The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-07

a long sest want has AZ l.~- hosa graft
fed. TIE average stasar. has rad 70
chance wAatsoeve- . read The attest
French literary publications II t1sEr
native writing.
TIE conplete aoetical works OF Joaquin
Miller. Tho Poet q the Sferrax." VIII hs
published II one large volume December
:. ls... The book viii be published ~
ne nss2keE and Ray Company. 81 San
Francisco.
Tie November issue Of the American
queen - a. ThzrksgsvIng numher fun CT
good and interesting stories. T.hss popg-
ar E1Agazaae IS one OF the best gentle
~ornens papers and gaze-tss o. fashion.
and Is within the reach OF ALI
The Price OF Wife" By John Strange
Winter. IL the complete story in the No
veuseer Lsppincosts- Il Is an interesting
article, written In the authors best VEIN
TIE other stories are as Interesting as
usual IN this popular monthly.
The revival OF business has reached the
book and art trade As in other lines q
business the improvement in books began
In the West, and mas spread rapidly last
ward Prom all points come reports Of
busy printers, overworksd binders, and
large orders
In the American Monthly Review Of Re-
views for November. Mr. William T. Cole
gives an account OF E1Etcn's interesting
experiment in Offering free organ recItais
10 the public. The success Of this expert
nent should lead ID similar undertak-
sngs IN other cities
: The Overland Monthly is advertising sx-
tensiyely an interesting Missing Word
Contest. The sentence they give Is:
The - had fed away from these two
wanderers" This is taken from New
40 oil =izs-z -
Is a household word.
Miss BracdOn has again determined %
show her skin in the revised historical
romance OF which her London Pride
was a successful example Her new
story - named In High Places" and
deals with the court life OF Charles II.
IN France and later in England
The Engineering Magazine for Noveua-
Der. tn the leading article by Hiram s.
Maxim. upon the effects OF Trade Union
ism Upon Skilled Mechanics" furnishes
most important contribution TO the dis
cuss4on OF one OF the fundamental prob
lens confronting the modern industrial
world.
THE Army Mule" humorous war
sketches by Capt. Henry A Castle Of 81.
Paul. and Illustrated by j. w Vawter
the publishers report as in its second
edition. The author is a newspaper maa
and was recently appointed auditor of the
posiofiice department by President Nc
kinley.
The prospectus OF the New England
magazine for 1898 comes in the shape OF
miniature reproduction Of the cover Of the
September number. between which are
some most hattering announcements.
which, II carried out, will place some
literary delieacies before the magazines
readers for the coming year.
Apropos of Literature" the new peri
odical Of literary criticism. shortly to be
launched by the London Times and
Messrs. Harper and Brothers. il is an
nouneed that Mr. Barrett Wendell. assist
ant professor of English at Harvard col
lege. will contribute weekly a letter upon
topics of literary interest in America.
The publication Of ION Many Seas" by
f. Hamblen. has drawn many "old salts"
from their hiding places. The skipper
Of the bark Midas. under whom the
author sailed. has written to him an
amusing letter. all the more creditabie TO
his good nature inasmuch as his nautical
autocracy was painted with a somewhat
broad brush.
An interesting letter of Daniel Web
ster. written many years ago, TO be read
at certain celebration on Cape Cod, and
never hitherto published, appears in the
current number OF the New England
magazine. accompanied by full-page re-
production or the portrait OF Webster in
Healy's great painting Of ''Webster's Re-
ply TO Hsyne.''
The first number OF Carter's Monthly
to reach this Office was received this
week. II comes a little too late for a
thorough review for this weeks literary
column. but al q glance will say that the
two stories. Alaska and the Klondike"
written by the magazines own corre-
spondent. and Thirty Years In Chicago"
viii prove good reading.
Dodd, Mead e. Co, have set the ball a
rolling for 1898 calendars. The one re-
ceived this week from them is called 1.-THE
Maelaren Kalendar." The decorative de-
signs are unique and are by William
Swelling Eadaway. On each of the pages
/ OF this instructive publication are TO be
found short sketches from Maclaren's
best writings, and the DAYS Of the months
are illustrated with some of his dear
Scottish proverbs. When 1t IS placed on
sale this artistic bit OF publishers Joy
should find a ready demand.
Ruskin's Oxford lectures on landscape,
which are now about 10 be published for
the first time, group themselves under
three heads They deal with outline
with light and shade. and finally with
color. Il used TO be said Of Ruskln that
he slept with $500 worth OF Turner'S in
his bedroom. Some of these ara repro
uuced in the book, and Il VIII have at
least one sketch by himself. This Is a
drawing Of the Gness Rock IN Glenfinias
done at the time MiilaIs was painting
Ruskin's portrait.
The dingy bookshop is Of the past. The
literary mart OF the day must be bright.
cheerful and well appointed Several
!, weeks ago in London Messrs. Macmillan
& Co opened their new establishment
near Leicester square, and that exact
neighborhood brings with Il many reral-
niscences Of literary past The name
Of Isaac Newton Is associated with the
square. and Fanny Burney wrote here
her 'Evelina.' There. too. close by. once
on a time Sir Joshua Reynolds ard
Hogarth painted their pictures.
The Age Of Cheap hooks