Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-28
IN THE LITERARY WORLD.
The General Gossip of Writers, Both Mod
 ern and Ancient.

 May. This is the tree beneath which is buried the heart of Livingston, and upon the trunk of which a record was rudely chiseled by one of the great mis- sionary's native followers. The photo graph which is reproduced was made by MT. E.. J. Glave, in the course of an exploration undertaken for the Century magazine. MT. Glave writes that Mrs. Bruce-the daughter of Livingstone-and her husband sent out tablet commem- oratiye of the explorers death, which the Belgian officers to whom it was con signed put up about eight miles from the tree. Eighteen months before MT. Glave's visit, the tablet was carried off by the chief of slave caravan.
 Scribner's for May contains a unique feature in magazine fiction-the first part of the only serial story that Mrs. Humphrey Ward has ever contributed to a magazine It is entitled '.The Story of Bessie Costrell," and is a most realistic and dramatic study of life among the very poor class of English farm laborerS. This novelette, will run through the MayJ June and July issues
 President Andrews History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States" reaches in this installment 'The Downfall of the Carpet-bag Regime"- one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of reconstruction, as we'll as the most dramatic.
 The fiction of the number includes an exciting western story, "The Martyr dom of John the Baptist, by Wolcott Le Clear Beard, author of "Bisnagas Mad cline There is another girls story by Miss Goodloe, entitled "A Short Study in Evolution" with pie lures by Gibson. The Meredith se- rial, '"The Amazing Marriage, describes a bit of low life in the White Chapel region of London in manner that will surprise even Meredith's admir- CTS.
 Robert Grants series on 1.-The Art of Living" is continued with a paper on "Occupation," dealing with the problem that confronts the American young man and his father. The pictures by Cline dinst are of unusual cleverness.
 William Winter has weird poem, Unto the Darkness" conversation be- tween lovers, one of whom is dying.
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 The weekly paper which for fifteen years has been known as Harper's Young People will beginning with it's issue of April 3O bear the title Harper's Round Table.
 sCurrent Literature is still unrivaled as 'ak magazine for the people. The May number is crowded with good things, and the plan of it's editing makes it invaluable ito the progressive reader.
 Women's colleges receive Dr. Park hurst's attention in the May Ladies' Home Journal, and the vigor with which he treats the subject is unmistakable. The fact that Florence Nightingale reaches the ripe age of 75 this month is made the basis for an interesting sketch of '"The Angel of the Crimea," as she is today, showing a new portrait of her and a view of her London home. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is tenderly reminiscent of her father, the late Austin Phelps, in the series of "The Man Who Most Influenced Me" Edward Box answers, with much force and directness, a page of Prob lems of Young Men" There is strong flavor of interesting biography to this portraits of the home lives and personal ities of "The Wives of Three Authors" Mrs. George w. Cable, Mrs. Conan Doyle and Mrs. Thomas Hardy. being given on one page, while Frank s. Guild gives a sketch of the popular artist, Alice Bar Der Stephens. and Ethel Mackenzie Me Kenna writes of Marie Corelli John Kendrick Bangs is irresistibly funny in his report of the sixth meeting of "The Paradise Club.' The full score of the '"Concert Mazurka," by the weil-known composer, Bruno Oscar Klein, the piano composition which won the second prize in the Journals musical series, is given. Timely articles are Mrs. Mallon's Dainty Commencement Gowns and ''The Silks of the Summer" Miss Hooper writes of '"fhe Newest Dress Designs" and Mrs. Hamilton Mott contributes valuable article on "The Art of Travelling Abroad" Women who are ordering their summer stationery will be interested in Mrs. Gar rett Webster's article on '"The New Circle for Stationery" Ecclesiastical Elm broidery," by Harriet Ogdens Morrison, is illustrated from original designs. The cover of this May Journal is a reproduc- ton of one of Albert Lynch's beautiful girls, set into an artistic frame.
 
 Harper's maintains it's reputation as the best collection of short stories." The May number contains three, each treating a phase of American life and each widely different from the others in scene and manner. Owen Wister's La TiDaja Bonita" is a love-story of Arizona, with desert and drought for a back ground; Robert Grant, in By Hook or Crook relates an incident in the social career of prosperous Boston architect, and Julian Ralph, in Dutch Kitty's White Slippers" introduces his readers to another set of People We Pass in the east side of New York.
 Edna Lyall, whose name at home is Edna Bayley, is described: Slight and fragile in appearance, with a quiet, rest ful face, full of expression, kindly, thoughtful eyes, firm mouth, high, in-. tellectual forehead and an abundance of dark brown hair.''
 Pierre Loti," in private life, answers to the name of Julien Wand, and bears the title of "sailor lieutenant. "
 Mrs Reginald de Koven, who has just published "The Sawdust Doll," novel, ette of New York society life, is daugh- fnf fNf Ion I7N lionaire, and a sister of Mrs. Hobart Chatfield-Taylor. 'The Sawdust Doll' Is a trifie spasmodic, and in the way of women writers, the author has made the