The Republican journal., 1900-12-06
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LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

One of Kipling's new "Just so'' sto-
ries, which he is now writing for The
Ladies' Home Journal, will tell elbow
Pussy Got her Purr." In the same
humorous vein the famous author will
tell of another feline popularity: ''How
the Tiger Got His Stripes" Kipling
loves to write about animals, and to in
terest children in his stories; but fond
as he is of children he VIII not write
| "down" to them. He despises the
| ''twaddle'' which fills so many books in
tended for their entertainment, and
keeps far away from it in everything he
does with his pen; consequently his
as delight children.
Some unpublished letters of Miss
Louisa NJ Alcott, recently brought to
light, effectually correct popular fal
lacy as to the original OF Laurie" in
her famous Little Women" Ladislas,
a Polish boy, has always been thought
to have been Laurie's prototype, but
| these letters prove that to be mistake.
Alfred Whitman, Kansas man, who
was Miss Alcott's playmate at Con-
cord, is, in fact, the Laurie OF her de-
| lightful story, and to him Miss Alcott
wrote some of her most charming, re-
vealing letters that ever came from her
pen. Mr.. Whitman has just edited
these missives for publication in The
Ladies' Home Journal
The Christmas Ladies' Home Jour-
nal offers superabundance of literary
and artistic features in most attractive
form. Among its nearly tWoscore con-
tributors are Mrs. Lew Wallace, Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps, Charles Major, Will
liam Perrine, Clifford Howard and
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould, while A. B.
Frost, W. L. Taylor. Reginald B. Birch,
Henry Hutt, George Gibbs and as many
other illustrators supply its pictorial
features. Apart from the articles hav-
ing special holiday timeliness of inter
est, the notable features of the Christ
mas Journal include ''Ihe Innkeepers
Daughter Who Dissolved a Presidents
Cabinet, ''What May Happen in the
Next Hundred Years. Jerusalem as
We See it Today 1.-TWO Women's
Gifts of Twenty-Five Millions" The
Little Mem Play" dramatization of
Louisa NJ Alcott's delightful story;
''Where Children See Saint \ ick, ''The
Fourteenth Man." 1.-TWO Christmas
Days at Rock Farm and ''The Sue
cessors of Mary the First, THE Story
of a young Man, and THE Blue River
Bear Stories," which are continued.
Edward Box has a thoughtful article
on Christmas celebration, and there
are various articles on WOmen's wear
Christmas presents and edibles, while
various other practical, helpful themes
are ably presented. By The Curtis
Publishing Company. Philadelphia One
dollar year; ten cents a copy.
True to its mission. but with an ever
widening and improving choice of sub
jects, Of authors and of artists, Outings
Christmas tDecember(N umber, increas-
ed in size and extra illustrated, (includ-
ing colored frontispiece), gives large
space to big game, sports atield and sub
jects welded into our Country Life.
''The Present Distribution of Big Game
in America" by George Bird Grinnell,
is the article OF student of the situa-
ton, strikingly illustrated by E. w.
Deming. The very titles, Bob White
the Story of Quail" 10y Charles H.
Morton; ''On the Trail of the Wild
Turkey" by EDWIN Sandys, and ''The
Old-Time Prairie Chicken Hunt" by
Emerson Hough, are sufficient to indi-
cate their specialties. Foreign shooting
is represented by Stag and Wolf Hunt
ing in France, 'by Vance Thompson;
"Chamois Driving" by w. A. Baillie-
Grohman, and "Oom Paul, Mighty
Hunter" by Howard Hillegas Then
there are ''The Outlook for Fox Hunt
ing in America" by David Gray, illus
trated by Finch Mason: Breeding
Thoroughbred Ponies," by Theodore
Cuyler Patterson fully illustrated with
Pony types; Country Homes OIL Long
Island" by Leonidas Hubbard, Jun,
and Modern Golf Clubs and Modern
Methods" by Horace Hutchinson. Its
fiction is a powerful romance Of Cape
Nome, by Jack London, entitled "Where
the Trail Forks" illustrated by B.
Baker-Baker Other notable contribu-
tions are ''Vacant Hours in Wa-The
Sporting Instinct of the Britisher," by
Guy H. Scull, recently returned from
South Africa: 1.-THE Polo of the An
clients, peep into the remote past; "A
New Tent for the Snow Line,'' by the
! well known Arctic and Antarctic ex-
plorer, DR.. F. A. Cook, ''The Evolution
of the Kentucky Reel" by Dr. James
A. Henshall: THE Woodcock's Safe
guard" Protective coloring photo
graphically depicted by A Radcliffe
Dugmore; 'Non-CapsiZable Center
Board Boats by Charles G. Davis,
and a delightful idyl, ''Stream Music"
by Charles H. Crandall. In width of
scope, interest and beauty of execution,
Outings Christmas Number more than
maintains the reputatio of this long
established and favorite magazine.
Judge Peabody Of Portland has issued
an order directing Hon. George E. Bird,
executor of the estate of the late Judge
Goddard, to turn over to the executors
of the estate of F. O. J. Smith, $4,000,
received by Judge Goddard, as executor
in New York of the estate. This will
mean the division of $4,000 among the
Maine creditors, who have been waiting
since 1876 for their money.
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