Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-01

Scribner'S Magazine is going to have
series of papers on Japan bv Sir Edwin
Arnold. These papers begin in the De
cember number, and will be illustrated by
Robert Blum, who was sent to Japan just to
make these pictures. What an extraor
diuary enterprise that would have seemed
ten years ago! Prof. Bryce, NJ. P, will
write four articles on India. Africa is still
in the front oil interest for all of u.s. and we
are to be still further informed about it by
the man who is of all men most competent to
give us light upon that dark subject-Mr.
Henry NJ. Stanley Robert Louis Steven
son is again to try the rather hazardous ex-
pertinent of writing novel in con junction
with Lloyd OSbourne. The Wrong Box,
which they wrote together last year, was
not, as you will remember, much of a sue
cess. This time the title is THE Wrecker.
Mr.. Stevenson has gone 10 live upon an
island OF the Pacific and can study his back
ground every day. DIR. Carl Lumholtz, who
wrote Among Cannibals," has been ex-
ploring Northern Mexico, and he is going
TO tell US about the cave-dwellers. ''The
Great Streets of the World is the attrac-
tive title OF a series which is TO include
Broadway, Piccadllly, the boulevards of
Paris and the Corso in Rome. There are to
be descriptions of ocean steamships. All
this in ScribRer'S.
The Atlantic Monthly promises story by
Frank r. Stockton, and indeed begins the
publication oi it this month. THE House
Of Martha" is the title of it. Henry James,
Sarah Orme Jewett, Octave Thanet and
Rudyard hipling will write short
stories. Mr.. Percival Lowell is
10 describe his Adventures
in Japan" There are to be papers on
American biography. Johu Fiske, whose
L
forgotten in the midst OF his historical and
theological writings, is to 90 back to that old
and most attractive field, and take us
through some ''Studies in Mythology" The
essay departments OF the atlantic, in his
tory, politics and literary criticism, will be
supplied by men with well-known names.
The Century Magazine promises a series
o: articles on 1.-The Gold Hunters of Cali
fornia, to be written by the gold hunters
themselves, by the adventures, the "Argo-
nauts" of '49. That will be worth reading.
At last the Talleyrand memoirs are to be
published, and the Century Will let us see
the advance sheets. American newspapers
are TO be written up by representative
American journalists. The "Present-Day
Papers" will be continued. Edward Eggle-
stoa viii give us a novel with taking title,
The Falth Doctor" The war is not vet
over in the pages OF the Century. There are
u be descriptions of the naval battles of
1872, ana more about Lincoln, and ad-
ventures of escaping war prisoners and
stories OF Indian fighters.
The best promise which the Popular
Science Monthly makes is a series of articles
on the Development OF the Worlds Indus
tries Siuce the Time of Columbus" Cotton,
iron and steel, wool, glass, silk, paper, pot
terry. agricultural machinery and ship build
ing will be studied in these papers. 1.-The
Principles of Taxation" will be described
by Hon. David A. Wells. Bishop Potter
had good word to say the other day about
Mr. Wells He said it in his Phi Beta
Kappa Grafton at Harvard. II recall at
this moment L distinguished teacher, off,
cially connected, as 1 may not forget, with
this university, to whom not alone the sons
Of Harvard bat all patriotic Americans
will gladly own themselves as at any rate Ia
what may De called the capitalization OF
science as distinguished from unscientiic
knowledge, pre-eminently indebted, and
venture to think tnat, for a long time to
come ia both hemispheres, DR.. David A
Wells Will be recognized as, in a depart
ment o. learning fruitful in fallacies and
half ruins, a true interpreter and dssemi-
uator o! the truth" Andrew D. White
Will continue his New Chapters in the
Warfare OF Science
For the boys and girls j. T. Trowbridge
will describe in 81. Nicholas ''The Fortunes
of Toby Traford;" Noah Brooks writes
THE Boy Settlers Francis Courtnay
BaylOr's story is entitled ga Spoiled Darl-
ing" and viii have 10 be very good indeed
ii it equals Juan and Juanita" Brander
Matthews has "A Story of Buried Treasure
in the City of New York" There will be a
Talk About Reading" by Charles Dudley
Warner. Andrew Lang will reteli 'HIhe
Story of the Golden Fleece" And a great
deal else that will delight young readers
will appear.
Margaret Sidney. who has delighted so
many readers with her accounts OF the Five
Little Peppers" is to continue her history of
that interesting family in Vide A1cdke ior
1891 under the title Five Little Peppers
Grown Up" There Is to be a railroad story
by Kirk Munroe called son Time" {"
"Marietta's Good Times" is true
account, written by Marietta herself, OF
days in Italy. "Miss Matilda Archamb beau
Van Dorm" is the story OF a small girl who
belonged to an old family, land OF the great
many ways in which she tried to do them
credit" Caroline Rimmer will write OF
Figure Drawing for Children" There
will be poems and short stories, many and
good, so that the boys and girls will fare as
we'll in the magazine way as their elders.
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