Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-22
Among the Magazines
a Great Victory.

| recall the many hours IN which
Rossotti was dclirlous while his body
was passing through the terrible or
deal OF conqucring the craving for the
former drug, and the three on four
days succeeding in which the two
forces seemed TO fight like demons for
possession of him, writes Hall Caine
IN Appleton's for January. During
this period his mind had a strange
Kind of moonlight clearness. with a
plain sense OF all hat was going on,
a vivid memory of the friends and in
cidcnts of the past, with a desire to
write letters to people whom he had
not seen for years, yet a total loss of
executive faculty of every kind. But
the pathetic phase passed, and within
a week after the experiment had been
begun he awokc one morning, calm In
body, clear in mind, and grateful in
heart.
His delusions were all dead, his in
termlttent suspicious of friends were
as much gone as IL they had never
been, and nothing was left but the
real Rosetta simple. natural, af-
~fectionate, loyahle soul.
Peoples Magazine for February has
a finer collection of funny stories
the real, genuine article-than can be
found elsewhere on the stands. Miss
Partree's Stratagem.' by Chauncey G.,
Hotchkiss, is the account of a horse
trade between a Methodist deacon and
a Baptist old maid. in which the hard
shell lady wins, hands down. Equally
amusing is the story entitled "Hiram's
Grandson" by Lizzie Gains, Wilcox
son, which depicts a %squabble of an
old couple over what viii be the sex
OF their future grandchild. The old
gentleman buys pop-guns and hobby
horses, while the determined old lady
invests In dolls and dish sets-and
the event floors them both Besides
these entertaining tales the magazine
contains a long list of good short sto-
ries. "A long complete novel. together
with an attractive art section OF TWEEN
ty-four pages. and an interesting the
atrical critique,
In these days of made"
Fiction it is refreshing TO meet with a
story so natural, so human, so cXquis-
itcly humorous as Jim Stcarns, Di-
rector of Destinios." a tale of college
boys in Owe and athletics, by Ralph
ID. Paine, which appears in the Feb
ruary number of the Popular Mag
azine. Was there even a f%unnicr sit
uation than that in which Tommy
. ~ A''iD VI W. Wv ~
sity nine, found himself when he inn
pcrsonatcd Jim Stcarns. captain Of the
crew. who had promised to coach "a
squad of lovely young things IN the
gentle art of rowing? That Tommy
not the slightest thing about
welding an oar goes without saying
and his efforts to Reuse his plumbers
10 the beautiful manager of the Fair
view crew, while the real Jim Stcarns
ION plN rolls intn tha ttnfnr with |
laughing, are cxcrusiatingly funny.
Smiths for February has an article
~ Rupert Hughes on ''rhc operas OF
in which the author writes.
w are nov arrived at iiossini,
whom Rockstro called 'one Of the
most brilliant gcniuses the world has
known-introducing ~unhcard-of
'hanges, and carrying them out with
'uch trcnchant vigor .hat e may be
aid to have entirely remodelcd the
'pera scria ana the opera buffe,'
He was a successful singer at
thirteen, and composed a successful
'pcra at seventeen, yet at thirty-scvcn
10 committed artistic suicide by re-
using to write any more operas.
hough he lived n voluptuous bodily
ifc till he vas seventy-siX. At TWEEN
his opera. ~'Almaviva.' was
lisscd because II retold the same story
IS Paisiello's Barber OF Seville from
it later stole both the name and
he fame. His great opera, 'Somira-
aide was also a failure at first. In
$40, being then thirty-scver years OF
he produced his thirty-sovcnth
pcra. William Ten It's success was
tupcndous. but Rossini yielded to a
ocular whim, and paid a new com-
oscr the most astounding cOmpli-
ever n composer paid another.
omcwhat as Sir Walter Scott rccog-
lied the rising power of Byron and
bdicatcd his throne as the foremost
'ritish poet, so Rossinl, on hearing
lcycrbcer'S The Hugucnots,' vowed
nat lie would never write another
pera. The most amazing thing about
his Amazing VOW was that IT was
ept." {