Middletown transcript., 1888-10-25
1,,erarv and JournaIistic.

Literary ana JOurnaAA6tAC'
Yachtmen, and lovers of boating gen.
orally, will find agreeable reading IN
Hasper's Magazine for November, in
paper entitled "Boats on the Tagus," by
Tristram Ellis. They are picturesque
enough looking craft, as the graceful IL
lustrations show; but they evidently
were not designed by Edward Burgess,
NJ. A. (Harvard, 1889. That some OF
the classes are no longer being duplicated
shows that the Portuguese fishermen are
un- English enough not to stick too mo-
del that experience has shown is not the
best.
The following is an extract from let
ter written home by Mr.. Kennan while
he was in Russia investigating the exile
system for The Century magazine:
The exile system is much worse than
supposed. Mr., IS examination OF
prisons and study of the exile system
were extreme ly superficial. cannot un-
derstand how, if he really went through
the Tiumen and Tomsk forwarding pris-
ons, he could have failed to see that their
condition and the condition of their wret-
ched inmates we're in many respects
shocking. Nobody here has tried to con-
ceal it from me. The acting governor OF
this province said to me very frankly
yesterda Y that the condition ofthe Tornsk
prison is oozhasnoi'' (awful), but that
he cannot help it. What l have
previously written and said about the
treatment OF the political exiles seems to
be substantially true and accurate, at least
30 far as Western Siberia is concerned,
but my preconceived ideas as to their
character ave been rudely shaken. The
Russian libe rails and revolutionists whom
have met here are by no means hailed
ucated enthusiasts, crazy fanatics, or men
whose mental processes it is difficult to
understand. On the contrary, they are
simple, natural, perfectly comprehensive
and often singularly interesting and at
tractive. One sees at once that they are
educated, reasonable, selfcontrolled gen.
tlemen, not different in any essential re-
spect from ones self. When I write up
this country for The Century, shall have
to take back some of the things that
have said. The exile system is worse
have described it. It isn't pleasant, Of
course, to have to admit that one has writ
ten upon a subject without fully under
standing it; but even that is better than
trying, tor the sake of consistency, to
maintain position after one sees that it
is utterly untenable.
Captious critics who have read the three
papers on 'Our Journey to the Hebrides,"
published in Harper's Magazine (the
third part in the November Number),
may be inclined to say that Elizabeth
Robins Pennell, and Joseph, her hus-
band, are little hard to suit. If it rained,
they did not like it; nor we're they pleas
ed when the sun shone hot. They grum-
bled at walking, and refused chances to
ride when opportunity invited. Still, the
Journey" has been pleasant one for
the Magazines readers, the bits of good
natured personality therein only seeming
to give it piqunacy. This last part swings
them around to Edinburgh again, after
taking them through Macbeth's country.
The illustrations, as previously, are capi-
tai, and selected with judgment.
1.-THE New York Real Estate Exchange, "
by Richard Wheatley, in Hdrper's MGgG-
zine for November, is something more
than the description ofa building and a
business. It is, to BIZ sure all that; but it
contains, besides, much information in
regard to the great landlords of New
York-a class of persons whom the most
humble of tenants has reason to be inter-
ested in. Startling figures, showing the
great increase in the price of land in New
York City, are also given. Will any one
be surprised to know that certain lots in
the business part of the town could not
be bought if they were literally covered
over with ten-dollar bills? Yet that is a
fact, ss little calculation based on Mr..
Wheatley's figures will show. The entire
article is worth the serious attention both
OF business men and students of political
economy. The portraits and other Illus
trations are admirable.
No. /, Vol IL, OF Golfers Once Week,
published October 20, promises to be a
literary marvel. Amelie Rives COM
mences a weird story, son Bones Is
land !" H. Rider Haggard begins thrill
ling serial, entitled My Fellow Labor
er." Dion Boucicault continues his tas-
cinating Irish-American novel, "Hy-
Bras-Yi;" Bill Nye will be at his best !;
Edgar Fawcett and Julian Hawthorne
contribute special papers; Marion Har-
land opens Woman's World;" Nym
Crinkle does the theaters; Miss Braddon,
author of "Lady Audley's Secret, :"
John Marchmount's Legacy" ETC., etc.,
commences serial in No 8, " 1t is Easier
for Camel" John Habberton, author OF
" Helen g Babies" contributes South
ern Sketch, "'Fo de Wah !" the famous
Maxwell Frazer, LID deliveries lec-
ture on Ambition" for /" Our Coming
Mem" and poetry, puzzles, etc., etc.,
and illustrations by Mast, Morgan. Ster-
ner, McIlvaine, Ogden, Kendrick, etc.,
etc., complete the contents of this most
wonderful seUen cents aUoTth in the
world. Who would be without Golfers
Once Week?
One small particle in the eye pains the
whole body. Use Warner Log Cabin Ex-
tract. 1t will cure many pain.