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MAGAZINE NOTES
In the Magazine for August, 1898, appeared
an article written by J. F. J. Archibald, giving
an account of "The First Engagement of
American Troops on Cuban Soil." Accompanying
it was a portrait of the author with his
arm in a sling from a wound received in the
fight. Mr. Archibald also wrote an account
of The Day of Surrender
at Santiago." He is now
with the Austro-German
army at the front, and an
article by him will appear
in the March number, on
"The New Conditions in
War." The motor and
the aeroplane have transformed
everything. Mr.
Archibald has only praise
for his treatment by the
German authorities.
Mr. Archibald has certainly
had an adventurous
career. He was with the
Boer army in South Africa,
in the Philippines, in the
Russian-Japanese War,
with the French in Morocco,
the Turks in Albania,
with Castro in
Venezuela. Wherever
there is fighting going on,
or the prospect of fighting
or of international complications
that may lead to
war, Mr. Archibald is always on the spot. He is
the friend of great military leaders—has access
apparently to the inner circles of diplomacy.
There will be four exceptionally interesting
short stories in the March SCRIBNER—
Katharine Holland Brown's "Alice's Child," a
story of mother love, of heroic and loyal devotion;
"The Shunway," by Armistead C. Gordon,
author of "Maje," the story of a wandering
negro, of Ommirandy, and Mars' Jeems;
" The Border-Land," by Francis Parsons, a new
name in the Magazine, a story of the Mexican
border with a most interesting psychological
problem; and "Pal," by Lloyd Dorsey Willis,
also a new writer, and secretary to Charles S.
Whitman when he was District Attorney.
The story of a dog who re-enlisted, a fire-dog,
one who loved to run with the machine and
chum with the horses.
"He is the hero-King, not merely of Belgium
but of Europe," are the closing words of Deme-
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Correspondent
trius C. Boulger's article in the March number
on "King Albert of the Belgians." It is a
young kingdom, only eighty-four years old, and
King Albert is the third of its rulers. Mr.
Boulger is the author of "The History of Belgium,"
"Belgium of the Belgians," etc. He
presents a most attractive picture of the man
whose country's misfortunes
and bravery have
enlisted the sympathies of
the world. King Albert
has shared the fortunes of
war with his men. These
sentences will summarize
the author's idea of his
character:
"But the King is something
more than a hero,
or, rather, he was something
great before he had
the chance of proving himself
a hero. He was a man,
honest and straight as a
die. In this age of calumny
no one even dared
to cast a stone at him."
James F. J. Archibald,
for SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE with the Austro-
German army.
The March instalment
of Mr. Galsworthy's novel,
"The Freelands," opens
with a beautiful description
of young Derek's
climb up the Malvern Hills
and the coming of the dawn. This young
iconoclast and his sister Sheila promise to stir
up the whole countryside. The New York Tribune
considers the story of the first importance.
"A new fictional study of contemporary England
by this gifted observer and finely trained
artist is as important a literary event as can be
expected from his country's pens nowadays."
Among the illustrations for the article by
Colonel Goethals will be four full-page reproductions
of the great mural paintings by W. B.
Van Ingen for the new Administration Building
on the Isthmus. They were exhibited in
New York at the Lotos Club recently and were
praised for their truth and grasp of the large
aspects of the wonderful scenes along the Canal.
Birge Harrison, N. A., the well-known painter,
in an article on "The New Art in America "
says some things about the jury system that
will, to say the least, be considered somewhat
sensational.