Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-04
GOSSIP FROM BO0KLAND.

The interest in Napoleon has recently had revival that is phenomenal in it's ex- tent and intensity. In fact, we are indulg- ing in new fad, Napoleonic in character. Every one in New York or elsewhere, who is at all of literary turn of mind, is de- voting serious thought and study upon the great "man of destiny.' Even the theaters distinguished Frenchman remarked re- gently, "Napoleon seems again to have hypnotized the French people.'
 Realizing this widespread interest the Century Magazine begins in it's November issue a new life of Napoleon, writ ton, an eminent American student and professor of history, and he will be greatly aided in his work by the abundant mate. rials furnished by the opening of different national archives aud by the recent publi- cation of valuable memoirs.
 The life will be fully illustrated by many of the most noted paintings in which Napo. leon figures. The opening chapters deal with Napoleon's extraordinary career as Corsican political agitator.
 In Harper's for November is finished 'tThe Golden House." the splendid story by Charles Dudley Warner, and so beauti- fully illustrated by w. T. Smedley; in fact, the beautiful engravings and illustrations of Harper's Magazine are always deligks- ful treat. s'At the Capital of the Young Republic, :" by Henry HoJmis Nelson, is i-spendid article bearing the very spirit and cbarm of the early days. "It will be inety- | four years in the fall of the year 1S94) ln | Washington became the residence of the | president of the United States. It is ninety eight years since the house of rep
 resentatives debated the question of insert ing in the president speech the deolara,, tion that this nation was the freest and | most enlightened in the world. During 1 that time the capital of the country has | grown from hamlet of 500 people in for est to city of 230, ,00O inhabitants. ;" Five l illustrations by T. De Thulstrup add piquancy to the article.
 There is a quaint poem by Will Carleton on another of our fads, "Farmer Stebbins at Football.''
 'sThen everybody laughed an' joked. rejoic-
 An said, .oId man, the trouble is, you're
 An then said, All rightI I'll keep behind Hind anything to shield me from such goin's on as these;
 world to escape,
 rll go an dance on dynamite. an do 1t up in shapel'
 The initial and leading article of Scrib- ner's this month is one of especially timely | interest; it is "Election Night In News paper Office,' by Julian Ralph, one of the respondents and also a newspaper man of wide experience. It is most tastefully illus | trated by B. West Clinedinst.
 "But there is one night in every year in | every great newspaper office when work Is l done that is least understood of all that goes on in the making of a daily paper; one | night when the highest state of fever at- l tends the excitement and strain of the most | intense work that falls to the lot of any l man, except soldiers in war. That is cleo | Col. H. G. Prout contributes a second | article on ssEpglish Railway Methods, ' in which he discusses with Interesting in- l sight the organization, construction and | maintenance of the railroads.
 Tho illustrations are by A. B. Frost. In "Tbe Point of View,' found among
 the closing pages of Scribner's, Is quite a
 good article on the ability aud qualifica- l tions of salesman. He says: '"rhere is l one skill that need never lack employment
 the skill of the salesman. In short, the l salesman has his fate to an unusual degree l in his own hands. Of the salesman's skill the chief element is address-the faculty oi
 approaching, persuading and swaying 1 men. And it is a faculty in the develop ] ment of which education and training go 1 far Yet in the schemes of education, even
 at time when no effort is spared to make | education 'practice,' which means in the
 end money gettlng, next 10 no regard is
 paid to it.''
 There is no magazine more worth the | price than is Munsey's. It always con-
 iains a varied, artistic selection of articles | sure to please and entertain, while its ar-
 ticles on artists and their work, with en-
 gravlng of noted pictures, are particularly | attractive. This month we find also g
 splendid contribution by ]. Weston Allen
 entitled, "Athletic Yale," with an ac. | count of how the New Haven university 's
 triumphs on river, football field, diamond and track, have been maintained.
 ''At Yale football takes precedence of aIl
 other sports, not only because it is th(
 most popular at the present time, but be;
 cause the game as played in this country #
 purely product of college invention, and
 from the outset Yale has been the leader in it's evolution.'
 In Munsey Is found, too, delightful pa
 per on ''Victorien Sardou," :" the foremost
 of living dramatists, aud an account of his
 home life at Marty -Roi by Arthur Wey-
 burn Howard.
 "rictorien Sardou has been at the head ol
 the French dramatists, the most success