| Show I j I rill II I fn IOU BOOKS WHICH HAVE I THIS PAGE OP THE t J I I L WON THE APPROVAL TRIBUNE WILL KEEP irTCURRENT PUBLICATIONS cfrt Idil I OF LEADEfi OF THE I I I YOU IN TOUCH WITH I II fi i LITERARY WORLD THE MASTER MINDS h Tho North American Review for May opuns with a paper Tho Negro Problem I or The Future of tho Negro that t1 tr In fact docs not touch the real problem ut nil which 11 how shall a race be eliminated Jb elimi-nated for representative purposes when Itt I it-t 1 Is eliminated as political factor That t 1 fs l tho question wMch Is I pulling the people l j j peo-ple of the governing rfiiotloil of this country coun-try today Sir A ID Miller C S 1 K C 1 contributes The Munroo Doctrlno trom 11 British Standpoint l > which point out r jlainly some of thfi difficulties of Interpretation Interpre-tation In caso certain easily practical sltu i I ullons should arls Electricity ts a Motive Mo-tive Power on Riillroads by C L do I mi Miirall is u verv careful analysis of com i I t parallvo costs with u balnnco of great 4 IJIJI i 1 alae in favor of electricity over steam for I tI I the Now York Central and the Pennsylvania r I Pennsyl-vania systems Stephen Bonaal writes of f I 1It1 Castro a LatinAmerican Type In I J F 1 f 1 vein of contemptuous scorn Why Germany j I ti Ger-many Strengthens Her Navy by Karl i f Blind Is an argument that It is because I II f I I r f uf fear of Russia and France whose navies II i na-vies I arc immensely superior to hers but I 1 I ih 1 tlure are some Inaccuracies hi tho paper I I j as where he claims that tho United States I 11 JI II has recently Increased UH military Us well I I I ii ns Its naval forces whoreaa our military i l I i force hns been very considerably leduc d f I I I Other specialties In the number aro i I 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Modern t I I f I School of NatureStudy The Future of I I the Tropics Certain of the Chicago School of Fiction Navy Leagues and I 1 Their Functions Present Tendencies Of l Fnctons I f r I Russian Policy and Lord North the Prime Minister I Is a fine number of a hI i great publication Tho North American Z1 I j Review New York I I I J I The New England Magazine for May 1 I has for of 11 Imf or frontispiece a large portrait 1 Ralph Waldo EmcnJoif with an essay on ii tho Emerson centennial and an account Ii of Emersons connection with Transcendentalism I t q Transcen-dentalism Tho New England Primer is I I I sampled With Inc slmllo Illustrations by l ii Clifton Johnson The Negotiations of tho I 4 I Louisiana Purchase are given by Lawrence I 1 i Law-rence B Evans There is f review of ic I I j Jean dc Blochs The Future of War by A I I I Kdwln D Mead I and thfc number has many good stories and poems I Is alWays al-ways well written and good to mad I 1 America Company publisher Boston S F 1 Tho Engineering Magazine for May t L treats of The HaimonisInK of Organized I r > I Labor with Organized Capital by M I j Cakcly on the basis of a union for tlm 1 lecognltlon of rights and resistance to C L i 1 wrong The Development and Use of J jil the i Small KlecirJc Molor Is the second t I t of Fred fI Klmballs papers and treats L t i of the electric motor In the shop A If Practical System of Mine Accounting by t I E l Jacdbs explains the books forms and f 1 L r II methods of the Le nol mines British Co lumbia Telegraph Engineering in the f I I j i Philippine Island glvestbfc experience an enlisted man In the Moro campaign I I I Foundry PracticeIn the Now Century I by Robert Buchanan tells of the cleaning I I i or dressing 01 castings Cost Reduction I by the Premium Plan by C A Con j I 13 a very keen paper giving live months j experience in a large engineering shop de il I I rldctily l favorabjc to premium work Tho f Use of Liquid Fuel for Power Purposes I i I I I 1 by Arthur L Wllllston explains the mechanical I I me-chanical appliances and conditions insiir t Ing success Labors Complain Against I Capital and the Remedy by Frederic j Hay approaches the problem from tho 1 Ii I I view point o the employee a practical Ii I I view In which there Is much sonsc A I 1 I I great practical monthly The Engineering I I i I I Magazine New York City