The daily gazette., 1883-07-20
LITERARY NOTES.


The Ceftny's Portrait Gallery (asthe
unending series Of portraits given In the
magazine of that name is popularity called)
has four interesting edditiops in the mid
summer numher her,-natnfly,t whose OF Daudet,
the famous Frencb novelist, and frederick
Watts, the EDgiish painter. together with
reproductions of two portraits, by Waite
himself,e1 Mus. Percy Wsndham and the
Rev. James Martneau. A new portrait OF
the poet Burns will be the ironii~pieee oil
the September number.
,-During the last year, The Century has
Published an unusual number OF original
poems. The June number had ~; the
July numbercontained as many as "a ptrces
of verse--while the August, or Midsummer
number has no less than 20 pieces, iLclud-
ing llse rhymed contributions to Bric-a- Brac.
A large proportion Of the poets here repre-
sented have not yet published their first
volumes. In order to give some OF the
younger poets a better chance OF making
their work felt, The Century has adopted
the plan Of occasionally printi' 2 groups OF
poems by single writer; at other times a
| group will be made up Of poems by different
writer's who have happened upon some
special phase of the same general subject;
as for instance, In August, thera is sea
group with an illustration by Kingsley the
ngraveT11raughtsmap-
The third paper In tho series on Southern
California, by Mrs. jackson CFH, H.") u
appear in The Century Tor August, is o
more than usual significance for desartp
tive magazine article. Mrs. Jacks MS sub
ject Is the present conditioned the MisjoL
Indians; and the story she tells OF the sys
trmatic spoiation Of thesr helpless suryiv
ors OF the Mexican dominion challenges th
lattention OF the public and especially of Tia
- in at
S has resulted in the eviction, by greedy AM
unscrupulous Americans, Of whole village
OF Indians who were ia righLiul possessio
: of the soil, Mrs. JacAson's narrative wa
c prepared in 1882, during q visit 70 tina
region, and not, as u light be thought, sing
q her appointment as Government inspectin
4 agent for these tribes; ip fact, that app1ipi
ment was the result of an interview whic
i, Mrs. jackson had with Secretary Teller,
n which he learned for the first tune, Of th
J condition of affairs now first made public
n this paper. 1t is expected that the subjet
4 will be brought before Congress at its mex
' session. tI.4
MANY people regret the fact that the trea'
4 ures otforeign literature are inaccessible t
Il them because they have not mastered for
II eign languages sufficiently TO be able
i read in the original To such people III
] Modern Age particularly recommends 1
y sell, as its able tFaDslatioBs are opening u
n rich stores of fact and fiction which hay
q hitherto Jain unexplored by the great ma
II If American reade s. The Au9usb numbe
4 for instance, contains translations from II
Y French OF Alfred de Musset and Ernest l.
I gouve, from the Italian of EdmondO d. Am
y cis and Giaeomo Leopandi, from the Germs
L of Rudolph Liudau, aud from the Russia
Of Ivan TouTgeniefi, besides the cream
( the English monthlies, and editorial con
j ment on many interesting subjects, groupc
\ under the head Of 'Sayings and Doings,
t "Books and Book Men" and "Stage az
d Studio" All this is presented in attrac III
4 orm, and at the low Price of Sl.60 p
!, year. The magazine has deservedly NJ
7 with success which is accorded to few :
: riodicals in the first year of their existenC
Y (The Modern Age Publishing Co., New Yo
q city.)