The Republican journal., 1896-09-03
Literary News and Notes.

''The Art of Driving" in the Septem-
Der Harper's gives to owners of carriage
horses just the information that unskilled
drivers need regarding the best means of
improving the speed and endurance of the
horse. The article also contains useful
hints regarding the horse and his driver.
''Tom Sawyer, Detective,'' Mark
Twain's latest story, is finished in the
September Harper's in generous install
ment, embellished with eleven illustra-
tons by A. B. Frost. This dramatic
story of life in the middle West, genera
ton ago, seems likely to add to the repu
tation of even so famous a parsonage as
Mr. Clemens we'll known hero.
The Forum for September will contain
an article that for dramatic interest has
probably never been excelled. 1t is en-
titled "Fre and Sword in Cuba" and it is
an absolutely trustworthy history of the
present instruction in Cuba up to Cam
pos downfall, "a thrilling and intensely
interesting article. The author, Mr..
Clarence King, has travelled the island
widely, and enjoys the friendship and
confidence of the leaders of the revolution.
Now and then some writer gives us a
vivid picture of some phase of lie about
which we have heard much and really
know little, and the picture comes as a
revelation. Mrs. Lille Chace Wyman has
done this in a series of short tales of life
experiences in a Massachusetts factory
valley which will appear in the September
Atlantic. The life conditions and sur
roundings of factory girls have perhaps
never before been so clearly set forth,
Miss Anna c. Bracket, in an article called
Among the Trees" in the September
Harper Magazine, advocates forestry as
an attractive and healthful pursuit for
women, and, it must be owned, makes
out strong case for an occupation in
which she evidently delights. An &C
quaintance with trees is not only a source
of keen enjoyment to the person who
knows them, but it is capable of promot-
ing the general good to so great degree
that the encouragement of the art of for
estry is in the nature of public benefac-
ton.
DR.. Weir Mitchell has been engaged for
several years on a novel which will give
peculiar satisfaction to those who rejoice
in the able and worthy treatment of
American life and character in American
fiction. The storyis called "Hugh Wynne,
Free Quaker and will begin as a serial
in the November Century. Those who
have read the manuscript say that it is
not only DR.. Mitchell S masterpiece, but
will rank as one of the greatest American
novels The scene is laid in Philadelphia
before and during the Revolutionary War,
and among the characters are Washington,
Franklin, Lafayette, Benedict Arnold, and
Mnin TIa of ho
served on General Washington's staff
The Hon. Andrew D. White, EXPIRES
ident of Cornell University, has written a
very important article for the September
Forum, entitled ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the
Present Crisis DR.. White emphasizes very
strongly the serious character of the crisis
which confronts us, points out the anar
chic and socialistic forces and tendencies
which lie behind it, gives some parallels
in history which reveal the dangers just
now threatening us, but which also indi-
cate our means of meeting them, "a pro-
foundly interesting article. In the same
number Mr.. Isaac l.. Rice, the we'll
known lawyer under the significant title,
Thou Shalt Not Steal,' severely critcises
the Chicago platform and the utterances
of its candidate.
1t is announced that the publishers
of the old standard electic weekly, Lit
tells Living Age, founded by E. Littell
in 1914, are about to introduce several
new and valuable features in their maya
zine. The most important of these is a
Monthly Supplement, given without adj
ditional cost to the subscribers, which
will contain Readings from American
Magazines Readings from New Books, and
also list of Books Of the Month. 1t is
also proposed to extend their field by Civ
my occasional TRANSACTIONS of noteworthy
articles from the French, German, Spanish
and Italian reviews and magazines A
years subscription to the The Living Age,
will then include more than thrty-tive
hundred pages, filled with the best things
in current periodical and general litera-
ture, and making four large Volumes for
only six dollars.