I I the Architectural Record for May has a beautifully Illustrated paper by Russell Sturgls The Decoration of Costly Resi I p i l I dences a delight to the eye low and t j i Where to Live In Paris on 3X < i Year 1 I 1 la I the second part 6 Fcrnand Mnzadcs illustrated paper Tho Garden of I I lf l I I I Weld Illustrated Is an artistic paper j I t American Gardens Is a graceful paper I f by George F Pentecost t Jr Idlehour the Estate of W K Vanderbilt Is a line paper profusely illustrated A fustrate beautifully I beauttul i printed magazine The Architectural flee I II Archleeturl I iJ i q I ord Co Now York II L I The National Geographical Magazine for r May 1 has a comprehensive Illustrated i Justrat re I j view of The United States Land and Water by Cyrus C Adams it Is a praise I I worthy paper The Conquest of Bubonic f I I Plague In the Philippines Is an illus 1 trated account of a great fight Its m provements f In the City of Manila Is nn Illustrated TJlpor showing conditions I ptr showlnS conditons hard 1 to master American Development Dovcopmet of the 11 J Philippines Illustrated tells of slow pro gross comparatively comparatvely on account of re ro I strictive laws The number tells also of I Bcnguet the Garden of tho Philip I pines The British South polo Expedi lion Tho TransCanada Railway i Geographic Notes and Ralwa rJ Lit Geographic j p i erature Published for the National Geo LI j graphic Society by McClure PlrllMpu Co New York PhIJp I I I i I A new storyThe Shcrrodsby George Barr i McCutchcon begins in the Bookman i for May It bids fair to be of uncommon I J I Interest The 1 Chronicle and Comment I J is 1 an admirable and 1 q lt i ant enjoyable summary of 1 i tho literary affairs of the month Includ I t f InS gossip of authors and the new thing I doing and proposed Comic Opera Post 11 f and Present Pnl I nI < and Offenbach and Opera i Cl Oplr II I Botiffc aro two good papers by Lewis I f r paperf I M Isaacs Illustrated I EdUions Jluatrted Editons of the Au I > Ij thors F Hopklnson Smith In Various i 111 t Impersonations Is a Bkctch II il I lIlnr onatohs CI u MIcteh by Ryan 4 U CJ OL lne 0mont 4i1 Ixperl reviews The History or arc lie Nineteenth Century In CUrIcaur rlcnturo iy 11 j Fredorick Taher Cooper and ArthUt i3ai BaIt lett MaurIce JM part third or the series t I ailil cover the period flom iSIS lo wa r i Easy Lessons In FlctlonIlo to Write 1 a Society Noel by Janl L Ford Is a I t sarCLe recipe lInking fun at thc 5ticn I t 10UR Faous Novels mal Their Con tmporry Critics tells how Vanity 1 I I I Fair wa received hy the critics or tho l ClJCS I lime when Jt aIiietied Cmorson the In 11l last Is I high tppiccuatuon The I Avatar of tho EpiGram Juccl t VlIIlani 110 I VJlam I r Walsh traces the origin nl11 IIoEre s or i i I Tile DnUI of tIle Month The Dookman Lcttcr Dox iIustrated The oole Mart nail l portrit and slctch or I Stewart Edward Whle arc features A j greut literary inngaino Dodd Mead Company tHblshes New York 1 It The Boole Lovers Magazine for May tr Il oC rue Grat Department Stored i Iea IcclmllSl Mthod giving pot t 11 11t of fohn Wuhalal Qr Robert C Og i1ii 1 H a S4frIdio Win Cooke Daniela y I Hwn Olbhi lml llmoth Eaton the 1 iipcr I tIIwlte comprising Managers I JII comprising lInnnfere k and Maiiriracnt or the Modern Store j I b n1cot llrm Aggregated vs Da p 1rllnt IHoresnn Inside View by wr il H Hoth1n oJcllrtment Stores at j I Il mter 1 TmC I Cyrus Town8onl 1r3dy How to Spcnt a Six Weeks ilol l iday 1 hi Bnropc w1h color and halftone L J lihiitratkns ant maps gives v lrloug I U Jlte that mo lO tleen Immortal i i1u VrliIUil Ioe1isthd with tflIpnge 1n NOcSU1 wih UlJkO par u al tiiit or Jnno Austen by Oscar 1q Fnv Adtin rhoImmorll hort by IepIJler Emi Br iite and I I WothCrntdn heights hy Mary E Wilkins Freemallld George Sand hy l KatharinoLec Dates MchunUEyent j 1 j arc wiltten of by W T Stead Jesse Marcy Mar-cy Victor Rosewater I W Lucy Churchill Williams Poullney Blgclow J II Voxnll FrunkO Clmpln Bray Ellis B Usher and A N C Fowler The Boat New Things from tho World of Print are given and tho number Is a triumph The Library Publishing Company Philadelphia l Philadel-phia Online for May has for frontispiece