The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-05

lar price. "Tarpon Fishing in Florida"
| is illustrated by splendid photographs of
| these seven-foot fish leaping out of the
water in pursuit of smaller fish. 1t is
| evident that this refreshing magazine has
no difficulty in maintaining it's pictorial
standard. 1t evidently aspires to be the
most useful as well as the most beauti-
full magazine devoted to the whole field
of outdoor life.
(The Emerson Centenary in the Atlantic.)
May 25th will be the one hundredth
| anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Elaborate preparations are
Under way for centenary celebrations,
| both in Concord and Boston. AS BELTS
| the magazine to which he was so long a
| contributor, the Atlantic will present in
| April, May and June an attractive va
riety of material dealing with the man
who is being increasingly recognized as
the most representative and significant
| figure that American literature has yet
| possessed.
| On March 14th Houghton, Mifflin C Co.
published study of Phillips Brooks"
| by Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts;
a biography of William Ellery Chan
ming" by John w Chadwick; THE Lieu
tenant Governor" novel by Guy Wet
more Carryl; John Percyfield" an I'M
usual love story, by c. Hanford Hender-
son; and an anthology Of 1.-THE Poets of
| ranscendentaIsm, edited by George
Willis Cooke. new inexpensive edition
of Holmes Elsie Venner" will also be
| ready of fol INT
two recent addresses of Charles Francis
| Adams delivered at Charleston and New
J York.
The April Century promises to be a
| Washington issue. Charles Moore, clerk
of the Senate Committee on the District
| Of Columbia, has written the leading
article of the month, THE Restoration
of the White House" lavishly illustrated
by Jules Guerin, Alfred Brennan, Otto
| H. Bacher, and Cecilia Beaux. Francis
| E. Leupp will tell about Some More
Humors of Congress-" and the Honorable
| w r. Merriam, director of the Census,
has written with authority on The Evou-
| ton of American Census Taking" Lucy
| Norvell Clarks Vatican" will be a story
of a noble st. Bernard and diplomatic
| life in the nations capital.
| In the April number of Scribner's Mag
aZine a writer has revealed himself who
can interpret the region of a great steam
er Below the Water Line, with the
force and insight and picturesque detail
for which McAndrew longed in Kipling's
| famous poem. Benjamin Brooks, who
writes the article, is practical machn-
ist and draughtsman, who has served on
an ocean steamer as assistant to the en-
| gineer. From the fullest knowledge, and
with a mind sensitive to the literary
| quality, as well as to the practical, he
has written a thrilling description of the
| life in the engine hold. The illustrations
| by Edwin B. Child, in color and tint,
reproduce from actual life the scenes de-
scribed.
MONTIETH'S SOME USEFUL ANIMALS
AND WHAT THEY DO FOR US, BY
John Montieth, NJ. A., author of Pa
miliar Animals Living Creatures"
etc, and Caroline Montieth Cloth, IL
mo-, 232 pages, with illustrations. Price,
so cents. American Book Company,
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago.
The subjects treated in this book both
assist in nature study and give aid Fin
learning to read. The form of treatment
was suggested by actual experience i'll
| the school and the home. The moral les
sons derived from the actions of animals
are vivid and engaging, and much useful
and interesting information is impaired
| The interdepcndence of mankind and the
! domestic and fur bearing animals is en-
| phasized. The book which is one of the
| well-known series of Eclectic School
Readings, is fully illustrated by cuts.
| In the recent Washington Birthday
! observances, Senator Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, addressed the members of the Union
| League Club at the Auditorium, Chicago.
In the course of his remarks he said:
| Among the elaborate biographies of
Washington the best portrait of him in
! literature is the life of him in my col
| league, Henry Cabot Lodge. 1t may be
| trusted thoroughly as to it's facts and its
| judgments. A flood of light has been
poured in upon the subject by the ma
| terial which has been uncovered since
| the time of Marshall and Sparks and
/ Irving. The memoir is full enough to
| tell the story of the great and important
transactions of Washington's life and still
compact enough to retain it's hold on the
interest and attention of the reader from
| the beginning to the end"
| THE WORLDS WORK FOR APRIL
The Worlds Work for April has the
| longest, the most varied, and In some
ways the most interesting table of con-
! tents in the magazines history. Frederic
| Emory Chief of the Bureau of Com
merce, describes the work the new De-
| partment OF Commerce and Labor will
do, and there is an intimate view of
George B. Cortelyou, written by David S.
| Barry There are three articles bearing
on education George lies writes pic
! turesquely of the Leipziger Free Lectures
| in New York one of the most significant
of recent educational movements; A. r.
| Dugmore tells of a remarkable public
school con the East Side in New York,
where children of twenty-five different
nationalities study together; and novel
investigation of what is the Best Col