SCRIBNER'S. 



W. J. Henderson, whose family have 

 long been in the business of -managing 

 theatres, writes for the March Scribner's 

 a very clear account of "The Business of 

 a Theatre. " unfolding that side of theatri- 

 cal affairs of which the public is profound- 

 ly ignorant. 



Jesse Lynch Williams, whose newspaper 

 stories have made a success, contributes 

 the famous tale of the "Cub Reporter," 

 who had been a half-back and stirs up his 

 college to burn the King of Spain in effigy, 

 and Albert White Vorse introduces to us 

 a new field of fiction in the story about 

 the Eskimos. Senator Hoar's Reminis- 

 cences give an important and hitherto 

 unpublished letter of Daniel Webster, 

 regarding slavery. 



In his "Search-Light Letters" Robert 

 Grant speaks of the growing snobbism of 

 Americans, "the appetite for social tittle- 

 tattle." displayed by the poor who desire 

 to hear what the wealthy class do and say. 

 He says: "But this is not the spirit of 

 the United States, nor are these the best 

 Americans. Our nation is strange in this 

 respect. We wear our faults upon our 

 sleeves, or rather we suffer a surface popu- 

 lation to belie us in various walks of life. 

 That is the reason why the foreigners 

 who come over here and t,ry to amass the 

 materials for a book in a few months fail 

 to understand us as we really are. They 

 are led by superficially prominent indica- 

 tions to believe many things which are 

 true only of a limited portion of the popu- 

 lation, and they fail to perceive the sturdi- 

 ness of character, the independence of 

 view, and the social charm which distin- 

 guishes a large and constantly increasing 

 portion of the American people, who are 

 neither extravagant plutocrats nor vulgar 

 republican braggarts and despisers of civ- 

 ilized practices." 



The little booklet of the Frank B. White 

 Company. February issue, is of neat and 



attractive appearance, and to us of espe- 

 cial interest, due no doubt to the kindly 

 mention given the AGE. 



LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 



Despite his dislike to be photographed. 

 Pope Leo XJII has permited himself to be 

 pictured by the Biograph, and a number 

 of the most interesting portraits are found 

 in the March issue. They show the ven- 

 erable Pontiff in the grounds of the Vati- 

 can, passing along his favorite walks and 

 drives, attended by his secretary, guards, 

 or members of his household. The pict- 

 ures are exceedingly interesting in show- 

 ing the Pope as he lives at the Vatican, 

 and his surroundings, and are doubly 

 valuable because they are the first pictures 

 that have been made of the Pope in a 

 great many years. 



"What it means to be a Wife." by 

 Helen Watterson Moody, is one of those 

 common-sense articles that it does one 

 good to read. She does not give any 

 rules on ''how to manage a husband" as 

 she claims (with truth) that a man who 

 can be managed is not worth writing 

 about. 



MOCLTJRE'S MAGAZINE. 

 The March McClure's is an unusually 

 good number 01 a magazine that never 

 fails to supply something out of the ordi 

 nary. An account of Tripler's invention 

 and process for reducing ordinary air to 

 a liquid of such wonderous potency that it 

 may displace steam and electricity and 

 supply, at next to no cost, all the force re- 

 quired in all the mechanical operations of 

 life, brings us to the "edge of the future'' 

 with a sweep that takes one's breath. 

 Somewhat the same palpitant expectancy 

 is raised by Lieutenant Peary's account of 

 his plans and hopes for the new explora- 

 tion for the North Pole, in the prosecution 

 of which he is now established somewhere 

 in the vicinity of Lincoln Sea, 82 or 83 de- 

 grees north latitude. No less interesting 



