Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Success for April tells How tho Largest Strongest and Simplest Locomotives Locomo-tives Aro Made and gives pictures of them It has from Justin McCarthy an essay Humor Is an Element of Life giving pertinent and witty examples and anecdotes Tho Conquest of Alaska by Cy Warman describes tho Skaguay railroad Tho Tenement Toilers Is a heartbreaking story of life and work In tho alums of New York There is good fiction and hope for tho young man starting in life brightly held out in tho Easter number Tho Succcsar Company New York The War on Trusts By William Marion Ma-rion Reedy Tho Mirror SL Louis A fair and candid discussion of a big question ques-tion the author thinks tho trusts creatures crea-tures of the times nnd that they will work out their own cure there Js legislation legis-lation enough and as long au tho peoplo are sound and rightthinking tho proper checks will not be wanting when they ire needed Das Splelmansklnd and Der Stummo Ratshcrr Edited by George M Priest Published by the American Book Company Com-pany and tho latest addition to its modern mod-ern German readings for clasy work Tho reading Is easy nnd tho vocabulary Is ample llelnrlch Rlohl Is ono oJ tho most popular of the German storytellers and the pupil cannot fall to bo Interested In tbo narratives Aliens A Novel of North and South By Mary Tappan Wright Published by Charles Scrlbncra Sons Now York A R Dergo Co Salt Lake nils Is a very closo uptodato story It gives tIle pros cntday lifo of the South and tile strange effects It produced upon a Northern Woman wo-man thrown within It Tho ways and manner of thought and of speech of tho people are as though sho had gone to IL now world The scenes include a good deal of curious description and some Incidents that must be infrequent as tim burning of the schoolhouse repeatedly I apparently moro from habit than for any real reason There lu much of tho school in this otory and of teachers and their work something of the church too and tho deep uncompromising feeling that In the South holds It to LIe old moorings nnd knows or cnre not of any change In creed or practice Tho social life Is moat courteous and kindly but unsatisfying to tho Northern woman It seems to her that though the people are rightthink ing enough in general r they dont enforco their idcnjj 1 and real sentiments letting the ahoutors form tho public opinion and control the public action The political conditions are touched upon slightly but the real lifo of the pcoplo Is given In active movement and with full local UJLVQ and color Tho situations are dramatic ahd otrong and the whole result Is a work of force and marked ability it IH an excellent study Into social conditions where warmth of blood tells |