Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-05
LITERARY NOTES.

G. p. Putmans Sons New York; have
issued as No. II of the Travellers Series, .
Pictures and Legends from NOrmany ana
Brittany. 1t is written by Katherine ana
Thomas Macquoid, and is fully illustrated.
1t contains 320 pages of the old legends OF
Normany and Brittany written up in the
most attractive style, Among some OF the
legends are the "Beton Fountains, y A hunt
for white Bread" A Breton Beggar story,
The Two NeighbOrs of Quimper, The Story
of the Miller and his Lord. The Legend OF
the Rocking Stone of Treguire, The Story
of Bisclarvret, The Duel between Guescllr
and Canterbury, St. Roman and the
Dragon, A waif of the woods. Price 60 cts.
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The September number of the Southern
BirOudc louisville, Ky.,) opens with the
second and concluding paper by +. g.. dc
Fontaine OH the "Bombardment OF Fort
Sumter" The second article is by Joe
Benton, so well known as a magazine VIII
ter, and is devoted to "A Half-torgotter
Poet" William Shenstone. Henry Cleve'
land Wood contributes Il striking story al
the Mountain Still, " which deals with the
m%outaineers of Eastern Kentucky. vii
Wallace Harvey has a poet tribute to a
Fl. Hayne, and Mrs. Margaret }. Preston
has an article of some length on the Poet
of the South. Mrs. Preston writes OF Haync
with sympathy and rare discrimination,
and produces the most interesting and Valu'
able article OH Mr.. Hayne which has yet
appeared.
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Among the choice contributions in the
September Vide Awdke (BOstOh: ID. La
| throp IL Co. is u very strong and in
teresting Fro~ntispiece by Sandman which
illustrates Il Mexican poem by +. j..
Stealey, entitled "Los Companeros." The
opening story, Il spirited piece of work, by
G. Hamlen, when Book Meets Book, y is
a salutary tale to be read by both children
and their parents. Hon. $. s. Cox, U. S.
Minister to Turkey, contributes n long and
racy article upon "L'Eniant Terrible
Turk" which is fully illustrated from
Turkish photographs. Folio wing, and in
contrast, is a long and dainty Irish ballad
by Mrs. S. NJ. b. Piatt, written at the U.
S. Consulate at Queenstown, narrating q
romantic incident which lately occurred
on Queenstown Beach; it is entitled '"Three
Little WOuld-be Emigrants," and has five
full. page illustrations by Hassam.
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In the War Seriels of the September Cen
tury: New York a fertile subject lending
itself to rich illustrations is introduced by
! General Alfred PleasontOn'S Success and
| Failures of Charlottesville" 1t was I'M
der General P~leasontOn's orders that Major
Keenan's famous charge was made, and
under his direction that the artillery at
Hazel Grove saved the key of HoOker's
position when Towards Eleventh Corps, as
saulted from the rear by Stonewall Jack
son, was hurled back upon the Union CEN
ter. General Howard himself writes OF
"Jackson's Attack upon the Eleventh
Corps; Colonel Huntington w. Jackson
describes ''Scdgwick's Assault at Fred
ericksburg," with the effort of RELIEVING the
pressure upon Hooker; and Samuel p.
Bates, the Union Commanders literary ex-
ccutOr, gives Rockers version of the cam
paign, in the article, "ChancellOrville Re-
visited by Hooker" In the Memoranda
on the Civil War;" Genera! X. f. ColstOn