The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-05-05
LITERARY NOTES.
The Ladies, Home journal.

sonality of "the last of the Carlyles" are
most Interestingly pictured and de-
scribed in its May issue, which goes out
to its hundreds and thousands ofreaders
in striking cover, presenting one of
Charles Dana Gibson's stylish women.
Mr.. Howell's picture Of girl life, "The
Coast of Bohemia" grows in interest,
and Will N. Harden gives the opening
chapters of a short serial story, "Before
Two Altars" The Worlds Columbian
celebration is remembered in stately
poem by Edna Dean Proctor, entitled
1.-THE New Worlds Qeen." That prob
lem of polite society, "The Married
Woman's Signature" is made the sub
ject of an interesting discussion by Julia
Ward Howe, Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Mrs. Burton Harrison and other famous
women in symposium "Under Which
Name?" One of Hamlin Garland's etch-
ings "Before the Overture" and
another by WILLIAM D. Moffat are fol-
lowed by poems by Clinton Scollard,
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and Marga-
rette Lippincott. Mathilde Wurm tells
how she learned the piano "With Schu-
mann's Wife as Teacher" Palmer Cox
gives apage of his inimitable Brownies
as they disport in Paris. and Mrs. Alb
bott is as usual helpful in "Just Among
Ourselves" Altogether this May num-
Der is so full of good things that no
woman can afford to be without it.
Published by The Curtis Publishing
Company, Philadelphia, for ten cents
per number, and one COLLAR per year.
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The American Review of Reviews
announces that its third year, which
begins with the current (ApriI number
"opens with very prosperous outlook.
The unprecedented popular success of
the Review of Reviews has been due to
the fact that it has been from the first
conducted by practical newspaper men,
and it has thought much more highly
of earning the appreciation of that class
and OF meeting want which they
would recognize as in some measure
filed by it, than Of winning the special
favor of the distinctively literary guild
by catering to their aesthetic and intel
lectual tastes. 1t has happened, how
ever, fortunately for the Review, that
it has won favor even in quarters where
it has least sought or expected to find
it. The "Review Of Reviews" in the
opinion OF many OF the best qualified
newspaper men of the country, forms
an almost invaluable part of an editors
library Each year il supplies two
volumes containing almost thousand
Illustrations, most of which are portraits
of nobilities of theday. These volumes,
with their careful indexes, strongly
bound and safely filed on an editors
book-shelves, will be of increasing
value as the years recede. Hardly any
thing else short of his own paper will
afford the average editor more satisfac-
tion in years to come than ''long set''
of the "Review Of Reviews" volumes,
extending through the eventful years
of the last decade of the nineteenth
century. The American editor of the
Review of Reviews, DR.. Albert Shaw,
is one of the most scholarly of writer's
as we'll as a trained journalist of ex-
ceptional grasp: hence the remarkable
success of this remarkable venture un.
der his management
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The current number of Harper's
Weekly, published April 25th, well
maintaining its usual standard of excel
lence and timeliness, containing. be-
sides variety of other interesting mat.
ter, the following special attractions:
illustrations of the Navel Rendezvous
at Hampton Roads with descriptive
article by Lieutenant J. D. j. Kelley,
U. S. NJ; portrait and sketch of Hon.
James G. Carter, apropos of his services
in connection with the Beric Sea Court
of Arbitration; an illustration and
sketch of the new Corcoran Art Gal.
lery in Washington; an article by w.
81. Bishop on Bradley's columbus, >
Illustrated; portrait and sketch of the
Duke of Veragua; and a graphic des.
cription of the city of Lisbon, by Ar.
mand Dayot, profusely illustrated.
''The Company's Husbands" is the
title of pleasant little comedy in one
act, adapted for amateur acting and
parlor representation, which will be
published in Harper's Bazar for April
|29th. The author is Rosemary Baum.