The Republican journal., 1905-03-30
Literary News and Notes.

The PinkertOn Detective Agency il
to most people a sort OF unknown
quantity: its methods have been shr0ud
ed in mystery, and it has been vaguely
described as the ''eye that never sleeps. y
Leslie's Magazine for April contains
the first installment of an absorbing
account of the Agency, now told com
prehensively for the first time.
Variety and value mark the contents
of the April number of The BooklOvers
Magazine. There are dozen or more
contributions, and each one is strong
| in descriptive and critical features
The magazine is as usual beautifully
! illustrated. and the "WOrld of Print
is packed full of interesting excerpts
and pictures from the best contem
poray sources.
! 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
Symons, Gelett Burgess, Poultney
Bigelow, Maxim Gorky, Charles Wag-
ner, 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.
Four of the principal articles in the
National Magazine for April deal with
the railway problem, now to the front
in Americans politics. The literary and
pictorial features of the number are up
to its usual high standard. Among the
contributors are Charles Warren Stod-
dard, Joe Mitchell Chapple, Katherine
Lee Bates, Governor Charles Aycock
of North Carolina, Yone Noguchi,
Miriam Sheffey, James Ball Naylor,
Anna Mcclure Sholl, j. F. Conrad
(the new Iowa humorist), and Mabel
Percy Haskell.
The controversy over the manage
ment of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society is the text of the financial
article in the April number of the
Worlds Work. In "How May We In
sure Our insurance." an analysis of
the situation is given from the view
points of the company's organization,
its relations to the public, and its bear
ing on the broad question of public con-
troll of corporations. A table showing
the concentration of financial power in
the hands Of few directors is the most
Illuminating contribution to the discus
sion of corporate management that has
appeared recently.
The April Twentieth Century Home
contains the first of three articles
which it will publish by DR.. j. Madison
Taylor, on Conservation of Human
Beauty" Probably none has given
greater study to the subject of physical
attractiveness than has Doctor Taylor,
and his articles published in scientific
and technical papers have drawn wide
attention to his theories. The theme
which Doctor Taylor discusses in his
| first article is physical betterment, the
particular phase that of comeliness,
the chief factor in which is the shape
and poise of the body. The purpose
of the articles is to place subject, too
often made the object of scorn or
tllpancy, upon the plane which it de-
serves.
Startling is the revelation of the ever
rapacious System" made by Mr.. Law
son in the instalment of his ''Frenzied
Finance" published in Everybody's for
April. Mr.. Lawson describes the get
ting together of the properties that
compose Amalgamated; and in doing
SO, tells how the owners of Utah Con,
solidated found themselves obliged to
ask assistance from the System; how
they got it, and the price they had to
pay for it. For the System" demand
ed first an option on fifty thousand
shares, then insisted on increasing that
to one bundled thousand; finally, when
| the price rose, raised it to one hundred
and fifty thousand; and by a Wall
Street trick, choked off the owners
and got possession of Utah Consolidat.
ed. The story Mr.. Lawson tells us is
an eye-opener, if any were needed, as tc
the strictly business methods of the
System.
The April number of Pearson's Maya
zine contains nine special articles, be-
sides eight short stories, the leading
article being profusely illustrated one
''The Church of the Holy Sepulcher.'
Fighting Fog by Electricity is an &C
count of the latest world-famous in
vention, which bids fair almost tc
revolutionize travel at sea. "Vaccinat
| ing the Ground" tells Of the wonderful