The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-31
THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

/ The February Everybody's has another
| first-class SCOOP" nothing less than
| statement of what the Democratic party
now stands for, by the new leader OF the
| Democracy in the house-Congressma
! John Sharp Williams. There could be no
/ more valuable contribution to the ap-
/ preaching presidential controversy than
| this definite avowal of principles by the
distinguished leader whose clever work In
| congress has attracted SO much attention.
! Another competent feature Is Emory X.
! Johnson'S explanation Of What the Pan
I ANA Canal VIII Do for the Country" The
| author Is a member of the isthmian canal
commission who devoted his attention to
collecting the statistics which should dem
| onstrate the economical value Of the great
| waterway and he Is the chief expert in
| America on his subject. II excellence in
| magazine making consists In combining
| authority with entertainment, this Feb
| ruary Eyerybodys should ind even great
! er favor than its predecessors. In addi-
tion to the foregoing, there are ten stories
| one in Verse-and good vlrfle stories
with plots in them. at that. A superb
| series of pencil drawings OF Philadelphia
by Vernon Howe Bailey-as good an art
feature as any magazine has had.a sum
ming up of the seasons baseball records
! and portraits of the "All-Star Baseball
| Team" fine pictures of the women who
lead society in the big Western cities.
| ciety by Mrs. Reginald de- Koven. In a
sterner vein is David Graham Phillips
| philippe. 1.-The Madness Of Much Power"
| IN which ne diagnoses IHo STRENUOUS
| disease now epidemic in America.
The World Today for February contains
| the most ineligible discussion and col
lection Of views Of the 1roduois .,a theater
| tents of this number are. The Conquest
of the American Desert" by Day Allen
| Wiley; The Architecture of the Louis
| lana Purchase Exposition" by Edward
! Hale Brush; Motor Speeding; the New
| American Sport" by E. Ralph Estep;
| publishing as a Business Career. by
GHsge Bae presasqe
| and Public Opinion" by Ingram A. Pyle.
and THE Divorce Situation in Canada"
| by w. S. Harwood. A noted English writ
er describes impressively The Funeral OF
| Herbert Spencer" In Indian Days on
| the Great River" Reuben C. Thwaites
gives valuable historical information con-
cerning the first Inhabitants OF the Mis-
| sissippi valley.
Notable among the February Century's
| illustrations viii be full-page portrait OF
Gen washington. the copy OF an original
| to the notice of the general public. The
portrait was made from life bE DR.. Elisha
Cullen Dick. of Alexandria Va, in 1a97,
and theCentury's representation Is taken
from an excellent photograph of the orig
| inal made by Getz. OF Baltimore. In size
the portrait is about fourteen by sixteen
| inches: 1t is in an excellent state OF pre-,
servation, the colors being still fresh and
bright and is surrounded by a beveled
| gilt frame about two inches wide. which
| be the original one in which the picture
was placed.
In her article. 1.-The Trick Of Educa-
tion' in Harper,s Magazine for February,
Alice Meynen the English critic, discusses
some new points In English pronunciation.
She maintains that for the word girl prop
erly pronounced there is no good rhyme in
the language
He who says girl to rhyme with pearl
has less the trick of education. for in
stance, than he who says girl with the
vowel of care. The quiet modern poets
have not been able to deny themselves a
rhyme to girl and they have matched her
appropriately to earl. and prettily to curl;
and to churl when she married some one
else. Tennyson more than once has a
rhyme implying this inferior manner Of
pronouncing, and Mr.. Meredith does not
reject the same rhyme; Wordsworth uses
the word often, but within the line; there
seems no evidence of the manner OF vowel
which the old poets spoke; before Her
rick they generally said maid or lass. with
abundant rhymes for either. If the trick
of education in regard to girl is to endure.
the poets must be resigned to rhyme the
word much amiss or not at all. 1t Is one
Of the very few monoSyllabies IN English
that have no right rhyme whatever"
The Book-Lover, New York magazine
Of much excellence, is now issued each
month Instead of bi-monthly as hereto
fore.
The February chapters OF Jack Lon
don's "The Sea Wolf," the Century's
new serial will begin to show another side
OF Wolf Larsen, the strange. brutal char
acter around whom the action of the story
centers. Wolf Larsens brutality is nd
lessened a whit. but Humphrey Van Wey-
den, literary critic and cultured man of
leisure, so singularly thrown into Wolf