Telegram-herald., 1891-08-24
LITERARY PABULUM.

The September number of the Arena
will contain very timely paper in
view OF the great agitation now in
progress at Chautauqua on the sub
iect of woman's dress. This paper,
which IS entitled FASHIONS Slaves"
is prepared by the editor and profusely
illustrated, containing exact repro
ductions of prevailing fashions in the
sixties, seventies, and eighties. togeth-
er with finely executed photographers
OF Greek costumes and popular stage
fashions as worn by Modjeska, Mary
Anderson. Maigarc, Mather. and Miss
Marlowe This paper will attract
general interest.
Saws the Woman's Journal, OF Bos-
ton. in an able review of Hamlin Gar
lands "Maintravellcd Roads," If The
Farmers Alliance and the managers of
the Peoples party should print and
circulate n million copies OF this book
throughout the West and South, they
would break up the old party lines and
sweep those sections at the next Pres
idential election"
MIR. Benj. r. Tucker. of Boston, will
publish very shortly Russian Traits
and Terrors: A Faithful Picture OF
the Russia of Today" by f. Il. Lanin
Ga collective signature, employed by
several contributors to the fort
nightly Review. This work out
Kennans Kennan in its description OF
the atrocities practiced by the Rus
sian government. and includes the ode
written by Swinburne in Justification
General Buffers forthcoming book
will be one Of the largest historical
aut ever published. 1t
will contain one thousand large pages,
printed upon high grade paper and
sllustrated with several hundred wood
engrvings. 1t will be published In
English. German and French. The
best artists are now employed on the
work. The Dickinson Type Foundry
is casting type especially for 1t. The
typograph and press-work VIII be
by the Barta Press OF Boston, the first
edition TO be not less than one hundred
thousand. probably double that num-
ber. The publishers are A. III. Thayer
& Co.. OF Boston.
The stories in the September Scrib-
ner are by Thomas Nelson Page, who
tells pathetically. In Run to Seed y
Of n Southern family OF high degree,
impoverished by the war; Captain
Joe and jamie" sketch OF n great
fhood-tide on the Tantramar Marshes:
and the continuation OF "The Wreck
er," the new story by Robert Louis
Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, which
grows in interest and fun with each
instalment.
The exciting events I'm the yacht
ing world. and the keen popular in
rerGst shown this season I'm the no
BILE sports. make the paper on New
York Yachts and Yaeh smen,' in Frank
Lesbos Popular Monthly for Scptem-
ber. peculiarly interesting and timely.
The Illustrations include some spirited
views OF the wonderful new Herreshofi
yacht Gl0riand. and n fine portrait
OF the late Edward Burgess. the la
mcTstel designer Of the Queens Cup
Offenders. etc. This number OF the
magazine also contains Illustrated ar
ticles upon the Mare Island Navy Yard
by Ensign J. NJ. Ellicott. Under Four
Flags'' (oId Cahokia.) by NJ. &. vii
Iiams: Through Central Asia In War
Time. - by David Ker; "The Short and
Simple Annals of the Poor" by n. V =.
Evres: 'sFeathered Gems (Humming
pirdS1 hv Nellie Hart Woodwork.
-he conclusion Of Scott Campf-nTl's
serial. John Maggs. barbarian" etc:
tcsa~S ipr with numerous short stories
ekestrhes. literary and scientific mis-
ralfaDv and popms.