The morning call., 1894-09-02
Literary Notes.


The series of articles in the Forum on
the pay of the several professions is con-
tinued in the September number with an
article on 1.-The Pay of Physicians" by
DR.. George +. Shrady.
Rev. Minot j. Savage's essay in the Sep
TENDER Arena on 1.-THE Religion of Walt
Whitmsn's Poems" aims to show how
thoroughly saturated in the greatest and
broadcast religion is the whole of Whit
mans work. Il will put the poet and his
work in new light for a great many
readers.
Scribner's Magazine for September has
a notable list of contributors, including F.
Marion Crawford, Thomas Nelson Page.
Carl Lumholtz, Octave Thanet, Mrs.
James L. Fields and Harriet Prescott
SpOfford. Marion Crawford writes of Bar
Harbor from the point of view of one who
has seen most of the summer resorts of the
world. and has spent considerable time at
Bar Harbor viewing IL as an outsider
The fiction includes ''Eectrieian-in-
Charge" short story with decidedly
new and original situation, the action TAX
ing place in a lonely cabe-house at South
American station. There is also a real
sailors yarn. told in the dialect of an old
salt who took part 10 the battle of the
Alabama and Kearsarge. This story, by
CASTOR Fay, is entitled 1.-THE Folly of
MocKinR at the Moon" The serial John
March, Southerner," describes marriage
in Dixie.
McClure's Magazine for September con-
tains an interview with the eminent French
chemist, Bertheot, wherein he shows the
time is coming when all of the staple hu-
man foods will be no longer grown in the
fields of the farmer, but fabricated di-
rectly from their essential elements in the
Elaborate ries of the chemist.
The September number of Romance h as
a group of three stories OF journ alism.
The first of these is a realistic sketch of
newspaper mans career from the clever
pen OF Hamilton Ormsbee, himself men,
Der of the craft. The second describes the
modern girl as reporter. and is by Helen
Churchill Candee. The third Is a capital
humorous take-off at the expense of the
up-to-date interviewer.
The complete novel in the September
mum Der of Lippincott's is Captain Molly"
by Mary A. DenlsOD, and deals with the
philanthropic work of the Salvation Army.
The three short stories are of unusual
merit "Josef Helmuth's Goetz," by Fred
erick r. Burton, is weird tale of a too
imaginative musician and of a violin
which imprisoned human soul. Will n.
Harden does his very best work in THE
Sale of Uncle Rastus," slave whose de-
votion to his master assumed a unique
form. son Second thoughts" by Lalage
d. Morgan. is a love-story with All uncom-
mon ending, for the young lady's heart
was finally controlled by her head.
Messrs. T. Y. CTowell 81 Co. will publish
Immediately, in connection with Msssrs,
Cranston 81 Curtis of Cincinnati, "The
Footprints of the Jesuits," by r. w.
Thompson, ex-Secretary of the United
States Navy.
John Muir. the well-knOwn naturalist,
and discoverer of the great Muir glacier
mas written a book on "1he Mountains of
California" which will be issued this au-
tumn by the Century Company. The
author gives in graphic and simple Ian
Ruage a description of the mountains,
glaciers, flora and fauna of the Sierra
Nevadas.
The brilliantly written papers by Mrs.
NJ. o. w. Oliphant on the people of Queen
Anne's time. including the court. Dean
Swift. Defoe. Addison, the Duchess of
Marlborough, and other famous persons
of the day, have been collected 10 book
form, and will be issued in October by the
Century Company under the title 'Ihe
Reign of Queen Anne" Mrs. ELEPHANTS
training as novelist has enabled her to
give a new life TO the characters of this
age, without sacrificing the accuracy of the
historian.
Mrssrs. ID. Appleton & Go. OF New York
announces that DIR. Momberi, the author of
Charles the Great" who for a number Of