The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-11
FEATURES OF MARCH
 MAGAZINES STRETCHED
BY PAULPRY.

of a series on ''The Home: It's Relations to the Problem of More Lile for All It is entitled More Joy in Mere Liv- ing and is by Caroline L. Hunt. In speaking of the struggle and preparation necessary for life, the author says
 Tt was Drunmond who originated the expression the struggle for the life of others making 1t cover all the activities to which we are prompted by love. Of these activities the most important is home making, and it Is the opportunity that home affords for merging the strug- gle for life into. the struggle for the life of others that takes the sting from the work necessary for self-preservation.'
 The article Is very valuable to all strenuous workers. and who of us do not come under this heading? Who of ds do not need to take unto ourselves the closing words of the author: He who Is too busy with the machinery of life to get chance to look upon life itself as drama loses half the joy of living. To stretch the muscles, to breathe deeply, to feel the blood circulate rapidly to feel the wind blowing In ones face. to love and to express love, to stand off and see life from afar-these are joys for which it is worth while to simplify the maehin- cry of life. As Browning puts it.
 How good Is mans life, the mere living.
 how fit 10 employ
 All the heart and the soul and the senses
 forever in joy.
 The publication of a piece of fiction in the North American Review is a signih- cant event. "rhe Ambassadors" a novel by Henry James. was begun in the Janu- ary number and is continued in the cur rent number. And surely. if fiction was included between the covers Of this ven- erable publication, no more worthy au- thor could have been chosen to sustain the dlgnif1ed character of the journal. In the February issue of the North Amori- can there Is a timely and very valuable article upon Macedonian Struggle for Liberty" by Charles Johnston. All the more valuable in view of recent events there. MT. Johnston is an Irishman by birth and for many years served under England in India
 The author gives a very concise and able exposition of the Macedonian quos- tion in world politics. and says; Mace donia still suffers the measureless misery and debasement of Turkish depression. and the responsibility for this lies. not with Russia, who once set the Mace donian Bulgarians free and exalted them into free nationality. but with Austrian and English ehauvinists who destroyed that nationality and gave the Macedonia ans up to the tender mercies of Abdul Hamid and his chosen instruments"
 A noteworthy incident in connection with cur popular journals is the state ment recently made public by the Col Hers Weekly company of their contract with Charles Dana Gibson. By it the well-isnown and successful young artist agrees to draw only for Golfers Weekly and Life" and also agrees to furnish 100 Gouble-page cartoons in the next four years for $100,O00. Quite a comfortable contract to be sure.
 One of these doublc-page cartoons ap- pcarod in last weeks issue of Golfers, and was entitled ''The Greatest Game in the World. It is in the authors most characteristic style But the pity of 1t is that there were nothing like enough numbers of the issue to fill the local de- nard