The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-05
THE MAGAZINES.

Outing for November is an excellent
number throughout. Among variety
of interesting articles is one on sport in
Ontario by well-known Canadian, Ed
w. Sandys, entitled "How / Lost My
Thanksgiving Turkey"
The appearance of Mr.. Coles engrav.
ings from Michael Angeles ''Delphian
Sibyf and "Cum@an Sibyl," as the front.
ispieces of the November Century, fol
lows hard upon the award of the great
diploma of honor to the Society of Amer.
lean Wood Engravers of New York fol
their woodcuts displayed at the Inter.
national Exhibition Of the Fine Arts at
Berlin.
The Atlantic Monthly's attractions for
next year will include Marion Craw.
ford's don Orsino'; a series of Papers
on Marked Men," being articles on
George Bancroft, Orestes Brownson,
James b. Eads and others; "An Ameri.
can at Home in Europe" the subject
and author at once being William Henry
Bishop, the novelist; Mr.. James's paper
on Lowell. japanese papers by Lafcadio
Hearn and +. L. Fenollosa, studies of
American cities, and articles on the
the Improvement of town life.
The December (Christmas) Harper's
will contain short stories by T. B. AL
drich, r. II. Davis, f. d. Millet and
William McLennan, a new Canadian
teller of tales. The Monthly in 1892
will devote special attention to the great
West il will contain also the Bigelow-
Millet-Parsons papers on the Danube
River; Amelie Rives' play, "Athelwold, "
with illustrations expert articles on the
European armies; a new novel, "A
World of Chance" new farce and va
rious poems by Mr.. Howells Horatio
Bridges Personal "reminiscences of
Nathaniel Hawthorne :" paris of To
day." by Theodore Child, and disquisi-
ton by Laurence Hutton on Death
Masks"
Referring to the recent International
Folklore Congress in London, the
Athendeum says: Mr.. Lang proved q
bad chairman, but he gave model in
augural address. 1t dealt lightly, but
firmly, with almost all the burning
questions of folklore, and set the right
key by suggesting that folk-lorists might
differ and yet be friends. The sun and
dawn theory and the white Archaian race
theory were tenderly satirized into OBJ
scurity. Indeed, if fault is to be
found with Mr. Lang's address, it would
be that he is too tender with the varying
schools of folk-lorists, leading the scot
fer or the beginner to imagine that it
really did not much matter what theory
was adopted-a state of things alb
solutely fatal to the future position of
the science of folklore, as it is now with
some justice called.
Commenting in Hdrpers on Mr.. Low
ellis character Mr.. Curtis SAYS: The
sense of loss in the case of Lowell is re-
markably personal even among those
who did not know him, but it is very
much more than personal. His nature
was singularly rich and full. As one of
his most intimate friends said, lie was an
extraordinary intelligence. Another OBJ
served that what he said or wrote seemed
but drop from a vast reserve of re-
sources. He never lost his playfulness
of mind or manner, although they did
not appear to all men. He was not
readily accessible to everybody, because
he was not willing that his life should be
devastated by the dull and merely curl
Gus and idle. Yet his charm of manner
was fascinating"
Mr.. +. Arnold tries to show in the
November Lippincotfs that there is a
kind of tidal law regulating the move
ments of parties and opinions. But he
takes up the subject of the State of
the Tides" first in n literal sense, and
ends with figurative illusions 10 it from
Dickens and TennySon. " Some Colo
nial Love Letters" by Anne II. Whar-
ton. show us how James Logan, Will
liam Penn's young secretary, felt when
he was in love, and how Benedict
Arnold sent the same love letter to two
young ladies in succession. THE In
terviewer interviewed is a talk with
Cath" j. Howard Cowperthwaite
and John A. Grier write on "The Evolu-
ton of Money and Finance" and "The
Restoration of Silver" and William s.
Walsh on =" Modern American Humor."
What will chiefly strike the reader of
"The Duke and the Commoner," the
complete novel - in this months mag
azine. is the authors increased facility
and certainty of touch. Mrs. Poultney
Bgelow tells story with the skill of an