The Republican journal., 1899-01-26
Literary News and Notes.

No recent volume of American short
stories has been received with such uni
| verSal favor as Old Chester Tales, bv
Mrs. Margaret Deland. Their merit was
instantly recognized in the United States,
| they have made quite sensation in Eng
land, and now Mrs. Deland has been re-
quested for permission to translate them
| into French In view of the fact that
they have been published only few
weeks, Mrs. Deland is certainly to be con-
graduated, and she is sure of high place
| in the history of American literature of
the nineteenth century.
10 have written thirty volumes in
twelve years is a considerable achieve
ment, especially when they are so popular
as those of MI. Kirk Munroe, who has ac-
complished this record, according to
Literature, published by Harper & Broth
ers. This year Mr.. Munroe has written In
Pirate Waters, Just brought out by Messfs
| Blackie, and Forward March. a story of
the late Spanish American war; now run
ming in Harper's Round Table, and he
/ has in hand a third for a Boston publisher
and still another for Messls. Sclibnel' S.
MI, Munroe lives at the extreme southern
point OF Florida, and cultivates mangoes,
pineappes and oranges.
''God is good to the Irish. was the
motto inscribed over a pipe crossed on
whisky bottle, which the witty Dion Bou-
cicault invented Ton the coat OF arms of the
''Shaughiaun Club" This Interpretation
of the purposes of Divine Providence
would seem to be borne out by an article
in the January Cosmopolitan treating of
the Irish leaders of the nation, and show
ing that not only has England Lord VOL
seley, Lord Roberts, and Kitchener,
but that Spain has a Duke of Tetuan Rus
STA General Oblutschetf, and Hungary a
Nlscount Taafe, not to mention an endless
array OF other Irshmen who have reflect
ed honor upon their native land.
The event of the literary year will be,
undoubtedly, the great novel upon which
Count Tolstoy has been laboring in order
that he may devote the proceeds to the
transportation to Canada of three thous-
and Russian Quakers. 1t is generally be-
, Eeved by his friends that this work will
probably mark the conclusion of Count
Tolstoy's literary career. Not merely On
this account, but because of the subject
treated, it will attract the widest atten-
I ton, the world over. 1t is profound
study of the life of man and woman, and
/ treats OF the three phases of love-that of
! the youth, that of the young man, and
that of the man of mature age. The Cos
mopolitan Magazine announces that it
has secured the sole right of publication
Among the valuable features of the
present issue of Literature, published by
Harpers & Brothers, are reviews of Rud-
yard Kipling's last book, a Fleet in Being
of very interesting work, entitled A
| History of Gambling, and of Dickens
| Christmas Books, etc. The leading arti-
Gle discusses the literature of Christmas,
and among My Books is written by
the Rev. S. Barring Gould. The fourth
paper on American literary types treats
the typical society novelist, and in the
"Foreien Letters the literature of France
is carefully reviewed. Mr.. E. Nesbit con-
tributes poem entitled Work." and
there is an interesting article under the
caption, 1.-THE Biographical Thackeray,
that tells how his daughter came to write
the admirable biographical introductions
for each volume OF Harper's new and
complete edition of Thackeray's works.