The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-25
Notes.

In simple dress, BELTS the unpreten-
tlous character of It's contents, comes "a
! Bundle Of Rushes." a collection of dialect
rhymes from the pen Of FRANKLIN w. Lee.
It is the third of the pamphlet series Of Mr..
Lees verses being issued from the press
Of the Rush City Post. Rush City. MINI.
The next number will be Hearts," a col
! lection Of love rhymes.
Miss Helen Hay daughter Of Col. John
Hay. ambassador of the United States to the
court of st. James, will contribute to the
May Century a sonnet enettled Days to
Come. Gen. Horace Porter, the new am
bassador to France will continue his Cam
patgning With Grant" his special topics be-
ing Grants equanimity and his treatment of
his generals, together with a minute account
OF Grants experiences in the field at the
time of the explosion of the Petersburg mine.
In the editors symposium in the May num-
Der of Current Literature Mr.. Cable gives
his readers more Of patriotism than OF mere
literature. Crete and Cuba The Patriot
ism of Ideas" and Cosmopolitan Patriot
ISM being some of the subjects he discusses.
Hamilton w. Mabie continues his series of
literary essays with an interesting paper
the Growth of Historical Study" and f.
NJ. Hopkins, in his department Of American
Poets Of Today" writes this month of Louise
ImOgen Quincy, and quotes from her works.
The publishers of McC:ure's Magazine an
nounce for The May number. in the way of
fcuiOn-a department in which McClure's new
er fails to be distingushed-the conclusion
of Kiplings great realistic story of the Grand
Banks, Captains Courageous" a further
installment of Robert Louis stevenson's
charming last romance, st. Ives and short
stories by Conan Doyle, Cy Warman and
others.
Two Harvard men, who made literary rep
utations in undergraduate days. since greatly
augmented, will describe undergraduate
Life at Harvard" in the May Scribner's-
Robert Grant author Of The Little Tin
author of "A Little Brother CT the Rich"
cover in colors, from design by Cor
guet, is a feature of the May Scrbaer's.
This magazine announces four beautiful spe-
The New York Critic of April 10 announces
the result Of It's prize competition for the
| best list of the best twelve American short
stories. The prize has gone to J. w. George,
+ OF St Louis, VIII" has selected two stories by
Hawthorne, two by Irving, two by Poe and
one each by Dr.. Hale C'The Man Without a
Country" of course), Bret Harte Frank R.
Stockton, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich and Mary E. wilkins. The
editors add that they do not offer this "as
an ideal list, be it observed but merely as
on the whole, the best of those submitted"
The complete novel in the May issue of
Lippincotts is Jason Hi,dTeth's IDENTITY
1t IS story of unusual originality and pow
er, turning on an incident which has had
precedents in real life, the loss Of memory and
personal identity; but the plot is so deeply
AID skilfully laid that the last pages will
come as surprise to almost every reader.
The May St. Nicholas opens with a frontfs-
piece, The May-Po!e Dance" by c. Relyea,
Illustrating a poem with the same title by
Cornelia Walter McCieary. How Cousin
Marion HeJPed' is story for girls by Alice
Batch Abbot. DR.. Emily G. Hunt describes
in New Jersey. "A White Red SQUIRREL
George b. Smith in q paper entitled Cen