The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-12
LITERARY NOTES.

The festive announcement of tn,
1000th number of Blackwood's Maya
zine naturally sends one back to No
l of the same periodical to see wha
progress the world has been making
in the meantime. One finds a forma
not materially different from the for
nal of the present day, together Will
an editorial manifesto which, to thu
| modern reader, savors of remote anti
guilty. A writer in Literature, pub
lished by Harper & Brothers, gives al
interesting description of the first mum
Der of this old and honored periodical
The magazine is announced as a re
pository- in small capitals-and thos,
who send unacceptable MSS. are treat
| ed with considerable freedom. 9Th,
paper by 'Junius,' we there read, 81:
in many respects interesting, but it is
unfortunately, so overloaded with flint
! writing as to be quite unfit for oul
| humble miscellany in its presen
shape" The original editors We're Mr.
| Cleghorn, an actuary, and Mr.. Prin.
gle, a poet; but they soon uuarrellet
with William Blackwood, who invited
them to retire. Their acrimonious cor
respondence with him is bound up witt
the second volume of the magazine
The impartial critic. as he surveys theil
| handiwork. inclines to the opinion that
If they had not been got rid of, tn,
magazine would have died. "A veal
and washy production" is Mrs. Oil
plants description of it; and it wa.
presumably for the purpose of breaking
away from weak and washy" tradi
tions that the title was changed
Though the numbering was continu
ous) from the Edinburgh Monthly
Magazine to Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine,
Literature. which has been a purely
English magazine, began with this yea
to appear as an American periodical
The American edition will be printed
by the Harpers. and while much of the
matter IN the English edition will b.
used. more attention will be paid thar
heretofore to American books anC
American authors. Several prominent
American writer's have been secured
as contributors.
| What promises to be one of the great
biographical works of the year will be
brought out by Harper & Brothers in
| the collection of letters by Michael
| Angelo in the Buonarotti archives
There are about 500 of them, and they
will appear simultaneously in English
| italian and French. Miss Helen Zim-
mern ie making the English translation
The authorities of Edinburg. Scot
land, are disposed to be iconoclastic
The old house in High street where AL
| len Ramsay lived has been demolished
| in order to effect improvements. and
! that other old building in which the
| national covenant was signed in 1885
win also be pulled down. The much
visited house of John Knox is, it is said
claiming the attention of the authori-
| ties, who regard it as an obstruction
| to the street traffic, While the Iron
church. long associated with the Bac-
chanalian observance of Hogomanay by
! Edinburgh citizens, will most likely
| have to be sacrificed.
''The Trail of the Gold Seekers is the
title of a new book by Mr.. Hamlin Gar
land, which The Macmillan Company
will publish in June. 1t is the literary
result of his trip over the trail last year
when he led a pack-train from Ash
croft, British Columbia, to the Stickeen
| River and afterwards Joined the
miners stampede for the Atlin Lake
country. The same firm also announces
| that they will publish in March a new
| edition of "The Rose of butchers
| Coolly." Mr.. Garland has changed the
| spelling of the last word of this title sc
that it will henceforth run THE Rose OF
butchers Coule." A new edition Of
Main Travelled Roads" with some add
| ed stories will be brought out in April
and In May the same publishers viii
bring out a new edition of Mr. Gar.
lands Prairie Folks" In October they
will publish another new book by Mr.
Garland which will be called boy Life
ON the Prairie
| G. P Putnam's Sons will publish
shortly Methods and Problems O.
Spiritual Healing by Horatio w
Dresser. author of THE Power of 81
lence," etc. This book is expected t.
prove of interest to all who are invest
igating the problem of mental cure, Of
cure by suggestion. 1t makes a care
full study of the phenomena of meta
physical healing, and is the result of {
| long series of careful Investigations O.
the subject.
In connection with the publication O.
this new volume, Messrs. Putnam have
J arranged to take over from George H
/ Ellis of Boston the publication of thu
entire series of the works Of Mr.. Dress
er, of which new editions will shortly
be in readiness.
And still they come. The Doubleday
& Mcclure Company is about to pub
fish Stephen BonsaPs account of thu
| Cuban expedition under the title "Tht
Fight for Santiago" This STORY O
the soldier in the Cuban campaign from
Tampa to the surrender" is put fortI
as an unbiased summing up of thu
whole course of military operations
from the standpoint of trained CORE
spondent who went through the Who'll,
trying campaign himself. The same
firm will publish Immediately DR.. Mau
rus JokaiS Hungarian Nabob," which
is considered by some authorities tn,
best work Of that prolific author Mr.
Frank Norris is a favorite whose new
novel, 'McTeague,'' will be awaited
with interest.
THE Downfall of the Dervishes," by
E. N. Bennett, special correspondent OF
the Westminster Gazette, appeared
from the press of the New Amsterdam
Book Company. Tuesday. Its publica.
ton is likely to renew the excitement
provoked by the authors serious
charges regarding the treatment of the
wounded dervishes.
A series of four Child Life Readers
by Eta Austin Blaisdell, supervisor Of
schools, Brockton, will be published 81
an early date by the Macmillan Com.
pany. Each volume will be profusely
illustrated in line and color The scope
and contents of the series may be gath
cred by the titles, which are: l. Chile
Life II. Child Life IN Tale and Fable
i III. Child Life in Many Lands. w
Child Life in History
In England the tend ancy toward low
priced books is shown in the sixpenny
editions lately issued, Of Maurice Hew-
lett's Forest Lovers" and Stevens
with Kitchener to Khartoum."
Mr. TuStip McCtartbv,e UIo aro;ni.oo,