The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-26

translator of The Double Garden, the new Maeterlinck volume which Messrs.
 Dodd, Mead and Company are to pub { fish, this month, is of Dutch parentage
 and birth, but has resided for the past
 thirty years in England. He was edu-
 cated in London. under the Right Rev. Monsignor Capel, who has since settled
 in America, and near Windsor. under
 the Jesuits, at their establishment
 known as Beaumont college, once the
 home of that famous pro-consul, War iren Hastings. Before taking up the translation of MT. Maeterlinck's essays,
 MT. Teixeira had achieved some dis tinetion as the author of the English version of the Memoirs of Chateaubri-
 and, in six volumes. and of the Me moirs of President Kruger, and as the translator of several novels by Emile
 Zola, Louis Couperus and other conti mental writers.
 Leslie's Monthly for June is full of attractive articles There are ten short
 stories for ten cents in this number not
 to speak of articles and poems and il-
 illustrations.
 l Wolf von Schierbrand tells of a num- Der of self-made men in Russia, all men of remarkable careers and of re- markable ability. The reason why the postoffice has to protect us from so many frauds is that most people are
 ready to help fraud from which they
 expect to derive any benefit. There is
 an amusing article in Leslie's for June on these postoffice frauds. William
 Nelson Cromwell is, perhaps, the great
 est business lawyer in the country, and the secret of his success, according to a writer in Leslie's Monthly. is work
 and liking it, never trusting to another a job you can do yourself and never | being caught mapping"
 The Smart Set Magazine for June
 opens with a novelette, by Ethel Watts
 Mumford, entitled The Bonbonnier," a story of an American family domiciled in a French chateau, and curiously in fiuenced by the atmosphere of the old- en time inwhich they are immersed The love romance is woven about the
 daughter of the house. There are for ty-three other signed contributions in the number most of them aside from the poetry being short stories, for tic- ton is the dominant note always with the Smart Set. New names as well as those of well known authors are con
 tinually appearing among the contrib
 utors in this department of fiction. Kate Jordan, Virginia Woodward Cloud. Robert Adger Brown, J. J, Bell, Willard French, Gertrude Lynde, Con- stance Morris and James French Dor rance are among those in this months list There is an essay by Edgar Sal tus entitled The Gold Book which
 satirizes the search for ancestral and financial position. The most. notable contribution of poetry is from Joaquin
 Miller, "A Memory of Nicaragua
 Other contributors of verse are Zona
 Yaie, Madison Cawein, Madeline
 Bridges, Katharine LaForge Norton, Arthur Stringer and Julia c. R. Dorr
 The Booklover's Magazine for June is handsome number well filled with in- teresting and seasonable matter. Har-
 old Bolce continues his series of arti cles on "The Two Pacihcs,' treating this month of "Japan's New Gospel of Civilization in a very masterly man. ner. N. F Bacon follows with a com- parison of the resources of Russia and { Japan, under the title "A Question of
 Staying Power" Albert WinsloW Bar
 ker gives ill this number fine chaTac- ter sketch of Edmund c. Tarbell, whom 1 he calls "A Leader in American Irn-
 pressionisms the article being illustra- ted with colored reproductions of some of this artists best known paintings f Professor William Lyon Phelps tells his readers What Russian Children are I Reading;" Frank H. Taylor describes
 President Porfirio Diaz, The Benevo- tlent Despot of Mexico" "Old France in
 the New World deals with the islands
 of Miquelon, Langdale and St. Pierre"
 as F. T. MoGrath has seen and ob-
 served them; an Ex-Syndicator" tells How a Newspaper Syndicate Works;'
 group of pictures of American college
 presidents will appeal to many of the magazines patrons; and other special ! features are the illustrated article on
 Orange Culture in California" War Pictures From the Forbidden Zone"
 the poem and drawing The Noun
 tains, and the story by Thomas Rus sell Sullivan "Six Thousand Pounds in | tSwedes.