Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-04-06
LITERARY NOTES.

The Review of Reviews for April is
unusually profuse in its illustrations.
Perhaps none of its other illustrated ar
ticles will attract more attention than
the one upon the question of dress re-
form from the standpoint of the Worlds
Fair. The Woman's National Council
proposes to inaugurate movement for
short and comfortable walking dresses
and the Review of Reviews publishes
number of very interesting portraits of
we'll known ladies photographed in
their dress reform street gowns, several
of the photographs being specially
taken for this number.
Scribner's Magazine for April opens
artistically with rich group of illus
trations by Robert Blum, who has re-
Gently returned from two years resi-
dence in Japan. He has written sever
articles detailing in most interesting
way his experiences while in that coun-
try, and each of these will be fully il
Illustrated from the remarkable collec-
ton of pictures and sketches which are
the fruit of his study in that country.
This paper is called, "An Artist in ia
pan" and is taken up with the vivid
first impressions which that country
makes on an artistic temperament. In
another article in this number, "a
New England Farm" writer and illus
traitor are united in one person, with
the additional novelty that the draw
iEgs are also engraved by the author,
Frank French, Whose article entitled
"A Day with Country Doctor" was,
it is believed, the first example in an
American periodical of contribution
written, drawn and engraved by the
same mani. In the present instance
Mr.. French gives delightful picture
of what city man has accomplished
on an abandoned New England farm.
The fiction of the number includes an
other instalment of Mrs. Frances Hodg-
son Burnett's serial, 1.-The One | Knew
the Best of All, (which tells how she
came to write her first story when she
was seven years old, and of the encour-
aging reception which her mother gave
to it. Viola Roseboro' contributes a
striking short story entitled 1.-The
Glimpse of an Artist" and George l.
Putnam (the author of "For the Cross >
in the Christmas number) has pa
thetic little sketch entitled I'm Rented
Rooms"
A SUGGESTION TOWARD A HAPPY FAMILY
A very acute dispute has been carried
on in one of the English weeklies fol
some months as to the relative happi
ness of the old and young in these days
and in the days of our grandfathers
and the relative responsibility of each
class for what many writers agree ii
the less happy condition of the old
1t was started by gentleman who
owned to something over fifty five
years, and who complained that HI
could not manage to maintain inter
course of sustained interest and sym
pathy with his sons and daughters
Like most discussions of the sort, thi
is pervaded by much generalization OF
limited data. The facts that seem gen
orally agreed upon are, first, that thu
young have much more freedom thar
fifty years ago, and second, that con
siderable number of ladies and gentle
men over fifty think that their owl
lives would be more comfortable i
this freedom we're decidedly restricted
There has undoubtedly been a lik'
change, and apparently with like re
suit for the elders, in some parts of ou
own complex society. But though
can not pretend to be typical Ameri
can parent, / am bound to confess tha
family infelicities can not fairly b
charged either to the young or to tn
old exclusively, and that merciless sell
inspection, to ascertain the causes o
such infelicities where they exist, is a
least a more promising process thai
criticism of the parties of the secon
part.-From 1.-The Point of View," i
the April Scribner.