The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-04-21
Literary Notes.

hundred copies day since issue.
Harper's Bazaar for April includes,
besides the usual well-known fashion
features, the beginning of an important
series on Household Sanitation by Mrs.
II. NJ. Plunket.
In the way of personal memoirs of the
Civil War, there has been nothing more
interesting published than Charles A.
Dana's "Reminiscences, and much the
most interesting of these thus far is the
paper in McClure's Magazine for April,
giving Mr.. Danas recollections OF
Lincoln and his Cabinet.
In the April Atlantic, paper on the
| Teaching of English is strong and
convincing argument by Professor Mark
Ii. I.iddell, upon the necessity OF study
ing and teaching our mother tongue,
through the structure and idioms of its
own historical grammer, discsrding class
icisms and foreign innovations.
Miss Lillian Bell, who is visiting
Europe for the first time, recording her
impressions and observations in The
Ladies' Home Journal, writes from
Berlin to the April number OF that mag
azne, that lit would be utterly impossl-
bic for the American girl to be more
exauisitely misunderstood than she is by
the French and Germans"
SPANS naval strength is the subject of
large drawing in Harper's Weekly for
April lean Illustration Of uncommon
interest, accompanying an article on the
same subject. The information cotained
in this article is complied mainly from
List of the Battle-ships, Cruisers, and
Torpedo-boats in the Spanish Navy,
prepared in the Military Information
Division of the Adiutant- Generals Office
at Washington.
The April Century contains number
of articles on Pennsylvania coal mining,
one of them by Jay Hambridge the
artist, who contributes IAN artists I'm
pressions of the Colliery Region" The
illustrations include views In Lattimer,
where the recent strikes occurred, and
Mr.. Hambridge has made great num-
Der of interesting sketches OF the many
types of people that he found in the
! colleries. The Italians are called "Hi-
kes," and other foreigners-Slovaks,
Polacks, etc.-sre grouped under the
name Of Hunks"
Harper's Magazine for April contains
an illustrated article on "The Closing
Scene at Appomattox,' describing the
famous meeting between Grant and Lee,
by General George A. Forsyth, U. s. A.,
a member OF Sheridan's staff on intimate
terms with his chief; character sketch
by Morgan Robertson, entitled "Primor-
DIAL 10 which he portrays humorously
The development of civilized child cast
upon an uninhabited tropical island; an
account by Sidney Whitman, F. r. G. s.,
author of "Imperial Germany" of the
commercial rivalry existing between
England and Germany.
In the April number of Scribners'
Magazine the new feature is the first
part of Richard Harding Davis short
serial "The Kings Jackal." This is the
dramatic tale of an exile king, and the
action takes place at Tangier in the
space of thrty-six hours. 1t contains
some very good comedy scene, and the
characters are of that cosmopolitan
cleverness that Mr.. Davis delights TO
depict. A beautiful American heiress Is
the heroine, and newspaper CORE
spondent is the real hero. Mr.. Gibson
will make a full-page drawing for each
of the four parts of the story.
The April Number of The Outlook has
a special decorative Easter cover design
ed by Miss Grace Norton. 1t cOntaines
several illustrated features Of particular
interest and of special timeliness. The
installment for the month Of DR.. Hale's
articles on ".James Russell Lowell and
His Friends" is even more readable than
its predecessors. 1t takes up Lowell's
early life as man Of letters, his associa-
tions and first achievements, and is
throughout full OF anecdote and pleasant
"Reminiscences. The illustration includes
remarkable portrait of Hawthorne
from an early crayon drawing by East
man johnson
Harper's Round Table for April-a
very strong number-opens with CAPT
tai story entitled 1.-THE Taking of Ma
laxa" by John F. Bass who represented
a London paper at the front during the
recent war In Crete and in Greece.
Other contents includes stirring poem,
"a Ballad of Apia Bay" by Rowan
Stevens, based upon the incidents attend
ing the cyclone 10 Samoa, which wrecked
the American and German warships; an
paper entitled "Training Animals for
SlTCus 1IiCho, ouu q OohoiuuoeiOh VI IL
B. Marriott Watson's exciting treasure
trove story, 1.-The Adventures.
Harper's Weekly is extending its field
in many directions. In pursuance of its
policy to be the Nations Journal and to
publish such news of the whole country
and of the world as will have perma-
nent value it does not wait for news to
come to it, but it dispatches correspon-
dents to points of particular interest.
At Havana, for example, Harold Martin
has been watching the outcome of the
Maine disaster; Tappan Adney Is at the
Klondike, and Caspar Whitney has been
making his way through Central Asia
and Europe on sporting tour From
London, the metropolis of European
rews, Arnold White sends regular let
tiers; and the investigations recently
made by Franklin Matthews in the
States of the Middle West are set forth
during April In the series of articles,
bright Skies in the West"
The announcement that Anthony
Hopes novel. rupert of Hentzau," now
running in McClure,s Magazine, is soon
to appear in book form is an error. 1t
cannot so appear until it has concluded
in McClures, and this will not be until
midsummer at least. In its serial public
atiou. the story is now at its most absorb
ing stage. For second time, the hero
of 1.-The Prisoner of Zenda,n Rudolf
Rassendyll, finds himself forced to imper-
senate Rudolf the King of Ruritsnia,
whom he so closly resembles, and he and
b;c fr;anhc are N the I,tmoct avtrep,itv in