| Show I CUR tNT PUBLICATIONS I I The Century Magazine for May Foreign I I For-eign Travel Number Is lavish In hoI ho-I matter tho subtltlo Indicate Thort Is I a I hkoich with lino portrait of Kmllo Umbel President of the French Republic A I I Hamlet In Old Hampshire Outotjhc Wny Places In the Orient thfc6 beautifully beauti-fully Illustrated papers on India and Hur II mah A Recovered j > f Alexander Great UA Missionary Journey In I China Along the Parla Quula and good stories 1 with sccniH abroad Dorthu Runklos The Helmet of Navarre cornea I I I to a happy conclusion und Irving Bachel lers Drl and 1ft gives Us third chapter There Is a very hearty and wclldctfcrvud eulogy I on the late Sonalrtr Cushman K Davis A Patriot Senator and Robert T Hill furnishes a Icnaon ln the government I govern-ment of distant colonies undo the title I The Broken Necklace a gloomy study Into I-nto the helplessness of tho Lesser Antilles An-tilles Tho departments well sustained and the magazine as a whole Is great The Century Co publishers New York 4 I The Worlds Work fir May bus a very complete summary with comment of the 1 events of the month under muny titles I and with portraits pf prominent men connected con-nected with them It has portrait and I sketch < of Gen Funston and of Provident Diaz tells of Russias conquest Qf Asia I giving tho Mubjeol many Illustrations describes de-scribes the work of President Hill Qf tho I I Northern Pnclllc and glvos I purlralt of 1 him describes under the title Actual I I Rural Independence a great farm In the Middle West and has a strong article on Tho Public Library and tho Public School In tho Illustrated urilclo Waterfalls Water-falls and tho Work of the World l a mar VuloitM story Is unfolded among the Illus rations being the Salt Lako City electric powerhouse up Big Cottonwood with appropriate ap-propriate reference to It In the text Our Consuls nnd Our Trade tells of American Ameri-can Irndu expansion and lucre are many other excellent papers Among tho Worlds Workers fittingly closes with a glance al our unprecedented development I de-velopment a number of distinguished r r merit rho Worlds Work has leaped a1 abound a-bound Into high public favor and It emphatically em-phatically deserves tho popularity It enjoys en-joys Doubleday Page Company New York The Spanish People Their Origin Growth and Influence By Martin A S Hume editor of tho Calendar of Spanish State Papers Public Record ofllce and author of note With index and bibliography biblio-graphy D Appleton and Company publishers i pub-lishers New York First volume in the Great Peoples series edited by DI York Powell of Oxford University This work traces the Spanish people from tho cant CHI times hat history mentions them 1100 B C gives the succession of amalgamations amal-gamations that have made the peoplo what they aro without destroying tho baslo organism lhat Is akin to tho Kabyl tribesmen across lie straits In the mountains moun-tains of Morocco The Irruptlpns and conquests I con-quests of the different periods arc graphically graphi-cally described and their Influences noted Tho work Is I magnificently donp I and tho words othe publishers announcement an-nouncement sire thoroughly carried out viz In tracing tho evolution of a highly high-ly composite people from Its various racial ra-cial units tho author points out that Spain was lie baltlegrqund upon which was decided the form Into which modern civilization should bp molded whether Aryan or Semite Christian or Moslem Tho country became the preserver and tr nn S miller of many survivals vanished I I ancient systems and the cullurc 6f Spain was In a sense an epltomo of various rival systems which Jn historic times have divided tho world The services of I Spaniards to llo T < uman empire tho mystic mys-tic spiritual exaltation of tho sixteenth century and the farreaching explorations explora-tions and conquests of Spaniards the ser vlcea rendered by Spain to t Latin lltera ture the preservation of the Roman system of Jurisdiction In Spain and the Influence of Spain upon religion literature litera-ture and the stage arc fully Indicated In i this book 0no of the writers chief oo jccU has been lo describe ihp development develop-ment of a whole people and to trace the vicissitudes of this peculiarly complex race to primitive causes Ills story of the evolution of tho Spanish people Is told from a fresh point of view Dr Ilumo writes with all the advantages of the modern historical specialist and his picture 1 tune of Iho development of the Spaniard will bo found a fresh and njofct Important history bf a great people whoso arIed and picturesque career Is one of unfailing Interest |
