The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-28
MAGAZINES.
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ing her surrounded by musicians at
matinee musicale. A curious article is
How the Voice Looks" II is contrib
uted by Prof f. w. Scripture, director
of the Psychological laboratory of Yale
University. and present diagrams of
the voices of Joseph Jefferson. Senator
Depew, and others as recorded by
Prof Scriptures machine for enlarging
curves of speech from a gramophone
plate. Sylvester Baxter contributes
group of papers on Town and Village
Improvement" There is also a practi-
cal discussion of What to Do and
How to Do It." with examples drawn
largely from the experience of Boston
and other places in Massachusetts.
The Century Company, Union Square,
New York.
The special features of the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for
May are an illustrated character
sketch of Cecil Rhodes, by w. 7.
Stead, containing many facts now for
the first time published regarding Mr.:
Rhodes Remarkable will; a survey OF
Our New Navy" by Rear Admiral
Melville, with pictures of the various
types of modern war vessels: a fore~
cast of the great gatherings of the
coming six months, at home ana
abroad an illustrated article on Geor-
gia's Educa tional Center" by Mrs.
Leonora Beck Ellis; a sketch of Kali
man TisZa, the great Hungarian states
man, by Eugene Limedorfer; dis
cussion of The Fallacy of Exporting
Wheat" by Charles Cranston Bovey
and brief resume of the Prohibition
Movement in Canada, by the Rev.
John p Query. The Review Of Re-
views Company, 10 Astor Place, New
York city.
The May number of the Woman's
Home Companion has as its chief fea-
ture the beginning of a charming Sc
rial story by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
It's title is Woven With the Ship"
Other fiction is THE Plot Against Hen
ley" by VIII n. Harden, and the tale
of Blue Beard by Elliot Flower. An
article of unusual timeliness is that
on Ellen NJ Stone by the secretary OF
the Foreign Missions Board. Where
the Circus Starts From, THE Month
of May-Days" and Behind the Scenes
in a Department store" are all of
wide interest. The Woman's Home
Companion, Springfield, Q.
From it's charming cover by Albert
Herter to it's last page the May issue
of the Ladies' Home Journal excels in
all ways. The most important new
feature is the beginning of Ernest
Thompson Seton's department for boys,
which is written and illustrated by the
famous Observation-Disclosures Lind
say Denison, who knows President
Roosevelt in a very personal way,
writes of 1.-The outdoor President" and
Helen Keller continues the marvellous
story of her life. The fiction features
are Miss Portor's Those Days in Old
Virginia" and the first part of a de-
lightful story by Grace S. Richmond
called THE Indifference of Juliet.
There are many other good things in
the magazine. The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Philadelphia, Pa.
The May number of Everybody's
Magazine opens with a most interest
ing article by DR.. Henry Gannett on
Famous American Mountains" SUI
perbly illustrated with photographs OF
the notable peaks of the Rockies. the
Sierras and the Alaskan Range. Espe-
cially timely is It. p. OConnors esti-
mate of Cecil Rhodes-the Napoleon
of South Africa" 1t is a skillful char
acter study, representing the curious
admXture of traits which make Mr..
Rhodes the great personality of his
period Another valuable contribution
is DR.. H. w Wiley's Man as a Ma
chine" in which the functions of the
human body are compared with me-
chanical processes. From an illustra-
tive point of view the May Everybody's
is particularly good. Besides the SUI
perb series of great mountain pictures,
which are quite the best ever pub
lshed, and the rare water fowl, there
are drawings by Penrhyn Stanlaws,
Frederic Remington, l.. w. Zeigler,
Orson Lowell, and F. Richardson. John
Wanamaker, publisher, IS East Ninth
street. New York city.
The frontispiece of the May Era is
a picture of Marie Antoinette. Arch
duchess d. Autriche, from a painting
in the Museum of Versailles 1t
serves as an introduction to the lead
inS feature of this issue-the story of
Marie Antoinette. by Henry Francis.
j. r. Madison writes sensibly and
from the standpoint of an unprejudiccd
observer, concerning The Beers in
BeImJda;" there are capital short
stories i'm varied tones by Kate Jordan,
Jessie Van Zile Belden, A. j. Dawson
and Duncan Campbell Scott; poems
by Richard P. McGrann and c. II.
Chesley. Ballads of Old Days" Ly
Stnson and Dwiggins, is a cha ming
bit Of work. Gabriel Tol!ivcr," by
Joel Chandler Harris, is continued.
The Revival of Celtic Literature. "A
Dive Into The Sea of the Talmud," and
"fhe pene rit of Success" are dealt
with by ian Jay McGarvey, Henry lii
OWL and Frederic M. Bird, respective
ly. Nilliem S. Walsh, Henry =.
Keenan, end James Walter Smith con-
tribute their well-known columns,
which with the rest of the regui;.r
features, 8re in themselves sufficient
TO attract thousands of magazine
readers Henry r. Coates & Co., 1922
Chestnut street Philadelphia.
The May number of Lippincott's
Magazine contains a complete society
novel, five short stories. five brief,
pointed papers on subjects of present
interest, some talk about books many
pages of bright, fresh 'Walnuts and
Wine" and plenty of seasonable
verse. The months novel is "A Mock
Caliph and His Wife" by Edith Robin
son. This entire story covers a period
of only two weeks in the whirl of New
Yori1's smartest society, where John
Blair and his wife take up the reins of
a social leader whose health has
broken under so strenuous a life.
George Moore, whose Evelyn Innes,"
and SISTER Teresa" have provoked
much argument writes a story he calls
Emma Bovary." The heroine breaks
loose from Walter Scott to devour in
secret Flaubert's famous novel. Her
fate is a commentary on Mr.. Moore's
view of the literature he has done so
much to introduce to English readers.