The Detroit times., 1908-03-05
Thursday, March, s
1908.
Among the Magazines.

An article OF interest To Amer.
lean magazine readers is "The Infiu.
ehce OF the Stock Exchange on the
Development OF America" by John
Paul Ryan, In the March Metropolitan.
other important articles i'm this num-
Der arei "Americanizing the Worlds
Food Products" by Alexander Hume
FORD; 1.-The Greenheart Fleet" by Day
Allen Wiley: The Motor Boat as a
Pleasure Craft" by w. l.. Dudley, and
The Scouts of Progress" by James
Anderson. The fiction is unusually
strong and varied. including ''Wicks'
Waterloo by Arthur Morrison; Dor
cas- by Berenice Fearn Young; Man,
the Machine" by Homer Saint3aud-
ems; The Way OF Serpent" by Her.
bert II. Sass, and The Conquest OF
Philander.' by Anna Brownell Dun
away.
The American Magazine is taking
up the presidential candidates In a big
way. The other day Secretary Taf.
told his campaign managers TO keep
their hands off New York state. Rath-
er than anger his enemies, and split
the state. he chose to take his chances
and let Gov. Hughes go to the con-
vention with New York's ~ votes. or
course Taft is still in the running, and
William Allen White will soon present
q character sketch of him in the Amer
lean Magazine. But how about
Hughes? Everybody is inquiring. In
the March number Ida NJ Tarbell
writes of Hughes. She makes the big
lawyer clear to the reader. Mr..
Dooley" writes an article on "Philos-
ophers." McCutcheons cartoons are
almost as funny as the article.
In the year 1906, 10000 people we're
killed and 100000 injured on American
railroads. This is an appalling num-
Der. Yet the cause is not far to seek.
Loss OF grip by the management. dis
cipline unenforced. mistakes let slip
unrectified-all these amount to little
until railroad men wake up out OF
the self-satisfied trance in which at
present they seem to be peacefully
slumbering" These are the words
OF veteran railroad man, J. o. Pagan,
in the second paper of a series. Con
fessions of Railroad Signalman." APP
pearing in the Atlantic Monthly. II
seems to be necessary tor hurt some
body or TO smash up a few carloads
Of freight before any eHefis can be
exerted according TO the rules, to put
a stop to the negligence-this is Mr..
Fagan's thesis.
In the March Lippincott are the fol-
lowing features. among others: Lady
Thoroughbred Kentuckan," a COM
rlete novelette,, by Will Lexington
Comfort: Educating Our Boys" by
Joseph M. Rogers; THE Case OF the
Widded Hawkins" story, by Johnson
Norton: The Testing of the Earls.'
a story. by John Reed Scott; The
Ivory Door" sketch, by f. Ayrton
Zangwill; Home Treatment" paper
by George Lincoln Walton, M. D.; "A
Poet of the Galley" story, by l..
Frank Tooker; "A Strange WILL" a
laper, anonymous; "Confessional--and
Consequences" a story, by A. Loitz-
.eaux.
AinsIee's for March has a complete
novel by Anna A. Rogers, called The
Madonna of the Tea Table," which
ought TO prove one OF the big sue
cesses of the year. II Is a tale OF
American army and navy people In
Japan and contains many striking and
dDoOi DiuE citudAlOuS WtluCu toSttntI
With the writer's unquestionable skill,
and no one who begins II will be able
TO lay it aside until II is finished.
The Theater Magazine for March Is
an unusually attractive number. One
OF the leading articles is an interview
with Nine. Tetrazzini in which the
famous singer tells something OF her
life career. and the secret of her phe-
nomenal success with the public. An
other interesting article describes the
wonderful dancing OF Adeline Genee,
the modern Taglioni, who has taken
all New York by storm. There is also
an article on Edith Wynne Matthison.
we'll known for her charming Every
man." who has returned to America
TO take Margaret Ang1in's place In
1.-The Great Divide" and an interview
with Mary Garden, whose success at
the Manhattan opera house has been
one OF the features of the operatic
season. Francis Opp describes the
personality of Owen Johnson, the au-
thor OF 1.-The Comet" whose method
is compared to that of Ibsen's, and
Frederick Schrader contributes
caustic article on the subject Of The
Leading Man" The departments are
ali up to the usual standard of high ex-
celence, and the pictures of leading
actors and actresses in the roles OF
this seasons successes are models or
perfection. tfs