The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-30

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ed quarterly.
Correspondence invited.
Heading the list should stand George
Moore's entertaining notes written in
Paris under the title. Moods and
Memories
The "Walnuts and Wine" department
of the month contains fresh nuts
and sparkling wines of many brands,
j. B. Lippincott Co., East Wash
ington Square, Philadelphia.
People who for years have read in
the magazines and newspapers Kate
Masterson's little essays, sketches and
short stories. and have noted her I'M
failing originality, her keenness in dis
secting human nature, will not be dis,
appointed in her first novel, which APP
pears in the current number of the
quarterly, Tales from Town Topics.
From its striking title, THE Thirteenth
Apostle" through to the very last
chapter, this novel bears the unmis-
dividuality. Few writers of the day
know intimately so many varied phases
of New York life, and probably no
other writer would have been so sue
cessful in turning these experiences
into an intensely interesting story. Be
sides this novel there is the usual col
lection of short stories, verses and
clever little burlesques. Town Topics,
ASP Fifth avenue, New York city.
The Reader Magazine for June,
among other articles, has one on the
Human Side of Theodore Roosevelt"
The following is an extract from it:
There are many who consider the
bravest act of Roosevelt's career the
order to Attorney General Knox to in
vestigate the great railroad merger. 1t
is in connection with such acts thar
the President is compared by some to
the farmers pugnacious bull. The
farmer was proud of this little bull
because it would tackle anything, and
generally came out ahead. But a rail-
road was built through his field, and
one day the bull was seen on the
track with head lowered, waiting for
the oncoming locomotive.
walls! exclaimed the farmer, 1 ad-
nnire your pluck, and always shell, but
dern yer Judgment
ut is by butting against locomotives
and sometimes deralllng them-that
Mr.. Roosevelt makes powerful and bit
ter enemies; yet we must not forget
that this is the same man who, at %,
opposed his will to that of his en-
tire party on the floor of the New
York Legislature and was reelected
twice, because the people clamorously
demanded him. 1t seems to have been
the people who have been demanding
him most of the time since.
The May issue of Records of the Past
contains an article by its editor, DR..
Baum, giving an account of the efforts
to secure national legislation for the
protection of antiquities on public
lands. The bill, which passed the SEN
ate by unanimous consent, the day be-
fore the adjournment of Congress, was
drawn by DR.. Baum and introduced
in the House by Mr.. Rodenberg of Illi-
nois, and in the Senate by Mr.. Lodge.
The bill was submitted to and in
dorsed by the leading universities, col
leges, museums, archaeological and
historical societies of the United States.
Unanimous consent for it's passage in
the House would undoubtedly have
been obtained had it not been for the
interference of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition. Records of the Past Explora-
ton Society, Washington, d. c.
Genuine. gripping readableness is the
marked quality of the June McClure's.
This is supplied by a lot of high grade
summer fiction covering wide diver
sity of places and things, together with
a number of live, vital articles, and
some significant editorial comments
1.-THE Peril of the Icebergs," by P. T.
McGrath, described at first hand from
a life on 'the grand banks makes cool
and refreshing June reading, if some
what depressing for ocean travellers
Samuel Hopkins Adams tells the life
story of Dan Cunningham, United
States deputy marshal, whose siren
uous years have been full of more
hazardous adventures, thrilling incl
dents and heroic deeds than an histor-
ical novel. In far separated scenes the
June fiction is cast. One phase of life
in a Colorado mining camp is describ-
ed in a realistic story of a woman's bat
tie and triumph, The New Missioner"
by N NJ w. woodrow. The power of
pity For the Under Dog" amid the
fierce elements and passions of the
Canadian Klondike, furnishes the mo-
tive for a new writer, Riley H. Allen
Charles G. d. Roberts declares "A
Truce" between man and bear the
hunted and the hunter, in the unifying
power of common peril, story full
of the spirit of the wild in the Northern
woods. These and other articles make
a particularly good number. McClure's
Magazine, 141-155 East Twenty fifth
street, New York city.
The CHEEKY laugh of the New York
street ganlin, a cool breeze from New
foundland, and little Partisan at
mosphere from the Seine give June
Outing a cosmopolitan character that
will please every class of reader. The
Fisherfolk of Newfoundland, by p.
T. McGrath, takes you to the blue
waters OF the banks and introduc es
you to the picturesque people who live
by the northern sea. The hardness
. and healthfulness of their primitive ex-
istence is vividly portrayed by graphic
descriptions and many beautiful art
photographs done in color on plate
paper. The seasonableness of this arr
ticle Is further emphasized by The deep
sea cover. picturing two old salts in
a wave tossed dory Vance Thompson
iniects the European element into the
number by his chatty description of
THE Water Way of Paris" Excellent
photographs of boating on the Seine
reinforce his word pictures. Games
of the City Street" by Robert Dunn.
whose Mt. Mckinley diaries nave COM