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Show ! O ) 1 THE MARCH McCLURE'S. In the March number of McCliire's the Christian Science Serial easily holds first place. It deals Hi' detail with the Quimby controversy that has waged for twenty five years between be-tween Christian Scientists, and the followers of the New Thought movement move-ment fals,o caljcd Mental Healers. A mass of documentary cvidcnccrof the arguments of both .sides is .presented .pre-sented in the shape of fac "simije letters, affidavits and the like. The inauguration of Lincoln, the epidemic of compromise tha' affected the country and the breaking out of the Civil War arc dramatically described in the Carl Schurz Reminiscences. Waldemar Kacmpffcrt tells "What We Know About Mars-" m a lucid 'article that :scribcs the marvel without r)scot(rs to .the technical verbiage of science. "The Diary ot an Amateur Waitress" by Maud Younger, gives" us the worker's point of view on an industrial problem. Tle fiction (of this March . McCliire's Mc-Cliire's is especially fine, with "eight strong stories. Willa Sibert Cather, in a romantic story, "The Namesake," tells of the conception and growth of an artist's inspiration for his-.masterpiece. Grace King,, in. "The Clodhopper," Clod-hopper," gives us a pathetic picture of a plantation hand who finds refuge after a stormy life, in the accustomed field toil of her youth, "Sonicpin Nice . for Cclia," by Mrs. Wilson Wood'- T row, is another of her amusing Zenith comedies. Rex Beach takes us' agaiii to the humorous West- in his lirttad farce "The Colonizing of Kansas" How Chicago's Teamster Strike affected af-fected the homes is dramatically ,told in "Over Monahan's," by Cfara E. Laughlin. "A Suspended Sentence,'' by C. T. Revere," i the story of a cow-boy's devotion that- came to the surface only when the man, who had once saved him, attacks him' wjth murderous intent. A dcligntifl young business man of thirteen is "Jimmie," the hero of John McGraw, Jr's, story, "How Jimmie Made, GqvkI." .' J A "The Love Stpryt of ,1 Cad," M. T Gauss capitally satirizes a New York type. "To a Served IdeW'by'LMils'c Imogen Guiney, "Rost Dolores,'' 'by-' Isabel Ecclestonc Matskay, and 'The Self," by Cora Linn .Daniels,- arc distinctive dis-tinctive and thoughtful verse. |