The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Rev Newell D. Hills, Of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, N. Y, is preaching a
series of sermons on what is left of
Christianity now that the critical epoch
has passed; a study of a return of the
Tide of Faith" These sermons are pub
lished in full in Mondays issue of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle-a paper which
gives special attention to New York
City pulpit reports.
In the current number of The Worlds
Work, Joel Chandler Harris introduces
Billy Sanders to a visiting capitalist
from Boston, and the result is o shrewti-
Iy humorous sermon on men and affairs
Billy Sanders improves upon acQuairt.
ance and his monthly appearance in The
Worlds Work promises to be eagerly
watched for by a steadily growing
threng of admirers.
Two features alone of the December,
1900, number of Werner's Magazine make
it exceptionally valuable. These two
features are: "Rock Me to Sleep" poses,
and "Ben-HUr' tableauX. The Rock
Me to Sleep" poses consist of ten full
length half-tone Illustrations photo
graphed from life, posed by a beautiful
and artistic model under the direction
of an experienced actress and stage
director. Accompanying the poses is an
article giving hints on reproducing them
and telling what to do to obtain artistic
results In photographing poses. The
'Ben-Hur" tableaux, printed in colored
ink, are seventeen in number, every one
of them being described from dramatic
standpoint, indicating how to reproduce
them on the amateur stage or in parlor.
Much of stage-teChnique and of what
to look for in the dramatic value of
stage-scenes, also of artistic draping and
posing, may be learned from these
tableaux. There are also portraits Of
Lew Wallace author of the novel Ben
Hur;" William Young, writer of the
play "Ben-Hur;" and Edgar Stillman
Kelley, composer of the "Ben-Hur'' mu-
sic, together with several of the music
themes, and an article giving the COM
poser's analysis and description of the
music
A most valuable and interesting article
appears in the December number of
CasselIs Little Folks. It is entitled
"a Paper Kingdom and should af-
ford endless amusement for busy fingers
when the nights are beginning to close
in. 1.-THE next venture" says the writ
er, was a theater. Theaters are per-
haps, better bought than made; but
none of these owners of kingdoms could
afford to buy, and each was Obliged to
make. The most rough-and-ready of
these was made on the foundation of an
old box turned upside down. Two up
right sticks, fastened to one of the broad
sides, with a cross piece up above, formed
the skeleton which supported a ga ly
painted stage-front. Slighter ,pil ars,
stopping inward and upward to the back,
propped up the side scenes and back
scenes, which were in this case copf
from scenic illustrations in books. The
characters themselves were copied from
all kinds of unlikely sources. They were
without stands, and were slipped, when
about to appear on the stage, into slides
in the form of ungummed stands, loosely
attached by thread to sticks the size of
skewers, which dragged them On, about,
and off the stage In this way Bonn
bastes Furioso was performed to a
crowded and enthusiastic house, and even
original plays were written to suit the
available costumes and scenery. H. J.
Byron's Book Of BurIesques for the Back
Drawing ROOM" published by French
was greatly drawn upon, as the people
in the little plays are given in outline,
and can be easily copied"