The age-herald., 1898-11-06

Davis contribution on "The Porto Rican Campaign" Of it he says: Porto Rico was a picnic because the commanding generals would not permit the enemy to make it otherwise. The Spaniards were willing to make 1t another nightmare-they were just as ready to kill in Porto Rico as in Cuba-but our commanding general in Porto Rico was able to prevent their doing so performance of any sort al- ways appears the most easy when we see it we'll done by an expert-even golf looks possible as Whigham plays it."
 MT. Davis description of the Porto Rican campaign Is just as enthusiastic and vivid in its praise as were the burning periods of his Santiago articles raging at the spec tacle of official neglect and commissioned ignorance" Mir Davis says that people do not more concerning the Porto Rican expedition from the fact that the majority of newspaper correspondents were detained in Cuba by sickness and quarantine, and that those who reached the island were too few in numbers to give the expedition the acclaim" it deserved MT. Davis "The War of 189S." drawn principally from his magazine articles. will be published some time in November IL will be of interest to know that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is also to write the story of the war. His work will first appear serially in Scribners. His first installment will be a picturesque story of the Rough Riders, from the in- ception of the original idea to the muster ii6 Odt VI ehS AoAhOoo AS6AAhShe'
 Apropos of articles upon the campaign in Cuba, 1t will be welcome news to Ala bamians to learn that the first volume pub lished upon the campaign in Cuba is writ ten by our own beloved hero of Santiago, Maor General Joseph Wheeler. It was said in New York editorial that his vol ume is ''so soldierly in Its brevity, so char acteristic in it's terseness. that 1t is quite as much biography as history. but It's very f&- so ably took charge of enthusiastic. deter mined and courageous soldiers and led them on in difficult and hazardous cam paign. thereby saving the honor of the American army in Cuba is worthy of our attention when he steps aside from the busy scenes of his triumphal homecoming and writse of the work done in Cuba. Every Alabamian should read General Wheeler's able and tersely written book.
 Another article of intense interest at present is written by Captain F. B. Chad wick, commanding the flagship New York, and entitled, "The Navy in the War; The article. which is minute and full of inter- esting details, has an accompanying dia- gram showing the disposition of the squad ron at Santiago
 A striking feature of the current Scrib- ner is some unusually attractive work by c. D. Gibson. The pictures are called "A New York Day-Night," and give views of 'The Musician '"The Club,' After the
 
 Gibson's most characteristic style, and are consequently of great value.
 
 Harper's can always be relied upon for collation. of good things that never fall to please the most capricious taste. Fred eric Remington contributes an initial H. lustration, Captain Crimes Battery Co., ing Up Fl Paso Hill" which is especially fine. He also contributes an article, With the Fifth Corps" illustrated by some of xtkr rrAFlrx xyaf iyl ton with war articles.
 Virginia Frazer Boyle, who will be pleas- antly remembered as the author of "Brok- enburne,' contributes poem. entitled s"The Apotheosis of War;
 "Aye. turn old world, to see them proudly
 stand.
 A warp of gray upon a wool of blue; Aye pause to see a brutal horde storm
 swept
 In freedoms name by prowess tried and
 true
 Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle is a resident of Memphis. Tenn having spent the great CT part of her life there, and is an author- ess of whom the south is justly proud.
 The Literary Notes" this month are written by John Kendrick Bangs. He has some especially good things to say about the present very popular tendency of fic- ton towards prodigious amount of "head splitting and shedding of blood. in con- trast to the authors old-time speculations upon important events. MT Bangs says that 1t Is not for him to decide which Is the healthier style of fiction. and as for the enjoyment of either when Howells essays the keenest analysis of a seemingly unm- portant motive. the motive appears worth analyzing, if only from the manner of the effort: and when a Stevenson takes nc through a series of head-crackings and blood-lettings that appali. even a Quaker leg must beat time to the music of his style.
 In Lippincott's. Mrs. Burton Harrison