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LITERARY NOTES.

ment in New York." by George Par
sons Lathrop. MIR. Lathrop is a most
competent critic, and holds well
/ earned prominence among the rank of
the writers whom he portrays. More
over, he is Il son,in-aw If Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and an example Of the
most fortunate of The literary broth
erhood. He presents very fOrcibly the
claims Of the Empire Metropolis MS IL
centre Of literary energy. Beginning
with the dawn of this century, when
Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne. Halleck,
and Willis gave Manhattan Island
an unrivalled eclat, he shows the
constant growth of that influence At
the present day its galaxy of literary
lights compares tarorably even with
the brainy city which likes to pose as
the Athenian home of literature.
Passing Bryant, Poe, Bayard Taylor,
Richard Grant White, and John &.
SAKE of the last generation. there are
no more lustrOus names on the roll of
living American authors than r. II.
Stcddard, E. g. Stedman, Joachim
Miller, Julian Hawthorne, George
William Curtis, II. h. Boyesen, Eds
yard Eggleston, John Burroughs, E.
P. Roe, Edgar Fawcett, j. B. Nc
Master, and the host Of others who
are building enviable regulations for
coming time The characteristic di>
versity Of New York productions is
explained by Mr.. Lathrop as due to
the distractions of commercial activi-
ty, to the journalistic energies of the
city, which direct large proportion
of literary force into the great maya
zines and dailies, and to the absence
of international copyright, which rem
ders it impossible for American au>
thors to receive adequate compensa-
ton for their work in competition
with the food of cheap foreign books.
One of the most interesting sections
I of the article is that unfolding the
, life and purpose of the numerous lit.
r erary clubs of New York. Fifteen
excellent portraits illustrate the arti,
Gle, and the frontispiece of the nnm,
her pictures group at the Authors
, Club.
The November issue of the South
ern Bivouac is full of articles of gen,
L eral and varied interest. The article
+ by Hugh N. Starnes. on the Rice
i Fields of Carolina" describes very
q graphically one of the most pictur-
esque features of southern agriculture
|. 1t is fully illustrated, and from either
g a literary or industrial point Of VIE
d is of more than passing value. james
= W. A. Wright contributes to the No
vember issue of the Southern Biv
ouac second paper on "War Prisons
and War Poetry" in which he give,
) a number of the songs popular during
j. the war in prison and out. Lafcadi,
d. Hearn has in the November Bivoua
,e charming character sketch entitled
O. "The Last of the New Orleans Fenc
ing masters" Thomas NJ. Boyd, VIII,
70 was cadet at the Virginia MiIilar,
'e Institute when General Stonewal
s. Jackson was professor of natura
!. philosophy and instructor in artiller,
tactics, gives in the November Biv
ouac some personal "reminiscences O
the great soldier which are Of NOR
ID than usual value il forming an esti
= mate of his character. D. B. Maye
n has story of the Revolutionary Wa
" entitled " The Two Marksmen 0
Ie Rufrs Mountain" the scene of whicl
se is in South Carolina. 1t is a vivit
s. picture of life in the hill-country a
70 that time, and will be concluded il
- December. G. e. Conner closes hi
% valuable paper on Mexico; Horace D
Warner has a short paper on 9TH
Summit of the South. and altogethe
" we have IN the November issue Ut tn
r. Southern BivOuac number of unu
" rual merit. The editors announce
J series of papers relating to what
ID called"The Northwestern Cons piracy
d. which will certainly excite profOun
q. and widespread interest. The at
at tempt to organize and arm the Con
= federate prisoners in the North cam
70 nearer success than most people in
agine, and in this attempt the COnfeC
erate commissioners bad the actiy
!, co operation of q number of vel
u known Western politicians. The tru
70 story of the conspiracy 10 now to
I'd told, and it will he substantiated b
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