The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
CREAM OF THE MAGAZINES
BY PAUL PRY.


 and only in the nineteenth was the novel able to establish its right to be considered as a worthy rival of the drama.
 Continuing and discussing these two | fields of literature, the author says: fne | Elizabethan playwrights had treated the | Italian story -tellers as store houses or | plots and motives, of incidents and in- | trigues But the Parisian dramatists or | the second empire were under a deeper debt to the great novelist who had been | their contemporary; 1t was to him that | they owed, in a great measure, theit quicker interest in the problems of society. | "They had not Balzac's piercing vision | into the secrets of the heart, but they at least sought to face life from a point of view not unlike his,'
 William Garret Brown of Harvard has | an article in the current Atlantic upon | 'The Foe of Compromise.
 Professor Brown opens his paper with | the statement: "rhe case for compro- | mise was never put better, perhaps, than 1t was by moderate American statesmen after the great political compromise of l 1850. That adjustment, they said, had l saved the union; and they pointed out to the defeated radicals that the noblest politics are but compromise. | From generalities and politics the au- | | ideals and the result is thoughtful and | deeply interesting article. In conclusion he quotes these lines and they sum up | most effectively many thoughts of his | argument: This way l live; 1 can no other. This way I face this life | did not seek, this mystery I cannot value, these l shadowy forms of things l cannot grasp | This way I work. This way I love. This way fight for peace. This way l grope for God
 In the Popular Science Monthly for April there is a thought producing article upon "The Relation of Malaria to Agri- culture and Other Industries of the South
 The author says: "The south as whole has given little thought to the tremendous role malaria plays in her in- dustries, especially in agriculture. We have no idea of the loss occasioned by malaria in uniting men for long or en- ergetic hours of labor The loss of en- ergy and enthusiasm, the loss of interest in ones own efforts and successes. The man that is just able to crawl out of bed and drag around is certainly not the man to accomplish an efficient and full days labor" After a careful array of statis- ties and quotations from eminent authori- ties the author makes the statement that Malaria is responsible for more sickness among the white population of the south than any disease to which it is now sub- ject."
 There is also an interesting article on 'eThe Carnegie Institution and the Na- tional University" by Prof. James How ard Gore.
 In the Bookman there are always a num- Der of timely articles and one of the most interesting this month is History of the Nineteenth Century in Carcature" by Ire fo Vo1, Att, lett Maurice. It is the part second and is from 1915 to 1S4S, inclusive, with some allusion to the caricature of the American war of 1872 The accompanying illustra- tions are numerous and give value to the text. There is reproduced in the Book man very fine likeness of President Hadley of Yale, from the portrait lately painted by MT. Frank Fowler, N. A.
 It Is said the commission was given by some gentlemen who have presented the portrait to the Yale club of New York, where it now hangs, and where it gives the greatest satisfaction to all ale men who see it, for the artist has managed with remarkable insight and equal skill, says the editor of the Bookman, to trans fer to his canvas the most subtle charac- teristics of a very complex and individual personality.
 Apropos of affairs of the heart, quite a novel article is found in the Cosmopoli- tan for the current month under the title,
 To love or to Be Loved, Which Yields the Greater Joy?" The author, Lavinia Hart-she ought to write authortatively- says: "It is said that in every combina- ton of two, one loves more than the other. 1t is said truly, since all natures differ in scope and development. To whom, then, comes the greater happiness, the lover or the loved?' Discussing the re- suits produced and the experiences felt by one who is loved the author says: The grand passion conveys no meaning to those who know not its worth and work ing. The love another bears for us means just so much as we can feel, and con- ceive the gauge by the perception born of our individual experience; nothing more. Beyond this it's beauty and strength and scope are lost to us. It is over our heads.
 We are dumb to it's existence and numb to it's power and possibilities"
 Au contraire she writes: ITO be loved Is the favor of mortals. To love is the gift of God To be loved is a contingent blessing. To love is our for all time. The heritage of every human soul direct from its Maker is love" And further she says: TO love is to be an optimist and optimists are successful men"
 The article is filled with an array of noble thoughts and the evidence is strong ly arrayeo upon side of the lover In conclusion we read: But the impulse that gets hold at the foundation. and rushes us on with a force that euualizes all conditions, is that which finds birth in our own soul, permeating from this inmost point of vantage all of our inner nature, creating our happiness. directing our purpose and carving out of the stony way that embodiment which the pessimist | misnames Destiny"
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 | In the Forum Is a masterly and scholar | ly article by Joseph Sohn. upon Music: Lessons of the Operatic Season" He says: The late P. T. Barnum was the first to | introduce the famous three rings in circus performances MT. Maurice Grau the