an excellent portrait of John Mulr the famous fa-mous pxplorcrnaturallsl Robert Dunn contributes Crossing tIll Hooky Mountains Moun-tains of tho North a wellwrlllon account ac-count of a long Journey The 1903 HorSe Racing Outlook fs discussed byArthur F Bowers for American tracks and by Francis Trevelyan for English tracks Big Game Shooting In British East Africa Afri-ca by A Arkell Hardwlck lull of encounters en-counters with the rhinoceros tho hippopotamus hippo-potamus and tho giraffe In Heron Haunts by Herbert K Job Is an Illun rated account o the bird and Its breeding breed-ing haunts Games o the American Indians In-dians by Stewart Culln > Illustrated with photographic views tells of the less known parries played by the natives What Makes n Man I Sprinter by Paul C Phillips M D Is an export analysis Illustrated from photographs What It Costs to Put 1 Yacht In Commission by J Frederic Tarns gives Information on a subject of much Interest Central Park Animals as Thelt Keepcrs Know Them fully illustrated by John TV Smith director di-rector of tho Central Park menagerie New York The Sportsmans Viewpoint by tho editor Caspar Whitney treats various va-rious subjects of sporting Interest with keenness and special knowledge Tho Lifting of tho Americas Cup Unlikely Is I the judgment of John RT Spears after a thorough consideration of Shamrock II and Defender Other special articles ore Apple Trees Like Great Bouquets All Abloom fullpage picture i The Rediscovery l Redis-covery of America by the Automobile On the Inland Seas j The Temerity of Ashlon fetory i Trout FiShing for ISieryboily Little Outdoor l Stories i The Return to the Country low to Drive Trtndem1 The Young Angler and His Outfit1 Hccorda and Notable Performances Per-formances Ill a discussion of What Is Strength rhe great magazine of nina cur outdoor sports The OUtlng Publishing Publish-ing Company New York The Craftsman for May has an Illustrated Illus-trated review of A Recent Arts and Cnifts Exhibition nt Syracuse N Y by Itcne Sargent gives fac similes of Some Recent Indiana Bookplates tells o The Bromsgrovo Guild of Applied Arls i has a criticism of Shakespeares Working Classes by Einist Crosby has nn Illustrated trated essay Work Ennobles has Critical Correspondence Art Notes and Book Reviews An especially Interesting Inter-esting paper Is Arthur Stringers William Morris us I Knew Him An artistic lugliclass Monthly The United Crafts publishers Syracuse X Y The Delineator for June has for frontispiece frontis-piece a fullpage handsome engraving A June Wedding In Grace Church The cover dcgln l Ls A Lesson In Botany sensible l and artistic It has pages of fashIons fash-Ions and patterns fashionable parasols the newest bathing suits fashionable millinery linery dressmaking health In tho household house-hold the young housekeeper a crystal wedding the kitchen 1 with rcplpes sum incr outing fashions girls Interests observances ob-servances of society l and a great variety of household and hOle utilities There arc also good storlca book reviews and a continuation qf Mary Harlwoll Cnther woods serial The Ilols Brules I Is a handsome admirable monthly for the home Tile Bullcrlck Publishing Company Com-pany New York Guntons Magazine for May urges the President to be mol explicit and steadfast stead-fast on protection connldcrs with great approval the report of tho anthracite coal commission comments on the merger decision de-cision has a number of thoughtful special articles on subjeqts of timely Interest An article of Importance Is an 111ustrued account by Leonora Beck Ellis Educat I Ins Southern Factory Children of nn excellent I ex-cellent tone also Is William Helmstrccts II Loafers and the Police The magazine Is always i of Importance In the realm of thought The Guntoh Company publish prs New York r Cosslcrs Magazine for May has for frontispiece a fullpage portrait of James Mnpes Dodge President of tho American Society of American Engineers with a biographical sketch by S Howard Smith Coining Machliiery in Chinese Mints with eleven Illustrations by Oberlln Smith and Henry A Janvier which shown astonishing as-tonishing eflJplency in those mints Modern Mod-ern American