The daily gazette., 1883-09-21
LITERARY NOTES.

sixth yolume,,5f the magazine. Illustrated
articles. and critical, biographical papers
give apopular look TO the number. The
portrait OF Longfellow which accompanies
Edmund G. StedmSn's admirable essay on
the poet, is Thought to be one Of the best Of
The Century series OF frontispieces. It
differs from most of the LOngfellow pOE-
traits in emphazing the serious aide of his
nature. Mr.. Stedman may be said TO apply 70
the poets works the best standard OF fcontem-i
porary Judgment. His estimate lie high, yet
discf minating, and his remarks on Longiel-
lows literary methods are of the highest
value. In different way, and with popuN
lar force and knowledge, Professor George
p. Fisher of Yale reviews the position held
in religious thought and history By Martin
Luther, after Four Hundred years" With
IL is printed copy of Lucas Cranch's wood
cut portrait, made IN 1915. Richard Grant.
Whites .s0ld New York and its Houses
e ZONE of the most Interesting
among the illustrated articles, being 3.
racy criticism OF the commercial spirit and
building taste Of he past 30 yesrs. OF strtk-i
ing interest Is his description otthe beauties
Of Ne~ York Bay, as It appeared 10 him In
youth. William H. Riieing's interesting
jaunt about London, "In the Footsteps OF
IhAekeray," describes and illustrates houses
and scencs described in 'rhackeTay's novels,
and also places Of interest like the Charter
House, where Thaekeray receive / his early
/ schooling, II. II. contributes an Illustrated
paper on the "OutdOor Industries of Callior-
| mia y and George Bird Grinuell has pracit7
cal sportsman's paDer on "Snipc shooting.
| Austin Dobeon follows his important paper
| on the engraver Thomas Bewick (the Sep
tember Century, 1922 with a sketch OF
THE Pupils of Thomas Be Sick," illustrat-
| ing the text with copies OF the best eugrav.
l H., RfFN lac ,LaTp
Landells and Hole. w. j. SfillluaI 3
characteristics of ondon," aud the paper
of an anonymous Foreigner In Florence, I"
| succeed In making travei picturesque with
| out the aid of pictures. In the third
part of the "BreHd winners. the anonymous
| novel which is attracting 20 much attent on.
there is the novelty OF two loye scenes, iu
which the hero is doubly embarrassed hy q
declaration sf love from Maud, and subse-
| qurntly by the coldness with which Alice
| receives his own proposal Mr. Howells
brings "a Woman's Reason' to an effective
conclusion. Through Warerspout aud
| Typhoon," by James u. Waitt, is a story OF
The tropical seas, OF graphic and realistic
power. The poetry OF the number is con-
[ributed by Roger Riordan, l.. Frank Tooker,
Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, Edna Dale; aud In
"Brie-a-B Brac," by Richard A. jackson and
others. "Topics OF the Time" discusses
THE Democrats and the Presidency, ,""Law
and Order Leagues" !" 1.-THE Lack of Earnest
ness in American Politics" and Professor
Jevons on Education; while "Open Let
ters" contains short articles of interest and
importance, including Charles Dudley War
| ner ON "a New Interpreter of Greek Art, "
namely, Dr. Charles Waldstein, a young
American who is lecturing at Cambridge
University, England: Henry Irving's Stage
Management" by Walter Herries Pollock;
"Some Of the Young English POets-E. W.
Gosse and Andrew Lang; Tame Butter
lies," by E. Brghtwen; The Southern
Novelists," by T. b. Dorsey; "a Recent De
eision on the License Question:" by Z. v
Smalley; ''Chiei Justice Taney In Relation
to the Dred Scott Case" by j. A. Walter
and Courtenay De Kalb; and "The John
Brown Raid" by s. II. Brown.
The North ADlericdH RevieV for October
presents amost attractive table OF contents
senator n. P. Hill writes of "Gold and Sill
yer Standards OF Value" and maintain
: that sill er should be coined as well as gold
, not for the purpose OF Initiating the currency
r neither in the il terest OF the silver -minin
q | Industry, but for the broader and NOR
equitable purpose of preserving uniformit
in the value OF metallic money
e and of preventing such contrai
! tien OF the volume OF money as would prC
f duce financial disaster. In "Some Aspect
Of Democracy In England" A. V. Dice
makes clear to the American reader how
J is that, while all tine forms of monarchy an
, aristocracy persist In Britain, the DemC
: cracy, or, In other words, public opinion
absolutely controls the action of the govern
ment. Under the title of "Co-operatiy
Distribution" the kev. DR.. Heber New to
gives an instructive historical sketch OF tn
J rise, progress and fluctuations of co-opers
/ tive merchandising in the United State
during the past fifty years. PrOfe,
,or w. Boyd Daw kins writes of Earl
: Man in America" whose mode of life an
U whose implements appear to have been ideI
e tical with those OF the races that contempt
J., raneously Inhabited the Mediterra anea
h countries, the Nile basin, and the trOpic
forests OF India The possibility of "Astrt
i nomical Collisions" whether of the fxe
4 stars with one another, or the comets wit
t the sun, the earth, or the other planets,
= considered oy Prof. G. A. Young Moncu
ID. Conway dscourses learnedly and at u
same time most entertainingly upon Il
II Saint Patrick Myth" Van Buren, De
1t slow, In an article Oh "Board OF Trade Mo
y atty" makes vigorous defense of Il
practices OF the Corn Exchange, ar
"a 10 particular replies to the structures II NJ
Henry d. Lloyd, contained in the Revk
for August. Frederic Harrison contrinut
II an article, invaluable TO the histories
e student, on "Histories of the French Rev
d luton" Finally the Rev Z. 4. Hale or
=. sents an inventory Of the volume and dist
= button of "Social Forces in the Unit
Il States" Publiste ed at 80 Lafayette Plac
Ut New York, $500 year, 50 cents numbt
o.