Middletown transcript., 1897-07-31
LITERARY NOTES.


out ignoring serious interests, it justifes its
title in an eminent and most entertaining
degree. A complete novelette, by Rudyard
Kpling, dealing with school life in Eng
land and army life in India, and obvious,
ly written straight and hot from the au-
thors own personal experience, would
alone, especially with its admirable illus
trations, make the number distinguished.
But there are four or five shorter stories
stories by Conan Doyle, Robert Barr, John
Kendrick Bangs, and others. each more or
less novel and enticing in incident and in
terest, and most of them also attractiVeiy
illustrated. The number is notable, fur
thermore, in its poetry. James Whitcomb-
Riley, in one of his best dialect poems. de
picts the varying aspects of "0ur Queer
Old World" under the successive points of
view between youth and age; Cy Warman,
in "Will the Lights be White" gives tender
and flowing utterance to the hopes of an
old engineer as swift towards life's termi-
nar' he trends; and Albert Bigelow Paine,
in short poem of quite unusual quality,
and with intention deeper than his words
express, marks how the shadow of 0mar's
mosque once "crept across Gethsemane."
Madame Blanc, the well-known French
novelist and writer in the 'Revwe des deu1
Mondes," gives very lively and vivid
sketch of the "Paris Gamin;" and in illus
tration of this, the French artist Boutet de
Monvel has made drawing of the ganain
from the life, which is the frontispiece of
the number. Hamlin Garland drawing on
unpublished documents and the testimony
of eyewitness es, supplies very precise
and detailed description of Lincoln's 6rst
meeting with Grant. The meeting occurred,
somewhat Unexpectedly to Lincoln, in the
course of public reception at the White
House, when Grant had gone on to Wash
ington from Nashville to receive in person
his commission as Lieutenant General. An
illustrated article by H. J. W. Dam por-
trays and pictures in all its details the cur
ious and dangerous life and work in the
great dynamite factory at Ardeer, Scot
land.
Harper's Weekly of July 81 will contain
several featur res of particular interest and
timeliness, among them illustrated articles
on the Recent Mining Congress IN Dem
ver," and on the New Niagara Bridges"
Rev. F. E. Clark, President of the Society
of Christian Endeavor, win write of the re-
cent convention in San Francisco, Henry
James will contribute letter from Lon
don, and there will be capital golf story
entitled Colonel Bogie, "by Gustave Kobbe,
with three illustrations by w. T. Smedley.
The number will also contain illustrated
descriptive articles on Hawaii, and on the
Scandinavian Exhibition in Stockholm,
the latter by W. s. Harwood. the Weekly
special correspondent
Harpers Bazaar of July 81 will contain a
practical and useful article of particular in
terest to students of music, on The Plan
lists Left Hand" by Aubertin Woodward
Moore. and clever sketch by Marion Har-
land, entitled "The Feathered Ishmae-
lite"
Harper's Round Table of July 81
contains hunting story by the Hon. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, shooting the Prong
Buck"; short story by Henry G. Paine,
''The Mutiny of the Fresh-Air Pirates; an
instalment of Captain Charles Kings serial
story, Corporal Fred's Commission" and
of Molly Elliott Seawelrs narrative of ad-
venture "The Rock of the Lion; a short
story by John Kendrick Bangs, 1.-THE Loss
ofthe Gretchen b.; and ar article on
"How Ship is Nayigated," by Captain
Howard Patterson.
Harper's Magazine for August will be par
ticularly strong in fiction, with short stories
by Frederick Remington, Owen Wister,
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Bliss Perry,
Mary NJ. Mears, Mary Berri Chapman. and
Alice Duer, and with the second INSTALL
ment of 'Kentuckians," /" by John Fox, Jr.
A no table feature of the number will be an
article on "The Inauguration" by Richard
Harding Davis, similar in character to the
vivid description of "The Coronation of the
Gar" which Mr.. Davis published in the
Magazine few months ago.
Mr.. Charles A. Conant, of the New York
Journal of Commerce. contributes to the
American Monthly Review of Reviews for
August an admirable exposition of the new
tariff law. His article is intended to tell
the business man what he may expect from
the operation of the schedules. So much
of the newspaper discussion of the Dingley
bill has been warped by partisanship that
the ordinary citizen is at loss to know
the real animus of the measure or its
probable bearings on individual and gem
eral interests. Mr.. Conant writes with
moderation and candor; his article is cal
culated to enlighten the public on q topic
that requires first of all impartiality in
treatment.