Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-02-21
CURRENT LITERATURE


II Thomas w Lawson is the one man in
America directly responsible for the recent
insurance upheavals. what this fearless
commentator has to say on the present
insurance situation ought to make good
reading In relentlessly outspoken
article, The Black Flag on the Big Three
IN the March number Of Everybody s.
Mr. lawson points out, in his strkingly
convincing fashion, that the insurance
companies are as corrupt as ever. and indi-
Gates the steps that must precede their
real publication The March issue Is
particularly rich in readable articles. The
current instalment of Charles Edward
fussell's Soldiers Of the Common Good"
IS iull of timely facts and anecdotes fela-
tive TO the railroad situations In France.
Italy, and Great Britain. The French
railroads which the government controls
without owning. and which are Obliged to
conduct themselves circumspectly under
penalty of iorieiting their franchises. are
the subject OF particularly enlightening
chapter Some reasons for the progress
OF Italy and the poverty of Ireland are
eNplained in vivid detail. Marshall Field.
perhaps the greatest commercial genius of
his day, is the subject of a brilliant illus
tratcd article, based on intimate knowl-
edge by John Dennis Jr An illumi-
nating contrast between the religion of
today and that of a generation ago may
he found in two articles by Vance 1homp-
son and Eugene Wood. Science has
authorized ghosts, says Mr. Thompson in
The Invisible World" it has approved
telepathy and clairvoyance; it has run a
thousand psychic mysteries to earth
Meanwhile, the 'exhorter" and the "cir-
cunt rider, as is shown in Mr. Woods
The Old-Iime Revival have had their
day. How picturesque and sincere an
epoch Il was, this article shows. Sir Gil
bert Parker concludes in this issue his
striking two-part novelette, of love and
millions, The Stake and the Plumb
Inc. Rex r. Beach's Alaskan novel.
The Spoilers, " arrives at what is perhaps
ITS most critical, certainly, so far, It's most
thrilling, instalment. A powerful Indian
loye-story, Marie the Hun" is con-
tubuted by W. A. Fraser; Broughton
Brandenburg has story of genuine and
original humor, calling Ribs Mock to
Mind" and Constance Smedley is the
author OF a decidedly clever modern love-
story, Two on Balcony" Bruno
Lessing's significant story. "The Stranger
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pressive "story in verse. " HThe Chamber
Of Tranquility add greatly to the
strength of a notable number. The
drama of the month is reviewed in ''The
players"
In the March number The Delineator
has fallen under the spell of romance which
the forthcoming marriage of the Presi-
dents daughter has evoked, and presents
as its leading feature an article on "Ihe
Brides Of the White House." illustrated
with a handsome portrait Of Miss Roose-
velt never before published The fiction
of the number includes q short story by
Mary Stuart Cutting, a clever study OF
child life by Virginia Woodward Cloud,
and the continuation of "The President
OF QueX, Helen NJ. Winslow's interesting
club story. Viola Allen, the popular
young actress, who recently married a
Southern millionaire, writes of Shake
/ speares heroines from the point of view
OF one who has personated many Of them
with great success. DR.. Murray concludes
her series on 'The Rights OF the Child, y
with paper on growth and development;
and unique feature beginning in this
number is Houses by Correspondence, .
the first being The Doctors House
Stories and pastiInes are supplied for the
amusement Of children and in the other de-
! partments many topics Of interest and
value to the home are treated. Fashion, oi
course, plays a large part in this number
and the newest styles are illustrated anc
described in detail.
The American Magazine, which for 30
years was Leslie's Monthly, has two espe-
cially interesting articles in the March
number. One, "The Eden Makers" by
Julian Holburn, tells of the remarkable
things the United States Reclamation
Service is doing; how it is making fit for
cultivation a desert area Of ,9O9 .OOOacres
! Under the caption "The Case Of Mabel
Parker" Arthur Train of the New York
District Attorneys Office tells the story Of
a slip of a girl who stole thousands OF
dollars through free hand foTgeries, of her
audacious defence in court, and how her
husband swore that he was the guilty
person in a vain attempt to save her
From the Photographic side this number is
well up to the standard which the Ameri-
can Magazine has been setting. There is
q series of portraits of birds taken in their
natural haunts. Among the writer's of
fiction are Mary Cholmondeley, Charles
Buxton Caring, George Randolph Chester
Margaret Burbee Shipp, lynn d. Follett
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