The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-30

The forthcoming volume is 10 be illus trated from original photographs
 The publishers of Ann Arbor Tales George W. Jacobs and Company. or Philadelphia. hardly realized before the preliminary advertising of the book had been made how numerous and how widely distributed are the men and Wo-
 men who were at one time students in
 the University of Michigan. about un-
 deTgraduate life in which Mr. Harfl- man has written in the book mentioned
 Not long since the publishers received
 from a one time student an order for
 the book bearing the posunark of Daw-
 son City. Indeed, it is quite safe to say that no recent book of college stories will be read in as many widely separa- ted localities as this volume of Ann Ar
 bor Tales Former students of the uni iversity may be found in every quarter of the globe. There are many in Japan,
 half a dozen in India, an equal number lin China, several in Sydney, Australia, five in Tasmania. two working on the
 great dam of the Nile in Egypt and a proportionate number ill all the mining camps of the west. It is these former students, moreover, who should find a
 particular interest in MT. Hartman s
 book of stories: as all the tales are founded on facts in undergraduate his
 tory between 1875 and the present time. Country Life in America. for Februa-
 ", is a large and superb number of this beautiful magazine. The leading articles and ample illustrations have to do with such subjects as 'The First
 Principles Of Horseback Riding, :"
 Country Homes of Famous Ameri- cans" the fourth article, a story of Da- vid Henry Thoreau's home-building at Walden: Making Living From the
 Land" by growing roses under glass, a vitally interesting article by l.. H. Bai- Hey; and ''The Indomitable Automobile,
 a remarkably illustrated account of a stormy endurance run through New
 York state where trains and horses failed. Many practical subjects and suggestions touch upon all sides of work and pleasure out of doors. An article of unusual practical interest to garden Iers is "Transplanting Million Dollar Industry" suggesting how Americans may save the money we send abroad each year for Dutch and other bulbs. One of the most striking articles in the February number of the World S Work is "One Trust and What Became of It. in which Henry Wlsham Lanier exposes the corruption of the shipbuild- ing trust, which with an original capital Iof three thousand dollars manipulated for millions, and issued confidential cir culars which were tissues, of lies" 'The Panama Canal and the Mississippi Valley" by Charles M Harvey, shows lhow the building of the canal will change trade currents and establish new seats of empire. Ezra s. Brudno gives in "The Enigrant Jews at Home" an
 explanation of the character and condi- ton of the Jews in Russia. An illustra- |ted article is .'The Work of Augustus
 St. Gaudens, by Charles H. Caffin. In
 Perfect Feeding of the Human Body"
 Isaac F. Marcosson writes of the art of eating and the experiment of Horace
 Fletcher in thorough chewing of food.
 Miss A. M Shaw, in ''The Public Schools of a Boss Ridden City, shows
 Philadelphia schools in political thral- |donl. South America and our Respon- |sibility,' by W. M. Wins, Jr., is a state-
 ment of the conditions in South Ameri-
 ca, with reference to our relations with
 the continent. Arthur Goodrich tells in |sProviding the World with Power of
 the increase in the use of electricity. A new era n the use of soil is shown by
 Professor B. T. Galloway in 'The pro-
 fits of Field and Orchard" Numbering
 by Machinery by K Smith, and f'The
 Work of the Wireless Telegraph Man"
 by Winthrop Packard, deal with
 Phases of contemporary activity. Sere-
 no s. Pratt tells the story of the antag-
 onism of financial interests toward MT.
 Roosevelt in ''The President and Wall
 Street. and in 'The President and the People, a symposium is presented. AL fred Mosely, head of the Mosely com mission, give a British View of Ameri- |can Schools The editorial portraits include Augustus St Gaudens, Admiral
 Alexieff, Richard olney and General s. |C Armstrong. The departments of
 'srhe March of Events" and Among
 the Worlds Workers complete the
 number.
 The February number of the Smart Set opens with striking novelette,,
 "The Wanderers by Gertrude Lynch la story with a wholly new theme, as
 strong as it is interesting. Following
 this come the short series. The poetry
 in this number is above praise. Among the verse-writers are Edith M Thomas, John Vance Cheney, Madison Cawein,
 Arthur Macy, Ethel M. Kelley, Lizette
 Woodwork Reese, Theodosia Garrison,
 Arthur stringer, Clinton scollard and
 Elsa Barker.
 Among the clever stories in the Red
 Book for February, now at hand, are
 ssIn Spite of the Code,'' by Eugene F.