Machine Tools from time standpoint of a designer by Charles I Benjamin with thirteen illustrations Small Wafer lowers with High Heads fdr cfcctrlc lighting by Tfiorburn Reid II luHlnilud Distributing Illuminating Gas at HlghPrcBHiire bjr F H Shelton with examples from American Practice The Great Eastern Railway Decapod by James Holdcn with eleven Illustrations The Cotton Oil Industry In America by D A Tompkins with nine Illustrations I Railway Trains on FcrricjJ by Archibald Archi-bald S Hurd considering the crosschan nel naHsage with five Illustrations Recent Re-cent Steam Turbine Applications by Hon G L Parsons with data of performances perform-ances and four illustrations Current top ics discussed finishes a limo number The Gassier Magazine Co New York The National 1 MagazlnV for May has flvo articles on tho Louisiana purchase Tin Spirit of Liberty in tlm Province of Louisiana Louis-iana by Walter B Stevens < JThL Story oC tho Louisiana Purchase by Pierre Choutoau Tho Development of tin Louisiana Purchase by David R Fronds Fron-ds A FlftyMlfllan Dollar Exposition by Edmund S Hoch Plo Builders I of the Loulslan Purchase States tiy Vm D I Allison The series Is profusely I and handsomely hand-somely Illustrated Affairs nt Washington Wash-ington arc entertainingly written up by Joe Mitchell Chappie and well Illustrated Phases of American Affairs Af-fairs arc trealqd of by Frank Putnam and The MissouriKansas 7inc District is described by Fran1 ¼ Ebeilc There are line stories and a vjod mal of them In tho number and altogether It Is a great ont The W W Potter Co publisher pub-lisher Boston Book News for May has a 1 fullpuge sheet picture of Richard Bajrot with biographical bio-graphical sketch The number luis 10 views of new books by many critics and I summary of the literature of the month In excellent form I Includes elalH between be-tween I readers excerpts from now books and n report of the betftsvMlfno booke John Wanamakcr publisher Philadelphia Sports Afield for May is full of hli y outdoor life and sketches of shooting and nshlng I brings L breath of the sea the woods and the rivers and hi always a most welcome visitor Sports Afield Publishing Pub-lishing Company Chicago Municipal Engineering for May discusses the various cements In use brick js I paving material Investments and winnings winn-ings of principal electric plants and describes de-scribes the nitration plant at Kingston N Y I I his good and practical editorial comment question department arid information In-formation on every kind of Municipal I work U Is Invaluable In all forms o city 1 Improvements Mtnidplul Engineering Indianapolis The Red Book for May Is the first IBUUO I of a story magazine published by tin Red Book Corporation Chicago U Is J attractive attrac-tive In colors and haH I surprising num ber of stories all good anti by wrIters of note including Gen Charles King Morgan Mor-gan Robertson Hone Bache William Mac Leod Ralnc and many others Photographic Photo-graphic art ntudles each a fullpage rentals re-ntals llgurc arc The Four Seasons each taking n page My I Toilet A White Rose Shocked and He Lovos Me He Loves Me Not The new venture starts In great form The Ward of King Canute a Romance of the Danish Conquest of England By Olllllu A LHJcncrnntx Published by A C McClurg Co Chicago A n Dcrgu Co Salt Lake A companlan story to the same authors The Thrall of Lief the Lucky printed last year This story tells the romantic adventures of a Danish maid whose father and brother were laln In defense of their home in England bow She went for protection to King Canute her adventures In the Danish camp how she was wounded and taken prlaomr and fell In love with her captor an English noble but as oho was all thin time disguised dis-guised In her brothers clothes the Englishman En-glishman nor any one else suspected htr sex i Is a vivid story of those rough fighting times and carries a strong vein of historic verity throughout Tho tale II 1 told with a good deal of ingenuity and power and the characters depicted ant arc drawn strongly and faithfully from the m bluff and hearty fighters to the frivolous wife o Canute who bewitched him before he cumo to the English