Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-02-03
LITERARY NOTES.


The American Book company has
| Just issued the natural series in
geography. consisting of an elemen-
tary and an advanced book. The
anchors OF these volumes are Jacques
W. Roadway, F. K. G. S., and Russell
Human, author of the Eclectic Physi-
| cal Geography. In the latter is noted
| the advancement that has been made
in the teaching and study of this sub
ject. A special feature of the book is
its treatment of the earth as the home
of man. The natural features are
studied from the standpoint of hui
man interest, and ii is shown how
man has taken advantage of nature,
what railways, water communications.
etc, have done to connect the indi-
viGua and nation with the rest of the
world.
Authors interested in the preparation
of the brooks of this company are from
all sections of the United States. In
the list may be found such names as
Drs. Baldwin. Roadway, Milne and
Maxwell, of the state of New York !;
Profs. McMaster and Lyle, of Penn
svlvania; DIR. Emerson E White and
W. ID. Howells, of Ohio; Prof. Mark
Bailey, OF Kansas: Hon. James Nc
Cleary, of Minnesota; Profs. Ripley
and Taper, of Massachusetts: Supt.
Orville L. Bright and Prof. James
Needham. of Illinois; Prof. lie Conte,
of California: Frank K. Stockton, of
New jersey; Joel Chandler Harris, of
Georgia; Gail Hamilton" of Wash
ington, ID. c.. etc. also Hon. William
F. Gladstone, of England. The auth
Ors of the books are specialties and are
prepared to speak authoritatively in
their departments of study.
Eight thousand manuscripts were
received by the Ladies' Home Jour
nal during the year just closed. Each
was given careful reading. but out
of the entire numb Der only eighty were
found worthy of publication. The
manuscript bureau of the Ladies
Home Journal is operated at large
expense. but the hope of discovering
new writers or some aspirants with
undevelOped talent warrants the ont
lay. 1t can be seen that the articles
secured by such careful winnowing
process brings the cost of each up to
and above the remuneration paid our
best writer's. These facts bring re-
futation to the oft-repeated but none
the less erroneous assertion that only
well-known writer's of established lit
erary reputation are able to find
place for their work in the magazines.
Exactly the contrary is true. The
Ladies Home Journal, through the
manuscripts considered. has discover
ed three or four new writer's of excel
lent merit and great promise, and
this find its editor regards as fully
warrantiDg the large outlay of main
tanning an expensive bureau for read
ing all the manuscripts submitted.
The February issue OF Conkey's
Home Journal inaugurates a new e: a.
This handsome magazine, which has
been such a welcome visitor in u large
number of homes, will, in the future,
be much more popular family mag
azine than ever before. A num-
Der of changes and provements
have been made. Short stories
by well known authors will take
the place of some of the special
departments; the pages will he solid
insead of loaded, so that nearly twice
as much material will be published.
Tne present issue contains the first
chapters of new series by the Jap
anese writer, Onoto Watanna, enti-
tied The Old Jinrikisha; the second in
stallment of The Brides of the Tiger;
the first chapter of serial for young
folks, entitled Christian, the Boy of
Leyden, by G.. Norway; n number of
short stories, the principal ones being
Who Killed Jerry? by Eben ReXford;
An Ugly Little Woman, by Mary S.
Renter, and Andrew Paterson, bv
James II. WYATT. The school of
china painting and physical and vocal
culture are continued rs formerly.
also the two copyrighted pieces of
sheet music.
Among the more notable of the H.
Illustrated articles in the February
magazine number of the Outlook are
II. W. Mabie's William Shakespeare,
DIR. Edward Everett Hale's James
Martineau, and Frank Cranes Wash
ingtou's Birthday, 1S00-1900, and
Clifton Johnson's The Village of Mil
let. (SS a year. The Outlook COM
yany, New York;
Louis Zangwill's complete novel in
the February number of the New
LippiL colt. entitled The Siren
From Bath, is refreshing antidote
to the colonial romance which has
been so popular for some time past.
Modernity, however. is not by any
means the only merit in Mr.. lang
willis half-humorous, half-pathetic
tale of English life. In it, a stilted,
would-be schoolmaster gets entangled
in the charms of a siren, whose heart
less conduct leads him into truer
pathways of love. A strong appeal
to ones sympathies is contained in
the second Mormon story in Mrs. J.
X Hudson's series, begun in the Jan
uary number. a Stake of Zion in
the Wilderness is about the courage
Gus struggles of Mormon wife-New
England Oorn-against the advice of
Brigham Young. To her hus band to