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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE 



Notable Comment on Recent Numbers 



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I. In a Literary Way. 



RUDTARD KIPLING'S "OUTSIDER," According to the 



New York Mail and Express 



44TS a good illustration of Mr. Kipling's 

 X power to compress much within a 

 narrow space. Gauging correctly 

 the amount of information possessed, 

 ... he is freely allusive, but never 

 obscure. . . . Red tape, the authority of 

 officers fresh from home, utterly ignorant 

 of new conditions and requirements, a 

 Boeotian belief in 'orders ' regardless of 

 circumstances— all these things Mr. 

 Kipling denounces. He is sarcastic 

 regarding the little matters, but grows 

 ominously serious over the great ones." 



New York Sun 



44LM putting before his people a 

 J3 living figure of the worst possi- 

 ble sort of military man, half 

 prig and half ignoramus, is helping 

 along the cause of army reform as he 

 could not possibly do were he to address 

 public meetings by the dozen or write 

 essays by the score. . . . And the inter- 

 view between Setton and a certain 

 Colonel of Engineers will live among 

 the striking military episodes that Mr. 

 Kipling has given us." 



II. In a Political Way. 



IVbut some papers say about the article 

 ACCORDING TO THE CHICAGO EVENING POST 



4 4 A I ^HERE is every evidence of 

 X frankness and fairness in Mr. 

 White's portrait. He aims 

 solely to show the reader what manner 

 of man is this who is playing such an 

 important part in the public life of this 

 country. He argues neither for nor 

 against his views or deeds. . . . There is 

 evidence of sincerity, and little if any 

 trace of bias or preconception. Appar- 

 ently Mr. White has made a close study 

 of Bryan the man, and here he gives, 

 without reserve or qualification, his own 

 impressions." 



on " Bryan " in the July Number 



Two Populist Papers Say 



4 4 r ~T , HE people . . . know that he 

 X ( Bryan ) is honest, sincere, and 

 not a demagogue. They trusted 

 Abraham Lincoln when the fine-haired 

 literary cult arrayed themselves against 

 him, and the people were right." 



—The News, El Paso, Texas. 



4 4'11^7'HITE is deserving of great 



V V credit for the place he holds, 



for he has won it by hard, 



honest labor. White is the best prose 



writer in Kansas." 



—The Observer, Pleasanton, Kan. 



III. And Otherwise. 



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The Los Angeles Times 



MR. Kinnosuke is describing an 

 incident of the Japanese- 

 Chinese War of 1894, and 

 the manner in which he blends the 

 soldier and the poet is most charming. 

 . . . Here speaks the true poet, the 

 child of nature, the traditions of a 

 people that for centuries have personi- 

 fied everything. . . . But there is more 

 than poetry in this sketch. There is 

 a descriptive power of a high order." 



The Indianapolis Jour.w-.l 



44/^NEofthe most interesting arti- 

 V_x cles in the July Magazine is 

 that of Mr. A. Maurice Low 

 in McClure's, entitled 'An Unwritten 

 Chapter in American Diplomacy.' It is 

 interesting because it gives some entirely 

 fresh information upon a subject of the 

 highest importance to the American 

 people and throws light on the coura- 

 geous diplomacy of Secretary Olney and 

 Mr. Hay in the Venezuelan dispute." 



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