The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-01-10
Literary Notes.

Apropos of the current discussion Of
anti-toxine. the alleged diphtheria RENE
dy, and its merits, the editor of the Re-
view of Reviews, in progress of the
World calls attention to the decline of
such od.fashioned maladies as smallpox
and typhoid fever and the increased
efforts of modern sanitary science to
grapple with children's diseases, especi-
ally diphtheria and scarlet fever. The
frontispece is "A portrait OF Robert
Louis Stevenson; the same number con-
tains another picture of the late novelist
IA sketch drawn from life by that clever
illustrator, Victor Gribayedoh. There
are also portraits of Professor RouX.
Mackenzie Bowel, Sir John Thompson,
Dean Hole, the Sultan of Turkey, the
Princess Bismarck, and other prominent
personages.
An article in the January Atlantic
which will be likely to attract the atten-
ton of thoughtful readers is Mr.. John H..
Denison's. The Survival OF the American
Type 18th courage aud ffankness
not always found in writer's on publio
affairs he describes the political Situation
especially in the larger cities, where the
establishment of an ignorAnt> aud alien
domination compels these wlfo-belleve in
genuine American governmental ideas to
fight the battle for liberty over again,
while an extreme humanitarianism often
obscures the line between justice and
generosity. The whole paper is sugges-
tive, and will probably excite comment
of various kinds. Fiction Is well repre-
scented in the number, which contains
not only the first installment of \ Singu-
lar Lille, a serial by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, but the opening portion Of \
Village Stradivarius, a characteristic
two-part story by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
and an amusing and yet somewhat
pathetic country story by Alice Brown,
Joint Owners in Spain.
McClure's Magazine for January de
monstrates anew the thoroughness of
Miss Tarbell's study OF Napoleon'S
career. \ new Jungle story by kipling,
and ii thrilling battle story BY Conan
DOYLE. show these authors At their best.
Professor DruInmond's fascinating pen
was never used TO better advantage than
i'm his article about -. l.. Moody, whose
remarkable work in Great Britain mark
ed an epoch in the founding of Christian
institutions. Mr.. Edwards, who wrote
Il splendid character study of DR.. Park
hurst for the Magazine few months
ago. summarizes here his recent services
in purifying the government Of New
York city. The Magazine las IL new
kind of article b., Edward Marshall,
treating the stag" aud describing the
imp 'rtant plays and players now before
the public.
The following ar" some Of the impOr-
tant ARTICLES IN be found in the January
Forum AR Our Moral Stan tar Is
Shiflng:" By Professor Albert Bush
nell Hart, of Harvard; The Huniiat-
;ng Report of the Strike Commission,
bv Mr.. II. p Robinson editor of the
Railway Age" ''IS the Existing In
come Tax unconstitutional? by Mr..
David \. Wells. Mr.. james schoulcr,
the historian, points out some "Grave
Dangers in orr Presidential Election
system = THE CruX of the Money Con
tree rsy: Has cold Risen?' by Louis
4. Garnet. Is an elaborate and eXhauS
rive argument; The Pay and Rank OF
by Capt. Henry King,
editor of the ST. Louis "Globe-Dcmo-
crat = The Proper Training and the
Future of the Indians" by Maj. J. w.
Powell; "a New Aid to L lncation,' by
VIM. X. Eastman; "'rhe Labor Church:
Religion of the Labor Movement" by
John Trevor, its founder; and "Mother-
hood and Cilizenship; Woman's Wisest
Policv,n by Mrs. Spencer 'frask. There
are fifteen articles in all, of unusual and
timely interest.
Nearly all the most popular authors
seem to have been drawn upon by the
editor of The Ladies' Home journal to
insure to his readers n particularly in
tercsting year during 1885 Jerome Il
Jerome; Bret lIarte will have new love
story. while Frank X. Stockton has
given the journal not less than three Of
his quaintest and drollest short tales
Mrs Burton Harrison; Mrs. \. ID. I.
whitney; Madame Nordica and Jessie
Davis will tell of the care of tie
voice; Mr. Howells; Dir. Parkhnrst;
Edward Bethany will add "A chapter to
his Looking Backward" Eugene Field,
Bill Nye. John Kendrck Bangs and
Robert j. Burdette will supply the
humor; Conan Doyle; Frances Iodgson
Burnett. the late Jane Austin, Julia
Magruder and Elizabeth Bellamv; Kate
Greenaway is to draw her quaint little
tots of women for the first time for ii
while unique article on
"Mrs. shakespeare will present all that
is known of Shakespeare's wife; Mar
garet Deland. Sarah Orne Jewett and
Mrs. Burton Harrison will discuss
''Whcn Lady: When Woman; Regi-
nnd de koven has given his new song,
while other famous composers will also
be represented by songs, marches
and values. And in this representative
manncs The Ladies' Home Journal will
really cover every interesting phase Of
contemporary life,-especially that of
woman.