The Republican journal., 1915-01-28
Literary News and Notes.

tlnue IL throughout the year. hav;np oh
tanned special articles from more Tho,
one hundred of its mo It distinun;sha ,
hvlng contributors. 1t finds its HIM
oredth birthday happy one because as
against the lew copies of the first issne
printed and barely thirteen Thousand
puDnshed two years ago, the present
edition is forty-four thousand. chiefly
attributable, no doubt, to the polit;ca
editor. ny 'he
The National Magazine for Janu,ru
opens the New Year of Our Lord 1o1gs
with the special feature affairs %,
Washington" in which Joe Mitcbell
Chapple chronicles the holiday features
of Washington official life az affe.ted
by the recent decease of the President,s
wife, the war in Europe, and the still nm
settled problems of diplomacy and legis.
latlon. Prominent among these is fit
ting tribute to the late Senator Serene
y. Payne; resume of the battle of con-
t1lctlng currency issues in Mexico: a
forclble appeal for the erection of suit
able buildings to preserve the models and
papers of the neglected and unsafe
Patent Office; and other interesting
items In fiction Cyrus Townsend
Brady's Revolutionary novelette,, Miss
Merriam's Expedient, Anne McQueen's
bit of humble but charming romance.
Mrs. Larrabee's Great Adventure. y
William Clayton's "a Tale Told Out of
School, and Stuart B. Stones Cap
tain Humphreys Promotion" and Viii
liam Hilton Jarboe's "His Word was
Law" make up well-chosen menu of
short STORIES
One of the most interesting articles in
the February Strand is entitled "Cul-
ture and German Culture" by Sir Ray
Lancaster. In the course of his severe
arraignment of the Kaiser the author
says: ''The civilized world has been
shocked by the reiterated statement of
German leading men, who undoubtedly
represent the conviction of the large
majority of those Germans capable of
considering such matter at all, that
the war now raging in Europe has been
deliberately planned and is being carried
on by them for the arrogant purpose
OF establishing German Culture and
imposing it upon all the nations of the
earth-for their good!" Other articles
of interest are ''The Sensations of
Boxer by Freddie Welsh, the Light
"oiSut SHdIupioIl VI lHe w oTlu, Jdpd-
nese Juggling Tricks" by M. Gintaro;
The Chess-board of Europe" and an
appreciative paper dealing with Hy
Mayer, the we'll known cartoonist, and
his work. The fiction is good and gen.
erous in quantity.
The Wide World Magazine for Febru-
airy contains number of highly instruc-
tive and interesting articles. "The
Quest of the Peso-la-ki'' is the romantic
story of hidden Indian mine jealousy
guarded by its owners, for which daring
prospectors have sought vainly for up
wards OF century, many of them pay
ing with their lives for their temerity.
"lcebergs," by Lacey Amy, is magnifi-
Gently illustrated article dealing with the
real "terrors" of the ocean. lcebergs,
from little 'growlers" almost level with
the water to vast drifting islands many
miles long, are the menace of the North
ern seas, and every year they exact
terrible toll in human lives. Mr.. Amy
has seen hundreds of bergs, examined
them, landed on them, and photograph
ed them, and in his article he gives very
interesting account of these drifting dan
gers of the deep. Other articles and
stories include ga Journey into Arab
stan;" ''The Girl-man;" Europe's Wild
West;" ''Our Travels in Safari-land"
and ''The Missing Ship" The excel
lence Of the illustrations is feature of
this unique magazine.
In the February American Magazine
appears remarkable article by Cleve-
land Moffett, telling the story of Won
derful young American who persuaded
the Pope to appear in motion pictures.
He spent eighteen months at the job, and
displayed uncanny shrewdness, ingenuity
and determination. The story of how
he overcame the obstacles that appeared
before him is not only highly entertain
ing but genuinely inspiring. In the same
number Ida M. Tarbell goes on with her
new series of business articles entitled
1.-The Golden Rule in Business" This
month she writes about wages, and illus
trates her points with the inside stories
Irwin, special war correspondent for
The American Magazine, contributes
news article about England Stewart
Edward White, writing under the title,
-Four Lions at Once" describes per-
sonal experience he had hunting lions in
South Africa that is both thrilling and
instructive. Fiction is contributed by
David Grayson, Maravene Thompson,
Harry C. Carr and Thomas Crawford
Galbreath. George Fitch writes another
piece about life in small town, entitled
"Homeburg's Worst Enemy" in which
he shows how the cities take the young
people away from the small places, and
James Montgomery Flagg contributes
an amusing piece in words and pictures
entitled 1.-The High Cost of Friends"
One of the striking contributions to
the February Woman's Home Compan-
ion is an article by the Rev. Charles
Stelzle entitled MAKING the Church do
Real Work, =" in which he considers the
question of the high cost of salvation.
He does not, of course, consider that
the money cost per convert which
church pays is any evidence as to the
efficiency or inefficiency of that church,
but he does show wherein some churches
are vastly superior to others in the SER
vice which they perform to g. commun-
ity. In any event, his article is highly
entertaining and thought-provoking and
will undoubtedly arouse considerable dis
cussion. In the same issue, Ida M. Tar
bell writes on 1.-The Talkative Woman"
and Anne Morgan, daughter Of the late
j. Pierpont Morgan, writes another talk
to "The American Gill" Pasquale
Amsto. the celebrated barytone, tells
ttHow RI Tisten to 0nara - and Rollin