The Somerset reporter., 1895-10-03
Literary Notes.

st. Nicholas has secured series of
letters written by Robert Louis Steven
son to boy-relative, describing the
authors romantic life in Samoa.
Mrs de Navarro MARY Anderson) has
now completed the autobiography of her
stage career, and series of the most in
teresting chapters from the manuscript
will be printed in The Ladies' Home
journal. In these articles Mrs. de
Navarro will tell of her first appearance
on the stage, the experiences of her
theatrical life, and the famous people in
America and England whose acquaint-
ance she made. The journal will begin
the autobiography in an early issue.
one would scarcely expect the story of
the making of pair of equestrian
statues Of Lincoln and Grant to be as in
teresting as a piece of fiction; but this it
truly proves to be in McClure's Maya
zine for October, where Mr., Cleveland
Moftett describes the long and patient
labors of the artists O'Donovan and
Eakins. first in the collection and study
of documents and the discovery of suit
able living models for horse and rider,
and then in the actual modelling of the
life-size statues lately completed by
them for the Brooklyn memorial arch.
An important paper, "The Future in
Relation to American Naval Power" is
contributed to the October Harper's by
Captain A. T. Mahan, L. 5. n, who adj
vocates the maintenance of a strong
navy, not only for national defence, but
for the promotion of the interests of the
United States in the international com.
al al "a n 4
the near future through the growing
importance of China aid Japan and the
approaching absorption of all the un-
claimed islands of the sea by the great
powers of the world.
There have been many recent discus
siOns in the magazines and new spapei'
of the arid lands of The West, and We
have heard something of the fruitful
wheat fields of the Canadian Northwest
No paper has ever appeared in which
these two subjects have been so graph
cally or thoroughly presented in theil
relations to each other rs the paper upor
American Emigration to the Canadian
Northwest" by 5. \. Thompson, in the
October number of the New England
Magazine. The future of the Canadian
Northwest as presented by Mr.. Thomp
son is certainly II brilliant one.
Marion Crawford is writing for Tn,
Century magazine series of papers OIL
Rome and the Vatican for which Andre
CastaigDe is drawing the illustrations
These articles will describe unusual feat
urcs of the Sacred City, and the picture
will include some remarkable restora
! tons of classical scenes. Captain ALFRED
/ Mahan, the great naval tactician, viii
also write for the magazine a series o
four studies of the naval engagement
upon which the fame of Admiral Lor'
Nelson is founded. Henry NJ, Stanle.
| Will contribute paper on Africa. 10 b
supplemented by articles made up fror
the diary and journals of the late +. j
Glaye, who died few months ago o
the Congo.
The Oetobe Forum has the followin
table of contents: The Present AspeC
of the Silver Question, Hon. Charles
Fairchld; Well Meant but Futile Benz
Violence The Remedy, Charles
Thwng; Significance of the Englis
Elections: A Crisis in English History
Sir Herbert Maxwell, M. P; Causes {
the Liberal Defeat, George w. f. Rul
sell; "Why, Whence. and Whittier!
Justin Mccarthy; The Renascenc'
Richard Burton; Demand and Suppl
under Socialism, w. II. Mallock; tn
Resusctation of Blue-Laws, Louis Wint