The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-25
RATES OF ADvERT1s1NG.
OUR CURRENT LITERATURE.
The March Number of the Leading
Magazines

haSdAlue IOE Marcn Isl, which contains
the last chapter of the "Clayeringsri
and the second of the story by Mrs.
Rebecca Harding Davis called wait
ing for the Verdict" The New York
Post thus speaks of the two stories: 'As
the English story thus comes to close,
zone of American life, displaying, as
1--WE think, considerably more genius,
grows ininterest, and is likely to hold
"the eager attention of the readers OF
"the GALAXY for some months. The in
'terestin9 and peculiar little market
'girl OF the first chapters has become a
maiden, and the scene has changed
''trom Pennsylvania bucalics to the
''stirring episodes of Kentucky life du-
ring the earlier part of the war"
There is no higher literary authority
in this country than the New York
Post, and this tribute is one not often
paid to authors.
The atlantic Magazine for March is
also out. An article that has interested
us not little is Parton's account OF
Chicago. He contends that the growth
of Chicago since 1888, though it strikes
every mind with wonder, is not in the
least mysterious. .'There the city
stands, at the southern end of Lake
Michigan, which gives it necessarily a
leading share of the commerce of all the
lakes, and easy access by land, round
| the southern shore of Lake Michigan,
to all the east and southeast. But there
Chicago was for thirty years without
advancing beyond the rank of an out
post of civilization, and there it might
have stood for ages in the same coudi-
tion, if the region behind it had re-
manned unpeopIed. That muddy inlet
called the Chicago river is portal to
the prairies, and Chicago has grown
with the development and accessibility
ofthat wonderful region, of which it is
the grand depot, exchange, counting
house and metropolis"
The following passages describes the
LITERATURE OF CHICAGO.
Such books, too, as the people of Chi
cago and the northwest are buying!
Already three large book-houses are
competing to supply the demand OF
this great market. The most attractive,
as well as the most promising, indica-
ton of the healthful progress of Chicago
is given in the quantities and character
OF the books offered for sale.
The book-houses, the shelves of
which are crowded with the best litera-
ture, are not exotic. They come in
obedience to the law of demand and
supply. All our leading publishing
houses have their lists of publications
completely represented, and Chicago
to New York as a distributing point.
The demand for foreign books, Ior cost
ly books, for valuable books, is very
great. You see in these large establish
ments an assortment almost as large
and valuable as is to be found in any
of our Atlantic cities. Here have been
sold over fifteen hundred sets of Apple
toms Encyclopaedia, in sixteen vol
umes; and into this market several
hundred sets of the Encyclopedia Bri-
tanica, in twenty-five volumes, worth
two hundred dollars set, have found
their way. We were surprised to find
here such works, for example, as Rob
ertson's Holy Land, the works of Sir
Joshua Reynolds. of Hogarth, -Gi1ray,
Dore, Jameson, Myriek, and many 9TH
ers, at prices varying from one hum
dred to four hundred and fifty dollars
each. We were surprised, too, to read
in Chicago newspaper the programme
of a course of twenty-four lectures to
be delivered In the French language.
Allied to the book business is the news
business, which is not the least among
the noteworthy things of this city. The
business itself is an outgrowth of the
express business, which, by its ramifi-
cations, and punctuality, has, notwith-
standing its extortionate charges, been
a great public servant. The express
has opened in almost every town, GER
tainly in almost every respectable vii
lage, news stand; and the influence of
these cheap establishments in the diffu
afr r,FH
er function, the provision of a peculiar
class of cheap literature, it Will be the
duty of some future historian to deter
mine.
Rdrper's Magazine for March con-
tains another installment of tour West
Virginia) Gen. Strother's personal
Recollections of the War" all of which
we would like to publish had we space
to spare. Another very readable and
instructive article is the sketch of Alex.
7. Stewart, the great New York mer-
chant, great in more senses than one,
as is shown by the following extract:
Accident made him a merchant
Where he was to be in connection with
an experienced business! man and to
contribute capital he suddenly found
himself principal alone, charged with
responsibility devolving on him. With
that iudomitable will and wonderful
energy which has marked his whole
life he at, once went back to Ireland,
converted into money the moderate
fortune which he had inherited, in
vested that fortune in goods-princi-
pally the laces which were manufac-
tured at and around his birthplace
and then returned to New York and
opened his store.
And in this connection may be mem
toned an incident of touching interest
one of many showing, perhaps, some
what of the Scottish blood in his veins,
which, if it rarely forgives an enemy,
never forgets a friend young lady
whose acquaintance he had made said
to him on the day preceding the open
ing of his store: 'ESou must not sell
anything on the morrow till come and
make the first purchase; for Will bring
luck.n True TO her promise, she drove
pin her carriage early in the day, and
purchased goods to nearly S200 in value;
principally of Irish laces-- Long years
passed; the lady married and removed
with her husband to a European city.
Mr.. Stewart was in that city on basi-
ness, and there learned that his first
customer was still living, but in very
reduced circumstances. Her husband
was dead, but, before his death had
squandered her fortune. Procuring
good apartments, he caused them TO be
furnished in style corresponding with
her former position in life. Then call
ing upon her and renewing his ac-
EQuaintance, and after .conversing on
I old times, and former friends askd her
to take a drive with him around the
CITY in his carriage which stood at the
s,H,Sr OF