The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-04
erald, and there is an article by Prof.

gerald, and there is an article by Prof.
Simon Newcomb on AN Astronomer's
Friendship" OF the fiction, decidedly the
most welcome is the first intallment of
Sarah Orne Jewett's serial, 1.-The Tory
Lover" Kate Douglas Wiggin begins in
this issue another series-announced to
be the 1ast-of the adventures of Pene-
lope. Miranda Harlow's Mortgage" is a
story by Henry B. Fuller. and There Was
Once a Woman is a dainty maginative
sketch by Mary Stewart Cutting. Among
the poems are contributions by Julia C.
r. Dorr. Clinton Scollard, Josephine Pres
ton Peabody, William Hervey Woods, and
Arthur Ketchum.
The most exquisite thing which has been
found in THE Century for a long time is
the frontispiece OF the November number.
1t is reproduction, in faint color tones,
of the portrait bust OF young French GIRL
by Hendrix Christian Anderson. In deli
cate charm it rivals the Unknown Wo-
man" of the Louvre. Scarcely less dainty
are the illustrations, also in color. OF
Maurice Thompson's MY Midwinter Gar
den.'' This is followed by an article on
Andersen. the sculptor. by Mrs. Schuyler
Van Rensselaer,. "a Yankee Correspond
ent in South Africa" is an article by
Julian Ralph. Bishop Potter writes OF
THE Problem of the Philippines" and
Bronson Howard of "Our Schools for the
Stage" 1.-The Education OF Sam" is de-
lightfulIy clever bit Of dog history by the
late Charles Dudley Warner. William T.
Hornaday describes in copiously illus
trated paper the New York Geological
Park. OF the fiction the first installment
of Her Mountain Lover" by Hamlin Gar
land. appears in this issue, and Frank r.
Stockton again brings Pomona and Jonas
of Rudder Grange" before the public, this
time in the character Of authors Of ro-
nance. Other features Of this number are:
when Love Comes" by John Vance
Cheney; 1.-THE Perils Of Fan-Way- Chin"
by George s. Hayes. and the first OF a
series of articles on Daniel Webster, by
John Bach McMasters. In the department,
bit of verse by Catharine Young Glen and
another by James D. Corrothers.
"Harper's Magazine" for November opens
with a very clever little tragic romance OF
Chinese life by Frances Aymar Mathews.
Hitherto Chester Bailey Fernald has been
the only accredited interpreter OF the in
ner being of the Celestial, but the writer
of this story has certainly proved her
right to be considered his peer. George
Bird Grinnell contributes an Indian folk
lore tale entitled "Bluejay Visits the
Ghosts and Cyrus Townsend Brady
story called THE Forgiveness Of Cree
gan 1.-THE Squirrel is the latest Of
Mary E. wilkins charming animal stories
and one of the prettiest. Among the fea-
lures which are not fiction perhaps the
most interesting is handful Of Victor
Hugo's love letters, though one does feel
a delicacy about reading such things, even
when they are printed in due and proper
fnrvr wit n fhn of tha aYttI Toe
There are poems by Ethna Carbery, Bliss
Carman, Sarah Piatt, Julia c. Dorr,
Guy Wetmore Carryl and Robert Love-
man: and THE DISCRETION is brief story
by the late Stephen Crane.
The November number of THE Cosmo-
politan" is a ficetion number. There are in
1t four stories by authors more or less
eminent. The first half of a new Kipling
story of South Africa. entitled 1.-The Way
That He Took" appears herein, and there
Is fanciful tale by Fl. G. Wells with the
characteristic title. THE First Men in
the Moon" Morgan Robertson contrib
utes sea story called "a Fall From
Grace" and THE Last of the Smugglers''
is a story of adventure by S. r. Crockett
There is an illustrated article on THE
Galveston Tragedy and another on "a
Woman's Experience at Cape Nome"
Other papers are Fishing With a Cam
era" By DR.. R. W. Shufeldt; "A Problem
in Army Transportation by Capt. A. W.
Butt and ''Thebes: Her Ruins and Her
Memories by Dulany Hunter.
THE American Monthly Review of Re-
views" contains, naturally. an unusually |
choice collection of cartoons this month
among them being specimens of the work |
of Davenport. Rogers, and w. B. Stewart. |
Among the feature articles are How the |
Republicans Work for Votes and Man
aging the Democratic Campaign" The
British and Canadian elections are dis |
cussed by w. T. Stead, and there is an
article on THE Great Growth of Trusts |
in England" by Robert Donald. John Fin |
ley writes of Political Beginnings in |
Porto Rico and Chancellor McCracken
of the Hall of Fame. while 1.-THE Amer |
lean Negro at Paris is the title of a |
paper by Burghardt Dubois.
The November number OF "Scrihner's |
Magazine contains as its leading article |
the second of series of papers on Rus |
STA of Today" This one discusses THE |
Great Siberian Railway. THE Tartar |
Who Was Not Caught" is story OF |
Shanghai by Richard Wilsted. Jesse
Lynch Williams writes of THE Cross |
any genuine New Yorker who happens to
be out of that town most homesick. "a
Little Gossip is an interesting bit OF
"reminiscences by Rebecca Harding Davis,
who herein recalls her first visit to Con-
cord. Mass. THE Wheel of Time and |
THE Tone of Time" are both clever
stories by Mary Catherine Lee and Henry
James, respectively.
new fancy is the little sprig of Can
adan fir which appears inconspicuously
on the cover of Charles G. d. Roberts
THE Heart of the Ancient Wood" Just
published. 1t seems that it has long been !
the authors favorite symbol and the pub
fishers have cleyerly introduced it as a
upon the Canadian novelist's
new books.
1.-The Clergy in American Life and Let
ters," by the Rev. Daniel Dulaney Addi-
son, will be the third volume in the Sc
ries of National Studies in American
which the Macmillan Company
publishes. This volume deals, in the
earlier chapters. with the general char
acter and position of the older clergy in |
relation to public and literary life at the |
beginning of the national era. their for
native influence as teachers and sup |
porters of the colleges and schools in the |
East and West. and their contributions to |
literature. both religious and secular; |
and, in the later chapters. with leading |
opponents of opinion and progress in
special studies of Dwight. Claiming, Bush
nell Parker, Beecher. and Brooks. The |
whole forms succinct view of the work |
of the clergy of all denominations in po-
iitical, social, and educational matters.
by sermon and address, as well as of the