. Zehme,
| Ellen Macauley. Keller, 1Iarchand, Tobin,
| Miss Beaux, Guerin, and AcCarter.
The March Smart Set.
| Tn variety and value or contents the