The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-26

A mission is liable to swamp a maya
zlne. So much zeal is developed that the
real function of the publication, which is
70 entertain is forgotten. Into this eX-
cess EVerybody's Magazine, which has re-
cently undertaken a crusade against the
1dolatry- of riches habit in America is OBJ
V1ously not to be led. The November con-
tents table makes a most inviting showing
presenting as it does stories and sketches
by such amusing writers as Alfred Henry
Lewis, .. Henry and Eugene Wood. There
is no intrusion of policy at ALL and the
reader is likely to find himself in the
midst of Francis Bellamys article about
without dreaming that there is a serious
moral to it. Mr. BellamyS AYERS that the
nation is losing it's ideals and that today
success only means wealth The million
alre Is the modern wealth
Alfred Holder, who cOllaborated with
Josiah Flynt in his series of studies of
Graft in American Cities" describes in
Reform That Reforms what has been
accomplished for decency in New York
by an honest administration. There is
also an authoritative summing up of the
man with the analytic capacity for the
task-I. K. Friedman, the distinguished
Chicago novelist.
Personality" is the note of the Novem-
Der number of the Booklovers Magazine.
A glance at it's interesting table of con-
tents reveals the fact that more than
half the articles deal with the lives and
Dr. Talcott Williams leads off with an
account of the most recent and revolu-
tionary achievements of American scten-
tific men, entitled, ION the SkirInish Line
of Science" 1.-THE London Coach"
series of four colored pictures, recalls the
good old days of the slow but sure loco
and is f1ttingly described in Dickens
graphic account in Martin Chuzzlewit"
of Tom Pinch's ride from Salisbury to
London. Prof. Hancock writes critical
oTaY ailti Of fHn M
elist, BalZac, whom he terms "A Philoso-
pher in Fiction The art section consists
of reproductions of some famous recent
paintings 1.-THE Virgil, by John Petite;
loft Valparaiso" by Thomas Somercales;
Ethel" by Ralph Peacock, and Indus
try" by Hopwood, together with charac-
teristic pictures by Turner and Rembrandt.
Miss Helen w. Henderson writes appre..
ciatively of the personality and work of
Charles Crafty; An Apostle of Symbol
ISM" Mr. Grafiys principal works are
shown in striking Photographic repro
auctions. In this. rushing age we are
apt to forget some of the significant nap
pennings of the past. Julian Hawthorne
begins in this number series OF papers
on Half Forgotten Events of the Last
Century" and deals with the prophetlc
decisions of William Miller who predicted
the end of the world in 1843. By far the
most striking feature of the issue is The
Reconstruction of a Great American
Railway" an account of the practical
rebuilding of the main line of the Pennsyl-
railroad, writes of 1.-The Reconstruction
of a Great Railway" Prof. Webb de-
scribes "Some Engineering Aspects of the
New, PENNSYLVANIA, and Mr. r. j. ;.1I Ed Cd,
the Pennsylvania Reconstruction Was
Financed" The Illustrations are .numer-
Gus, varied and striking. "Lector' writes
critical article on Southern Novelists
and Their Work. in which he reviews
the work of Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen
Glasgow James Lane Allen, William
CARROT Brown and John Fox Jr.
Good Housekeeping for November has
a charming Thanksgiving cover design
in blue and orange, and opens with .1rt the
first installment of serial story, Pay
ing Guests" by Mary Stewart Cutting;
the author of Little Stories of Married
Life" This is illustrated by Karl An
derson. Boys, their ways and needs. are
sympathetically treated in a symposium
whose chief contributors are William
Allen White and Judge Shute; the au;
thor OF 1.-THE Real Diary of Real Boy
The court of justice at the George Junior
Republic is described by John A. Parker
with the aid of a spirited illustration.
Other leading features of a rich number
are: Thanksgiving Day on the Road,