Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-05

ton in his country. "The Progress Of the
World " the opening editorial department
of the magazine, deals with the important
news developments of the month, at home
and abroad.
There is a good deal in the March Nc
Clure' that you don Z want to miss:
Miss Ida NJ Iarbells Commercial
Machiavellianism" brings home the lax
morals that have built up great cor
porations and business houses, showing
how the axioms Of ,Machiavelli' S "Princes
although pretty strong even for Italy oi
the Medici, from the catechism OF the
modern captain Of industry. Ray STAN
nard Baker continues his veil-hiung
series. "The Railroads on Trial, " devoting
the current number to the formation OF
public opinion by the law-breaking rail-
roads and shippers; disclosing as neat
and clever and complicated a piece OF
underhanded machinery as ever you
heard Of Carl Schurz S "reminiscences
of a Long Life" furnishes by far the most
exciting chapter we have yet had, The
Escape from Rastatt," which recounts
the story OF how Schurz with two COM
panions, on the surrender OF the fortress
to the Prussians, hid in the barn where
the enemy's cavalry were bivouaced,
and finally escaped through a deserted
sewer. Anthony Fiala concludes ms
accounts of Give Years in the Arctic
with the story Of the separation oi the
/ party, the last advance north IN the
darkness, the final surrender, and the
arrival of the relief ship. Many OF the
| photographs in this instalment are even
more remarkable than those IN the teD-
i Me- hos rh
ing bit of stage recollection Looking
| Backward, in which she tells how she
saw Henry Irving for the first time while
she was hunting a leading man for Mr..
/ DAILY. Tho March number is unusually
strong in good fiction with "Ihe Exiles'
by Harvey j. O'Higgins "a Matter OF
| Principle" BY Samuel Hopkins Adams;
the third story Of the "Aizona Nights"
series. 'The Cattleman's Yarn: The Re
mittance Man Story" by Stewart Edward
| White; "The Last Pilot Schooner. by
Ralph d. Paine; "a Grief Deferred, by
Alice Brown; "A Small Person" by Mary
Talbot Campbell; and "A Retributive
Trip. by Jeannette Copper The poems,
which balance the number, are: "Ihe
Crocus," by Herbert Trench; Beyond
the Spectrum" by Florence Wilkinsoni
"The Maronettes," by Witter Bynner;
"In the Night" by Paul Kester, and
| "A Song. by A. h. Housman.
The chief feature Of this month Sue
cess Magazine is the opening instalment
of David Graham Phillips latest novel,
"The Second Generation. 1t is a realAmer-
lean story. centred in the life of the great
Middle West. The second part of Eight
ing the Telephone Trust, by Paul Latzke
is interesting reading. Samuel Merwin
describes in an article entitled Crossing
the Ocean in Palace" his trip on the
giant steamship Amerika, which made
its first visit TO this port a short time ago.
Juliet Wilbor Iompkins, in her article
Give Million Women Now Work for
Wages" attempts to analyze the great
economic change that has been brought
about by the increasing competition OF
women with men in business. Sarah
Bernhardt has contributed a special
article, "A Word to Stage-Struck Girls. F"
Frank Fayant, in his article, Estimating
Our Giant Wheat Crop, tells the story
of II. V. Jones, the greatest crop expert
in this country, who, year after year,
makes a more accurate forecast of Ameri-
can crops than the combined efforts Of
$50 600 government experts. Captain
Joe and the Susie Ann, by L. Hopkin-
son Smith, is a sea story written in Mr..
Smith s peculiarly graphic and delightful
style, and describes an incident that really
occurred along the New England coast
within the past year. Grace S. Rich
mond "The Man Milliner" is a story
of a milliner' s shop in which most Of the
delicate part of the work was performed
by man. Wallace Irwin, Edmund Vance
Cooke, Clare V. Dwiggins, and Others
contribute verse.