The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-27
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.
One of the frankest articles OF the
month is Mrs. Leslie Carriers in the
bed Book Magazine for May. Its title
Morality in Relation to- the Drama
and the Press" gives clue to its ma
ture. Mrs. Carter has something to say
about the newspapers and she says II
lin a way that makes her meaning
clear The leading story is entitled.
THE Skirts of Chance" 1t is an I'M
usually gripping story of modern city
life.
President Taft, in an article in Nc
Cures for May, answers the critics
of the Panama canal He declares
that the lock type was the best type
of canal to build, and he dares hope
that it will be finished before 1915,
and that the cost will fall below Col.
Goethals' latest estimate of s297 ,o00,-
I000 Arthur Woods, a deputy Police
Commissioner in New York City, con-
tributes timely article on the Black
Hand Society. Judson c. Welliyer
describes THE National Water Power
TRUST" George F. Parker quotes
ICleveland's opinions of Mckinley,
Bryan, Cortelyou and others; BenJa-
min Brooks describes the work of
1.-The Webfoot Engineer" makes clear
to the layman the mysteries of tun-
inel-building. There are four good
short stories.
FRITZ Scheff's recent marriage to
John Fox, Jr. will be called to mind
by most readers of katherine Metcalf
Roofs novel, The Pomegranate
Seed" in the May Lippincott's. In
this story the hero is an artist who
meets the dainty singer, Griselda
Breslau, in business way and falls
, in love with her-against her will, it
is said She is of mercurial temper
! ament and an artist to the core, which
f makes him feel that even were she tc
t love him, he could not hold her. AS
r result, the course of their true love
! runs everything but smooth, but in the
e end all turns out principally
J. because Griselda proceeds to take mat
4 tiers into her own capable little hands
e Several inter esting special articles
G including an important posthumou!
s paper by Ouida, and short stories b.
e May Roberts Rinehart, Maarten Maar
s tens, Elsie Singmaster, and Ell;
g Wheeler Wilcox, will also be found II
" May Lippincotts.
The May Century has fiction plen
s ty-the last chapters of Alice Hegal
y Rice's novel, "Mr. Opp" and storie
S, in which humor is the dominant not
II by Mary Heaton worse, Adeline KNAPP
" and W. Albert Hickman-but leadin
u place is given to Thomas Nelso
Is Pages story, "The Old Planters"
tale of a quaint old hosiery in Vii
1t ginia, and of the quaint old artistocrat
p who played host, and of the guest
i who came and went. A wide rang
of matters much in the public mind
covered In the number. William n
WINS, chairman of the New Yor,. cha
Id ter commission, has paper on "Pul
IL lie Service Commissions; Cardin;
H. Gibbons and Prof Edward Alswort
Ross have much of interest to say O
Americas increasing divorce rate an
tz its significance There Is graph'
Is account by Gdward Beecher Bronso
If of big Game in East Africa" base
n on facts and incidents Of the writer
experience while guest OF Mr.. WI
e. liam Northrup Mcmillan, the youn
so American, who is preparing to ente
of tain Ex-President Roosevelt at Ju.
Sc farm, near Nairobi, the center OF tt
big game country of British Ea
Africa.
lis
ry Justice to Wall Street is the Ike
1T note to the May Everybodys Takir
i'd UP a stand between the radicalism
re "Frenzied Finance. days and the co
servatism OF Wall Streets present d
tenders. Frederick Upham Adam
e and the publishers of Everybody's c
no fer the calmest and most complete e
nd position of the case of the People v
ad the stock gambling game that has y
he DGGU DSdTu. NIL aiduuS toi'"S
or cold, incontrovertible form "The Co
of the Wall Street Game"-the pri'
that the amateur has to pay for kee
he ing up the great gambling system
IN America Thomas w. Lawson tel
es why it is that his followers som
ed times lose In fiction, the May Ever
body's is strong. Emily Posts stor
ne THE Title Market" continues with
creasing interest. Samuel Hopki
Adams has a big, terrible story
ire 'Grimsden House" Joseph C. Linco
nat rollicking New England yarn en-
mt tied. AS He Thinketh;' while Elean
mt. Hoyt Brainerds "The Court
I'VE Tree" Charles Buxton Going's IT
to Fires of Youth and Inez g. Thon
no sons Straight Down the Crook
au- Lane" offer as varied a selection
be- stories as can readily be imagined.