The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-07
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
INTERESTING ARTICLE ON RAIL
 WAYS BY RAY MORRIS.

The Broadway Mngazine-The Nattonal
 Geographic Magazine--The Hartford
 Monthly.
 Miss Carolyn Wells, who has es- abolished her reputation not only as wit herself, but by her anthologies, as a judge of wit in others, has undertaken to ban with prolog and bless with an epilog the pictures of c. F. Lester and the aphorisms of F. M. Knowles which will furnish the cheerfulness Of A Cheerful Yearbook" which Messrs. Henry Holt and Company already have in the works for 19O7
 The tendency towards the literary drama of Bible Motives seems to be stronger than ever. Examples are: MT. Earle's "The Light Eternal, Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs "Mizpah," and Rich ard Burton's "Rahab" recently publish ed by Messrs. Henry Holt and Com- pany. The last named poet play has been commended by leading actors, both in this country and England, and is likely to be staged during the com ing season.
 The type of character which Moliere exposes in his "Tartuffe' is less conn mon among us nowadays than in the period when the play was written, partly, no doubt, because the American people are endowed at once with shrewdness of judgment and with sense of humor. No one is likely to deny, however, that Mollere's attack was so unmerciful as to contribute largely toward driving this particular kind of ugliness into the very dark cor ners In Professor Matzkes edition of the play, to be published shortly by NIessrs. Henry Holt and Company With the original French text, the editor ex'. plains in English the conditions which made it possible for such a character to exist and to thrive, as well as -she difficulties under which the great play write labored in presenting his expos ure to the public.
 Messrs. Henry Holt and Company are just having to print Prof Henry A. Beers noteworthy English Romanti- cism in the Eighteenth Century" for the fifth time. In this connection 1t may be interesting to note that this book has also been republished in England. All Yale men will take much pleasure in Prof. Beers success.
 Ray Morris, son of the late Governor Luzon B. Morris of this city, has an ad- mirable article in the July Atlantic (copies at the Pease-Lewis company 8 comparing English and American rail- ways. The section of the article devo- ted to railway safety in England was, of course, written before the late shock ing accident on an English railway, yet its general tenor holds good, neverthe- less, in view of the comparatively few disasters of this kind on English soil. MT, Morris says:
 ''The Board of Trade is a branch of the government, and its railway de- with public safety. It views public safety broadly; it will not permit any new line to be opened for traffic until its inspectors have passed on 1t; and the inspectors require compliance with almost countless arbitrary requirements that entail tremendous expense on the railway company, and have, in considerable part, no real bearing on safety. Many of these requirements are traditional rather than expedient; if railways were to be built de novo in the year 1908 1t is certain that the Board of Trade would be immensely shocked, if not insulted, at the sugges- tion that a 100-ton locomotive should rely on wheel flanges less than one and a half inches deep to keep 1t on the rails, at a speed of seventy miles an hour. But the traveller who is not a shareholder has no occasion to worry over excessive safety, and he can feel assured that every British railway on which he is permitted to travel has passed a rigid examination at the hands of one of the most critical exam ining bodies in the world,
 The British observer is naturally sur- prised to see that our safety measures are enforced primarily by the news papers; he is scandalized to learn that the cause of some of our worst acci-
 
 dents is never known, and hence that preventive measures do not follow. For example, the Mentor wreck, on the Lake Shore, Is still unexplained, after incomplete and unscientific examina- tions made by coroners' juries and the inefficient State Railroad Commits sion"
 Those who are looking for something new in the magazine field-a journal with snap and force-will be interested In the New Broadway Magazine for July which comes to the public in a form so attractive that 1t deserves to win attention, The new number Is a radical change from anything thtat has gone before-full of clear incisiye de- partments and articles and containing