The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-26
Literary.

LITERATURE, Alden's new illustrated
weekly Magazine, is certainly one of the
brightest and most readily of the liter.
airy papers-of course it is the cheapest,
for Alden publishes it; S1.0O year; spec
linen copy free. Especially interesting
papers in the last issue are Lew Wander.
poole on Romance in Fiction Frederick
Hastings on John Ruskin's Forge, and
Edmund Gosse on IIenrick Ibsen, the
Scandinavian poet, which is accOmpan-
led by fine portrait. 1t is good paper
for every home library. John b. Alden,
Publisher, 1893 Pearl Street, New York
Among the notable articles in The Lii
brary Magazine for May, are the follow
ing The Negro Question in the United
States, by George W. Cable; the fourth
of series of scholarly articles on Post
Talmudic Hebrew Literature, by DR..
Bernhard Pick the article on Hans
Sachs, the cobbler-poet of Nuremburg,
from the Westminster Regie,c, is very
curious. Cardinal Manning's Plea fol-
the Worthless, is very timely, and worth
universal reading. Miss Frances Power
Cobbe discusses the Education of the
Emotions" and opens up a suggestive
train of thought as also does the paper
on Domestic Service and Democracy"
The editorial miscellany entitled Cur
rent Thought" is unusually full and in
teresting. The issue contains 1876 pages,
in large type; an extraordinary amount
of high-class literature for the price OF
$l.0O year, or 10 cents copy. John B.
Alden, Publisher, 1893 Pearl Street, New
York.
The NOVELIST, Alden's new weekly
Magazine, which is devoted entirely TO
American fiction, is remarkably attract
i've and popular enterprise. The first
completed story is Robert Tnsols. A
Pessamist, an uncommonly bright, read
able sstory, making about 200 pages
which is sold in paper for Is cents, or in
cloth, 80 cents, postpaid. 1t would not
be easy. to name novel in which the
conversation has so much wit, humor
and clever badinage, sustained through.
out with such unilagging vivacity
There is not single dull page in the
book. Moreover, it has-what was so
much desiderated by Charles Darwn-a
good ending. The hero is thoroughly
cured of his pessimism. John b. Alden,
Publisher, New York.
The Kalevala, the great national epic
poem of the Finlanders, which Max
Muller in his Lectures on The Science
of Language places by the side of the
Had of Homer, is now for the first time,
in complete form, translated into Eng
fish, the translator being DR.. ]. NJ. Craw.
ford, of Cincinnati. 1t is shortly to be
published in two octave volumes, the
poem being great in magnitude NEARLY
$4,000 ines) as well as in character.
Apart from the literary merit of the
poem, which is pronounced by all critics
to be extraordinary, it has a curious fas.
cination for American students of poetry
because it is seen, as IN mirror, the in.
SEPARATION which enabled Longfellow to
produce his famous Indian Edda, lila
watha." Indeed, because of the close
resemblance in many points, Longfellow
was by some critics, upon the appear
ance Of IIiawatha, charged with plagar-
ism, though his friends claim that he
made no more than legitimate use of the
literary material which the study of the
language and mythology of the Firms
gave him. The present. edition will fol
the first time give curious readers the
opportunity of personal investigation
and should the points of similarity
extend so greatly as 10 comprehend
popularity" also, the translator will be
able lc reap small fortune. 1t is to be
published by John i. Alden, New York
and Chicago.