Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-31
LITERARY NOTES
nroAnplxs sCRrBnER's MONTHLY FOR
JANUARY

Arnoros Of the new revision Of the
New testament, now ON the eve Of pub
LEGATION in this country and in Europe,
ScRIDxrR's MONTHLY will contain three
articles: ore Of these by Rev. Charles S.
Robinson, D. d., on The Bible Society
and the new Revision" in which the
record Of the society ON this whole sub
(ject is traced with some care; the second
by Prof. George p. Fisher, of Yale Col
leee, showing How the New Testament
Has Come Down t. Us" and the third
review of the revision itself, in which
the excellence and thoroughness Of the
work Of the American scholars will be
pointed out. The first appears in the
January number.
A remarkable anonymous article on
1.-THE London Theaters" will appear IN
ScRlBNER tor January. In it IS an IN
teresting criticism of Irving, Miss Terry,
the Bancrofts, the Kendals Modieska,
and others. Concerning the choice of
title for his article, the author re-
marks: 1.-The London Thesters stands
for something that may, more or less
proftably,. be talked about. but The
English Stage, Is conception so purely
Intellectual, so confined to the region
of theory, or Renaissance, or desir e,
that it cludes the most ingenious grasp.
The January number Of ScRlsxERs
will contain an account of the aims and
methods of the new Theological and
Tbermometrical Bureau recently es-
tablisbed by the Wincheter Obsel vatory
of Yale College, from careful personal
inspection on the spot. This is the FIRST
bureau of the kind established in this
country. and cannot fail to raise the
standard Of excellence in both clocks,
watches, and thermometers. The curious
machinery used to correct watches to
the tenth Of q second together with some
angular facts in the behavior and hab-
its Of thermometers, make the article
of more than usual interest to the read
or. The same number also contains
some account of Mr.. John La Fargo S
and Mr. Louis C. Tiffany's recent work
in stained glass.
Mrs. S. w. OAKLY, the author of some
old Letters in SCRIBNERs MONTHLY,
will have one or two papers in early
numbers of the same magazine, entitled
"Recollections of American Society,",
in which We have glimpses of Lafayette,
Daniel Webster and other notabilities.
The timely article on Montenegro
in ScR,BNER for December, is followed
in January by an article by the same
arfisf IN "a 1hania'
"Welsh Fairs" by Write Skies, is the
title of profusely illustrated paper in
ScRlBSEE for January.
The final installment Of the remark
ably interesting and valuble life of the
great French painter, Jean-Francois
Millet, appears in the January number
of SCRlBNERs accompnied by a full-page
portrait of Millet, by himself.
SOMETHING NEW IN MAGAZINE STORIES
A delightful feature of ScRBsER's for
this year is series of sparkling novel;
cites. or condensed novels. instead of the
usual long serial story. MrsSchayer's
"Tiger-Lily,' which was begun in No
vember, ends in the January number.
lrs. Burnett's novelette,, the story of an
American girl in England, a sort of
Daisy Miller is to b~gin in the February
Midwinter Number, with q Twenty-Five
page installment. and will run through
three issues. In May, Madame Del
phine," q story Of life in New Orleans,
by George w. Cable. begins, and this
will be followed by Boyesen's Queen
Titania, and Miss Osgood's "Toinettes
Governess