. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. d—the timely writings which they have hadto illustrate, the journeys they have had to take, not whithertheir artistic impulses led them but whither dramatic hap-penings summoned. The militant eight of whom we ofNew York hear much—George Luks, Robert Henri, andthe rest—the latest rebels against the dictates of the Academyand, according to not negligible authority, the latest hopesfor the future of art in America—are almost withoutexception men who have done much illu
. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. d—the timely writings which they have hadto illustrate, the journeys they have had to take, not whithertheir artistic impulses led them but whither dramatic hap-penings summoned. The militant eight of whom we ofNew York hear much—George Luks, Robert Henri, andthe rest—the latest rebels against the dictates of the Academyand, according to not negligible authority, the latest hopesfor the future of art in America—are almost withoutexception men who have done much illustrating. The newer school of magazine literature has developedsomething besides the short story. It has developed whatmay be called the campaign literature of civic decency. Todo this it has, of course, encroached more or less uponthe field of the daily newspaper, but it has accomplishedits results in a way which the newspaper failed in why it should be true that the scream which passesunnoticed in the morning paper becomes a loud, insistent,thought-compelling cry in the monthly magazine, it is diffi-. GUSTAV LINDENTHAL 1 engineer; born Brunn, Austria, May 21, [850. Pursuedscientific studies at colleges in Brunn and Vienna, [864employed on surveys and construction of railroads and bridgesin Austria and Switzerland till 1874, when he came to UnitedStates; engineer I national Exhibition, Philadel- phia, 1S74 reafter consulting engineer in construction of rn railroads, with main offio gh; removed to New York City, 1892; Bridges, City of New »- 03; con imsburg bridge, and made plans for the Bl | and Manhattan bridges; was memb which planned the tunnel ania Railroad under the and East Rivers and in New York City; engineer andarchitect Hell Gate bridj st River for New York Con- necting Railroad, which, when completed, will be the longestarch bridge in the world; president North River Bridge Co.; mem-ber British Institute of Civil Engineers, American S
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