Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-11

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Current Literature" says Ebert
Hubbard, us the only MAGAZINE | re0l
from cover to cover The FEBRUARY
number opens with discussion OF Two
burning issues, the presidential can
vass of Mr. Taft and the recent attacks
on the efficiency of our navy. Among
the foreign topics taken UP are the
Personal Peril of the Car and the
Czarina," the recall of Aoh and the
condemnation of Harden. Under per-
sons in the foreground, Loeb, the pa
tient man, is humorously treated.
other articles are Ryan, Slave of the
Wheel of Labor" and The Fighting
Bob of the British Navy" The visit
ing German sculptor, Gustav Eberlin.
Is introduced to the American punnc
in an authoritative article with rich IL
Illustrations. Hawthorne's Cardinal Err
ror'' and How to Raise the Standard
of American Scholarship are equally
startling and instructive literary top
les. Under Religion and Ethics Ihe
Papal War on Modernism" Mrs. Ed
dys Dual Doctrine of Marriage "Ihe
Fascination OF Pessimism' and the
Living Faith Of an Agnostic' are ade-
duately and strlkingly treated. Music
and the Drama are represented by a as
cussion on 1.-THE Greatest Living Amerl-
can Actor" The Personal Equation
in Dramatic Cricitism," 1.-THE Spell of
! Paderewsl1i," etc The play from
which selections are reprinted is my
| Wife" a comedy from the French, sue
| cessfully produced by John Drew Sci
ence reads like romance in the twenti-
| eth century, especially as 1t is present.
| ed in Current Literature. THE Strug-
gle of Our Ancestors for Existence in
Ourselves" opens strangely fascinating
and terrifying vistas. Madame Curie
he nf
walking Wheels for PEDESTRIANS will
make both scientist and layman sit
up and take notice. Fiction, Poetry
and Humor likewise receive their due
attention in this magazine, which is
at the same time intellectual and newsy.
Al West Twenty-ffth street, New
| York.
The February number OF the North
| American Review opens with a sym
| postum on THE Financial Situation, -
| to which Lyman j Gage, formerly sec
rotary of the United States treasury
| contributes an article on The Treasury
and General Finance" William B,
| Ridgely. comptroller of the currency,
an article on "Our Currency and Bank
| ing SYSTEM" Charles A. Conant an ar
ticle on our Present Crisis" The Earl
| OF Rosebery writes entertaingly on
"Bookishness and Statesmanship." Pro-
| lessor Charles A. Briggs criticises THE
| Encyclical againct Modernism" Bran
der Matthews questions the "Legitima-
| cy of the Closet Drama" Lawrence
| Gilman essays an estimate of Grleg
| Frank S. Hoffman. professor of philoso-
ply IN Union college, inquiries what Is
| Rehgion?" Professor Munroe Smith
considers'The Dogma of Journalistic In
| errancy" n. W. Rolleston, describing
THE Crisis in Ireland" appeals tC
Irish Americans to send no mon money
TO Ireland for political purposes. Chaun-
cey b. Brewster compares the charac.
teristic OF ''Humor under Sundry
Skies" and Harriet Monroe offers &
beautiful prose poem on The Yosemite
Waters" In the literary department
Gribble's George Sand and Her Low
ers" is reviewed by James Huneker
Gilman's Stories of Symphonic Music
by Henry 7. Finck; Parker's Life o.
Sir James Graham" by Edward Porritt
Clarke's "Fortlficatlon" by A Nava
Observer, and Grants search OF Bell
sarius" by Joseph S. Auerbach. Th'
department OF world-polltics contain
communications from London, st. Pc
tersburg, Paris, Rome and Washing
ton. Among the topics dealt with in tn
editors diary is Jealousy AS n Curabl
Disease and as an Admirable Attri
butte, Franklin Square, Flew York.