Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-03
LITERARY NOTES.

The multiplicity and excellence of
other magazines, far from lesseninr
the usefulness of the Review of Re
views, makes this unique periodical
moro and more necessity. It's index
ea, CONVERSATIONS of leading articles.
lis OF new books, and general survey
OF things written. things said. and
things done during the month pre-
cedlng its issue. would suffice to keen
the busy reader in touch with the cur
rent OF life and thought, even if he
were able to read nothing else. The
December number is as full of variety
and freshness as its predecessors have
regularly been: and to those who know
the Review of Reviews this is a suffi-
Gent commentator.
The holiday number of Outing is a
gem of artistic elegance which loses
none of its brightness under close in
spection Prominent features of an
excellent number are: Ivan of the
Mask by Ella Lorraine Dorsey: Fol
lowing Dickens with Camera" by II.
III. Raglan; "A Christmas Fox-hunt in
Old Virginia" by Alex. Hunter: ''No
MAIDS of the North" by C. J. Cutcliffe
lyme, and In the Land of Josephine, :
by Walter L. Beasley.
Yacht Races for the America' s
Cup 1S5l-1S93, by Capt A. J. Kenealv.
is book that will be welcomed wher-
ever the white-winged yacht spreads
It's canvas to the breeze the world over.
In the locker of the sailor, in the
library OF the sportsman and on the
EDITORS desk alike, it will be indis-
penslble; with all the piquancy of a
true sailors yarn, and all the enthusi-
asm OF lifetime son of Neptune. it
tells of the battles and the breeZes.
which for forty years have waged and
ragged round the historic America S
Cup. Yet withal, he holds the his
torlan's scales with so steady hand
that both sides of the Atlantic will
welcome his tempered Judgment and
naval lore. The book is illustrated by
the first marine artists of the day. and
every celebrated racer. from the Amer
lea to the Nigilant, adorns it's pages.
II is the gift book of the season for all.
Scribners Magazine for January
marks the beginning of the fifteenth
volume. The first great fiction feature
for the year is the serial, '',John March,
Southerner." by George w. Cable. the
author of old Creole Days" This is
the first long novel that Mr. Cable has
published in many years. and is most
dramatic story of the new South. The
opening chapters reveal Mr.. Cables
sympathetic style and clear character
drawing at their very best. Serial
stories by j. NJ. Barrie and George
Meredith are announced to begin later.
Another feature of this year will be a
series of special frontispieces selected
by the eminent art critic, Philip Gill
bert Hancrton. to represent the ten
denc,eS Of contemporary art. Each
picture will be accompanied with a
brief article by Mr.. Hamerton and a
portrait of the artist whose painting is
reproduced. In this number Manets
'fifer" is the striking picture chosen.
new name in magazine literature,
though one of the best known and
most popular to the general public, is
that of John Drew, who contributes to
this number his "reminiscences of the
every day life of The Actor" The
Honorable Robert c. Winthrop (who
studied law in Daniel Websters office,
and afterward when Speaker of the
House OF Representatives nearly fifty
years ago was associated closely with
Webster in his public career,) has con-
tributed to this number his reminis-
cences OF "Webster's Reply to Hayne,
and his General Methods of Prepare
ton" +. Marion Crawford concludes
his pen picture of Constantinople with
some of his most brilliant writing.
which is p;cturesquely reinforced by
the beautiful illustrations which Edwin
Lord Weeks has furnished from his
sketches made on the spot during the
past Summer. ''Stories in Stone from
Notre rame," by Theodore Andrea
Cook, is a description of those gro
tesque figures adjoining the pinnacles
and inches of the great cathedral,
which Victor Hugo has put into fiction
as the familiars of Quasimodo.
There is brief paper of interest to
all students of sacred history in regard
to the ''Place of the Exodus in the
History of Egypt" The author is A.
L. Lewis, an authority and investi-
gator, whose paper on the subject be-
fore the Orientalists' Congress two
years ago attracted wide attention,
and was subsequently, strengthened by
Investigations of Mr.. Flinders-Petrie.
There are short stories by George A.
Hubbard and Bliss Perry and poems by
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, w. G.. Van
Tassel Sutphen, and others.
Fred Wild, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Union Pacific at Den
YER was on Monday apDointed pener-