The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS

Continued from Tenth Page) of "Consolidating the Churches" This is in advocacy of applying the trust idea to the denominations, and is about as radical and revolutionary a project as Christianity has had before it in generations. E. M. Kingsbury writes a study of Arthur Pue German. There is a good collection of stories in the num- bes
 Mcclure for April contains 8 telling article, the first of a series, by Lincoln Steffens. The general title is ''The En- emies of the Republic' It deals with corruption as a custom, a system, a revolution in government. It is the bribe-giver, not the brige-taker, who is really responsible for the bad govern- ment, Mr Steffens points out. The successful business man, the captain of industry is the man to catch, and MT. Steffens proceeds to catch him. In graphic, fearless words he tells the sto- ry of corruption's work and rule in Mis- souri, of the barter of public interest to the great trusts by the peoples ser wants, of the big business men who buy and the politicians who sell peoples rights, their very government itself Ida M. Tarbell follows close with an &C., count of the alleged Breaking Up of the Trust in her History of the stan dard Oil Company Thomas Nelson Page goes right to the heart of the ne- gro problem and uncovers some of its Difficulties and Fallacies" in his sec ond paper cn that subject. Dreams of Happiness" are presented and interpre- ted by John LaFarge in the third paper of his series on "One Hundred Master pieces of Painting" The stories are Holding Up Train" by o. Henry; Little Fat Fiddler" by Samuel Hop- kins Adams. Miss MilIy's Creche," by Ellis Parker Butler: "The Unknown" by Harold R. Durant; Andrea del Sar- to-" by Justus Miles Forman; "A Mod ern Adam" by F. J. Stimson, and "The Way it Was" by George Hubbard; "The First Watch" a poem by Harriet Prescott spofford. inspirited by a paint ing of Marco Basaiti, concludes the number.
 
 The Red Book for April is printed on new style of paper and with many half-tone illustrations which couldnot be printed on that formerly used. The authors represented in this number are Kenneth Brown, Clement M. Reyes, Louise c. Howe, Edward Boltwood, Katharine Holland Brown, Lavon C.. Cheney, Anne Warner, Hugh Pendester, Mary Wilhelmina Hastings, Edgar Franklin, Helen Burrows Johnston and Una Hudson. The cover design is re- produced from a painting by Gustavus c. Widney, and there are many photo- graphic art studies by Falk and Schloss.
 The editors of the Engineering Mag azine have planned three 'labor-saving numbers, the first of which, now at hand, deals in several articles with the use of power to relieve manual labor. Succeeding issues will take up Labor Saving in Industrial Management and Labor Saving by echanical Trans port" The development of the steel in dustry is admirably reviewed by Robert w. Hunt in the opening article of the present issue. John F. Sweet follows on the use of steam power, Arthur M. Waitt on the use of railroading, George M. Baxter on hydraulic power apph- ances. and so on through several inter- esting papers. Portraits of James Watt, John Smeaton, Sir Richard Ark wright, Edlnund Cartwright, Robert Fulton and a dozen others down to George Westinghouse and Thomas Edi- son are finely reproduced
 In the April Pearson's the reader will find the first instalment, an interesting one, of Albert Bigelow Paine's biogra- phy of Thomas Mast, the cartoonist. A goo0ly number of Nast's drawings, con siderably reduced, accompany the arti- cle. Cyrus Townsend Brady continues his history of Indian Fights and Fighters" "The Patriotism of Japan, by Alexander Hume Ford, is timely. The Cosmopolitan's war articles are the opening one, by John Brisben Walk er "If Europe Should Go to War" and At the Court of q Twentieth Century Mikado," by Edwin Wildnan. Since the removal of the court to Kyoto, near the seat of military operations the pub ! lie sees more of the mikado, MT. Wild- man says, than ever before. For when he is at home in Tokio, ''secluded in the spacious grounds of the imperial palace i-grounds larger than the gardens of ithe Vatican, the Pekin Forbidden City, and Central Park, New York, combined l-the Japanese ruler has been far from being a familiar spectacle in the capital l city of the empire. Only at the New i Years reception, the spring and fall lcherry- blossom and chrysanthemum garden parties, at the opening of the Diet, and on two or three other occa- sions when he reviews the troops on the Aoyama plain, does the mikado, as q rule, appear in public.
 Among the other entertaining arti-
 cles are Metropolitan Audiences" in form of dialogue between Girl, Pessi- mist and Optimist, with illustrations
 from photographs by Mrs. Richard
 Mansfield, and Breakfasts With Hor-
 ace Greeley" by Murat Halstead. l The April Success has cover design l by H. L.sV. Parkhurst, and the pie l lures of successful men include those
 who are looked at as presidential or Ivice-presidential possibilities for 1904 The article which these Illustrate is