The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07
MAGAZINE NOTES.
Atlantic Monthly.


 In the May Atlantic Monthly begins a series of papers by William Garrott Brown. the historian, well known to readers of the magazine, upon The Tenth Decade of the United States, Tn which the momentous happenings or the years between the close of the CIVIL War and the Centennial Anniversary of the Republic will be presented in a new light.
 Among the other more important fea- lures are New Varieties of Sin, by E. A. Ross; What Should College Profess sors be Paid? by "G. H. M."; and two papers dealing with the German poet Schiller, Schiller's Ideal of Liberty, by w. R. Thayer, and Schfller's Message to Modern Life, by Kuno Francke.
 Other important literary papers are A Study of Sainte-Beuve, by Paul El- mer More, and Tendencies in Current Fiction. by Mary Moss. timely arr ticle is that by Mrs. Candace Wheeler on The Decorative Use of Wild Flow CTS. There will be some capital sto- ries and fine verse.
 Besides The Tenth Decade of the United States. other serial features are the second of Andrew D. Whites pa pers upon Thomasius in his series deal ing with The Warfare of Humanity against Unreason; the fifth installment of Thoreau's Journal, and the third Of
  novel, The Coming of the Tide. Writ ing of contemporary women writers in a recent number of Golfers Weekly, MT. Robert Bridges, the well-known critic, says: Tt must be frankly ad- mitted that the women writers have won their place through no favoritism. but because they do extremely good work. Miss Sherwood has achieved a style of rare beauty and finish, and has made of 1t a ready instrument for her delicate fancy, and humor that is never | boisterous. but always spontaneous. Her Daphne was a charming concett, ! evolved with delightful sentiment. She | has worked for her success, which Is the result of study and travel and much practice of the art of fiction, as shown by four published novels" Worlds Work.
 The May Worlds Work teens with timely features. The first hand inves- | tigation of the Kansas oil fight. by Isaac F. Marcosson not only reveals | the facts of both sides of the dramatic | conflict, but shows the people and the | methods The article Is adequately H. | frustrated. Of kindred interest in the intimate character study of Henry H.
 Rogers, by John s. Gregory, which
 tells for the first time the story of the oil mans service to Mark Twain.
 ''The Masters of Insurance Finance" by l. s. Grim, Is an Illuminating view of the men behind the great insurance lcompanies. to whom two-thirds as much wealth is entrusted as to our savings banks The personality of James Hagen Hyde, the storm center of the Equitable fight, is interestingly explained by Lindsay Dentson. The story of the recent Japanese loan is | told by Baron Kaneko who was con- nected with it. To get first hand ex- perience in writing strike Breaking as & New Occupation" Leroy Scott Joined the strike breakers in the ele- vated and subway strike in New York. He shows James Farley-"King of the Strike Breakers" as he really Is. "Ja- | pans Peace Negotiators," by Jihei Hash ! iguchi is an intimate account of Jap anese politics and the real leader of the nation. Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., tells of "C. S. Mellen, Master of Traffic" and Bernard Meikeljohn with the aid | of unusual photographs points the sig nificance of "Electricity Transforming Traffic" 'The Senate Plot Against | Pure Food" by Edward Lowry is startling revelation of legislative inac-