The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-09
LITERARY AND PERSONAL
WHAT THE MAGAZINES CONTAIN
THIS MONTH.

Literary and Personal Gossip Picked
Up From All Quarters, Chie-Chat
for Summer Weather.
Mrs. Cleveland declares that base-
ball IL her favorite sport.
| Roger @. Mills has passion for
the collection of old walking canes.
| Mrs. Walter @. Gresham is slight,
delicate woman, full of nerve and fire.
Senator Hiscock reads every new
American novel as soon as published.
Ben Butler has left Boston in the
i yacht America for his annual summer
cruise.
| Miss Edmunds, the daughter of the
Senator from Vermont, is an accom-
plished artist.
Mrs. Cleveland wears q Gainsbor-
ough hat of black leghorn in her af-
ternoon drives.
Laurance Barrett's daughter Ger
trude 10 to wed Miss Mary Anderson's
brother Joe.
Miss Amelie Rives received 81 900
from Lippincotts for her novel, "The
Quick or the Dead"
Mrs. johnson, who as Harriet Lane
was mistress of the White House dur
ing the term of her uncle President
Buchanan, has been paying visit to
Washington.
DIR. Richard NJ. Gatling, the inven-
tor of the famous "Gatling battery
gum" was born in Hertfold county,
North Crrolins, and is nearly seventy
years old. He has constructed anoth.
er gun thxt will shoot 1 900 times 3
minute and in any direction. He lives
in New England.
| Chief Justice Fuller has leased for
term of years handsome residence
in the suburbs of Washington. As he
is the proud father of eight daughters,
all of whom are either grown or nearly
so, he will be quite an acquisition to
the social circles of the capital. He is
said to have a weakness for whist and
the opera.
BARLEY Campbell, successful
American playwright, is dead. He
was bora in Pennsylvania in 1843,
and was connected at one time with
the Louisville Courier Journal: His
plays were Through Fire." "On the
Rhine" "My Foolish Wife," GA
Heroine in Rags" "Van, the Virgin
ian," "Clio,'' "The Galley Slave"
Fairfax" "My Geraldine" "The
White Slave" and others.
1
Clifford Lanier, brother OF the
Georgia poet, the late Sidney Lanier,
has just published story called "The
Mates Race with the Banshees.' 1t
will be remembered that Sidney La
nier's first published volume was a
novel called "Tiger Lilies" The La
niers are OF Huguenot extraction and
seem to possess literary7and musical
talents of y high order.
The Eclectic for August has able aud
interesting articles from such leading
British Reviews and Magazines as
Fortnightly, National, Contemporary,
Gentleman's Magazine, Blackwood,
Temple Bar, and Universal Reuiew.
Price SIS a year; single number As
cents. E. r. Pelton, publisher, Is
Bond street, N. 7.
The Schoolteacher CIV. A, Blair and
III. L. Atkinson. Eds. aad Pubs.,
Winston, N. Co. for July contains
the charming inaugural address OF
Prof. E. A. Alderman at Morehead in
June. Among the contributed arti-
cles the most noteworthy is, "Will
National Aid to Education Injure the
: South" by Rev. A. ID. Mayo The
Sehoolteacher is always neat, live and
progressive.
Professor Woodrow Wilson, recent
ly elected to the chair of historical
and political science at Wesleyan Uni
yersity, is we'll known as the author
of an admirable treatise on ."Congres-
sional Government" based Oh the
, lines of Bagehot's celebrated work
Prof Wilson is son of Rev. DIR. Jos
r. Wilson, who occupied Presbyte
rian pulpit in Wilmington for several
years
The Forum has the following arti
cles: The Trial of Popular Govern.
! msnt, Judge james NJ. Love; Must
, Humanity Starve at Lasts Edward
: Atkinson the Topography Of the
Brain, DIR. j. II. Charcot What Shall
the Negro Do? George w. Cable
/ Sources Of National Thrift, Judge
VIM. d. Kelley; Shall Railway Pool
ing be Permitted? G. r. Blanchard
J. Our Barbarous Funeral Customs, Rev
John Snyder; Church Rule in Utah
p Charles w. Penrose What Shall the
Public Schools Teach? Prof S. E
Warren; The Faith Cure Delu sion
Deonard Woolsey Bacon Ia Longev,
ity Worth its Price DR.. Felix 9. o.
valid. Price $5 year. Pubiishd a
. 253 Fifth avenue, New York.e
.Scribaer's Magasine for Angus
has contents as follows: Lower Fall
A and Canon of the Yellowstone. From
4 tispiece Rivers and Valleys, by N. s
Shaler, with illustrations from photo
Il graphs, drawings snd diagrams OFT.
the knight, by Octave Thanet; Mid
simmer Night, by A Lampman
= American Locomotives and Cars, BY
81. N. Forney. Illustrsted from draw
. ings from old prints, drawings, ane
} photographs furnished by the author
Fair Day, by Sarah 0rne Jewett
n The Immortal Word, by Helen Graz
l. Cone; First Harvt Chapter
IXXIV.-XXVI. by j. F. Stimson