The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-11
LIteralv Notes.

The next number Of tine Publications oil
The American Academy OF Political and So
cial Science Will be distinctly "A foreign one
Three Of the leading articles are by foreign
scholars. The first hy Professor POchm-Ba.
werk. on the Austrian Economist, contains
al ccaunt OF the recent work by the new
school in Austria. Professor Rtchie. OF
oxford, England, aud Professor ASHLEY, Of
Toronto, Canada. also contribute ysluale ar
ticles.
Those who delight in puzzling over curl
Gus condolences, says the January Book
Buyer. will lind an interesting subject in
three Of the December magazines. For the
Christmas number of Scribner, Harper and
! The Century contain each story In which
a person with the unusual name OF spur
lock figures.
Among the contributors 10 the January
number OF the Ladies. Home journal are
Henry NJ. Stanes. DR.. Oliver Wendal
Holmes, ex-President Hayes, the Hon. John
Wannamaker, Joseph Jefferson, the Hon.
| Hannibal Hamlin, Nine. Albani. james
| WhitcOmb Riley, and General Lew Wallace.
Grace DEMO Litchield, the author OF the
charming story Of childhood. Little He ard
she" is a sister Of Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull,
who endowed the Turnbull Chair OF Litera-
ture in Johns Hopkins University, and VINO
il herself writer. Her novel, The CathO-
ic Man" was issued last spring.
Charles Egbert Craddock's new novel,
In the stranger Peoples Country" be-
gins in Hsrper's Magazine for January,
The scene OF inc story il located in the
ueighbOrhOOd Of one Of those strange burial
grounds of the fsr-tamed pigmy jewellers Of
Tennessee, Familiarity known among the
mountaineers as 1.-THE loetle stranger peO-
PIE"
Cardinal Gibbons, Dr. Mary jacob, DR..
Osler (phy in chief Of Johns Hopkins
uOspitsD, Miss Thomas Dean OF Bryn-
Mawr), aud DR.. Folsom, Of Boston, all take
part in most interesting series Of open
letters to be published in the February Cen
fury on the opening OF the Johns Hopkins
Medical School to women.
DE-. William j. Rolfe appears in the JAN
uary number of the North American Re
view AZ "A Witness for William Shake
speare" He is chiefly occupied in refu-
ting the points made by the Hon. lgnatius
DOnnelly in the article which that gentle
man contributed to the December number
Of the Review.
Alice Wellington Rollins is writing out
her experiences among the Brazilian
tropics apd in Alaska, and Trey will be
published in a serie. Of articles to be called
From Palm TO Glacier"
\ paragraph being widely circulated
speaks OF the father Of Miss Sarah Orne
Jeweit ~ Il marine sea captain. The fact
10 that tue authoress's father was physi-
clan and surgeon well known in Maine. at
one line Professor in he Medical School
OF that State. Ii was his character which
gave Miss Jewett the original for her story
of The Country Doctor"
new magazine is in contemplation, TO
be started in New York next spring. the
editorship to be under Mrs. May Riley
smith.
Hon. 5. G.. w. Benjamin, eI-Minlster 10
Persia, now resides on staten Island, n. Y,
and divides his time between bis studio and
his writing-desk. Painting is his prefer
ence and pleasure, writing vocation. MIR.
Benjamin is now engaged upon three pieces
of literary work, two brief histories OF Per-
sia, aud the third an ambitious work upon
which he has already spent several wears
of labor. Mrs.. BENJAMIN IL even more
literary in her tsstes than 10 her husband. |
and il now writing an Oriental romance. |
Her published volume OF essays has gone
ntO a second edition.
hrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton Is In the
heart Of England, writing out her "Remi. |
10 be published In book form |
whsn completed.