The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-31
LITERARY NOTES,

The brilliant August number of
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. which
is the regular Midsummer Fiction
Number (of this periodical, may fairly
be called an epoch-maklng achievement
In ten-cent magazine literature. a sum-
mary glance ut Its table of contents
serves to justify this claim. Here In q
single number are included stories by
f. Hopkinson Smith. A.. Conan Doyle,
Mary E. Wilkins, Edgar Fawcett, Alix
John, Marietta Holly ("Josiah Aliens
.Wife"), and r. X. Munkittrick: illus
trated articles by the lnfanta Eulalie,
of Spain; Captain Robert L. Lee. and
the Kew. w. 3. Rankin; and poems by
Harriet Prescott Spofrord, Edith NJ.
Thomas. Samuel Aiinturn Peck, Ethel
Morse. Frank L.Stanton, William Ham
ilton Hayne, Madison Cawein, Henry
Tyrrell, Martha McCulloch- Williams,
Hattie Whitney, Roy Farrell Greene,
and Wallace Dunbar Vincent. The con-
tributions OF these well known and pop
ular writer's are presented with the COL
liberation of illustrators equally Ia
nous. including Albert B. WenZei, y.
West Cllnedinst. Charles Grunwald,
Hugh NJ. Eaton. G. A. Davis. Walter
Russell. George Banowitz, H. c.. Ed
wards and II. S. Eddy,
One OF the department heads at
Washington recently wrote an article
for The Ladies' Home Journal which
required the Presidents approval for
publication. The President asked that
the article be given TO him. At the end
OF n week the manuscript came back
a Il IL. ILL.
editorial admiration. The President
was, apparently thoroughly conversant
with all the marks editors use in max
ing corrections. Every erasure and In
terlIneatlon had its proper sign. and
each was in the Presidents own hand
writing. ia $40 |.
= The Midsummer Fiction Number OF
McClure's Magazine with cover by
Louis Loeb suggesting by Its rich
warm coloring the lassitude Of the sea-
son, and with strong list of well
known adopts in the art OF story tell
ing, produces at once q pleasing impress
sion. To this number Frank Ii. Spear
man contributes the first Of new Sc
rics of railway stories, telling Of the
exciting race of n train of Yellowst one
Park .excursionists with runaway
freight" Jack London the young
Californian. has In this Issue Il tale OF
the perllous journey of n filondike
miner and his Indian wife to obtain
relief for starving camp; this story
Is Imaginative In the highest degree,
and possesses striking local color and
extraordinary pathetic force. Another
strong story Is "a Bill from Tinuny's"
by Josiah Flynt. the well known ex-
plorer Of tramp and criminal life, and
Francis Walton. The life of metrOpoli-
tan policemen and OF professional
thieves Is graphically Portrayed: and
there Is keen relish In the account
of the means by which Detective Char
ley Mlnick secured funds for the pus.,
chase Of his wife's jewels.
China and the iron trade. the two
topics OF absorbing interest. occupy the
leading positions In the August num-
Der OF The Engineering Magazine. Mr..
George II. Hull, writing on the latter
topic, offers evidence that mischief
making blooms" and paralyzlne dcpres-
slons have their source solely In abnor-
NAL fluctuations In the price of iron.
The rise of 1899 will be followed by
disastrous stagnation unless the great
iron masters are wise enough TO nut
prices down promptly to nearly normal
figures, Mr.. John Foord, secretary Of
the American Asiatic Association, secs
In the present turbulence the Regenera-
ton OF China; "in n carnival OF blood
and rupine. Il new China has been
BORN The outcome Of the present sea-
son OF horror will be n rapidly OF ad-
vance rivalling that of Japan, with n
progressive government. supported Mt
n,,pt lao, Ity. ~ 49,
powers. .sN,,
One of the most valuable things in
the really superb Issue OF Success for
August Is n symposium by Elizabeth
Cndy Stanton. Jeanette l.. Glider md
Elizabeth b. Grnnnis, on the question:
SHOULD the Country Girl Go to the
city," The veteran Mrs. Stanton takes
the position that girls cannot sit up in
the Adlrondacks and study medicine,
law. theology philosophy and the arts
and sciences. They must go to the great
cities to attain tho best results, and
nfterward they must go TO the city or
wherever their choice OF work leads
them. Mira. Grnnnis doubts the ad-
Visibility of n general migration of
country-brcd girls to the cities, largely
because the dangers are greater than
tHt p'hcltS 'iiit may bt ituhlTtu, NllSE
Glider admits that "ns n rule she SHOULD
noN" but contends very forcibly that
the sclf-rcspecting girl the, one who
means business. who goes with mn
earnest purpose In view, In just ms safe
In the city as In the country-somc-
times safer. ~
Mr.. james LancEAllcn's now novel
1.-THE Reign OF Law" is one which, we
fancy. VIII provoke considerable dis
cusslon and protest. The hero OF tho
story Is young. Theological student,
who, beginning his life with the mos:
dcvout and 'lcen-roOtcd faith, becomes
In time so nlirnn,ed from the creed
which he atms to preach TINT he Open
~ question: ind doilog hin preccptprs,
md goes back Thoroughly cmbIttercd
ana doubling 10 the hemp-nclds OF his
early bQyhdod, This aplrlt OF, doubt IL
maintained TO the end. Love comes In