The San Francisco call., 1904-03-06
BY ROAEKZ
NRZZCHZE
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Chambers. Roy RoIfe ellison, Alice
MacGowan, Margaret Sutton Brisco.
Grace LathrOp Collin, Kate Whiting
Patch, Charles 3. de Camp and May
Isabel Fisk contribute 1the short ffc-
ton.
The March Century's leading article
is a pen picture Of The, Paris Bourse.'
from Cleveland Moffett. with illus
trations by Andre Castaigne. There
are only seventy brokers in the Paris
Bourse. as balanced against the HOO
of the New York Stock Exchange and
the 5000 of London. The Paris
Bourse is a Government institution,
existing and operating under direct
Government control. The New York
and London exchanges are as every
one knows, private associations. with
laws that are binding upon members
only because OF their voluntary ac-
ceptance. Cleveland MOffetts vivid.
picturesque style is well known. His
story of the life and workings of this
place of maddening bewiIderment''
to stranger. this stronghold of the
seventy. the great financial machine
Of France" will be we'll worth the
reading
Rollo Ogden, editor Of the New York
Evening Post. has prepared for the
March Century an. essay on The Max
ing of Public Opinion" the discussion
being thrown into the form of a lunch
table talk between d Senator. a college
president, a doctor of divinity and an
editor, in which there is a good deal
of genial recrimination. if so harsh a
word may be used
Since The BooklOver came out
rrrff1 -.
size and a new dress the reputation
which it has acquired with true low
ers Of the artistic and the sterling in
literature has been increasing an hun
dred fold. In the crowded field of
the monthly and especially in the
rapidly filing province of the critical
magazine The BoeklOver has sue
ceeded in appropriating for itself an
entirely distinctive mission. II an
swers all the demands of the bib
lioIater. the collector of literary prizes.
the devotee of sparkling fiction and
the lover Of true poesy. The mechan-
les Of the magazines makeup leaves
nothing lacking.
In the last number the opening
pages are devoted to a delicately
lined little pastel. The Shepherds
GlclSS. 1nGIG lOl4OW.
upon The Influence of Environment
Upon Men Of Letters; Thomas Mast
the father of American caricature;
omar Khayyam.' by John Hay;
Types in Fiction and a bakers dozen
more of the same high order.
The Reader is another magazine
which is coming to the front with
rapid strides. With the March num-
Der it makes it's initial bow under a
change of owners, for the BObbs-Mer-
rilI Company Of Indianapolis have evil
IDENTIFY felt that to be In line with all
Of the big Eastern publishers they
must have a magazine with their name
upon the cover. They could NOT have
a better one. The character OF this
publication seems to be the product
of blending OF fiction and review
all having a light breezy tone which
is calculated 70 appeal to the dilettante
in literary appreciation rather than TO
the scholar. Some very clever stories
about newspaper life from the pen OF
the veteran correspondent. julius
Chambers, serve to tighten the pages
The March number contains stories
and sketches by Clara Morris, Regi-
nald Wright Kaufman, Vance Thomp-
son, Kenneth Brown and a score OF
other clever and practiced writer's.