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than $4,000 in any one year Zola's annual
income is believed to be about 100000.
particularly bright and attractive number
OF Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly is that for
February. 1t has long list of good articles
and capital short stories, and almost every
thing is illustrated.
Mary E. wilkins is engaged in writing ser
les OF striking sketches OF New England neigh
borhoOd life for the Ladies' Home Journal
They will portray a small community's social
indulgences, sketching the old fashioned
quilting-party, the time-worn singing g-school
and an apple-paring bee.
The third revised edition of q detailed
course, Qualitative Chemical Analysis" with
explanatory notes, by Arthur A. Noyes, Ph. D. ,
assistant professor of chemistry in the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, published b.
the Macmillan Company, is now in prepara-
tion and will appear early in February.
Henry Patmore, son of the late Coventry
Patmore, is said to give promise OF unusual
poetic genius. Some of his poems have a.
ready been prin ted for private distribution.
They are not unlike those of his father in his
most fanciful and delicate mood, and are rich
in originality and an intensely pure
charm. One of them appeared in the London
Athen@um several years ago.
Mrs. Julia Taft Bayne has written for the
February st. Nicholas an article about "Willie
and Tad Lincoln" While the Presidents sons
were living in the White House Mrs. Bayne's
brother was their most intimate playmate,
and she herself, then a young girl, saw much If
them. Mrs. Bayne describes the pranks OF the
Lincoln boys, and tells OF a minstrel show
that was given in the White House.
off in tba Civil will
contribute 10 & discussion in the February
Century of the paper by Duncan Rose, "Why
the ConfederacY Failed" published in a re-
cent number OF this magazine. The writer's
are: Generals S. D. Lee Joseph Wheeler E.
P. Alexander and E. NJ. Law OF the Confed-
crate army, anG Generals Don Carlos Buell., o.
o. Howard and Jacob D. Cox OF the Union
army.
"a Great Hotel" which appears in the Feb
ruaTy Scribner's as the second article on 1.-THE
Conduct OF Great Businesses" gives some
astounding facts as to this modern develop
ment OF one OF the oldest businesses in the
world. There are as many employees in great
hotel as there are guests; there is q man whose
whole duty it is TO wind clocks; one head
waiter in great hotel owns yacht aId q
summer residence; and hotels have their 'pri-
vate black smith and paint shops.
The advance sheets of book OF short stories
by James S. Tyler, the wen-known marine
reporter of the Bulletin, entitled "Stories OF
Land and Sea-" have been received here. The
volume will be published in New York and
placed on sale in ali the principal cities of the
United States. 1t contains collection of
| stories of adventure and romance, many of
which have never been printed in the papers
| or periodicals, although some of the selections
are from sea yarns written by the author for
! the New York and San Francisco papers.
Those who desire copies OF the book may order
them in advance by addressing Mr.. Tyler, care
/ OF the Bulletin.
1t seems that Janet Carlyle, Thomas Car
lyle's sister, is still alive. The rector of Rip
ley, in Bruce County, Ontario, writes to the
Worcesters Chronicle: MRS Robert
Hanning, the Janet Carlyle of Froude's remi-
niscences (my much-beloved mother-in-law),
is keeping in excellent health for lady who
passed her eighty-third birthday on July 1s
last. She is now the last of the Carlyles, and q
melancholy interest attaches to her. Her
present residence is at Comely Bank Farm,
near Oakville, in Halton County, Ontario, the
home of Mrs. John r. Leslie, her eldest
daughter. She passes most OF her time in her
room, rereading many OF her brothers works,
certain favori!e religious authors, and her
Bible"
"Under the Pacific is the title of the Lip
pincotts Magazine novel for February-a
story of treasure-hunting among the Ladrone
Islands, in which the author, Clarence Her
bert New, has evidently drawn upon pers onal
experience as traveller to give a realistic mar
rative which comes well within the range of
possibility. His two heroes conceive the idea
that an attempt to recover upward of three
millions from the hulk of an old Spanish
galleon, which lies four fathoms under water
upon one OF the coral reefs, might be success
full under certain conditions; and reasonin g
out their method of procedure upon theoretic
grounds they actually secure the money, en-
JOY several weeks OF delightful tropic life
among the Spanish islanders, and finally
marry two Audalusian girls who have helped
them to outwit Philippine Bishop, also in
search of the treasure. chart OF their yoyag e
is published in the magazine.
The Macmillan Company announce an in
teresting volume under the title of ''Geog-
raphy of the Middle Ages" by c. Raymond
Beazley, author of volume in the "Heroes of
the Nations" series, entitled Henry the Navi-
gator, the Hero of Portugal and the Modern
Discovery" In his new work he shows how
very much geography owes to the early pill
grim travellers, who at different periods did so
much to increase the limits of western geog-
raphy. He shows that such ideas as were gen.
er ally held during the middle ages as to the
geography of the earth were due to two
sources aside from the important one men
toned above. OF these two one was gradually
increasing commercial and missionary travel,
and the other the writings of theorists merely,
untraveled students, mostly theologians,
whose works are many of them described by
Mr. Beazley. To this class, at least. in part,
belongs the weil-known collection of stories
known as the "Sinbad Tales"
New Yorks famous thoroughfare, Broadway
has been the scene of some wonderful events,
but the one scene which still STANDS as the
most remarkable, in point of enthusiasm, is
Louis Kossuth's famous ride up Broadway in
1851. Kossuth had already seen and passed
through a crowd of 100000 people in his
triumphal ride up the great thoroughfare
The eliminating moment however, occurred
when the great Hungarian patriot reached the
corner of Broadway and Ann street. The sight
that burst upon him staggered him for the
moment. In the open square directly before
him was massed together quarter of a million
of people, and when this vast concourse broke
into a united cheer Kossuth was fairly be-
wildered. No man saw this great event so
well and advantageously as did Parke Goodwin,
the veteran New York editor and Kessuth's
closest friend in America. Mr.. Goodwin was
with Kossuth, and for the first time he will
now tell the story of the marvellous event in
the February Ladies' Home Journal. The
actual scene at Ann street will also be shown
in picture by De Thulstrup, showing Koss lth
in his carriage as the great scene burst upon