The Republican journal., 1914-05-14
Literary News and Notes.

With Mexico to the south of US, Ameri
cans will read with especial interest the
leading paper in the Atlantic for May,
which is consideration of "Disorderly
States" by Henry Jones Ford, Professor
of Politics at Princeton in succession to
Woodrow Wilson. Professor Ford's con-
tention is that an orderly government
ada pied to the people makes an orderly
people adapted to the government, rather
than the reverse. To his cogent and
very suggestive argument, the second
paper in the number makes capital foil.
'Our Instructive Idiocles," by Seymour
Deming, embraces joyous collection of
the characteristic sayings of the comfor-
table classes when veXed by intrusive
news of want and disorder among the
poor. "a Defense of JOY" is charac
reristically happy essay by Robert Haven
Schauffier Award Longley Bishop dis
cusses ''The Promotion of Foreign Com
merce," while George c. Whipple con-
! tributes highly interesting survey of
the new theories, discoveries and accom-
plishments in 1.-The Broadening Science
of Sanitation" second Adventure in
American Diplomacy, by Frederick
Trevor Hill, gives in dramatic form "The
Inside History of the Louisiana Pur-
chase David Starr Jordan contributes
very careful study of the result of the
conquest of AsaceLorraine fifty years
after. A pleasant paper on nature-study
is "a Suit Against Science" by Herbert
Ravenel Sass. Among the lighter essays
in the number are The Show, chap
ter in the capital series of The American
Cinematograph, by Simeon Strunsky;
'.The Cultivation of Nonchalance, by
Elliott Park Frost; 'House- Cleaning"
by an anonymous writer, and ''The Cult
of the Passing Hour" by 0. W. Firkins.
Dean Hodges discusses the religious
books of the day in Beyond the Cross
roads. - while Joseph Husband in Sky.
scraper" gives an imaginative picture OF
the human element in the building of
gigantic structures The stories in the
number include ''The Little Sign for
Friend,' by Margaret Prescott Monta-
que, and 1.-THE Soul of a Girl" by
Charles Johnston. There are poems by
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and Gretchen
Warren. The Contributors Club is still
more varied than usual.
One of the most important contribu-
lions to the May American Magazine is
remarka able character sketch of Wood
row Wilson written by Ray Stannard
Baker, who has been called 1.-THE great
est reporter in the world" Other high
ly interesting articles are: Experiences
of an Airman," by Augustus Post;
''They Who Knock at Our Gates,
splendid article on immigration, by Mary
Antin, brilliant young Russian Jewess;
''The Auto Game in Homeburg,' hum
orous piece about automobiling by George
Fitch, the famous Illinois comic writer;
1.-THE Business of Being Burglar an
actual thief's account of his adventures;
and "A Husbands Story" in which
man who has been married twenty-five
years begins an account of the trials and
perils and successes of marriage. Fiction
is contributed by Marjorie Benton Cooke,
Hugh S. Fullerton, Elmer E. Ferris,
and Gene Harrison. Humorous sketches
are contributed by Kin Hubbard, Stephen
Leacock, James Montgomery Flagg, and
E. w. Howe. The Theatrical and IN,
teresting People" departments are full
of good things, and the prize-Wlnnlng
letters are published in the contest en-,
titled '"The Person Who Looks Like Me.
In these letters remarkable cases OF
double identity are reported.