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Show THE APRIL M'CLURE'S McClures for April tempts extravagant extrava-gant praise. Articles of world-wido si'opc, sound, pertinent, going deeply into great affairs fairly teotn In Its pages, crowding closo with a gocdly list of bright, diverting fiction. How the greatest Americnn fortune grew by automatic process front $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 to half a billion within a century cen-tury is told by Burton J. Hondrick In "The Astor Fortune." It is a porten-tious porten-tious recital, for this hulk of wealth continues to grow apace. All this Is tho reward of old John Jacob Astor's foresight. Ho saw how ho could compel tho citizens of Now York to Improve his property and pay his taxes and pile up for Jiim millions upon minions. Lincoln Steffens has turned his attention at-tention to Now Jersey, there to find tho biggest theme ho has yet encountered. encoun-tered. This stato Is selling out tho rest of us for money. She has become the financial pirate's haven. Her "Letters of Mnrquo" are tho legal license li-cense of tho tniBts. "What Alls Russia," by Perclval Gibbon, Gib-bon, is a vivid and powerful pon-plcturo of tho men who have brought Itussla to her present extremity. It is a St. Petersburg correspondent's closo rango estimate of Czar Nicholas and tho grand d.ukes, and an appalling picture pic-ture it is to the American mind. And then thoro is a rcmarkablo human hu-man document, Dr. Wilfred T. droit-fell's droit-fell's story of his. work nmong tho fisher-folk of tho bleak northern coasts. A now series, tho "Great Masters of Literature," begins In this nitmbor with "Cervantes," by Georgo Edward Woodborry. Every loves a good talo: Hero there are stories for every mood: romance, mystery, comedy, tragedy. "Tho Golden Flood," Edwin Lo-fovro's Lo-fovro's Wall Street story, is concluded. "In Regard to Josephine" is nnothor of Mnry Stewart Cutting's "Little Stories of Courtship." "A Social Event," by Floronco Tin-sley Tin-sley Cox, is a delightful Btory of a very littlo girl. Thcro aro besides: "A Cornor-Stotio Calf," by Ceylon E. Holllngsworth, n merry talo of a pair of small boys; "Speedaway," Richard Washburn Child's love-story of a factory town; and tho "Faithful Brady," a tragody of a man and his horse. |