throne There are six fullpage Illustrations in colors made by special process from tho drawings of the Klnneys and which form an admira ble adornment to the book The Modern Obstacle By Alice Duer Miller Published by Charles Srlbners Sons New York A R Dcrgc Co Salt Lake City A story based on the lack of money by n young woman who has ben reared In luxury but who has no financial finan-cial expectations The modern obstacle to her marriage with n young man she loves is that neither has money or tho prospect of getting money Marriage with a man enormously rich Is In view and the I wedding day almost arrives when tho loved man turns up having sixty thou and dollars and n promlR of not moro limn HX months to live < ien the prob lem Is Suppose there Is not mon y enough according to present day standards stand-ards to make a certain lovematch possi ble but the man J certain to dIe soon why shouldnt the lovers have their brief Interval ofmarried happiness Tho lover lsno Invalid either but riotously strong and healthy The problem Is worked out into a very good love story and the heroine he-roine who supposed there was doubt about everything becomes converted It I Is a charming story well fitted In to charmlnr wel tled accessories ac-cessories that arc harmonious and elegant ele-gant The story is excellently conceived and written Alas for tho confldlngncss of authors In The Academy we come upon this In dignant sentence There would seem to ho a quite obvious morality auout the dls ls nosal I of autograph copies of books by liv ng authors yet It Is a morality which is being continually sinned against Tho I writer has In 0 number of recent lists of secondhand books sent to him by tho I booksellers come across volumes bearing their authors presentation signatures and It has moved him to wrath We appreciate ap-preciate his emotion but cannot see that It Is one to be kept alive very long Of course It la not pleasant to think of giving giv-ing a cop of ones book to a friend with an affectionate or pompous Inscription PICTURE PUZZLE n dk 1 5 LSi NpiI Cany9u ndHelen olhcldog1 1 I and then having him exchange It for tho price of a dinner or of somo cigars Of course tho morality of the situation is obvious But what Is perhaps not BO obvious ob-vious In that In many caSH no harm Is lone Id fact aa often as not the sale or the book confer a benefit upon tho author JI < j IH not always this author a man of colossal genius lie nerds or thinks hen he-n cds all the advertising he can get and lie getn It In a peculiarly Haltering form InlerlnS when It Is I offered to him In the gnlso of nn entry In a booksellers catalogue I puls him In the same boat with men In llnitcly his superiors with the classics of the autograph hunter Perhaps once In a Thousand years ho Is grieved but not oftener than that we venture to assert New York Tribune SMUTCH The pompadour norllcd his portly pandour pompuluUllorlcl And ohlcklly cnupplcd his chub lie rombled and I plgglcd Jill lowry and ni lour Till his perlpandcc fmp his mub Bu the nnajiperfros blndley with plsh awn iiowl I Frabblcd his mushy gUoopor 1aloopor Ho culsappcd his mowlc into sylburbish mowl And that was the end of our snooper UnlversltN of Pennsylvania Punch Bowl the Living Age for May nth Ifi 1 fall of timely nrlklcs Professor H II Turner of Oxford rpplltti to Dr Wallace on Mans Place In tlm Universe Professor Hnrnack comments on The Kaisers Letter Let-ter on Christ and Revelation there Is a review of Mr l Chamberlalnj career from Blackwoods Magazine all a discussion of The Unrest In tho Balkans by 1 the Roumanian exMinister of Public Instruction Instruc-tion the vicepresident Of the Central Macedonian commlttoo and the President of the Cretan Chamber of Deputies Mr Bodloy has sent to the printers tho book on the Coronation of Edward VII which lie was commanded by tho King 10 write It hna taken blent i months to complete com-plete tho work which Is entitled The Coronation of Edward VII A Chapter of Euioilenn and Imperial History An appendix Is to contain a list of eight thousand thou-sand names of persons invited to the coio natlon lalol The way in 1 which Uncle Sams UuslncSH Is conducted when the President Is