Middletown transcript., 1883-12-28
Literary and journalistic.

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THE Newman Independent, printed
at Newman, ILL.,, is a new exchange
that we are glad to get. Its paragraphic
department is in good hands.
The Chicago Sun is good paper
every day in the week, and Goodall's
paragraphs are going the rounds to be
enjoyed by millions of readers.
THE Chicago Daily Telegram has
recently come to the front among the
brightest newspapers Of the West. Its
editor, Luther G. Riggs, is an in
dustrious journalist and much of his
pen work is widely copied
THE ArkansaW Traveller, printed at
Little Rock, Arkansas, is one of the
handsomest as well as one of the best
literary journals in America. Opie
Read, the editor, not only fills two
pages of his own paper with the bright
est kind Of matter every week, but con-
tributes frequently to other leading
literary papers.
THE Yonkers Gazette has recently
enlarged itself, and now appears in a
handsome new dress of type. 1t is
good paper in every respect, and if Mr..
Holden, its editor and owner, is not
rich enough to have two cast-iron dogs
on the front porch of his country resi-
dence, his paper hasn't had the support
a gilt-edged paper deserves.
BILL NYE has decided that he can
not run satisfactorily a newspaper and
and a case of the spinal meningitis both
at one and the same time, and as he
couldn't get rid Of the spinal menin-
gifts, he has sold his interest in and re-
signed the editorship of the Laramie
Boomerang. And the Boomerang
without Nye is as gloomy as a second
hand hearse.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER in the
January Harper opens a very entertain
ing #" Drawers with humorous dis
sertation on the division Of time.
There was a time when no joke less
than nNety-fve years old was admitted
to " Harper's Drawer" except by mis-
take, but since the "new departure"
the department has contained much
that was bright and fresh.
THE January number of the St.
LOUIS Illustrated Magazine is decidedly
the best number of that always-good
magazine that has yet come before US.
1t contains fifty pages of entertaining
reading and is very tastefully illus
trated. The brightest writers Of the
West and South are regular contribu-
tors to this periodical. A specimen
copy will be sent to any one for fifteen
cents.
IN THE January st. Nicholas Louisa
M. Alcott begins her promised series OF
"Spinning-wheel Stories with sketch
of the "good old times" of seventy
years ago, showing how Grandmother
wheel spun tale of fun, war, love and
wolves, to suit the tastes of all hel
hearers. The frontispiece is by Mary
Hallock Foote, and H. II. opens the
number with a complete and timely
story Of Colorado mining life, entitled
Christmas in the Pink Boarding
house"
Harper's Magazine for January is 3
worthy sequel to the brilliant Christmas
Number of that periodical. The open
ing paper is a personal sketch Of the
poet Whittier by Harriet Prescott Spot
ford, beautifully illustrated by Harry
Fem. A fine portrait of Whittier il
the frontispiece Of this Number. The
new novel by William Black, " judith
Shakespeare is the literary event Of
the season. 1t is as mastery in define
alton of human sentiment as in its de,
scription of nature, and it has the very
atmosphere Of Shakespeare's period
1t is illustrated in Abbey's best style
One of these illustrations is printed
separately on heavier paper.
THE present year has produced q
a great mass of writings about Martin
Luther, but nothing worthier or more
interesting has appeared than an account
in the Manhattan for January Of 1.-THE
Luther Monument at Worms" by. J.
Leonard Corning, who considers it
solely as a work of art, relating some
new anecdotes concerning it. Ten OF
the statues which form part Of the
monument are superbly engraved, and
the frontispiece is mastery engraving
by Kruell, Of the portrait bust OF
Luther by Donndorf, who designed the
beautiful drinking fountain in Union
Square, New York. Henry G. Pedder
contributes a paper on Woman in
Modern Civilization, " and Anna Bal
lard writes charmingly Of = Pompei,
Past and Present. - A dramatic short
story is contributed by James Albert
Harrison, and poems by George P. La
throp, Edith NJ. Thomas, H. G. Bunner
and others. The departments of Recent
Literature, Town Talk and Salmagundi,
are well filled, and the entire number
of sterling merit, whether regarded
from a literary or a pictorial point of
view.
"Trif1es Light as Air"
AN exchange says that Judge David