Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-11-10
LITERARY NOTES.

BTOupcu toSctucI CudlaCtci lSIC stolioo
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen
Poe, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Henry
S. Brooks, Sherwood Bonner, Mary E.
wilkins and Harriet Prescott Spot1ord-
the last of whom contributes q thrilling
Thanksgiving story. The East, the
West, the North and the South are alike
represented in these vigorous, whole
some and picturesque narratives, among
which are half-a dozen uncommonly
strong, criminal ones, by Violettc Hall,
Granville Sharpe, w. Thompson, r.. L..
Ketchum and Fred NJ. Hopkins. This
is the third in the magazines series of
especial numbers illustrating the tic.
tor of different nations, which are prov
ing as popular as they are novel. Ro-
nance is issued by Romance Publishing
Company, Clinton Hall, Aston Place,
New York. The price is 25 cents a
copy; subscriptions, $3.50 a year.
The November Wide Awake has a fine
frontispiccc of CARROTS conception of
Marrnion bidding defiance to Douglas
The first paper is ON British castles, and
is nicely illustrated. The usual number
of good things are given throughout. A
new volumn begins with the December
number and the publishers promise
some choice matter for the commng
year.
Our Little Men and Women for Nov
ember has two good Thanksgiving stor-
les. There is likewise the story of two
Poland donkeys, with fine illustrations,
and Tiptoe March with a pretty plot
ure. A Boy and Girl, The Studio
Dolls, and Talks by Queer Folks, are as
interesting as can be. Joker and his
Relations do some very strange things.
Home, Sweet Home is sweet story
which points an excellent moral, With
its large and small pictures, verses and
rhymes, Little Men and Women is as
charming as ever. Price 81. year; 10
cents number. d. Lothrop Co., Pub
fishers, Boston.
Babyland for November brings good
THANKSGIVING cheer. The stories are
pretty and the verses dainty. The rhy-
mes are made to suit Baty's ear, and
the pictures to delight Baby's eye. What
more can Baby want: A subscription
to this "baby's delight" and mothers
help" will bring Christmas twelve times
a year 10 the little one. Price so cents
q year; 5 cents number. ID. Lothrop
Co., Publishers, Boston.
The Pansy for November is at hand,
in bright new cover, suggestive of the
Columbian year and its interests. With
this number the Pansy magazine enters
upon uew year, and judging by the
good things included in the present con.
tents, it begins in good earnest. Mrs.
Isabelle M. Alden (Pansy) and Margaret
Sidney each have new serial, the lat
ter being Columbian Year Sketches.
Shorter stories and sketches, poems, an
ecdotes. ETC., abby our brightest and best
writers, with the popular Junior Christ
ian Endeavor Department constitute an
excellent number of an excellent maya
zine. Price 81. year; 10 cents Il num-
Der. d. Lothrop Co., Publishers, Bos-
ton.
The following books are announced as
ready for publication by Harper and
Brothers: Prue and l, by George Will
liam Curtis, with one hundred illustra-
tons by Albert +. Steiner; Daisy Miller,
and An International Episode, by Henry
James, illustrated by II. w. McVicker;
The Praise of Paris, by Theodore Child,
A Tour Around New York,
by John +. Mines Felix Oldboy), lllust-
rated; Along New England Roads, by W.
c. Prime; An Earthly Paragon, Il novel,
by Eva Wilder McGlasson, illustrated
by f. V. DuMont; and a new revised
edition Of William Blacks Macleod of
Dare.
The November Atlantic Monthly is an
admirable production. A short story in
two parts by Margaret Collier Graham,
called the "Withrow Water Right"
chapters of Mr.. Crawford's don Ors-
ino;" an able unsigned political essay on
1.-The Two Programmes of 1892" a pa
per by Samuel w. Dixie on Sociology
in the Higher Education of Women a
paper on Breton Folk-Songs by Theo-
dore Bacon, with translations; and
poem by Lizette Woodwork Reese are
among the other attractions Of the nun
Der.
In the November Forum the tariff
question is discussed by eminent Eng.
lish authorities from an English stand
point. "The Matter With the Small
Farmer is an interesting and instruc-
tive paper by Prof. r. Means Davis.
1.-THE Library of the United States" is
discussed in an admirable paper by A.
r. Spofford, librarian of congress.
Mopv ofho, Ina l1a or,or, .o IT.,