The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-02
MARCH MAGAZINES.

Again the Smart Set astonishes by the
variety and excellence of it's contents. In
deed, the March number seems the best
yet issued of this most successful maya
zine. The novelette,, '.,fhe Secret of Prin-
cess Paul, is written by the famous Eng
llsh author, Florence Warden, and it is
terry has recently appeared. The reader
Is held absorbed from beginning to eli
max The story is told with the extreme
of skill around a plot as puzzling as it is
distinctive and delightful.
The March Pearsons has one of the best
written of the many articles on VeneZue-
la which has yet appeared. This is a brief
sketch, in Mr.. Daniel Gibbons usual clear
and forceful style, of the history of Ven
eZuela since its discovery by Columbus.
The second installment of The Picaroons"
by the Well-knoWn humoristS, Gelett Bur-
CESS and Will Irwin, in the same maya
zine amply fulhllS the expectations arous-
ed in the first chapters.
In the Worlds Work for March half a
dozen articles of unusual and timely i'm
or contents. Lawrence Perry describes
his own personal experience in the Mar
conf station at Cape Cod when Marconi
was sending messages to England, and
shows clearly what commercial wireless
biography will mean. Charles NJ. Harvey
mas written a stirring article about Ohio
after 100 years, instinct with the spirit
OF American progress. Frederic c. Howe
has characterized Chicago as a munich
a Profession" by William McAndrews,
pal and social organization. Teaching AS
gives a really national view of the attitude
Of teachers toward their life work. DIR.
A T. BristoW, the president of the New
ing recent advances in medicine and sur
gerry. and John Callan OLaughlin writes
OF some of the international questions
the Venezuelan dispute has raised. Be
sides these six striking features may be
mentioned two fully illustrated stories
one on The Modern Hotel" by Albert
10 Iftn a..
". Price about Saving the Southern
Forests" and briefer articles about the
Carnegie institution.
The March number of Country Life in
America marks the highest achievement
OF the ne; most beautiful magazine published
IN Hnn fniS COUNTY, fp Like the christmas
double number of about 100 pages which
sells for so cents.
Most boys of high school age will find
new inspiration and ideals in Charles F.
BenJamftl'S Our Boys and Our Presi-
dents, in the March st. Nicholas, while
Mr.. BenJamin's significant summary of
Americas choice of presidents will inter-
est older thinkers as well.
THE Romance of French Salon, - the
frst 1nstallment of a short serial by Mr.
terion. The Salon of the Nodiers. in
l84O: is taken as the basis of delicate,
of that period.
Ten novelists are represented in the
taoie OF contents of the March number of
more Elliott Peake, author Of 1.-The Pride
or Tellfair." who contributes a striking
short story entitled After the Wedding"
It concerns itself with the parents after
the last daughter has been given away
IN marriage. In the same number Robert
w. chambers, Who wrote The Maid-at-
c rO1N - 4 ar
ed, sketch of curious incidents in ma
ture study. Ruth McEnery Stuart has
quaint a1iaa Southern story, "Milady;,, and
Down Of Polk Dillard.'
10 many readers no matter on which
side OF the struggle. between capital and
labor their sympathies lie, the article by
Herman JuSt1, commissioner of the Hi
nois Coal Operators association, on
The Organization of Capital" will APP.
March Century. Mr.. Justis suggestions,
bear the weight of the authority of a
man who has dealt prominently and sue
cessfully for years with the problems of
employers and employed.
In til, the March Century Lille Hamil-
ner," which is real and not a fanciful.
spot. to chat of a Sunday in town and
some of her Sunday visitors. "Abso-
lutely delightful as literature as senti-
ment, as philosophy. and as common
sense" an exchange calls these sketches.
THE Home life of Lady Curzon'' is
described in the March number of Har-
per's Bazaar, by Sarah jeanette Duncan
(Nrs Everard Cotes) who lives in In
dia and is a friend of Lady Curzons.
The article is accompanied by private
| photograph of Lady Curzon and her
children, which has never before been
published. Mrs. Cotes takes pains to re-
flute some of the many eXtravagant Stor-
les about Lady CurZon In newspaper
paragraphs, and tells of the home life
of the wife of the viceroy as the author
herself has observed it.
Conkey's Home Journal for March
contains, in addition to it's usual quota
of interesting departments for women.
several special articles and good short
stories. Among the latter is one by Eben
r. ReXford. "A Belated Romance" is
the title of a new serial by Helen Clark
Balmer. splendid article for women
with excellent illustrations. is on Beau
ttful Window Gardens by Ethel NJ.
Colson. A charming two-step for the
piano is by Frances Robertson.
Leading features Of the March Ma
| tional Magazine are: How I Ran for
the Presidency" by Mrs. Belva A. Lock-
wood. the only woman who ever made
Future by Archbishop John Ireland;
Give the Boy a Fair Chance by Sec
rotary Leslie M. Shaw; Personal Recol-
| lections of Lincoln and Statesmen of His
Time" by Col. James Matlock Scovel,