The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-06
LITERARY NOTES.
A RAaI Work of Art.

Accepting as true the motto of the
school of painters that there are but two
entities, woman and bitumen, as in
spired by competition or by art itself.
George Barrie, the great art publisher OF
Philadelphia, has undertaken a repro
duction of not only the great paintings
of the Columbian art gallery at Chicago,
but the White City itself down to the
details of each building. 1t is the official
publication of the Worlds Columbian
exposition. its art and architecture,
which is to appear monthly. 1t is an
art portfolio twelve by twenty inches.
The reproductions are etchings, and
each month there is one plate in colors.
1t is the most magnificent duplication
of the kind ever attempted. 1t comes at
one dollar humber, and two numbers
are already out. +. P. Kaiser, whose
office is on the corner of Broadway and
Locust street, st. Louis. is the general
western agent, to whom all orders and
communications should be addressed.
The Dominant, one of the best musical
monthlies published In this country,
being desirous of stimulating the efforts
| to secure to the United States a pa
| triotlc song possessing the character
| istics requisite to endear it to the hearts
| of the people, has decided co inaugurate
competition among poets and COM
posers for that purpose. The prizes
offered are as follows: For the best
Poem, 800; for the next best Poem,
$50; for the best Musical Setting, 500;
for the next best Musical Setting, $50
For further particulars, address The
Dominant, 220, N. Ninth Street, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
The article on "National Budgets,
American and European" in the Feb
ruary Review of Reviews contains some
| compact information as to amounts and
sources of national incomes, and the diff
ferent items of outgo, which may be of
convenience to many at this time. The
following subdivisions of the article will
suggest its character: "England's Fiscal
| System" ''French Revenue and Expen-
ditures," "The Balance Sheet of the Ger
man Empire, Taxation and Expendi-
ture in Italy," ''How Russia Obtains
Her Vast Income" "Austria-H Hungary S
Financial Arrangements"
A prominent feature of the Midwinter
| Century is its fiction, which has not a
little variety of scene and style. In
| Mark Twain's "Pudd nhead Wilson
the action is advanced by dramatic in
terview between Tom, the reputed white
boy, and his mother Roxana, the negress.
Its effect upon Tom as representative
of the nte-bellum sentiment is describ-
ed, and Pudd'nhead Wilson's fads in re-
gard to palmistry and thumb-reoord
became efficacious in the plot. A town
meeting, personal encounter, and a
conflagration add to the rapid action of
the story. which has q full-page illustra-
ton by Loeb.
Romance, a magazine devoted wholly
to short stories, has been considerably
enlarged and now begins it's thirteenth
volume. The most remarkable contri-
button to the February number is a
ghost story by Mary Z. Wilkins. 1t is
her first one, but Miss Wilkins has DEM
onstrated in it her power over the super
natural. Her ghost is so effective
because it is set in such a strongly SEN
| sible bit Of life. The old school teacher
could not be better, SO grimly practical
and so tender.
Blue and Gray has yielded to the pop
ular movement toward cheaper maga
zine literature and reduced its price ia
10 cents, from 25. The February issue.
Just received is fully up to the standard
heretofore maintained by this unique
and always interesting aud patriotic
magazine, and give no evidence of g
reduction in cost of production although
the price has been reduced three-tifths
Harper's Bazar for Feb contain:
"The DETECTION of Dorothy" and shor,
story by Edith Elmer Wood, an article or
luncheons from the clever pen of 'Spec
tator," and portraits OF Constance Wool
son and Helen A. Shafer, with an arti
Gle on Miss Woolson's work, by Margaret
| Sapcctar