The Republican journal., 1912-04-04
Literary News and Notes.

Brimming measure of terse, authentic
articles and unusual illustrations is in
store for Popular Mechanics Magazine
readers in its April number. Activity in
the helds of science and invention seems
never TO decrease, nor can anyone fore
cast with assurance the next turn 1t may
take. Therefore, magazine OF the
nature of Popular Mechanics is never at
loss Tor interesting material. The chief
problems are to choose the worthy from
the lnconsequential, to discern the posi-
bllitles of each development, and, above
article on ''Those Wright Patents" by
James R. Quirk, in the April number, is
noteworthy instance of this last point.
First-hand information tested by basic
principles always appeals to common
sense. There are 273 articles and 301
pictures in the April Magazine.
Kathleen Norris, who became famous
as the author of Mother" begins
new serial novel in the April Woman's
Home Companion. 1t is love story laid
in California. Other fiction is contributed
by Mary Stewart Cutting, Carolyn Wells,
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Mary
Hastings Bradley. Among articles of
note in the April Companion are. the fol
lowing: An photographed chapter by
Howard Pyle, the great American artist;
an account full of personal details of the
life OF Germanys present Crown Prin-
cess Cecllle, who is twenty-five years
old and the mother of four children;
Making the Most of Moving Pictures"
an account of the moving pictures bust
ness as an educational factor; Getting
n ho -
Business Asset" in which the author
to women who work in business for
living; and an Easter talk by the pastor
OF the Broadway Tabernacle in New
York City.
The April American Magazine contains
a very remarkable character study of
the late Joseph Pulitzer, the blind pro-
prletor of the New York World, who re-
Gently died, leaving fortune Of twenty
or twenty-five million dollars. The ar
tlcle is by one of Mr.. PulitzeE's secre-
tarles and is accompanied by several I'M
published photographs taken on the
yacht Liberty" where for years and
years Mr.. Pulitzer lived and worked
most OF the time, assisted by corps of
readers and secretaries whose combined
intellectual vigor and capacity scarcely
matched that of their chief, who has
been called ''the most amazing creature
in the world" 1t would take Robert
Louis Stevenson to imagine such yacht
and such crew as Alleyne Ireland, the
author OF this remarkable article, de-
scrlbes. lnez Haynes Gilmore writes an
other Phoebe and Ernest story; Edna
Ferber contributes new Emma McChes-
nney story, and James Oppenheim, Cliff
ford S. Raymond, iona Gale and Mary
austin present interesting fiction. The
four departments which help to distin-
guish this periodical are, as usual. full
of fresh facts and ideas.
For April. 1912, Lippincott's Magazine
offers dainty list of contents adapted
to the exacting appetite of the spring.
The complete novel is cheerful, divert
ing, and delightful story, called ''The
Stolen Woman" by Eleanor NJ Ingram,
whose pkevious novels, "Stanton Wins"
"f'rom the Car Behind" and 1.-The Sub
stltute," were widely read and univer-
sally praised. Her theme this time is
the calm way in which the hero demon
strates that he is the master not only of
his own fate but of several other peoples
as well. The mere fact that the CIR! he
falls in love with is about to be married
to another man deters him not whit:
he simply resorts to the primitive way of
securing bride by carrying her off
wllly-willy. AS it happens, the girl has
will of her own. and there are some
interesting complications before the
clever denouement is reached There's
a seascnable outdoor favor all through,
motor-car and motor-boat, not to men
ton steam-yacht, all having part in
the narrative. The hero is brave and
manly, as heroes should be, and the
heroine is sweet and womanly, as hero
mes should be, while the other characters
leave just as little to be desired. It's
good lively story-''TheS Stolen Woman"