St. Paul daily globe., 1890-12-01
Literary Notes,

The prettieSt calendar which has
! come to the notice of the GLOBE is the
'All Around the Year." issued through
| the Northwest News company, st. Paul.
| by Lee Il Shepard, Boston. 1t is printed
| OIL heavy cardboard, with chain, tassel
and rings. In addition to the calendar
| for each month each each card contains
a charming design and an appropriate
sentiment in delicate tints and colorS.
The designs are mostly of chubby chill
dren in various scenes, drawn i'll the pict-
ureSque style of the artist, and, alto
gether, it is the handSomest and most
delicate calendar yet offered. The cards
are tastily tied with white silk cord,
and chain attached, by which they
may be hung on the wall or elsewhere,
and are so arranged on rings that they
may be turned over like the leaves of a
book as each month shall be needed for
reference.
The J. G. Cupples Company, of Bos-
ton, will soon issue very dainty holi-
day book entitled ''Aunty's Elhn
Land" 1t is collection of fairy
stories; or rather, the combined his
tories of three children who had most
strange adventures in the lard of 1.-THE
little folk" they are written by Mrs.
Maria Hildreth Parker. and are illus
trated by Hermann ID. Murphy. The
book will commend itself to those who
are in search of holiday gifts for
children who have Outgrown the jingle
of nursery rhymes. Mrs. Parker is the
widow of Col. j. Nj. G. Parker, for many
years prominent citizen of New
Orleans, and is the SiSter-in-laW of Gen.
B. F. Butler.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's "Remi-
niscences'' of her late husband. which
she is now writing, has been purchased
by the Ladies' Home Journal, CT Phila-
Ce pha, and the articles will Shertly he
9Th iii that periodical. Ine series will
have Tor its title MIR. Beecher as l
Knew Him." and will cover the entire
period of his fifty-seven years of mar
ried life, from young Beecher's first ac-
quaintauce with his wife, his college
life, their cOurtShip and marriage, his
flrSt public speech, the first year of mar
rled life with an income of $500, and so
all through the great preachers life un-
til his later triumphs, his last sickness
and days, and his death.
The steadily growing demand for the
''Appeal to Pharaoh" has determined
the publishers (Fords, Howard IL HUI
bert, of New York; to issue an edition
in paper covers, and to announce the
name of the author, who is Carlyle Me
NIFTY, dl 6uilOIldl WTltCF OH IUG
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier.
The main features of this remarkable
little book are: Its clearneSS and simple
strength of style, its able grouping OF
historical elements. and its exceeding
SuggestiveneSs and power to stimulate
thought on the subject of which it
treatS-the Importance of which can
hardly be exaggerated.
If any one needs to be put in a proper
frame of mind for thoroughly enjoying
Thanksgiving, he should read the double
Thanksgiving number of 1.-The Youths
Companion" which is just out. From
the artistic cover in three colors to the
children's page, it abounds with season.
able things. including no less than seven
complete stories, one of which was
awarded fve-hundred-dollar prize in
the recent competition.
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson has writ
ten all elaborate essay on The PhiIoso-
ply of Fiction in Literature" in which
the principles of the nOvelist's art are
examined in detail. while especial at
tentlOn is paid to the consideration of
the moral aspects of the novel and of its
influence for good or evil. The book
will be published shortly by LoDgmans.
Green u Co.
A very correct and interesting sketch
of W. j. Dyer, of st. Paul, appears in
the special number of Freund's Music
and Drama of Nov. 8.