The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-29

| NATIONAI-'The whole is not greater
than any of its parts tersely sums UP
/ that great all-sTound magazne-the April
/ National. If there is a straight line to
4 the hearts and minds of magazine read
ers, the National finds it. II is delight
/ full and refreshing to read what the edi-
| tor of the National Magazine saw at the
/ inauguration. He seems to have observed
/ and heard what others did not, and de-
| soribes 1t with the facile discrimination
Of the letter home and with the art
! of the careful chronicier. We welcome in
addition the usual Affairs at Washing
| ton, written in that distinctive, witty
and2 personal way Joe Chapple has of
| telling the people what they want to
know of pertinent and timely topics at
/ the capital. The STORY of a Great Ma
I tion,' which is winning the highest APP
| probation of educators and statesmen and
| the host of National readers, holds that
/ keen interest naturally expected from
such a variety of eminent men writing
about their particular branch of federal
works. The Bureau of the Mint Frank
A. Leach; The Federal Law" Wade II.
Ellis; Amending the Constitution by
the author of the Thirteenth amendment,
ex-senator J. b. Henderson; Work OF
the United States Experiment Stations,
Dr.. A. G. True; international Fraterni-
cation" Elihu Root. are in the April num-
Der of the National.
TECHNICAL. WORLD-The following
is a partial list of leading articles for
April; Who Owns the Earth? ". Ter
rifle Waste Of Natural Gas Couley b.
Purdom; ITO Give the Birds a Refuge"
Earth, Anne Hard: New Blow at the
White Plague" Frederic Blouut Warren;
Fire Fighter That Gives No Quarter"
A. W. Roker; Moving q River to Pro-
tect Railroad" Harry II. Dunn: shall
Pure Food Be Pure?" Rene Bache; Con
querins the Hell-Gate Of the Lakes,
Len G. Shaw; Motor Boating for Pleas
Ure," Darwin S. Hatch: --latest In Fly
ing Machines" c. +. Carter and William
We sh; Electricity Stimulates Plant
Growth Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz; Nil
Matching Colors Without Samples" Jean
Mitchell. Twenty other articles; 100 il
Illustrations.
POPULAR MECHANICS-The most
pronounced characteristic of Popular Me
chanics magazine is variety. Nor does il
wander into womans fashions and health
hints to procure this attractive quality, |
but, confirming itself to the field Of me-
chanics and science. follows up every |
novel, interesting and important adap- !
tation or development of the same wheth- !
er it be the modern method of reviving |
a big furnace with oxygen gas, or merely |
a luxurious scales for weighing the /
baby: the dynamiting of Niagara falls |
to obtain water for the power companies, |
or the killing of weeds by the use of 4
salt water. This diversity Of subject is /
especially marked in the illustrations, for 4
in the April issue no less than 2l7 pic 1
lures are used for the 200 articles that 1
number contains Plainly, all supeTflu- /
Gus matter has been rejected for every /
Illustration tells its story-vividly-bey /
dispute. Reproductions of photographs |
are used wherever the subject is so mar /
veIOus as to challenge credulity; other /
features have been assigned to the staff 4
artists with gratifying results. and the /
special artist for the Shop Notes depart |
ment retells every king in graphic |
sketches, which show just how it is done. |
SMART SET-Mrs John Van Worst is /
Represented in the April Smart Set by /
one Of the best of her later stories. The |
Other Woman's Picture presents a sit |
uation not common In recent fiction and /
q problem that tests the innate manliness /
of the man concerned. The situation is |
worked out with mastery skill. IT. JEFF |
ferson Dodd-American." by Anita Fitch |
is story characterized by charm I'm the /
telling rather than by unusualness of ac- /
ton; the life and color of ever yauthful |
Paris and the age-old wisdom and breezy |
independence Of an American boy are ac-
centuated by their pleasing contrast AS |
He Wrote It., by a. B. Ceit, "One of |
Peggy's Engagement Rings. by B. T. |
Loring. a Silver Key" by W. Carey |
Wonderly, Dolores" by Mrs Haveocl< |
Ellis. a STUDY of the eternal feminine |
Her Predecessor" by Annie f. p. Scar |
ing. and TO the Three by Minnie Good |
now, are all stories of striking quality.
a. =
contains the second installment of Harold !
MacGrath's serial story, The Goose Girl |
which continues and will continue to be- !
the most conspicuous magazine serial as /
long as il lasts. 1t is a story full of in !
terest because 1T is told with Mr.. Mac |
Graths unique gift for storytelling. and |
has dramatic action and is full of color |
Nearly equal to this is Marie Van Vorst's (
story. In Ambush. which has many
tense situations of the sort that give the /
reader the keenest anxiety for the fate !
of some of the characters.
Among the short stories there is one by 1
Mary Heaton worse called agnes Con- |
valesces'' which is full of kind of hu- |
NOR that one sees little of in fiction but /
great deal IL real life. The complete novel /
is by Elizabeth Duer. 1t is called THE |
Social Ladder" and is a society story /
told I'm her very best vein, interesting |
throughout with characters of the sort /
that every reader feels personal interest |
in. OF course Joseph c. Lincoln will be /
enthusiastically welcomed again with his /
storv. willie" which Is one of the best 1
he ever wrote. steel Williams has an /
other OF his fine stories of the west called /
THE Sailed Peanut Charles Neville /
Buck. Austin Adams, lane W. Guthrie
and Caroline Duer contribute short /
stories. all interesting and well told.
William Armstrong; interesting arti-
cles on the musical season, and Arthur
L.oring Bruce's on bridge whist, are con-
tinucd.
SMITH S-The number of Smiths Mag
azine now on the STANDS contains sixteen
photographic fuif-Dace art studies of |