The Republican journal., 1897-05-27
Literary News and Notes.

In Harpers Bazaar of May 30, Gilbert
Parker, author of "The Seats of the
Mighty and other novels which have at
tanned wide popularity in recent years,
will begin new serial entitled "Cumnor's
Wife. 1t is said to be a striking story of
Anglo-Indian life, Astounding in dramatic
situations. 1t will be illustrated by Frank
Dadd
William Allen White, the young Kansas
editor, orator, and story writer, who
makes distinct Chit whenever he speaks
OF writes, because there is blood and real
ity in whatever he is moved to say has
written a new short story of Kansas life
"a Decoration Day story-which will APP
pear in McClure's Magazine for June,
with abundant Illustrations.
Harper's Magazine for June contains
the first iustalment of a novel by Frank
Il. Stock ton, THE Great Stone of Sardis, -
humorous romance of the twentieth
century, salient feature of which is a
submarine expedition to the North Pole.
The illustrations, prepared by Peter
Newell, not only represent the artists
work at its best, but are unusually SYM
pathetic to the genius of the author.
Greece and Crete are at present attract
ing great deal of attention from the
whole world. 1t is hard to realize that
the former is country practically bank
lupt, that the population is but two mil
lions, within a territory only half the size
of the State of New Y o1k and the latter
is an island only half as large again as
Long Island. These and many other in
teresting statements appear in Benjamin
1de Wheeler s article in the June Atlantic
on Greece and the Eastern Question.
Apropos of the sixtieth anniversary of
the reign of Queen Victoria, the June
number of McClure's Magazine will con-
tain a series of life portraits of the Queen,
the earliest showing her, a child on her
mothers lap, at the age OF two years; the
next at four, the next at five, and SO on,
almost year by year, down to the present
day. The reproduction will be, in most
instances, directly from the originals, and
by the finest process. No such series has
ever been published before.
We have received from Loring, Short &
Harmon, Portland, modest and taste
fully printed little book entitled "a Slight
Romance" 1t bears the imprint of the
Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, and this is
the second edition. The author, Edith
Leverett Dunton, is unknown to us; but
our Portland exchanges speak of it as her
first book, and the press generally has
commended it highly. The Church, Bos
ton, says: ''New England life is revealed
from the inside by one who evidently
knows and loves its features"
William j. Shearer, Superintendent of
Schools at Elizabeth, N. j., has evolved
a system for grading students in the pub
lie schools which allows, more than any
other ever has, for the individuality of
the student. The success of his system
has attracted to it the attention of all
thoughtful educators, and he has written
in the June Atlantic most interesting
and instructive description of it under
the title 1.-THE Lock-Step in the Public
School," incidentally he shows the weak
points in the usual grading system, and
points out effective remedies.
McClure's Magazine for June will open
with an article by Prof. S. P. Langley,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
describing the ''fying machine" that he
himself has lately completed, after ten
years of laborious experiment, and which
is the first ''hying- machine ever made
by man, that has actually flown. The
article will be fully illustrated from draw
ings and photographs made under Prof
Langley's own direction. In view of the
great interest and importance of the sub
ject, and of the fact that it is Prof. Lang
ley's own account of his machine, the
article is bound to attract wide attention.
The latest fashion news may be had
from A. Mcdowell & Co., West 18th
Street, New York, who publish the only
cheap imported Fashion Journal sold in
this country. ''La Mode de Paris is
$3.50 year, IS cts. copy, and 'French
Dressmaker' is $500 year, 80 cts. a
copy. These journals make a special
feature of lessons on practical dressmak
ing each month. During the next six
months they will give series of lessons
on bicycle costumes which will be of great
interest to both professional and amateur
dressmakers. If you cannot secure these
books at your newsdealers, send direct to
| the publishers.
Even catarrh, that dread breeder of con
ammunition hS tn the HEALING int1Il.