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Literary News and Notes.


and Mrs Kate Douglas Wiggin's wise and
witty Penelope's Progress still continues.
The first installment of an interesting
and instructive illustrated paper on Feet
and Hands, 10y NJ. Bernard, will appear in
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for
January. The wonderful processes Of
evolution are beautifully traced by NJ.
Bernard in his discussion of the ditferen-
tiation of these appendices, which, as he
shows, were undoubtedly in the remote
past practically Identical.
The next chapter of Charles A. Dana S
"reminiscences of Men and Events of the
Civil War;" now publishing in Mcclure S
Magazine, will give Mr.. Dana's expert
ences and observations in daily life with
Grant through the siege and at the fall of
NickSburg. 1t will contain more of the
unpublished correspondence between him
self and Mr.. Stanton, and afford new light
generally on people and incidents.
The feature which will attract all lovers
of modern romantic fiction to the January
Atlantic is the first installment of Gilbert
Parker's new story, The Battle of the
Strong, which promises to be one of his
best and strongest works. 1t transports
isle of Jersey in the year 1871, on the eve
of the French attack upon the island
The movement of the story be-
gins with an energy and quickness that
engages immediate attention and arouses
strong interest in what is to follow.
McClure's Magazine for January will
contain the first of series of articles by
Herbert Z. Hamblen describing, from
fifteen years personal experience, the
daily life and disasters of railroad work
man. Mr.. Hamblen is the author of con
Many Seas a record of his own sailor
adventures and experiences that has had
great sale. He knows the life of the
railroad as thoroughly as he knows the
life of the sea, and his forthcoming papers
can not fail to be interesting The first
will give his experiences as a brakeman
in the yard and on the road. The papers
will be illustrated with drawings from life
by W. d. Stevens.
The January Outing is the holiday num-
Der OF this best of sporting publications.
The richly -colured cover is suggestive of
merry times out If doors, and The mum
ben is filled with se5s,nable and Teadabl
sketches of sport, travel and adventure
in many lands. The art work is very fine
Notable features incii de-: "Holly,N a
complete story, by Justine Z. Ingelsol;
'Rabbits and Rabbiting, by Ed. W.
Sandys; "Canadian Winter PaStimes, y by
Geo. W. orion; 'Spolt in Jamaica, by
l.. c. shirley; ''Talpon FiShing,N by O.
Z. Hay: lice Yachtng,' by H. p Ash
ley, and 'Ice Hockey by j. p Paret
The editorial and record departments are
very complete.
The number of The Living Age for the
week ending January LIST begins a new
volume and a new year of that standard
periodical. In this volume the striking
serial story, "With all her Heart" trans
lated expressly for The Living Age from
the French of Rene Bazin, will be con-
tinued until its completion. Its conclu-
sion will be Immediately followed by the
publication of a new serial of unusual in
terest In 1895 it enters, with renew ed
interest and vitality, its fifty fifth year
During the year now closing it has widen
ed its scope and enlarged its volumes,
enriching its pages with choice selections
from the works of the most able authors
and men of affairs of Continental Europe,
on subjects of Intelligent and timely in
terest, and given in Monthly Supple
ment extracts from leading American
magazines and reading from new books,
thus establishing its claim as the refec-
ton of the whole worlds living litera-
ture.
The leading features in Harper's Maya
zine for January are the first instalment
of "Roden's Corner" serial story by
Henry Seton Merrman (author of The
Sewers illustrated by T. de Thulstrup;
sc T
ton, illustrated from unpublished por-
traits in possession of the author; "The
Blazing Hen Coop" an amusing sketch
en-farming, by Octave Thanet, illustrat-
ed by A B. Frost; ''Frescoes of Runkel-
stein,' by w. d. McCrackan, richly IL
Illustrated; "Massai's Crooked Trail,' an
account of the misdeeds of an Apache
outlaw, by Frederic Remington, illustrat-
ed by tie author; 1.-The King of Beaver,''
MackiLac story, by Mary Hartwell Cath
erwood, illustrated by A. l. Keller; 1.-The
Sixth Sense by Margaret Sutton Bris-
coe; ''Stuttgart The Ancient City," by
Elise }. Allen, abundantly illustrated by
Joseph Pennell; and 1.-THE New North
west" by j. A. Wheelock, editor of the
Pioneer Press of 81. Paul, Minnesota.
70 make Tie Ladies' Home Journal for
1898 ''the best of all the years; the most
cheerful and helpful magazine that wo-
man can possibly have in her home" is
the purpose of its editors, as disclosed by
a prospectus outlining few of the pro-
jected features for the coming year. While
the Journal will be more useful and prac-
teal than ever before, it is made appar-
ent that its literary features will be more
attractive and artistic than ever. A not
able feature, ''The Inner Experiences of
a Cabinet Members Wife, series of
letters from the wife of a Cabinet member
to her sister, will, it is said, reveal some
startling and graphic pen pictures of
Washington social and official life Two
fiction issues, in all over thirty short
stories, are promised during the year. The
stories will be by Mark Twain, F. Marion
Crawford, Hamlin Garland, Mary E.
Wilkins, Julia Magruder, Clara Morris,
Mrs. A. d. L. Whitney and other we'll
known authors. The musical announce
ments for next year include Sousa's new
est composition, 'The Lady of the White
House, dedicated by special permission
to Mrs. Mckinley; sacred songs and hymns
by Fannie Crosby, the blind hymn writer;
Ira D. Sankey, and others quite as promi-
nent in their respective fields 'Inside of
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