Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Two very important facts in connec.
ton with the new era of magazines are
illustrated in the December Cosmopoli-
tan. Its fiction is by Stevenson, the
last story written before his death,
"Ouida" Sara Grand, Zangwill, and
the beginning of James Lane Allen s
new Kentucky realistic story, Butter.
flies" Probably no stronger array of
fiction has ever been presented in any
magazine-money could not buy bet
ter. Nor has any magazine ever had
larger number of really distinguished
artists engaged upon the illustration of
single number. The reader might be
puzzled to see how such a number can
be made at the price of ten cents. But
the magazine itself affords the solution.
1t contains l38 pages of advertising,
which, as the publishers announce, is
from Sd, 900 to $4,000 more net cash ad.
vertising than was ever before printed
in any magazine, of any kind, and in
any country. 1t breaks the worlds
record in the publishing business.
Moreover, the cost of the artists and au-
thors who appear in this number is di.
vided amongst 100000 copies, bring
the cost per copy proportionately low.
The Cosmopolitan thinks that the ten
cent magazine, bringing, as it does, the
best in art and literature into all clas.
ses, is an educational movement sec.
ond in importance only to that of the
public schools.
The Review of Reviews for Decem.
Der, in Its Progress of the World
department, plunges as usual into the
discussion of important current topics.
The assembling of the Fifty Fourth
Congress, at home, and the disturbed
condition of Turkey and some of the
European powers at this moment pre-.
sent questions which call for extended
comment this month. The editor also
devotes several paragraphs to the boun-
Diary dispute between Great Britain
and Venezuela, and the results of the
recent elections in various States are
reviewed and summarized. But this
department of the Review is by no
means confined in its range to political
or governmental affairs; it Covers
such subjects as the foundation of the
Luther League of America, the doings
of Schlatter, the 80 called Healer -
in Denver, noteworthy events in the
educational world Mr.. Rockefeller's
latest gift to the University of Chicago,
the inauguration of new president at
Colgate University, ETC., and bio
graphical notes on important men and
women who have died during the
month (Evgene Field, Signor Bonghi
and others.
The extraordinary interest in Sena
tor Sherman's s book is simple iustifica
tlon of the sixteen page review of that
work which appears in the Review of
Reviews. President E. Benjamin An
drews, the reviewer, has culled many
passages from the "Recollectionsn
which have not received attention in
the newspaper notices, the latter hav.
ing concerned themselves chiefly with
the episodes of 1888 and other Presi.
dental campaign years. President
Andrews well says: John Sherman 8
is the record of a remarkable life, the
tracing of which brings the reader
face to face with all the main events
of our national history during the last
half century. Of our financial history
during and since the war Mr.. Sher
mans new autobiography gives the
most interesting, luminous and trust
worthy account yet published, one for
which students in this branch of our
affairs will be profoundly grateful.