The times., 1899-06-04
LITERARY NOTES.

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The Century for June is called an "out-
of-door number" and contains several ar
ticles or hunting, fishing and ranch life.
The leading article is "Fisherman's Luck,
by Henry Van Dyke. A charming little
story by Ruth McEnery Stuart, "A Note of
Scarlet" is included in this number, and
there is an exceedingly interesting article
by Josiah Flynt on The Tramp and the
Railroads. Other papers of interest are:
After Big Game with Packs" by James
Cooper Ayres, Heroes of Peace" by Gus
tav Kobbe, Sherman on Franco Prussian
Battlefelds," from the diary of General
Sherman; with Lawton at Ell Caney," by
Frank Norris; Niagara" by Mrs. Schuyler
van Rensselaer, illustrated by Castaigne);
| out of Doors in Colorado by II. p.
| Uhord, and out of Doors in Texas by E.
s. Nadal. Two poems of especial merit are
| the work of Hamlin Garland, and Frank
| l.. Stanton.
''Scribner's" for June is mainly composed
of serials and war literature. Percy Nc
Donnel writes of The Battle of the Block
| Houses" and the concluding paper of
Roosevelt's series on the Rough Riders.
appears in this number Joel Chandler
Harris, in his Chronicles of Aunt Minervy
Ann bids fair to rival his inimitable
Uncle Remus" papers; and the present
number of the Major Perdues
Bargain is the best story OF negro life,
two other strong stories in this issue, "A
Burial by Friendless Post by Robert
Shackleton, and "a Victory for the Peo-
| ple,' by William Allen White.
"Harper's" for June contains features of
varied interest. The leading paper is The
Rescue of the Whalers. Shed Journey
of 1,600 Miles in the Arctic Regions" by
Ellsworth P. Berthoff. Homer Beza HUI
| bert, F. r. G. s., writes on Korean In
ventions,' and there is an article by James
| Mooney on "Quivira and the Wichitas."
There are three or four good stories,
among them The Mothers of Honore," by
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, and THE Va
! grant by Richard Harding Davis A SON
net by Mary E. Wilkins, entitled "Cyrano
de Bergerac,' is being widely copied, and
with reason.
| 'McClure's Magazine" for June is unus
ually rich in features of Importance. The
most important is perhaps "Marconfs
| Wireless Telegraphy," by Cleveland Mof-
| fett. There is paper by Oscar King Da-
d.
another on The Deep Mines of Cornwall. 3"
by r. H. sherard. The seventh of the
'Stalky' stories appears in this number,
and is entitled The Last Term In it
Mr.. Kipling has probably described some
| OF his early experiences in the making of
| iterature-and other things. The Rev. C.
u Brady writes in an interesting way of
John Paul Jones' Greatest Fight" and w.
J. Carney describes his experiences with
| Troop NJ on the Frontier
In the June number of the Atlantic"
begins the new serial, "To Have and to
Hold, by Mary Johnston. author of '.Pris-
oners of Hope" There also appears the
first of series of articles on the CORE
spondence between Bayard Taylor and Sid
ney Lanier. Jacob A Riis writes of The
Tenement House Blight" and Harriet Wa
tiers Preston contributes a paper on Rob
| ert and Elizabeth Browning" The best
OF the fiction is The Man at the Wheel. -
a story OF the Soudan by Gilbert Parker.
There is poem in memory of Archibald
Lampman, 1.-The Bereavement of the
Fields" by Wilfrid Campbell, which is
very much in LampmaD's own manner
The leading articles in the Forum for
June are Common Schools in the Larger
Cities, by Andrew s. Draper; The Cr:-
sis in the Church of England" by F.. A.
Charming, NJ. p; THE Value of Porto
Rico, by Robert 7. Hill, OF the Geologi-
cal Survey; Insurance of Property
Against War Risks by Lieut. Commander
w. w. Kimball, of the gunboat Vixen;
"England's Decadence in the West Indies, -
by Brooks Adams, author of Civilization
and Decay" and Why Dumas Novels
Last" by Prof. G. R. Carpenter of Co
lumbia University.
The Cosmopolitan" for June contains
as its leading article THE Ideal and Prac-
tical Organization of Home" which is
composed OF the suggestions of fifty young
women, compiled by a committee. Robert
Lawrence Packard writes of conditions in
the Philippines. and C. Francis Jenkins OF
How 20 Secure Expression in Photog-
raphy." The most important of the short
stories is John Gayther and the GaIleon, -
by Frank r. Stockton Harry Thurston
Peck writes a scathing article on The
Woman of Today and of Tomorrow" scor-
ing the new woman" as he conceives her
to be- When Mrs Charlotte Perkins Stet-
son answers Mr.. Peck in the July number
there Will be amusement for the Gallios
of this generation.
Among the features of interest in the
| Pail Mall Magazine" for June are conjri-
buttons by Rosamund Marriott Watson, C.
Dana Gibson, L. Nesbit, Augustus J. C.
Hare, S. R. Crockett, Dora Greenwell Nc
| Chesney, and Others
"St Nicholas for June contains, among
other things "a Little Talk About the
Philippine Islands," by Rosalie Kaufman,
and verses by John Vance Cheney. James
Buckman, and Gelett Burgess. There is
also a fascinating Irish sketch by Gerald
Brenan.
Mr. E. Kay Robinson, in his KipIing
"reminiscences contributed to Literature "
points out the relation between Soldiers
Three and "Stalky and Co" and gives
some quotations from School Boy Lyrics, -
which was privately printed in 1881. when
| Kipling was only seventeen. In a differ
ent rank of life" says Mr.. Robinson
" 'Stalky and Co. are merely Mulvaney
Ortheris, and Learoyd in their teens" Here
are the opening verses of THE Dusky
Crew" which Mr.. Robinson quotes:
Our heads were rough and our hands were blacl
With the inkstain's midnight hue,
We secuted ALL both great and small;
We were n dusky crew;
And each boys hand against US raised
'Gainst me, and the other two.
We chased the hare from her secret lair,
We roamed the woodlands through;
In parks and grounds far out Of bounds
Wandered our dusky crew;
And the keepers sworc 10 see us pass
Me, and the other two.
Our lettuccs are dead and gone,
Our plans have fallen through
We wander free in misery,
We are a wretched crew;
For a masters wrath has fallen US
On me, and the other two.