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Show Our Eiterary Cafcle. A paper of timely interest, '"The First University of the Louisiana Purchase," optna the current numbr of Donahoe's Magazine. The writer describes the conditions con-ditions under which the university came into existence and notes the events of national interest connected with its history. V A paper that will attract many readers is "British Distaste for Irish Genius," by John J. O'Shea, why considers the bitter criticisms made by Curran's adversaries, ad-versaries, r A." D. V. Waterson contributes an intimate study of the Poet Priest of the South, under the title "An Afternoon in the Sunny South." Anna Peatoa S?chmM: tells of an unique colony. "A Parisian Prook Farm." and Cahir Healy gives a vivid picture of "St. Patrick s Purgatory," the island of Lough Derg where devout Catholics make yearly pilgrimages. "Foreign Plays on the American Stage" is th? title of a critical article by the Kev. John Talbot Smith, who points out why such plays fail to win an American audience. "The Last Memory." by Marie Donpgan Walsh, recalls re-calls the days when the illness and death of Leo Xlff, saddened the Christian world. In addition to these leading articles there are man;. others that make attractive reading, puch as "My Experience Ex-perience of Folk-Son? Collecting," by Edith "Wheeler. The Rev. James B. Dollard, Thomas A. Walsh and the Rev. Lucien Johnston contribute verse; and there are fiction features and ilustrations of the usual high order of excellence. "The Christian Gentlewoman and the Social Aposto-late" Aposto-late" is the latest literary effort of ICatherine E. Conway Con-way and a welcome addition to her Family Sitting-Room Sitting-Room series. The keynote to the social apostolate is sounded in the opening paragraph: "Said a scholarly, famous, and withal, most womanly woman to me one day in the intimacy of friendly intercourse: 'I would I some one would make a plea for the preservation of I the Old Fashioned Gentlewoman. As we women are f going on, she promises soon to become extinct. A'l A our girls are studying for careers' they -win bo authors, artists, musicians yea, lawyers and ministers min-isters don"t they say clergymen? I pray that my daughter may choose to settle down into a simpla woman of home and social life. Can"t we do something to reinstate this sort of woman in feminine esteem?' " Miss Conway felt the reason and force of these words, as her vision extended over the most densely populated popu-lated districts of the country, and observed in them a growing disesteem for private life. Getting down to the bed-rock reason for things, she finds that this tendency is a reaction from an over-crowded, colorless, color-less, flavorless domesticity. But like all reactions. It has its extravagances. ' . Boston: Thomas J. Flynn & Co. J |