The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

De contributed TO Dy some OF the most
lannon's writers in America, whose names
will be withheld for the present to afford
an opportunity for testing the critical in
sight of Lippincott's readers. The COM
plete novel will be entitled "The Old
Adam, and is by one of the best of Amer
lean novelists. There are two short
stories and number of essays, poems,
ETC., with a tantalizing note of interroga-
ton after their titles.
The Art Amateur for May contains a
striking colored portrait study of a
Laughing Man," three-quarters size,
and over a dozen designs in black-and
white, including a classical figure of
Fame" plate decorations fish and sea-
weed, Niphetos roses), a panel decora-
tons (fringed gentians), plaque design
birds and DEER a page of monograms (9)
six designs for doilies, and several for
wood carving. Two notable full-page
illustrations from Salon pictures are
1.-THE Poachers" dogs by Elizabeth
Strong, and Intending the Net" by Hen
ry Bacon. There are useful practical ar
ticles on landscape painting, charcoal
drawing and wood carving. and invalu-
yble hints to art teachers, china painters
and needle-workers. The illustrated Sc
ries on home decoration and furniture is
continued; the academy and American
artists exhibitions are duly reviewed !;
an exhibition of Rembrandt's etchings is
noticed and finely illustrated, and in
"My Note Book" art thieves and trick
sters ard handled, as usual, without
glover. Price 35 cents. Montague
Marks, publisher, % Union Square, New
York.
Harper's Magazine comes before the
public once more, well deserving the at
tention it will resolve. The work through
out, both literary and artistic, meets the
usual high standard demanded of this
periodical. The frontispiece is a portrait
of Kinglake, the historian of Lord Raglan
in the Crimean war, engraved from a
photograph by Kruell. The initial arti-
Gle, by R. R. Bowker, on London as a
Literary Centre" presents many interest
ing facts about the writers who have
made that great city their home The
portraits are excellent and numerous
twenty-seven of them, in fact In the
June number second paper on this sub
ject will be given, devoted especially to
novelists. "a Winter in Algiers" is a
continuation of F. A. Bridgman's article,
begun in the April number. Life, death,
marriage and divorce, not to mention
baths, food and religious worship, are
cleverly treated. In Russian Convicts
in the Salt Mines of Iletsk" Dr. Henry
Lansdell, D. D., relates his personal ex-
perience in Russia among the prisoners
confined in prison or banished to Siberia
for all kinds of alleged crimes. Mr..
Albert F. Heard contributes an article
hSoSlloiuS ~ VI ctllSSSu law anu
justice which prevails in Russia, not only
in theory but in practice to-day. The
third paper on the west by Mr.. Warner
is devoted to Chicago. The advantages
and disadvantages of that city are COM
pared, and the former are found to be so
many and so great that the latter sink
into insignifcance. From business, ar
chitectural and social point of view Mr..
Warner admires Chicago immensely. In
the article on the city of Denver, Edwards
Roberts gives full, crisply told descrip-
ton of the Queen City of the plains, with
the Rocky Mountains at her back and
the Mississippi valley at her feet. Fiction
and poetry have an honorable place in
this number. The departments show no
falling off in interesting matter. Mr..