away Is described In Harpers Weekly for May 2nd with photographs of the Presidents three secretarIes The man who Is chiefly rcflponMlble for keeping the President In touch with Government affairs during absences ab-sences from Washington Is Col B F Montgomery n signal corp officer Col Montgomery Is In charge of the onlv Government Gov-ernment tMogrnnh and telephone station that Is never closed the Telegraph ali Cipher burcail of Ut White House An article which huiIneps men 1 espp cltillv cnlov Is that by John Foster Fniser on The Success of American Manufnctur Tho Nineteenth Century or1 reprinted from tury and After In thc Living Age for May nd Criticism from our English cons Ins Is so common that an appreciation la I an agreeable change and Mr Fosters genial tone makes his praise I l sill the more acceptable The latest vplume of Mr Murrays new edition of Bvrons pOI presents n hitherto hith-erto unpublished seventeenth canto of Don Juan Here are the eighth and ninth Mianaa which although not up toll to-ll level o tho published poem have the unmistakable touch of Byron Grat Galileo was debarred tho Sun Because he llxcd It and to stop his talking How Earth could round the solar orbit run Found his own legs embargoed from mere walking The man was wellnigh dead ere men bc Juno ITo I-To think the skull had not some need 0 cnlkliur But now it seems lies right his notion just No doubt a consolation to his dust Fvthagorna Locke Socrates but pages Might be led up us vainly as before With tho sad usage of ail sorts of sages Who In his lifetime each was deemed I Bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages This they must bear with and perhaps much more The wise mans sure when he no moro can share it he Will have a firm Post Obit on posterity Miss Susan B Anthony has presented to the Congressional library her collection of books which Is J probably l the largest collection col-lection of the history and literature of woman suffrage In existence It will be preserved Intact In a special alcove Literary Lit-erary Collector The Rev Theodore L Cuylcr wan a guest at the dinner of the Monroe society last year and pronounced tho following conundrum Why wa3 Noah the greatest great-est financier of his time As no ono could answer he gave the diners a year to think It over Being prevented from this ho telegraphed attending tho dinner year graphed tho answer to his c iery of the previous year Noah was able to lloat a stock company at a time when all his contemporaries con-temporaries wcro forced Into involuntary liquidation Nov York Times I WISH AND ATLL Scatter thy wishes and thou arrows fall Broken and spent beneath Fate frown Incwall Forge from their fragments ono sharp spear of will The barriers frown but thou shalt pierce them still I Prlscllla Leonard In the Outlook President Mary E Woolloy of Mount Holyoko college points out In Harpers Bazar for May lho error of cramming students brains In Preparation for College Col-lege The author quotes tho reply of President Barrows of Oberlln to a student i who desired to crowd his work IntQ a shorter time Just remember that when God wishes to make an oak ho takes t hundred yeas but when he wishes a squash he takes six months Profildent Woolley advocates distinction In at few rather than moillnnrllv In man Studios In the samo number Lawrence Gllman writes of Miss Ethel f Smyth the flrs > t woman composer to have an opera produced pro-duced In America Mr Oilman describes Miss Smyth as brIsk forceful energetic and direct and not at all like the conventional conven-tional compost I Sho Is I a firm believer ho says In tho special artistic mission of her sex The Bookmans may list of the six best aclllni books of tho past month Is UH folio fol-io WB 1 Lovcy Mary Hegan 2 Lady Roses Daughter Ward u 3 1 The Pit Noirls 4 I Letters of a SolfMado Merchant to His Son Lorlmer C Under tho Rose iBham C I Tho Circle Thurston Signora Matilda Sro tho Italian atm thorvbs intends to visit this country next year Sho will deliver a series of lectures on artistIc and literary subjects The Bookman has made 0 list of successful suc-cessful I authors 1S031902 Inclusive from tho record of all their booku quoted among