Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-12
LITERARY NOTES

Christmas stories, merry jingles, and
bright holiday articles vie with each other
in the December Brooklyn Magazine "a
Murray street, New York;. Mrs. Harriet
Prescott Spofford opens the feast with a
spfrited and delightful description OF
christmas in New England" during the
time ofSthe Puritans and now. A most
interesting article is contributed by Will
liam Perry Browne descriptive OF
Christmas in the Tennessee Mountains. I"
A new writer, Edward Irving, tells a
graphic and powerful short story, Which
Was It?" Or. Talmage has a brief and
characteristic article on Christmas Bells,
and Florence L. Snow and Sophie L.Schenck
have each Christmas story. Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher goes into retrospective
mood in After Thoughts of My Visit
Abroad" Then come articles on Meat
ness in Dress at Home" ''Gypsies as Mu-
sicians," Christmas Charity, " Seven
waysof Marrying
The December VIde Ardke (Bosto n, E.
ID. Lothrop & Co. spreads royal Christ
mas feast for its friends-gOOd things and
dainties. One of the most beautiful mod
ern paintings of The Madonna and the
Child" that famous one By Gilbert Max,
has been reproduced for the frontispieee.
A poem and a story by fayorite poet and
a favorite story-teller, open the magazine:
''In the Orphan House, "by Susan Cool
idpe, and "a Pretty Scarecrow," by Eliz-
abeth Stuart Phelps; the poem illustrated
by Dielman and the story by Hassam.
There are other delightful Christmas stsr-
les. ''The Mayors Christmas MasGue-
rade," by Mary L. wilkins, "A Wee We'd
ding" by Sophie May, and ''Tsify and
Buster, by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont
the latter a thrce-part story of the author s
famous span of Shetland Ponies, very well
known in New York City in the early days
OF the Civil War-all joyous stories.
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Quiet Observations on the Ways Of the
World, is the title of new book issued by
the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The book is col
lection of the best work of Mr.. Erasmus
Wilson whose column of "Quiet ObSerya-
tons" have been an attractive feature OF
that paper for some years. The book IS
well and tastefully bound in cloth and con-
tains II full-page illustrations by Pitts
burg artists, which admirably set of the
reading matter The work shows that Mr..
Wilson is not only quiet observer" but
a penetrating and reflective student OF
human nature who knows what he is say
inc and how to say it. He was soldier
during the Civil war and his accounts OF
some of the battles are powerful pictures.
A a. L nph ha en-
tire book and brightens up the incidents
which he relates in the most kidnly and
pleasing manner possible. Price 81 so.
Pittsburg: Dispatch Publishing Co.
Wheeling: J. B. Wilson.
The Cosmopolitan Rochester, n. W
for December, have several very intesest-
ing stories, among which are: The Cow
bows of the Northwest, by William I.
HOrnaday. The first installment OF ''SenoE
Io'' by Salvatore Farina. The other nc
ton is a powerful Christmas story, I'm
der the MistletOe" by Harriet Prescott
Spofford, "Our Door Bell" pathetic
story by NJ. Heimburg, the well-knOwn
German novelist, and Manners Cnre for
Cowardice' by Mary Rose Floyd, illus
trating one of the curious superStiti0ns OF
the Southern negroes. William NJ. Briggs
numerous description of Spanish peasant
life, entitled "A Humble Castle in Spain, "
and Nicolas Sankey's thrilling sketch,
1.-The Story of My Escape from Russian
Prison."
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The English Illustrated Magazine New
York: Mcmillan < CO.. for December,
contains quite number of choice Illus
trated stories for the holidays, among
which are "Yenice," by II. +. Brown;
''Surray Mill Wheels" by Grant Allen;
1.-The Young Princess" by George
Meredith; Like Likes Like" by ID.
Christie Murray; "In the Heart of Lon
don," by p. Rice-Jones, and "a Secret
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