Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-25
REVIEW TABLE.

The first number OF The Country
Calendar is an Inspiring sign Of the
return OF Americans to outdoor life.
This new magazine Of the Review OF
Reviews Book Company is q high
class production, not only IN its large
size, beautiful "dogwood' cover and
sumptuously printed halftone illus
|trations, but also in its showing OF
such contributors as ExlPresident
Grover Cleveland, John Burroughs,
Prof. L. H. Bailey, Secretary James
Wilson, Dallas Lore Sharp, Henry C..
Rowland and others. Moreover, the
magazine gives a unique interpreta-
ton OF the series and instructive side
Of country interests in its authorita-
tive end comprehensive editorial
pages and in its departments" which
latter give personal experiences and
expert Information about Garden and
Orchard, Stable and Kennel, The
Automobile, Stock and Poultry, etc.
With contributions from such eminent
authorities as q. P. Powell (Orchard),
Prof. F. A. Waugh (Garden), and
Frances Duncan (Shrubs), the editors
aim in these departments is evidently
to provide clearinghouse Of knowl-
edge for successful country dwellers
and to exhibit through competent spe-
cialists whatever is new and beautiful
in the science Of outdoor life. d.
The Booklovers Magazine for May
gives its readers a foretaste of the
charms of outdoor sights and sounds
in an unusually attractive number.
The illustrated paper by Waldemar B..
Kaempffert, on "The Protective MINI
icry of Insects" is striking and popu-
lar presentation Of some phases of
the struggle for existence which goes
on ceaselessly throughout the whole
animate world, and will be a source of
pleasure and profit to nature-lovers
who wish to study the subject for
themselves. How and why Paris rules
the world of dress is the subject of a
brilliantly written article by a new
writer, Anna Margretta Ewing. Mrs.
Ewing describes ''The Birth of the
Fashions" and conveys a vast amount
of unusual information on a fascinat:
ing subject in most attractive man.
ner. The article is amply illustrated
The striking arraignment of Americas
fancied commercial supremacy which
Harold Bolce continued to the April
number is followed this month by an
equally striking paper on "How to
Build Up Foreign Trade" which con.
tains many useful suggestions looking
to the solution Of this very vital
problem. - ''''' ~.
! The Race-Track Trust receives q
solar plexus blow by Alfred Henry
Lewis in Success Ma gazine for May.
In his strong, forcible style Mr.. Lewis
lays bare the method by which the
best tracks in the east are operated,
showing the amount Of money taken
in-money that is wrung from the
public in the very face of law that
makes betting illegal. After reading
Mr.. Lewis's crusade against this
octopus and the great harm it is do
Ing to men and women all over the
Omitted States, one marvels that it is
permftted to exist. Mr.. Lewis assures
us that the best trainers in the bust.
ness assert that horse racing does not
improve horse flesh any more than
stealing the Testments of a church
Will save q mans soul. He also saws
that THO pooI rooms are merely closed
by the trust In order that the betting
people may be forced to the tracks to
increase the admissions. e Cleveland
Monett contributes the fourth install.
ment of 1.-THE Shameful Misuse Of
Wealth" This time he deals with the
great waste in food and trifles. He
says that the people of New York an
proximate in gIuttony the lavish an
petites of the Greeks, and that enough
good food is wasted every year, actual
~ dumped into the ocean, to feed over
a million hungry people. Mr.. Motfett's
article is illustrated with some fine
pictures, among them being some net
dogs dressed up in all sorts Of toys
made especially for them, under the
happy caption of Making Fools of
Dogs Vance Thompson, in "How
Revolutions Are Made in Russia. I"
gives great deal Of ''inside history"
OF the causes leading up to the out
breaks in the empire.
Across the continent for years have
been working the Land Grafters of the
Pacific Coast-uuiet' swindlers who
perture themselves that they may get