Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-13
LITERARY NOTES.

THE Beautiful Models of Paris, ," in
the March Cosmopolitan, satisfy long
felt curiosity in regard to the women
who have been posing for the worlds
famous paintings. The Cosmopolitan
has carefully gathered collection of
the most famous of these portraits and
has used them to illustrate an interest.
ing article by a distinguished French
critic, Fr. Thiebault Sisson. Nor does
the beauty of the originals fall short of
the ideal on the painters canvass. In
the same number is delightful article
about the famed sea girt isle, for SO
many centuries fortress and prison
Mont Saint Michel. Pearl Diving and
Its Perils," by an English naval officer,
written from personal experience, is
perhaps the most thrilling tale of ex-
ploration of the oceans depths ever put
on paper. The fiction of this number
is unusually entertaining.
"The Progress of the World" in the
March Review of Reviews is chapter
of running comment on the important
events of the past month. These are
some of the topics treated: The Loss of
the Elbe and the Safety of Ocean Tray
ell, The New Government Loan, The
Incapacity of Congress, The Future of
Gold Production, American Confidence,
Engineers and Public Works, Our Gov
ernmental Architecture, Decorative
Art in the Boston Public Library, New
York City s New Administration, The
Brooklyn Street Railway Strike, ia
pans Recent Victories, The Trial of the
Hawaiian Conspirators, President
Cleveland 8 Arbitration Between Brazil
and the Argentine Republic, British
Politics, London Council Elections,
French Affairs, The Late NJ. de Giers,
of Russia, Crispi and the King Of Italy,
George Peabody 8 Anniversary, and the
great names on the months neurology
roll. There are portraits of Capt. Won
Goessel, of the Elbe; Capt Baudelon,
of La Gascogne; August Belmont and
Lord Rothschild, DR.. George S. Nor
rison, President of the American Socl.
ETY. of Civil Engineers Col. Craighill,
of the Army Engineers; E. A. Abby the
mural designer for the Boston Public
Library; Col. Waring, of New York,
the late Marshal Canrobert, NJ. Ribot,
the late NJ. de Giers, the Rev. DR.. A. j.
Gordon, the Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Taylor,
Prof. j. R. Seely, Dr. Alfred L Loomis,
and the late Dougless Putnam, of Ma.
rietta, Ohio. illustrations are givenof
the city halls of Vienna and Philadel.
phia by way of contrast). the new
Boston Public Library, the Putnam
house at Rutland, Mass, and other in
teresting buildings.
The Review of Reviews has interest.
ed itself in the movement to revive an
appreciation of the services of Rufus
Putnam, the Massachusetts Revolu.
tionary hero and Ohio pioneer. This
movement has taken definite form in
the purchase by an association of the
old Putnam house at Rutland, Mass,
and the organization of the Quabang
Historical Society at North Brookield,
in that State. The March Review pub.
fishes illustrations of Rufus Putnam's
Massachusetts, and Ohio homes, and q
portrait of Douglas Putnam, who re-
Gently died at Marietta, Ohio.
The Review of Reviews for March, in
accordance with its custom, discusses
the work of the various State Legisla-
lures, thirty three of which were in ses-
sion during January and February.
The Reviews al ticle gives the results
of recent correspondence with officers
and members of these legislative bodies
in all parts of the country, thus form
ing unique contribution to current
political information.
An interesting sketch of the historian,
John Clark Ridpath, "a typical man of
the Ohio Valley and the Northwest, "
appears in the March Review of Re-
views. DR.. Ridpath's Popular Histo-
ry of the United States" is said to have
had sale of nearly 100000 copies, and
his other works have been remarkably
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