The Republican journal., 1915-05-06
Literary News and Notes.

TleS-Stflclly true IN every detail, as are
all of the stories and articles in TheWide
World Magazine-in the May Number of
this interesting periodical is thrilling
story of gold-seekers struggling through
nightmare jungles, fighting fevers and
hitherto unknown wild beasts. while
forcing their way into the UNEMPLOYED
wilds of Central America in search of
wealth. An amusing incident, illustrat
ing one Of the most curious and unac,
countable vagaries of wild animals, will
be found in 1.-THE Tale of Tiger" by D.
Davidson. Another article of strong in
terest has to do with the strange little
town of Anso hidden away in the remote
Businesses of the Pyrenees in Spain,
where life is carried on today just as it
was in the Middle Ages. Commander
Charles E. Eldred, of the British Royal
Navy, has weaved a thrilling romance
around Anso, the inaccessible. In his
article against Odds" Captain George
G. Haigh writes of the massacre of four
hundred settlers of Matabeleland, and
the story is filled with much tension
throughout. Other striking features in
the May Wide World Magazine include
"Across the Andes on Foot" advent
ures of An Outlaw Hunter "The Wo-
man Who Never Came Back" the sec
ond installment of "Curiosities of the
Holy Land and the third article on
1.-The Wanderings of An Entertainer,
which shows the trials and tribulations
of a professional entertainer IN many
lands. Besides the Odds and Ends from
all parts of the world there are three
thrilling short stories, 1.-The Missing
Boatswain," "My DURAN" and The
'Hodag. " The whole number is beau
tifully illustrated, mostly by photographs
that do not lie.
The Strand Magazine for May contains
among its usual high order of fiction, a
story from the Russian on 1.-The Rules of
War" and an unusually powerful tale of
the great war, ''In the Casualty List. -
Still other war stories include why the
Gunner Went Ashore" and Richard
Marsh's fourth installment of "Sam
Briggs Becomes Soldier" showing this
philosophic and humorous recruit under
the baptism of fire. A love story that
should find favor is Ellen Ada Smiths,
'Alice Palmer's Choice" John Foster
contributes a short story entitled, Set
tied Out of Court" and there is an inter-
esting Norwegian story for children
translated into English by E. Dyke, en-
titled How the Sea Became Salt.
Heading the list of articles is one, "All
About General Joffre, giving portrait
study of the man and day at the front
with the great French commander.
Britain s Greatest Victories on Sea and
| Land" telling of the finest achievements
of. the British Navy and Army according
to expert opinion, is particularly timely
and of much interest now. An article
that will interest all playgoers and per-
. NOT 0plu iDtprpSteI ir,f tho tra
but who would like to know something of
playWriting and how plays are produced,
is Harriet Ford's contribution on 1.-The
Greatest Gamble in the World" which
tells of the difficulties in playwriting and
in the marketing of play for stage pro-
duction. Harriet Ford, as is well known,
is the author of several of the most sue
cesstul plays of recent seasons in Amer
lea. AS an after-piece to Miss lords
article, Wendell Phillips Dodge, the Edi-
tor of the Magazine in America, has
written some interesting and hitherto
unknown incidents in the life of Miss
Ford. H. Greenhough Smiths eleventh
installment of "Real-Life Romances,
which appears in this number, deals with
William Lithgow. An article that is sure
to interest women, and find favor with
the men as we'll, is that of Frederick
Dolman on ''The Nations Beauties"
Several other striking features will be
found in this number of the Magazine,
including the usual page of puzzles,
"Perplexities, and the ever-entertain-
ing "Curiosities.
The leading article in the Atlantic
Monthly for May, women and War;"
by Agnes Repplier, is we'll calculated to
make feminists reconsider many of their
opinions. 1.-THE only agreeable thing to
be recorded in connection with Europe's
sudden and disastrous war;" says Miss
Repplier, sis the fact that people STOP
ped talking about women and began to
talk about men," She ridicules unspar-
ingly the idea that the woman movement
and war cannot flourish together, and
she asks the feminists to face the facts.
Her conclusion is that People who pin
their faith to a catchword never feel the
necessity of understanding anything"
Equally original is "Peace the Aristo-
crat," in which Albert j. Mock COM
plains that peace as well as war ''has its
perils and horrors, and gives no clear
sense of what they are for. - Instead of
raving about war;" he says, 1--WE should
try to make peace more interesting" A
timely article on "The Mechanics of Re-
vivalism," by Joseph H. Odell, contrasts
Billy Sunday with religious leaders of
the past, and, after pointing out the
great danger which turks behind the
financial profits of a modern revival,
analyses the character and the results
of Sundays preaching fairly and con-
vincingly. Most brilliant of the Allan
tics war articles is ''The British Cabi-
net. " by Alfred G. Gardiner, singular
ly successful sketch of the men who are
now in control in England. Cyril Camp
bell. in Campaigning under Botha,"
i gives vivid account of the little noticed
invasion of German Southwest Africa
and of the immense permanent fortitica-
tons which bar the British advance. G.
Loves Dickinson concludes his valuable
series of articles on ''The War and the
Way OUT" Henry W. Massingham, in
Gan Open Letter to the American Peo-
pie, tells US clearly what England would
have US do. w. E. Burghardt Dubois
explains 1.-THE African Roots of War:
and H. G. Dwight writes engaQinply Of