Evening journal., 1905-03-28
LITERARY

Startling Is the revelation of the
methods Of the everralpaciOis System"
made by Mr.. Lawson in the instalment
OF his "Frenzied Finance" published an
Bveryibody's for April Mr. Lawson
describes the getting together Of the
properties that compose Anal gannated;
and in doing so. tells how the owners
of Utah Consolidated found themselves
obliged to ask assistance from the
system; how they got It, and the
price they had TO pay for 1t. For the
System" demanded first am option on
fifty thousand shares. then insisted ON
Increasing that TO one hundred thous-
and; finally. when the price rose, raised
It to one hundred and fifty thousand:
and by a Wall Street trick. chol1ed off
the owners and got possession of Utah
Consolidated. The story Mr.. Lawson
tells is am eye-opener, II any were
needed. as to the strictly business"
methods Of the system"
Plenty Of stories, grave and gay; sew
eral articles of helpful interest, many
rhymes, and lots of pictures go to
make up the April St. Nicholas. Wilder
Grahame's How Ernest. Saved the
Herd" is a stirring tale of adventure.
and reads like a true story. "The
Judgment of ALI is an old eastern
story retold in readable new form by
Edward w. Very. Temple Bailey-is
Temple Bailey man or woman ?-tells a
charming spring story in "Cecily's
Easter Hat; there is another Of the
delightful 'kalista Wlisefeilow" stories,
" kalista's Queer Little Dolls" from
Mary G. Dillon. Grace MacGowan
Cooke tells THE Little Old story;
and there are new and exciting chap
ters of Queen Xxi Of k" with more
pictures dn color, and another Of the
"PinNey Perkins" stories. How Pinkey
Was Beaten at His Own Game"
The story of the Pinierton Detective
Agency, NOW told comprehensively for
the first time, is begun in Lesiie's Mag
azine for April. The article is written
by a man thoroughly familiar with
the Pinlkerton methods, who traces in
an ahsorbing manner the rise, develop
ment and scope of the greatest detec-
tive agency in the world. DR.. Stephen
Smith, late commissioner in lunacy
In New York State, has contributed
an interesting article on "Who is
lnsaneY' in which he shows how UNI
certain is the lime between sanity and
Insanity and deals with the question
of the cure of the insane. Charles De
Kay writes of a Model American Art
Gallery" the creation of Mr.. Carnegie
at Pittsburg, and George w. Alger has
an interesting article on ''The Citizen
and the jury while Holman +. Day
describes the remarkable career of the
Evangelist Sanford and his COM
munity at Shiloh, Me.
The Century announces for its April
issue the first Of two articles by Anita
Newcomb MCGEE. NJ. D.. on THE
American Nurses in Japan" the record
of unique personal experience and of
am international episode. Dr. MCGEE
was acting assistant surgeon I'm the
United States Army during the Spanish
War, the Philippine Insurrection, and
the Boxer Campaign. serving directly
under Surgeon General Sternberg. At
the head of a band of American Red
Cross nurses, DR.. McGee worked for six
months last year i'm the hospitals Of
Japan, services recognized by the
Mikado and honored by the entire
lnation. DIR. MCGEE is the wife Of DR..
w. J. MCGEE, the anthropologist and
geologist, and daughter OF President
simon Newcolnb, the eminent astrono-
lmer.