The Republican journal., 1896-07-30
Literary News and Notes.

The New Noon for July contains enter
tanning short stories, sketches and edito-
rial departments. New Moon Pub. Co..
Lowell Mass.
The Midsummer (July) number OF
American Homes, a journal devoted to
planning, building and beautifying the
home, contains many tine illustrations, in
Guiding interior and exterior views, and
the letter press is suggestive and interest
ing. American Homes Pub. Co., Knox
vile, Tenn.
1t is a glimpse of typical frontier
town that Mrs. Catherwoud gives us in
her new Atlantic story. The struggles
and adventures of two young men who
start new railroad are described with
much humor and force. Nothing could
be better character drawing than the two
men themselves, one dreamer with high
literary ideals and no practical ability,
the other hustler trying to keep his
whimsical partner from offending one or
the other faction in the town and church
and laboring through the week to get
enough money to meet the demands of
paying off Saturday night.
Lafacadio Hearn writes for the August
number of the Atlantic an explanation of
japanese art which gives the Western
reader the japanese point of view,-a
thing that has never before been so plain
ly done; and European drawing is critics.
ed from the japanese point of view.
Other papers in the August Atlantic are
the final instalment of the letters of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti; a sympathetic re-
view of Eugene Field career and works,
poem by Mr.. Aldrich, and an invigora-
ting account of a caribou hunt in Canada
when the mercury stood twenty degrees
below zero.
The August McClure's justifies its title
of a Mid summer Fiction Number in
five short stories, all of them of such
fresh and ready interest that one can read
them without forcing himself and in spite
of heat and humidity. Octave Thanet
contributes strong story of Western
life; Stephen Crane relates dramatic
episode in the later life of the hero of
The Red Badge of Courage;' Clinton
Ross tells booming battle story, based
on Perry historic victory on Lake Erie;
t. NJ. Thomson tells a humorous tale of
the Canadian fishermen; and Annie Eliot
describes double love episode in Yale
and Harvard boat race. 1t is not often
that five really good stories, as these GER
tainly are, get into single magazine.
Then, in addition, there is in this number
a fairly ''stunning'' instalment of Anthony
Hopes new romance, "Phroso.'
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