The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-12-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Some hitherto unpublished letters OF
Mhittier's, writt~n - an intimate
friend, Chall0ttoa Fske Bates, will no.
pear Id the January number Of Nc.
Clure's Mdgdsins. They arr especially
important as heiug thv iircct express
iun Oh that sweet, serrn- faith ~, Nh
everything Providence ana the pouts
immortality of which delightful
glimpses in, Whittier's poems.
49,
Nine good stories in single num-.
Der Of a magazine are sufficiently un-
usual to attract attention t., the christ.
mas Hdrpsr's The auth rs are Brand
er Matthews. whl.e TIE Story of n
Story, and Other Stories" hasreceived
much iavorahl" ~ tlee; 0%-u Wi-ttr,
VII re emily" aud "Huw Lin Mclean
Went East are 7 militr to readers OF
Hdrper's; Rnth MrEnery Stuart, the
writer oi &c, l,ien Wedding, and Other
Tales :" 3narirs Egbert Grsddock,
Howard Pytc, Sarah 0rne Jewett
William Acbanuau. well known as
the author vi delightful Canadian
sketches, and now trying his hand at
tales of the FrLch Reyvdu:iyn; j.
Lincoln Stefens, Vho contributes a
clever monologue, aud Harriet Pres
colt Spntfor1. To this list might be
added Thomas Nelson Page who ia
trodncss the Editors Drawer" with n
humorous sketc c.l ei "R,.hel's
Lovers" a,.
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The second edition of the December
Worlds Fair Cosmopolitan brings the
total up TO the extraordinary figure Of
100000 copies, unprecedented result
in the history of magazines. Four
hundred thousand copies -2OO tons
ninety.four million psg4e-enongh TO
fill 200 wagons with 1000 pounds each
lin single line, in c'oso order, this
would be file OF wagons more than u
mile and half long. This means not
less than 2,000,000 readers, scattered
throughout every town and village in
the United States. The course of The
Cosmopolitan for the past twelve
months may be compared to that of a
rolling snowfall; II ore subscribers
mean M re money spent in'buying
the best III ticrs AMI best illustrations
Bin the world better illustrations and
better articles mean more subj cribers
and so the two things are acting and
reacting upon each other until it seems
probable that the day is not far dis
tant when the magazine publisher will
be able to give 80 excellent an article
that it will claim the attention of every
intelligent reader in the country.
Nv
Tho leading article in the January
Forum-Is "The Teaching of our Re-
cent Economic Experiences" by Mr..
David A. Wells. Mr. Wells has sum.
med up the almost incalculable loss
caused by the financial panic and
analysed the cause of it with thor.
oughnessthat nobody else has attempt
ed. He finds the deep-lying cause OF
our fiscal and commercial dangers in
the popular ignorance oil financial and
economic literature and experience on
the p aft not only of the great body 81
the people but Of otherwise well-edu.
Gated mea.
The number contains besides Mr.
Wells article:
1.-The Principle and Method OF the
New Tariff Bill" by the Hon. VIM. l.
Wilson, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee and author of the
Bill:
"The New Sectionalism A Western
Warning to the East" by Mr.. Lindley
NJ. Keasbey, of Colorado-an interest
lug and first hand-study of Western
sentiment and its meaning
English Investors and American
Currency Legislatlon," by W. Weth,
erell, of the Liverpool (Eng) DAILY
Post--a well-known and well-informed
English writer on finance, who frankly
points out how American securities
and financial measures are regarded
by The several classes of investors in
lEngland.