The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-25

sia to her present extremity, in the April number of McCiure's, and Is fol- lowed by Mir. Hendricks article on the Astor fortune. MT. Steffen's account Of corporation charters granted by the state of New Jersey and Dr. Wilfred I. GrenfelPs story of his work among the fisher-folk of the bleak northern coasts. A new series, the Great Masters of Literature" begins in this number with "Ceryantes." by Professor George Ed ward Woodberry. Everybody loves
 good tale. Here there are stories for every mood; romance, mystery, come dy, tragedy; love in the drawing-room, love in the factory, the child, the small
 boy and an animal friend
 The Metropolitan for April has one very notable contribution-the Right Ron, Arthur J. Balfour, England's
 prime minister, who under the title Great Britain in Fighting Trim"
 writes of the late reorganization of the war office, and it's results. In the tc- tion pages Jack London and Mrs. Thurston, author of 'The Masquera- ders," both begin new novels, entitled respectively, "The Game" and The Mystics," while short stories are signed by James Huneker, Charles F. Holder,
 s. Carlton, w. L. Comfort and Brough- ton Brandenburg. Mr. and Mrs. Will
 liamson's serial, ''The Princess Pass
 es'' is concluded. The Irish poet, W. B.
 Yeats, writes in a friendly mood on America and the Arts" Poems and Ec1,,D % a5 %a if1toract of fhis excellent issue.
 Eyerybody's Magazine for April con tinues MT. Lawson's account of copper mining stocks, printed under the name "Frenzied Finance" Mir. Russell tells in his article upon 'The Greatest Trust in the World" of the system of under billing, which he says the railroads are unable to prevent; that is, the beef trust of which MT. Russell says that the trust agents bulldozed the railroads and defied the government, in the late Garfield inquiry, to find out, anything more about 1t than 1t cared to tell. MT. Richard Barry furnishes the opening number of the magazine, which de scribes the last days at Port Arthur. Maxim Gorky is considered by Chris tian Brinton, and John Dennis, Jr!1, at tempts to show how, in the growth of the British slum, the substitution of the city tough for the country pumpkin has driven Joseph Chamberlain to ad-
 vocate protection instead of the histor- ic British policy of free trade. There are many other attractions in this mum Der.
 Anna Warner, Cutcliffe Hyne and Henry Burnham Boone are among the short story writers represented in the April issue of the Red Book. The dra- ma of the day is reviewed by Acton Davies, and. there are photographic | art studies" of well known actresses by Sarony.
 The Buoklovers' Magazine opens with | a study of Australian political and so- claI conditions by Burris Gahan. On other pages Rabbi Edward N. Calisch writes of the zionistic movement. Sig mund Krautz discusses transportation in Porto Rico; Harold Bolce has pes slmistic article entitled Our Foreign Trade Fiasco." The important art fea- ture of the number is series of illus trations reproducing paintings by Byam Shaw.
 The April cosmopolitan contains an
 unusually large proportion of noted names in literature. The. contributors include Israel Zangwill Alfred Henry Lewis, David Graham Phillips. Arthur Symoris, Gelett Burgess, Poultney
 Bigeiow, Maxim Gorky, Charles Wag- iler, Cyrus Townsend Brady, George
 Hibbard, Edna Kenton and Herbert
 Quick. This brilliant array places the issue second to none in interest and
 merit of the magazines of the month.
 Leslies Magazine for April gives the first place to the opening of an account
 of the Pinkerton detective agency,
 which will run through several num-
 bers. Dr. stephen Smith, late cofnmis-
 sioner of lunacy in New York state,
 writes an article under the title, Who
 is Insane?" dwelling particularly on the vagueness of the line between san. ity and insanity. MT. Charles De Kay describes the Carnegie art gallery at Pittsbirg Mir. George W. Alger writes of r'The Citizen and the Jury" and MT. Holman F. Day of Mir. Sandford and his community at Shiloh, Me. Anna Katharine Greens Woman in the Al
 cove is continued. There are eight short stories, the authors of which in clude Henry Wallace Phillips, E. F. stearns, Frederick Walworth, Maria Lindsey and Caroline Abbot Stanley. The Smart Sets April novelette, is saThe Red Headed Woman" story of | ranch life, by Grace MacGowan Cooke.
 Among the short story writers repre- scented in the long table of contents are
 Mrs. Henry Dudeney, Arthur Stringer. William R. Lighton, Julia l.. Shafter, Guy Bolton, H. c. Dwight and Inez H. Gilmore. Bliss Carman contributes an I essay, "on Having Known Painter" Clever verses and Wittieisms i'll out the number. ..-:>.' l Among the nine special articles in Pearson's are 'The Church of the Holy sepulchre," with many illustrations, by | John Foster Fraser; How a Big News
 paper is, Conducted" by Augustus Ter rok; Fighting Fog by Electricity" by