The Republican journal., 1896-05-28
Literary News and Notes.

Longfellow's cottage at Nahant has beer
burned; and the fire in the Concord woods
has burned over the site of Thoreau S
hut, and over woodland once owned by
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The fire fiend has
no reverence for literary associations.
1.-The Education of Women in Turkey
is the interesting theme of an article by
Miss Mary Mills Patrick, President of the
American College for Girls, Constantine
pie, whose educational work among the
women of Turkey, extending over num-
Der of years, entities her to write with
authority on this question.
The Metric System, which has recently
been before both Congress and the British
Parliament is discussed by Herbert Spen-
Ger in a series of letters to appear in APP
pletons' Popular Science Monthly for June.
Mr.. Spencer vigorously opposes the further
spread of the system, and points out the
advantages of one based ON the number
twelve
Secretaries Olney and Carlisle recently
consented, for the first time since they
held office, to be photographed seated at
their desks, The pictures We're taken al
the request of The Ladies' Home journal,
and will be used to illustrate eX-President
Harrison's article describing the workings
OF the State Department in the July num-
Der OF that magazine.
The June Forum will contain an article
10y DR.. NJ. NJ. Mangasarian--a cultivated
and highly educated Armenian entitled
"Armenia' $ Impending Doom: Our Duty
Dr. Mangasalian dispassionately reviews
recent events i'll Armenia and makes an
eloquent appeal to the Christian Powers
especially to the United States-to inter
vene and save his nation from extinction.
We acknowledge the receipt of An
thony' Photographic Bulletin for May, a
fifty page magazine filled from cover to
cover with articles of more than passing
interest and replete with helpful hints for
professional and amateur photographers.
The illustrations are beautiful. the frontis-
piece, cluster OF roses colored to life,
alone being worth the price of the num-
Der. The Bulletin is published by f. Il
Ii. Anthony 4 Co., 80 Broadway, New
DIRK. at - year.
Bret Harte new story and jerome K
Jerome's latest piece OF fiction have both
been secured by The Ladies' Home Jour
nal for immediate publication. Jerome $
story is called "keginald Blake: Finan-
cler and Cad, and sketches an incident
in fashionable London society. Bret Harte
calls his story ''The IndiscTeton of Els
beth, and pictures the romance of a
young American who falls in love with a
German princess, masquerading as a dairy
maid.
That New York City consumes nine
hundred and sixty million eggs IN one
year; nearly three hundred thousand
pounds of butter every day; and as many
gallons of milk; that it eats three hun
dred and five million pounds of beef in a
year seems astounding. And yet these
figures are, in reality, very moderate cal
culatlons which MI. John Gilmer Speed
has reached upon exhaustive investiga-
ton, and embodied in an article on Feed
Ing City Like New York" which he has
written for The Ladies' Home journal.
An article by Yates Shilling, Jr., entitled
CRUISE OF a Commerce Destroyer" in
Harper $ Round Table, published May 2G,
gives vivld picture of what an almored
cruiser is expected to do in time of war
70 the same number Cyrus c. Adams, the
authority on African geography, has
contributed very interesting article on
African exploration, which he entities
solving Geographical Conumdrum. -
There is third paper on Practical Golf
by W. .. van Tassel Sutphen; a delight
full little play 10y Edith V. Brander
Matthews, entitled The Armenian Re
LET Committee of Washington Square, a
description of shad catching in the Hud-
son River: alsD an install ment of Marion
al lad 4 I
Nchoo-t'irl, and Kirk Munroe's serial
entitled ''Rick Dale
McClure's Magazine for June contains
a little battle study 10y Stephen Crane
that. i'll its way, is more dramatic and
striking than even ''The Red Badge of
Courage" the novel by Nh. Crane which
IS now attracting so much attention both
IN America and England 1t shows, I'M
mistakably, the hand of genius. While
presenting with the stlictest realism all
the grmness OF war, it is pleasant. and
even humorous, in the denonement. An
other bit of most distinguished fiction in
the same number, is Kudyard Kipline' S
lin the Rukh'-one OF kiplings earlier
stories, but also one of his best. RELATING
how that ever entertaining orphan of the
jungle, Mowgli, made acquaintance with
white men and became lover Add to
these Cy Warman' S marvellous true tale of
The Locomotive that Lost HERSELF and
an lnstalment of Anthony Hopes ''Phro-
so fairly bursting with love and adven-
ture, and certainly, ON the side of fiction
at least, this number of McClure's would
be hard to approach. All of these pieces
have the added attraction of good pic
lures.
The June number of Harpers Magazine
opens with "a Visit to Athens" vivid
descriptive sketch by the Rt. Rev. William
Croswell Doane. The illustrations, by
Guy Rose, indicate picturesquely the
antique setting in which the modern city
reposes. John Kendrick Bangs is the
author of ga Rebellious Heroine,'' a
short serial with new and characteristic
cally humorous theme, the first part of
which is given in this number, with illus
trations by W. 7. Smedley 1.-THE Great
est Pointer of Modern Germany is the
title OF paper ON Adolf Mcneil by Dr.
Charles Waldstein, illustrated with ex-
amples of the artists work, several of
which have not been reproduced hitherto
+. ID. L. Chambers contributes an enthu-
siastic paper on the delights of fishing.
under the title 1.-THE Ouananiche and its
Canadian Environment. Another out
door article, the second of Howard