St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-11-09
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The rise OF the short story in Amer
lea would furnish material for an in
teresting chapter in literary history
The December Harper's Magazine
will pay a significant tribute to the
Importance of the ten-page tale as
opposed to the three-volume novel.
1t will contain nine short stories from
the pens of Brander Matthews,
Owen Wister, Ruth McEnery Stuart,
Charles Egbert Craddock, Howard
Pyle, Sarah Orne Jewett, j. LINCOLN
Stefens, William McLennan, and
Harriet Prescott Spofford.
The November number of Pansy
enters upon new year, and an
nounces many new and important
features. There will be each month
a special department devoted to the
work of the Christian Endeavor
society: "Our Christian Endeavor
Bulletin" The other departments
of the magazine are to be broadened
and enlarged by some material
changes. One is the department Of
Athletics" and Indoor Games in
the Family Circle" Mr.. A. Alonzo
Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher, will
contribute an early paper to be fol-
lowed by experts in physical devel-
opment. Mrs. G. r. Alden has a
new and fascinating serial, "Vira's
Motto" Ten cents number, one
dollar a year. Lothrop Company,
Boston.
The November Forum contains a
long list OF valuable articles by noted
writers on important topics. Prof.
II. Won Hoist, the eminent constitu-
tlonal historian, in discussing 1.-THE
Decline of the Senate" offers slash
ing criticism of present senate meth
DDS in an article entitled, "Shall the
Senate Rule the Republic.
In series of interviews with mem
bers OF the last congress 81 out of
43 remarked that they were readers
of The Youths Companion. For
definite and trustworthy iniorma-
tlon on the questions OF the day it is
really unique, while the high charac-
ter of its stories, the wide fields GOV.
cred by its special articles, and its
contributions from the most famous
writers in Europe and America, are
well known. Its programme for
next year seems brighter than ever.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has
been induced to revive Little Lord
Fauntleroy" in series of articles
just completed for the Ladies' Home
Journal, in which she tells How
Fauntleroy Really Occurred" and
traces the conception of the story,
the development of the character as
he lived under her own eyes, and de-
scrlbcs Fauntleroy as he is today
her own son.
A new volume of The Century
starts in November with an extra
ordinary table of contents, including
the names of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot
Norton, Colonel John Hay, George
KEENAN,, Mary Hallock Foote, Mrs.
Schuyler van Rensselaer,, Edith M.
Thomas, Charles Egbert Craddock.
and many others. AS to the con
tents themselves, these include moth.
ing more absorbing than the second
or concluding part of the diary OF the
Admlrals Secretary describing Ma
poieon's voyage to st. Helena.
Emerson's name is attached to a re-
Gently discovered unpublished poem
written to Lowell on his fortieth
birthday, which furnishes most
fortunate preface to the last and final
series OF Lowell's essays to appear
in The Century during the coming
year, and the first one of which IS
printed in November.
Among the short articles that will
appear in the November number of
the North American Review will be
The Welsh in Politics." by John E.
Owens; Eggs, Etcetera, in Con-
gress," by Erastus Wiman, "A
Tempting Theory in Practise" bv
Bessie B. Croffutt, and 1.-THE Decline
of Ecclesiasticism," by John E. Raw
mond.
The November Arena closes the
eighth volume of this review. The
November issue contains, among
other brilliant papers, noteworthy
article written by the late Richard
A. Proctor, in which the eminent as
tronomer reviews the claims of Ba-
con and Shakespeare at length.
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER contri-
butes a very thoughtful, though
rather Socialistic, paper entitled
Thoughts in an Orphan Asylum"
+. +. PowelPs contribution is a
strikingly interesting Study of
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