host selling lists According to this tabulation Mr Winston Churchill i Is I tho most popular and successful author In the United States Tho list Includes not only our own novelists but also 0 few Englishmen Third on tho list stands Mr James Lano Allen while further down are Mr Charles Major and Mr Marlon Crawford Craw-ford In another tabulation of tho best selling books for olght years past aro found six volumes published by tho Mac mlllan company The Crluls1 by WJn ston Churchill which ranks second Richard Carvel Tho Virginian The Choir Invisible Iho I Reign of Law and Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hal The last Is by Mr Charles Major whose lrit story When Knighthood Was In Flowor enjoys tho almost unique distinction dis-tinction of having been quoted In the Bookmans record of most popular books duilnjj l lho live cbnsCcutlvc years since Its appearance I no happens that new novels nov-els by Mr Major Mr Churchill and Mr Allen are to bo published in Jul > which scuinstto promise abundant good reading for the summer In honor of tho centenary of Emersons birthday which occurs on May 25th thu Outlook has In Its Mugaslno Number an article by Mr Hamilton Wright Mabic on Emerson and on Concord considered as a background on Emersons work The article ar-ticle IM beautifully illustrated by original drawings made by Elizabeth Wentworth Roberta The same Issue contains a notably no-tably tIne portrait of JCmeison and a Ufa ut If ul photograph of Emersons grave accompanlng a poem on that subject Later nnd about the time of tho centenary cente-nary the Outlook will publish an article by Thomas Ven worth Hlgglnnon on Emerson Em-erson together with a full editorial cutl mate of the poolphilosophers Influence on Ameilcan life and literature Conclusions HO startling as thoso reached by Dr Wallaces Foitnlghtly article on Mans Place In lho Universe could not go long unchallenged and the April number num-ber of time Foitnlghtly brings a prompt reply from no less authority than the Savlnl professor of astronomy at Oxford Ox-ford Prof Tinners article Ifl I reprinted In tho Living Ago for May Olh Mr Casper Whitney has just relumed to Now York from an editorial tour around the country Fifteen loral ago ho was ono of the halfdozen really prom 1 iKnt and authoritative writers on tho whole theme of Amui lean sport from col 1 lege l athletics to hunting Ills I work since then ant his Avldo experience In all klhds of sport either n I participant or lsnt critic have made him our forcmotit authority au-thority Every two or thruu years he makrs u tour of the United States or lho purpose of being present at Important athletic ath-letic or sporting meets and of keeping posted on everything that Is going on At pcscnt ho Is editing for the Macmlllan company three mom volume In their American Sportsmans Library the twenty twen-ty volumes of which will constitute the most Inclusive and the mpst generally popular American publIcation on the field l of s > ort tlC There is ar amusing tale In the London Outlook of un wellknown lady novelist whoso enemies accuse her of taking herself her-self somewhat too seriously She was entertaining 1 part of her friends and conversallon ran largely upon list new book One young man In the circle had not read the work Accordingly on rising from the table and by way of abstracting himself from the talkers who wore still worrying their convcrsatlunrtl bbne ho fixed his eyes on a female portrait which adorned the drawln < idom wail Coming softly behind be-hind him the lady novelist significantly all T think I know what you arc thinking think-ing that that plcturo reminds you of Frederick Of FrcderlckaV replied the young man blankly what Frederick 7 My Fredericka returned the novelist with surprise for her latest heroine born that name Then the unbelle > er pulled himself together No said he with a Ju dlclil head shake that Is not my notion of your Fredericka And he plumed himself him-self on having got veil out of the hobble But It was yet early for sclfgratulatlon Come then returned hil host < sJ seductively seduc-tively come and sit down here btildo mean me-an you shall t 1 mo what your notion of my Fredcrlclta Is |
