Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-10
LITERARY NOTES.

William o. Stoddard, Molly Elliott
Seawell, Maurice Thompson and Theo-
dora h. Jenness are to furnish the serial
stories for Wide Awake for 1893.
| Stanton P. Allen, the author of the
new war book, Down in Dixie, just
issued by d. Lothrop Company, was a
private in a cavalry regiment during
the war, after that newspaper man
| and has now entered the ministry and
is doing missionary work in a secluded
corner of the Adirondacks
The November Wide Awake, just out,
has charming and notably-illustrated
article on Some British Castles, by
Oscar Fay Adams; it has a well illus.
trated article on the Babies of the Zoo,
1.-THE Central Park menagerie) by Alex
ander Black, and a stirring Harvard
College story, Raglan's Substitute, by
Edith Robinson.
Lord Tennyson's beautiful poem,
The Holy Grail, with the splendid il
lustrations made by w. l.. Taylor to
accompany the text, has just been
brought out by D. Lothrop Company
in new and popular holiday edition
The photographers are all newly re-
made for this volume, which, especially
in view of Tennyson s recent death,
will be in demand as holiday gift
book.
Harper's Young People for Novem-
Der list, beginning the fourteenth vol
ume of that unrivaled publication,
is double number of 32 pages, and
contains an unusually rich variety of
attractions. Noteworthy among it's
contents is the opening chapters of
new serial by Kirk Munroe, entitled,
Raftmates, story of the Mississippi
River, appropriately illustrated. Boys
who have read Mr.. Munroe's earlier
stories of adventure will need no in
PRODUCTION to this tale, which is the
latest of the famous Mate series. f.
Scribner's Magazine for November
contains the second of its group of pre-
liminary articles on The World S Fair,
this one being an account of Chicago's
Part in the Worlds Fair, by Franklin
Mac Veagh, one of the prominent citi-
zens of Chicago, who writes about the
enterprise without any bias, frankly
stating that he "has no connection
with the Worlds Fair management.
His account of what Chicago has ac-
complished is a wonderful record of
enterprise and successful achievement
He shows how that city has shouldered
responsibilities which belonged to the
United States Government Commission:
how she has supplied eleven million
dollars instead of the five that it was
expected she would furnish; how she
has arranged site for the fair which
in extent, situation, plan, and adorn-
ment exceeds anything ever before at
tempted, and that she has provided
buildings equally remarkable in size,
variety, and artistic value. Mr.. Mac
Veagh then points out how Chicago
will adequately meet the question of
transporting people to and from the
fair grounds; how it will comfortably
lodge any number of visitors who may
seek the city, and how ample provision
is being made for an abundant and
perfectly pure supply of water. An
other notable article in this issue is
the Conversations and Opinions of
Victor Hugo, which Octave Uzanne,
the famous French bibliophile and lit
erary authority has compiled from un-
published papers found at Guernsey,
where the poet spent his exile. These
papers consist of journal of 1000
pages by Hugo'S son, Francois, detail
ing the table-talk of his father and his
eminent friends in the years 1S52-1S56.
This interesting diary contains many
interlineations and corrections in the
handwriting of Victor Hugo, showing
that it was carefully revised by him.
The seventh article in the series, Great
Streets of the World, is a description
of The Grand Canal of Venice, by
Henry James, whose wonderful prose
style is exactly adapted to portraying
this picturesque street. The illuslra-
tions are by Zezzos, skillful Italian
artist. A curious American industry
is described by Kirk Munroe in his ar
ticle on Sponge and Spongers of the
Florida Reef. The fiction of the num-
Der includes the fourth of Octave
Thanet's Stories of Western Town,
entitled Mother Emeritus pictures by
Frost); the conclusion of Bliss Perry's
amusing story of Salem Kittredge,
Theologue, and love story by Thomas
Nelson Page, entitled, Miss Dangerlie 8
Roses.
As household remedy it can not te
exceiled. Mr.. L. E. Brockett, 459