Show LITERARY NOTES Thomas A Edison contributes to a symposium on the Roentgen rays that is to appear in the May number of the Cen tury Mr Edison sums up in thirteen conclusions the result of his experiments A number of cathodographs differing from thoe heretofore printed accompany the articles The May number of Harpers will con tain an article on Mark Twain by his intimate friend Rev Joseph H Twichell of Hartford Most appropriately the paper pa-per wi abound in anecdote and its interest in-terest will be enhanced by a portrait engraved en-graved by Florian from the latest photograph photo-graph of Mr Clemens and other illustra tions iusr During the month of April Harpers Bazar will furnish valuable information to women on the changes of fashion incident in-cident to the season and will give particular partic-ular attention to wedding toilettes brides and bridemalds gowns and every thing belonging to a church or home wedding Childrens clothing in illustration illustra-tion and description and costumes for golf riding driving and tennis with full details also as to summer dresses elaborate I elab-orate and simple and hats for Various functions will appear in the successive April issues A serial story entitled A Young Couple by Mrs Burton Harrison son will begin in the number for April 23 In the May number of the Century Miss Eliza R Scidmore writes of the present aspect of The Alaska Boundary Question Ques-tion Miss Scidmore shows that the acceptance ac-ceptance of the Cameron line which Is put forward by the Dominion government govern-ment would not only take from the United States several rich mineral sections sec-tions but ks most unique scenic posses I dons The Stikine river would go which I John Muir says is a Yosemite one hun I I I dred miles long the Taku inlet Glacier i bay and finally the great Muir glacier I itself This would prevent United States I steamers from landing passengers in this region just as the Canadian excursion steamer has been debarred for want of a I customhouse Mr Howells leisurely habit In dealing with the situations that he conceives as though It were necessary to express their interest to the last drop is not exempli fed in his latest book A Parting and a Meeting No writer could have chosen I a larger theme The theme here is nothing I noth-ing less than the true meaning and the dispassionately estimated value of the I spiritual life or the angelic life contrasted I con-trasted with the true meaning and dispassionately dis-passionately estimated value of the worldly or ordinary life And probably no living wrier could have intimated the entire course of such divided lives more briefly or more briefly have shown their conclusions In the final meeting I is an Impressive view of a great question in the narrow limits of a novelette You ask me where Bohemia is No map in all the world can show it you for like heaven it Is a condition rather than a place I is like heaven also in that i is made up of a motley and cosmopolitan cosmopol-itan throng Here the beggars rags may brush against the rich mans broadcloth and neither feel ashamed So strong are its foundations that it can not be undermined under-mined by luxury nor carried by the hunger hun-ger siege Yet withal It Is so delicate In Yet its vulnerable points that even one alien uncongenial spirit can harass and hamper ham-per it sadly and several such have been known to utterly annihilate it for the time being But Bohemia always rises phoenixlike to brighter splendor from the fires of affliction Eva Katharine Clapp in the New Bohemian |