The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-12

tired of letters, after alp. which are quite the cleverest and keenest that have appeared for some time. They treat almost entirely of the idiOsyncra- cies of human nature, and of the char Iacters supposed to be writing this cor Irespondence. Selfishness is the prevail ing idiosyncracy; and the manifold and various forms of human selfishness are here depicted with spontaneity and Ieleverness quite out. Of the ordinary. It is not perhaps a great books, but humorous it certainly is, and keen and delightfully naive.
 March publications of the Century company will include Caroline Abbot Stanley's Order No. 11'' and Alberto Santos-Dumont's My Air-Ships" Lat CT issues will include Four Roads to Maud Wilder Goodwin; Roof and Meadow" a record of bird and animal life, by Dallas Lore Sharp: "A Daugh- ter of Dale,'' a love story set in a uni- versity town, by Emerson G. Taylor, and Fable and Woodnyth," with il lustFations by the author, by Ernest Thompson Seton.
 Besides books previously noticed, Me- Clure-Philips announce the following among the novels for the spring: The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White; He that Eateth Bread With Me-" by H. A. Mitchell Keays; "Daugh-: ters of Desperation, by Hildegard Brooks; The Admirable Tinker" by Edgar Jepson: ''Debonnaire, by w. F. Payson; Heart of My Heart" by Ellis Meredith; "A Little Union Scout" by Joel Chandler Harris; "Susannah and One Elder,'' by Mime. Albanesi; South American story by Q. Henry, and novels by Shan Bullock and Florence Wilkin- son. Among their more serious books they announce a new volume by Chas.
 Wagner; Trusts of To-day" by Gill
 bert Holland Montague: "The Shame of the Cities, by Lincoln Steffens; Human Work" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
 Making a Home" by E. P. Powell; Russian Literature" by Prince Kro- potkin; and in the Contemporary Men of Letters series, Charles Dudley
 Warner, by Mrs. James T. Fields; William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival by Horatio Sheafe
 Krans.
 The leader in McClure's for March is Samuel Hopkins Adams's sensational statement of the Case of the State of Kentucky Against Caleb Powers" the whole story of the political feud which
 brought about the murder of William Goebel In the same magazine is the first of a series of papers on ''The Ne gro: The Southerners Problem by Thomas Nelson Page, in which he dis cusses Slavery and the Old Relation Between the Southern Whites and Blacks.'' Miss Tarbell's Standard Oil history as continued bringg out two striking incidents, the rl..nation of the Buffalo Lubricating works and the election of H. B. Payne as United States senator from Ohio. President H. S. Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents im- pressions from his trip over the famous German experimental electric road while speeding "A Hundred Miles an Hour" Charles G. D. Roberts contrib utes a sympathetic study of animal life in "The Alien of the Wild.'' Anthony Hope heads notable list of fiction
 writer's
 Golfers Weekly for March 5 is a war number all right. There are pie lures in great numbers of Eastern war scenes. vessels, marines, soldiers, gen. erals, admirals, places, maps and a big two-page picture of the Russian In- perial Council of State in session. The text tells good deal about the war
 without neglecting important subjects of home interest.
 Outing for March is both timely and
 notable. Athletics in the Army" by Lieut-Gen. Chaffee, and "The Athletic
 Japanese" by T. Philip Terry con- tribute largely to these two qualities, as does also Leonidas Hubhards descrip- tion of some of his northern trips Mir. 1 Hubbard's death has been recently reported, although MT. Whitney, Out mg's editor, discredits that report. '"The
 Native Fishermen of Hawaii. "On the Yellow Veldt of South Africa How | tU MdhS WAllSl SGliip, anu SSN6l dl other articles make good reading in
 this number. Vance Thompson's ac- count Of the skating season in Paris and humorous contributions by Stew art Edward White, Arthur Ruhl and Jack Hampton add greatly to the gen. eral attractiveness of this magazine of outdoor life and sport
 
 The Theater Magazine for March of- fers a symposium in relation to the New York performance of 'Parsifal' in opposition to the wishes of Wagner's S family The editor put this question: Has an author absolute property in his own brain work?' and has secured
 answers from victorien Sardou, the veteran French dramatist; Bronson
 Howard. the dean of American play wrights; A. H. Hummel, the we'll known lawyer; Clyde Fitch and other distinguished authors.
 The magnificent war map of Manchu- riai and Korea, 36 by 42 inches, which is published as supplement to the March
 number of the National Geographic
 Magazine (Washington, D. O was pre-
 pared in the military information divi- sion of the war department from the latest explorations and surveys. Through the courtesy of the war de- partment the National Geographic SO 7,1a ls~f. A