St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-22
LITERARY CHAT.

novels none is more interesting and UNI
usual than "Morrls Julian's Wife," 1t
was published as serial in the New
York Ledger first, and was greatly
liked. 1t is story of young wife who.
felt lack of that sympathy in her hus-
band that makes life satisfacti on, so
she leaves him. and the history of her
wanderingS by land and sea, in Europe
and at home, and her husbands long,
unwearied search for her, forms one Of
the most original and engrossing narra-
tives ever produ ced in the form of a
novel.
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Augustus jacobson in his new book.
IAN Ounce OF Prevention" suggests a
new solution of the war that seems to
be raging just now between capital and
labor. He says that there would be no
conflict like that at Homestead, no occa-
necessity for tariff law if manual
training schools were at once estaI-
lished all over the United States, and
grated on the public schoo! system. He
Says that the periodic contests between
capital and labor are not contests over,
wages; and that if wages were raised at
once all over the country, the con-
test would go on just the same. He
would have the states, therefore, eStab-
llsh succession and income taxes. and
the money thus raised he would use in
establishing manual training schools
everywhere, his argument being that
the increased intelligence of labor
would remove all danger OF foreign coin
petition.
The title of F. Marion Crawford's
latest romance is Laura Arden"
Queen Natalie of Servia has written
and published a work, 1.-The Poem of
the Crowned Child"
George William Curtis, editor of Har-
per's Weekly, is suffering from an in
durable disease, and is unable TO attend
to his duties. He is siXty-eight years of
age.
"Why Young Men Defer Marriage"
is the subject of an Interesting article
on this truth-asserting topic, by John
Lambert Payne. i'll the September
Ladies' Home journal. Mr.: Payne's
paper is statistical, and treats this mo-
mentoIS matter from every standpoint.
The domestic problem concerning the
relations existing Between Mistress
and Maid' is inteligertly discussed by
Harriet Prescott Spotford, Mrs. LYMAN
Abbott, Helen S. Conant, and Christine
Terhune Herrick. as is Getting Home
From the Country" by Helen Jay.
The wife of the famous dramatist,
Alexander Dumas, is the subject of a
sketch. with portrait. by Lucy Hamilton
Hooper. and Laura Grover Smith gives
description of unique frin Of women
Lawyers in MilH aukee. Maude Hay wood
contributes special illustrated paper
On 1.-The Chicago Society Of Decorative
Art" and Walter Ii. Barrett writes COM
prehensively of "Women and Life In
surance." The editor speaks some
timely words about the rsstleSSneSs OF
the American man and its effect upon
women. and Foster Coates tells of
women in Journalism" The fiction
of the number includes the con-
lighttul story. "a Live Ember,' a
clever short story entitled "a Fair
Fee" by Cornelia Rathbone, illus
trated by Frank O. Small, and "a
Princess Wolf Hunt" by the Marquise
de Fontenoy. A carefully prepared
paper by Isabella NJ. Aitken upon The
Care OF the Hands" will be found valu-.
able to women, as will Miss Parloa,s
'.All About the House." Rev. t. De
Witt Talmage writes of art in the Old
World" and Mrs. Lyman Abbott dis
cuSSeS many topics iuteiilSeHtiy anu
well. Robert J. Burdette writes re-
fresningly of Home, Sweet Home"
and Mrs. Mallon gives some Hints to
Elderly Women"
Barry Pain, the latest lion in literary
circles in London, is native of CAM
bridge, England. and is only twenty
eight years old. He won his reputation
as humorist of high order by his con
tributions to Punch. ''StorieS and in
terludes," recently published, contains
collection of his studies, sketches and
poems. o.
Miss Mary Greenway McClelien
gains steadily in her successive novels
in the capacity to grasp and convey
types. Her characters grow more di S.
tinct and local, and her early skill in
intricate and unexpected plot remain S.
Her stories in the past have dealt with
elife in Mountain Virginia, on whose
dye she lives. ''Manitou Island" her
latest BOOK, is laid OH the swampy
coast, and has its full share of solnber
disaster, such as suggests itself III
those dim shadow black waters.