The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-01-26
LITERARY NOTES.


Our Little Men and Women.
The aim Of this magazine is to interest
children just at the time they begin to
read for themselves and lead them along
for year or two with pictures and stor-
les and pleasant tasks so pleasant as to
make them forget the task part alto
gether.
The following outline includes the
larger topics Of the year:
Pocahontas teaches a little early
American history through the year.
A French story, Susanna's Auction,
full of amusement.
A story a month entitled Laura's Hol-
idays suggests to other little girls what
they can do on holidays.
A story month on Tiny Folks in
Armor; which means beetles.
A flower poem in every number.
Bufy's (six) Letters to his Mistress.
Buffy is coon-cat.
Six Mexican stories on Little People
of the Plaza also about some Mexican
animals.
Besides there are many, too many
to tell of, stories short and bright
and unexpected.
With all this entertainment OF picture
and humor there is serious purpose all
through implied in the name, Our Little
Men and Women. 1t is to teach and lead
the children to take reading for profit |;
but pleasure comes first as it ought.
A dollar year. Five cents fora sam.
pie copy. D. Lothrop Company, pub
fishers, Boston.
1t is only within a few years, compar-
lively, that Socialism has had firm
hold in the British capital, and for that
reason information in regard to its exact
condition has been hard to get. J. H.
Rosny's article on Socialism in Lon
don," in the February number of Har.
per's Magazine, is therefore an important
contribution to the literature Of the day.
Its contents will probably surprise the
pessmistic observer who confidently ex-
poets to see that great city presently
handed over to the mob Of Disconnected
and Unemployed. The forces of the So
cialists in London, however, are by nd
means contemplate, and are likely to
occupy fully the time of the British
statesmen just as soon ss the Irish ques-
ton is closed. A delightful feature of
the article consists Of the sketches by
Frederick Barnard.
Apropos of the recent agricultural de-
velopment in northeast Alabama, the
Democrat, (Guntersville, Ala, } has issued
an attractive supplement showing the
wonderful resources of that favored Sec
tion. Copies sent free on application.
"Ramblings in the Far West" by the
late General Randolph B. Marcy, and
"On the Outposts-l7s0," by Edmund
Kirke, in Harpsrs Magazine for Febru-
ory, seem to be preparatory articles to
Mr. Charles Dudley Warmers series on
"The Great West," to begin in the
March number. General Marcy exper-
fences are tales of adventure most capti.
waiting to read, and hard to believe when
one glances at the cities and towns which
dot the vast stretches of country that .
few years ago were boundless prairies or
bowling wildernesses.
The high promise with which tho
Atlantic Monthly began the current year
il we'll sustained in the February mum.
Der. A most important crisis il reached
in the fresh and fascinating story by z.
H. House, entitled "Yone Santo: q
Child of Japan" several characteristic
chapters are added by Charles Egbert
Craddock to his "Despot of Broomsedge
Cove" and the serial by Mrs. Oliphant
and Mr.. Aldrich, "The Second Son, "ois
concluded in this issue. Among the
prose articles those on "The Medea of
Euripides," by William @. Lawton, and
on 'The Marriage Celebration in Ed
rope" by Frank Gaylord Cook, are par
ticularly valuable. George Parsons
Lathrop contributes an interesting and
critical article on "Georgs Meredith"
and James Breck Perkins an essay ON
"Madame Necker." A clean-cut bird
sketch, entitled "The Blue-Jay," IL fur
nished by Olive Thorne Miller. All Of
the above articles are excellent; yet A.
tention il more likely to be turned TO
this number Of the Atlantic on account
Of the notable poetical contributions
which it contains. First among these,
"Endymion," . poem of Ave pages by
James Russell Lowell, which he him
self describes as"A Mystical Comment
on Titan's Sacred and Profane Love-"
deserves especial mention, - one Of Mr..
Lowsll's most striking poems. "Ths
Gift Of the Fatss," BY Paul Hsrmss,
merits and will receive warm commend
alton, - an unusually powerful produc.
ton and the brisier poems "At Glib
raltsr," by George =. Woodberzy; "No
songfn Winter" By 7. B. Aldrich ;
and "Carnations In Winter" BY Blim
Carman, are literary jewels. This NUM-
bsr carries in addition to the abovs tho
usual number Of book reviews, notices
Of usw books, and the OontEibutors'
O1nh. H0uShton. Niflin ACo- Borknn.