Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-11
IN CURRENT MAGAZINES
N URRENT LITERATURE Is the
object of fierce attack in the edi-
~ toriaI pages of a recent issue OF

N URRENT LITERATURE Is the
object of fierce attack in the edi-
" torial pages of a recent issue OF
Chicago Roman Catholic paper. This
Catholic organ bases its indictment on
the fact that anti-Catholic comment
and cartoons appear in Current Lit
erature; that the "blasphemous' Ut
terances of NietZsche are quoted; that
the "anti- Christian" thought of Heine,
George Meredith, Bernard Shaw and
whitman is represented. But Current
Literature exists for the express pur-
pose of rejecting all the thought cur
rents of our age. 1t is eclectic In
method, and concerned only with the
vitality of any given point OF view
1t is a free forum and every attitude,
conservative and radical, is represent
ed. The May issue of this monthly
bears out the truth of these state
rnents. No magazine in the country
handles the recent Socialist-Anarchlst
scare in Chicago and New York with
greater impartiality. The episode In
Union square is chronicled as part of
current history, with g. fair and un-
biased presentation of both radical
and conservative points of view, and
portraits of the most prominent per-
sonalities involved. In the same num-
Der the diplomatic sensation OF DR..
H." the "Iove affair of the Duke of
Abruzzi with an American girl and
the appointment of the new prime min
lister of England are brilliantly ham
died. There is a compelling discussion
of the question, us Roosevelt's Tenn
per Radical or Conservatives" and an
account of Lord Cromer, 1.-THE Great
est Pro-consul of This Age" Under
Literature and Art" Charles Edward
Russells new vindication of Thomas
Chatterton, 1.-THE marvellous boy who
persisted in his PRIDE" is treated. VIII
helm Busch, "Germany's Greatest
Humorist Since Heine," is presented
in an article that shows him to have
been the real founder of the school of
comic artists whose creations fill the
colored supplements of our Sunday pa
pers. The work of dorado Taft, the
Chicago sculptor, is also described at
length, with numerous illustrations.
In the department of religion and
Ethics" appear two sensational quer-
les, as Christianity in America Losing
It's. Grip" and els Marriage SIM"
Perhaps the most informing article in
this department is entitled what the
Modernists Believe" The leading fea-
ture Of Music and Drama" is pre-
sentation of Charles Ram Kennedy's
new play, The Servant in the House,"
which has made SO proIOund an I'M
preston in New York.
The May number of the Popular
Science Monthly contains the follow
ing articles: Some New View Points
in Nutrition" by Professor Russell H.
Chittenden; "The Utilization of AuXil-
larry Entomophagous Insects in the
Struggle Against Insects Injurious to
4 griculture," by Professor Paul Mar
chal; "Of the Soil of the Earth by
Spencer Trotter: THE Conservation of
the Great Marine Vertebrates; Immi-
nent Destruction of the Wealth of the
Seas" by DR.. G. r. Wieland; THE
Whittier Pittsburg." by John F. Cargill;
1.-The e lucation of the Colored Race is
the Duty of the Nation" by Professor
Harris Hancock: "Should Psychology
Supervise Testimony" by Fabian
Franklin: "The Carnegie Foundation
fol. the Advancement of Teaching and
the State Universities" 1.-The Vege-
tation of the Salton Sea-" John Sam
uel Budget
The May McClure's is a strong fic-
ton number I'm the Dark Hour Is
a stirring story of tropical love and
adventure, by Perceval Gibbon. author
of 1.-THE Second-Class Passenger"
Lucy Pratt's Ezekiel reappears in a
delightful story, I'm Charge of
Trusty." "war on the Tiger carries
the reader through Jungles. on the