The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-07-05
LITERARY NOTES.
Notes among the Books and
Magazines.
An investment that Will pay.

An investment that VIII pay.
A Chinese baby is really the
funniest looking little tot that can
be imagined, and we have never
seen such lifelike portrait of one
as that published in July number
DemOrest's Family Magazine,
which contains "The Oriental
Legations at Washington" Be-
sides this baby of the Chinese
Minister, are pictures of his wife
and suite and views of the different
rooms in the Chinese Legation:
and this highly interesting article
is further embellished with other
curious and beautiful portraits
and views from the several
Oriental Legations. Nobody who
has any interest in art should miss
the familiar Talks ON the
Different Schools of Art" which
are superbly illustrated in this
number. They are liberal educa-
ton, and will enable anyone with
no previous knowledge to converse
knowingly about the great painters
of all ages aud their works. "The
Story of the Millennium" grows in
interest, and the illustrations this
month show what kind of houses
we will live in in A d 10000, besides
the kind of garments we will wear,
and depicts the routine of every
day life, at that remote period.
The July number would not be
complete without something about
fireworks, and the bill lis filled by
telling with pen and brush just
how they are made. To enumerate
all that appears in this grand num-
Der, would take too much space,
but the Columbian Exposition, of
course, comes in for its share, and
water color, representing an in
verted old staw hat in which three
cute little puppies have taken
refuge, makes the name "Full to
the Brim" as appropriate as the
picture is desirable and worthy of
framing. All these attractions
under one cover sell for 20 cents.
Published by w. Jenning Demorest
Is East l4th st., New York.
1t is surprising that Charles Egg
bert Craddock whose new serial
"His Vanished STAR" begins in the
July number of the Atlantic
Monthly, can continue to write
about Tennessee Mountain life, and
also continue to be intensely inter
Testing; and yet that is precisely
what she does in this new novel
She has never written with greater
mastery than now. Her plot sc
quickly develops that the reader
as he reaches the final pages of this
installment, finds his heart beating
a little faster, and experiences that
indefinable sense of excitement
which we like to feel now and then
and which very few books have the
power to make us feel. There are
a great many good things in the
number, among them some to be
specially looked after instance
Isabel Hapgood's paper on "Pass
ports Police, and Post Office ir
Russia" "Problems of Presumptive
Proof" a protest against the senti
mental sympathy shown to crimi-
nails convicted on what is loosely
termed "merely circumstantial ev
idence," showing that circumstan
tial evidence is sometimes the only
evidence available, and that
there are grave perils in direct evi
dence. 1t is written by James w
Clark. Edward S. Morse discusse.
the question aft Public Libraries
why not Public Museums Sil
Edward Strachey has delightful
paper on can English General Elec
ton" and Mrs. Catherwood story
called "The Chase of Saint-Castin.'
Miss Edith Thomas's paper, inter
spersed with poetry, called lin thu
heart of the summer" is as grace
full and charming as whatever i
written by this writer is sure to be
The papers on Petrarch and Oh
Governor Morton and the Sons o
Liberty, must not be forgotten
Houghton, Mifflin g. Co., Boston
The July Cosmopolitan excel
any pre- vious issue in the humble
of its distinguished contributor
and in point of interest. 1t Is TN
, changed in size and is the mos
beautifully illustrated number G
The CosmonOlitan ever sent out, j