Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Recent numbers of Hdrpa'S Magazine
| have been unusually strong IN fiction. Mr..
| du Mauriers "Trilby," which has been
! running since January, and will be con-
| cluded in the August number. is attracting
more attention than any other magazine
| serial that has been published for many
| years. Brander Msttnews's ''Vignettes OF
| Manhattan have given in short stories
| characteristic aspects OF New York life,
and not since Bret Hart wrote his first
| tales of California life has the newer West
been studied so Systematically or with
such strong appreciation Of its pic
turesque and dramatic side as by
! Owen Wister whose Emily" "Balaam
and Pedro" THE Promised Land, -
and "a Kiusman of Red Cloud have APP
peared in HdrpT'S within the last few
months A new story by Mr.. Wister,
Little Big-HOrn Medicine appears In
the June Magazine. The May and June
numbers contain a story of Kentucky life
! in the late "ffties, ~ which recalls the man.
ner Of George William Curtis IN his de-
I lightful "Prue aud l." The April Hupcr'S
printed eight complete short stories, the
May six, the June mas four, and II IS an
| uounCed the July number will include six,
besides the first chapters Of Charles oud-
lev Warmers novel, Of New York life, 70
THE Golden House.
The mother Of Americas favorite boy
hero, Little Lord FauntlerOy,n Mrs.
Frances HOdgson Burnett, writes to the
mothers Of boys IN the June issue Of the
Ladies Home Journal upon when He De-
cides, - in which she points out TO what eX-
tent mothers should influence their sons in
regard 20 their choice of an occupation.
Mrs Amelia l.. Barr sketches the mental
indictments of the modern woman in an
article on Have Women Found New
Weapons. ~ Mr. Frank Stockton takes the
quaint Pomona through some ridicu-
lousy funny escapades in this installment
OF her travels Mr.. HOwellS reaches
the seventh iustallment of his literary au-
TOPOGRAPHY, "My Literary Passions
Among the other productions are The
Game of Golf for Women" summer
Evening Gowns, - "The Apartment Houses
OF Paris, " The Berries of Sumner and
"MilestOnes in a Married Life Curtis
Publishing Co., publishers, Philadelphia.
The Popular Science Monthly furnishes
both light and substantial fare in its num-
Der for June The opening article by DIR.
Andrew ID. White on The Final Effort Of
Theology, describes the hostile reception
which theOlOgianS gave to Darwin's epoch
making book. The Mosquito country,
which has been attracting a great deal of
attention lately, IS described 10 fully IL
lustrated article, by DR.. Robert n. Heely,
Jr., uuder the title Nicaragua and the
MOSQUITO Coast. The distinguished ply
siolcgist, DIR. Austin Flint, contributes an
illustrated account of The Eye as an Op-
teal Instrument. OF special interest 10
parents and teachers is the essay by James
l.. Hughes, entitled The Kindergarten
Natural system OF Education. There i
another iustallment Of A. Il. Wallace's
paper on The Ice Age and its Work, and
biographical sketch, with portrait OF Ger
ard TroOst for many years State GeOlO-
giSt OF Tennessee.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, with
her wonderful power Of depicting child life
and her sympathy with the suffering as
well as in pleasure, has written The
Story of a Beautiful Thing in which she
tells of the rise and growth of a touching
London charity, officially known as THE
Invalid Childreh's Aid Association
Other interesting articles are the Dog
American Game Fishes, THE Future of
the Wounded in War, and "a Portion Of
the Tempest
TheCosm0politru fortune keeps up the pace
il took some time ago and publishes many
notable articles Of interest among them
Famous Hunting Parties, The Panama
Scandal, - The FiOrdS of Norway "The
Home Of Joan Of Arc Jim LanCy'S Wa
terloO. " "karUa a la Mode, and How to
Preserve Health and Attain Strength
Many of these articles are profusely and
handsomely illustrated.
Perhaps the shortest Of short stories is a
cartoon; for, at a glance, and sometimes
without a single word. il must truly char
acterize all the people IL depicts and make
sure you 90 not miss the moral The
political story OF a week or Of a month is
told in the cartoons that from time 10 time
stand upon the first page OF HGrpcr's
Weekly.
The June Go1cy's Magazine contains
among its many interesting features, ''The
Paris Salon Of 1894, - Seward al St
Thomas" Chance, Tale Of Munich
Life, Fate and the Mayor AN Actor
Tom Hood" and The Thirst aud the
Draught" Many other articles Of interest
TO the ladies are included IN this number.
Among the features Of H1rpsr'S BG,Gr for
June will be the STORY Of a Garden"
told in letters by Elizabeth Bisland Wet
more, q new series Of Coffee and Repair
tee papers, by John KeudriCk Bangs, and
letters from Paris, giving the fashions ana
gossip of that capital.
NCItoNtI AIHu-tht 4OE June COutGluS du
article By John Heard, Jr, which. for the
first time in accessible form in English,
tells the tragical story Of Macmillan and
Mexico in the light Of many documents
which have recently been published in
France.
JCHHcSS lfjl3r'S Monthly for June IS re.
plete with interesting matter for women,
including a fund of valuable health sUgges-
tions. IL is well worth reading.