The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
rD 1MF D1sPAcH R1cIIlloND VA SUNDAY FEBRTAY III 1907

& ..l,Ilsl.j IallNl.lLSS .lLl.liSE> 1Aal.NiIls:
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| Rosc cecil oNenn edith Il. sturgls,
Olivia Howard dunbar, Alicc Bnrbei'
| stephens, Annc O'Hagan, Grace JOY
White, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. elm
ton Scolnrd, Annie Webster Noel II.
| " Cory. lTora Mcdonald THOMPSON.
rhcodosa Garrison. Marie olivier,
Ethel and GnNa2pse and y. NJ. Cooper.
Martha cutler, Mary stewart Cutting,
Mariana Wheeler, Josephine Grcnier,
| Helen 1.andon and GeprssS Harvey
May sinclar's new novel, "rhc 1ielp-ll
| mate" which goes into It's second III
stulmcnt in this February Atlantic,
seems already to have proved some y
! thing OF u literary sensation. IL one
may Judge from tl,e amount Of ncws- I
paper talk 1T has aroused. Miss Sin
clair has chosen for her theme ono or
the most vital situations of modern
life, and she presents II with drnmatlc
force of n rare order. tits more than
ever clearly demonstrated that ut heart
Miss Sinclair Is Il poet; "'fhc Divine
Fire" suggested as much, but IN this
latest work We seem to find n new
and finer sincerity and tho poets frank )
recognition of passion us the main- 4
spring OF life. 1T IS fortunate that. un- !
like many writer's with this unusual
endowment Miss Sinclair also possesses
the saving grace OF hrnor. And, best
of all. is the fact that from the very
first sentence The llelpmats. is a.
story of absorbing interest The At
lantic is to be congratulated upon
having secured a serial Of such rare
i distinction.
Books just published by Harper &
Brothers are christian Science" by
= Mark Twain; THE American Scene"
T. In,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Sea Yarns
4 for Boys" by w. j. Henderson
! nHarper's Magazine for March, Com
mnnder .Peary's account Of his polar eX-
4 petition is concluded. 1t is Illustrated
from Commander Peary's own photo
graphs and gives his latest observa-
tons Of Arctic conditions. Frederick
9 Trevor HILL in his description of the
''Hnyes-Tidcn Contest" presents re-
mnrkablc insight into the scenes OF a
great legal battle. DR.. Woods 4lutchi-i
son, in an article called Exercise and
its Dangers" proves that overdone or
H III chosen exercise is as much to be
avoided as taking no exercise at all.
Charles Z. Russell gives Il most enter
tanning account of the wonders of n
forgotten city OF Asia, in describing his
stay IN the Old { CAPITAL Of the Great
Mogui." A. w. Dimmoc1's Cruising
Off the Florida Coast has uncommon
Illustrative pictures in color. Gilbert
Parker's serial, THE Weavers," is con-
tinued in this Issue, short story writer's
for which are Norman Duncan, Alice
Brown. Grace Elery Claiming. Gwen-
dolyn Overton, Justus Miles Forman,
May Harris, Muriel Campbell Dyar, and
others.
"Shall We Tax Wealth?" is the title
given to an unusually interesting fea-
$40, ,l,,,., I'D Col !,
> Magazine. 1t consists of a symposium
on the much discussed topic of the
income tax, and contains opinions from
: such widely divergent personalities as
Joseph Letter, the millionaire; Hudson
Maxim, the scientist, and Governor
Folk, the reforner. 1t is of unusual
interest for the insight it gives us into
the personal views of many of our
prominent statesmen, fnanciers and
3 thinkers, and 1t is of decided value as
! the best possible gauge Of public opin-
ion on this question. Besides this the
8 magazine contains number Of splendid
short stories and articles by such writ
S ers as Holman f. Day, Charles Battel1
9 Loomis Elmore Elliott Peake, Ton
. Mason, Anne O'Hagan, Wallace Irwin
, Lillian Bell and Charles Garvice. II
!, is profusely Illustrated, having a set OF
@ sixteen pictures of stage beauties and
another set Of eight full-pasc pictures
IL
! one.
y WAITS, or Poems by Bernard Grady,
= is the tito OF most attractive littl
y volume, issued by Robert Grier Cooke
a. Incorporated New York, its publishers
: Under its cover are harvested the frs
: fruits of this new poets muse as eX
u planned in his modest foreword, Which
in itself. is a poem in prose.
"a Every lover of verse will rejoice Il
s. the matter presented. The first poem
ie "Grieving Mays Departure" strikes
N minor chord, perhaps, in such vcrs
as
j., Goodbye is the word that comes to rest
=. It's weight on the heart OF the lightes
g breast;
&c And awaken the soul to thought OF
- GLOOM
a The word of all words would en-
81 tomb"
"a katherine Maxey is the artist for tn
March number of The Technic,
ls World" An Illustration for the leadin
to number. "Dwarfs Nagarn's Power" b!
OF w. G. Fitz-Gerald, shows the Falls (
us the Zambesi. other contributors bein
re. Charlton Lawrence Edholm, Dewe.
Ell Sheldon Beebe, Edward B. Clark, To-
r. rest Crisscy, Lillian f. Zch. DR.. xAlfrt
he Grdenwitz James Cooke Mills, Geore
I'm Ethelbert Walsh. Fred Haxton. Waltz
he I.orlng Webb, Franklin Horton. II.
Jones, Charles Richards Dodge, w.
at Mcclure, j. Mayne Baltimore Pratht
IN, King, w. c. Richardson, Fritz NIorri
N and Livingston Wright
'al
m The editorial department Of Harper
10 Weekly discusses the happenings
ne the day in the important fields of h
lat man athouSht anu tctiVAty. ~ HIt'e
inc it offers the work of such able write
~ as w. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Kath
80 llna (,ecll ,l>nrlrstnn Mary Il. Wild