Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-25
LITERARY NEWS.

Hdrpcr'S Mdgd-inC for August pre-
SCENTS literary treat of the highest
merit, one article that will probably at
trrct more attention than any other is
Clusters last battle" by Captain Charles
King. Captain King wieldS facile
pen and he is thoroughly familiar with
AN the history of that heroic contest on
the Little Big Horn, The illustrations
of the number are of the usual excel
lcncc.
The August number Of Frank LcSlic'S
Monthly contains au especially inter
eStiny scientific article on the "Seven
Wonders OF the Nineteenth Century. -
One iS the Harlem Aqueduct, another
the EifIel Tower, and the Forth Bridge,
East River Bridge, Fad JettieS, He'll
gate improvements and st. GOthard
Tunnel the others. The article Is
handsomely illustrated.
For the sake of the American author
who is now robbed, FOR the sake of the
foreign author who is now plundered,
for the sake of that vast body of people
who read books in the United States,
and upon whom we now force all the
worst and cheapest stuff that the presses
of the world pour forth, bill for inter
national copyright ought to be passed,
Most OF all. il ought TO be passed for the
sake of the country'S honor and good
name" So writes Henry Cabot Lodge
on International Copyright in the Au-
gust AuQHtic. His article is worth
studying. The Use and Limits OF Aca-
demic Culture, paper by Prof. y. ).
Shalcr. which shows the manner in
which Prof. Shaler believes the college
could be brought into closer touch with
the aims Of the ordinary student, name
~. the gaining of living, is also 4
noticeable paper of the number.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson is to publiSlrin
The Popular Science Monthly two cN-
tended and important articles on the re-
vision of the tariff, under the title
Common Sense Applied TO the Tariff
Question" In the first of these, which
opens the August MONTHLY nc shows the
Inconvenience of American legislators
and government officers i'm dealing with
financial questions. and without taking
extreme ground goes on to point out
wcighty business considerations when
should determine the direction Of tariff
reform.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Champney, who Is
now abroad. will contribute to the next
number of HGpcfS BGzGr an article de-
Scribiug her experience of Country
Life in England" The same issue OF
the BdzU will contain the second in
stalmeut Of papers ON "ENerciSe for
Women" 10y Emma Motfctt Tying the
subjects discussed being bicycles and
TricycleS.
The golden words of the greatest of
American pulpit orators, Henry Ward
Beecher. have been collected into neat
volume by Mary StorrS Haynes, and IN
troduccd 10 the public with an appro-
pirate study of Mr. Becchcr by RoSSitcr
W. Raymond. The volume has been
well called The Crown OF Life and is
issued as one of d. Lothrop Company'S
helpful Spare Minute Series.
An interesting historical paper in the
August WIDE Alr0be will be The Last
of the WampanoagS, In which Pamela
Macarthur Cole describes the Princess
Tewcclema and certain direct living de-
scendants of the old New England chief
tain. MasSaSoit.
The Chicago Daily NCcS Almanac and
Political Register for 1890 is at the same
time one of the handSOmeSt aud most
valuable of the numerous compeudiumS
of information issued by our great daily
papers.