The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-07
D l 'ss sssfbs. PAUL PRY....

| to fancy to judgment, to perception of the portrayal of life with its evil and It's magnificent good. Much has been said and written on this subject, but MT. Sothern has written an unusually in- teresting article and one that is per- suasive and convincing in its arguments primarily that ''the drama is legitimate expression of art"
 The Influence of Good Manners" by Mrs. Burton Kingsland, is called "A Special Plea to Girls" but it is an arti- cle that everyone can read with genuine profit, not only to himself but his friends as well. The author says, When to the conventional How do you dog she re- plies, Finep we know on just what rung of the social ladder to put her" This is rather tart, but sometimes grave Off, lenses require severe reproofs. And when Mrs. Kingsland says: Most of us have fairly good education in these days of free schools, in which the best opportu- mites are offered-but lack of social training is as apparent as hump or limp" we are obliged to agree with her.
 An ideal article for pleasure of the re- fiective kind, is Richard Le Gallienne's Dream Children of Literature" In the opening lines he says: "Of all these 1t was Paul Domby who, unconsciously enough, raised the banner of the child. Dickens is very near to Shakespeare in that moment of divination when the it- tie frail and moonlit Paul is first taken to school and confronted with the mag nifcent Dr. Blimber-Dr. Blimber who means so well in his plush middle-class ed Dr. Blimber. Little Paul replied: I way. Shall we make man of your ask would rather be little child
 :" I would rather be a childl'
 Without knowing it, how right little Dombey was. Who is there amongst us that does not protest against growing up: does not battle against maturity, and does not try his best to remain a child?''
 And later the author says: There are no children in the world of dreams whose faces we know better than these-Paul Dornbey, Tiny Tim and Little Nell; Paul with his air of only paying life a rather weary little visit and having to go soon, and brave little Tim who, for all his crutches and irons, would only sing his tiny song-a song, though. about lost child travelling in the snow and give his cheerful toast with the rest at the Christ mas dinner; and Little Nell, the queen of all the dream children. She first looks upon us in the street. a self-possessed but just little frightened wisp of a child, and begs us to tell her the way home to grandfather"
 The article is fully illustrated with characteristic portraits, many of them as familiar as the pictures of the text
 There are so many good things in this months issue, but special mention must be made of the symposium by Alexander K. Mcclure, former editor of The Times, Philadelphia: William Y. Harris, E. Ben jamin Andrews, Charles F. Thwing and others. The subject is: Had Lincoln Gone to College" This article is char acteristic of Success" first in being written by the foremost and most com potent to deal with the subject; next in being about one who has achieved suc- cess. and also in being full of the inspira- tfon and benefit which come to reader in dwelling upon the qualities that gain success. MT. Mcclure takes a valuable aspect of the subject when he writes upon His Career as Climax of Cease less Self Culture" Prof MacCracken takes as his theme What Can a College do for a Genius?' It is concise but sug- gestive and broad in scope. One thought of his is: "Spurgeon, despite his natural gifts, can hardly be compared to such colIege-trained men as Martin Luther