Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-01
CURRENT LITERATURE.

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| subordinating it, is successfully solved
| 10 thu November Ladies' Home Journal.
The plans presented by Col. Theodore
| A. Bingham the government Official in
charge of the White House, provide
for an imposing building, COMFORTING
with our national dignity, aud Offering
| the President ample office space and
| living room under one roof. In The
aamD issue Of the magazine THE
| Loreliest Woman in All America"
| gives charming pen-picture OF Emily
| Marshall, whose transcsndent beauty
| was so much admired three-quarters OF
| u century ago. The personal and artistic
sides of EthelbprJ Neyin, the composer,
ore brought to light In aTne Man Who
Wrote Naroissns, and the other
notable features. 'The Story OF
Young Man., by Clifford Howard;
The Successors Of Mary the Frat"
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Blue
River Bear Stories" By the author Of
when Knighthood Was in Flower"
and Josiah Aliens Wife's" fourth
visit will be read with interest and
enjoyment. Edward Box condemns the
lack OF taste shown in furnishing
American homes. The Photographic
views of "1he Most Artistic House in
New York City" covers two pages, and
will prove revelation. A page draw
ing by A. b. Frcst shows his country
folks Waiting for the Mail" re-
markahly interesting illustration. There
are plans for "a Quaint, Old Fashioned
House Tor $4,000" and innumerahle
articles ,0n woman's work and allied
themes, including, of course, the fash
ionable things in women's attire, BY
| Tho ltrrttc p,,blseh;t rnp,pany Dhilo
delphia. One dollar year; ten cents
u copy.
The great Trans. Siberian Railway
described by Henry Norman in his
series IN Russia of Today" leads
| the November number of Scribner's
Magazine. This railway is the com
mercial and political key to the Far
East and Mr.. Norman travelled its en-
tire length as far as completed, to Lake
Baikal and beyond. He describes the
wonderful industrial possibilities of
The country through which he passed
and gives an entirely new idea of
Siberia. Instead of desert it prom
Uses TO be the leading wheat producing
country of the wo Id, and the railway
opens up immense mineral possibilities.
Mr.. Norman says that since the great
! wall OF China this world has seen no
one material undertaking Of equal mag
| nituds. The cost of this railway will
be about $500, 000, 600, and its total
length 8, 4S6 miles. Illustrated through
out with the authors photographs,
Jesse Lynch Williams, who has written
q number of articles on the picturesque
aspects Of New York, in this number
describes the "Cross-streets Of New
York. - These views. which are so
little noticed by the pedestrian, are
among the most impressive in the city,
and Mr.. Williams.points them out with
rare discrimination, and mingles with
the New York of today great deal OF
it's romantic past. 1t is fully illustrated
with original sketches and drawings by
many of the hest illustrators, Mel Carter,
Linsln, Shipley, Guerin, Glackens and
others. In color printing this number
shows some very effective pictures by
Frederic Dorr Steele made to illustrate
n charming bicycle story called '.The
Wheel of Time" These illustrations
are made in novel way and the result
is something new IN color printing.
Henry James contributes '1'hr Tone of
Time'- story of woman who tries
to create respectable past. Another
Vi buo Eloiipn III tuo ip q
tale of Russian intrigue in China called
1.-The Tartar Who Was Not Caught. +"
Mr.. Barrels great serial, "Tommy and
Grizel," is concluded in this number
4 with situation which will surprise
the most acute readers of fiction, and
will Greats great deal of discussion.
Mrs Rehecea Harding Davis, under
the title "A Little Gossip" gives some
new and entertaining glimpses of
Hawthorne, Emerson, Miss 4Aloott aud
other writer's whom she met in her
youth. Some of the beauties of the
Worlds Fair which is just closing in
Paris are fully illustrated by the camera
of Dwight L. Elmendoff, who has made
a wonderful series Of photographs. He
briefly describes the scenes pictured
from the point of view of .photogra-
pher. Samuel Parsons, Jr., the
authority on landscape gardening, who
| was recently chosen 10 lay out the
great park in Washington, describes
the Landscape Gardening at the Elk.
position. !" This is an art in which the
French lead the world, and Mr.. Par
sous shows the beautiful effects which
they created in very brief time
throughout the fair grounds. This is
also illustrated with photographs by
! Elmendorf and others. BENZ Paul
Blood, author OF 1.-THE Lion of the
Nile," has another poem in this issue
entitled ''Tithohus. Mrs. Julia q.
R.sDorr also contributes poem. M
William Garrett Brown opens the
| November Atlantic with IL notable DE.
| Tense OF American Parties, in which he
shows the absolute necessity of two
strong controlling PARTIES In repre-
| sentative government like our own, and
traces the principles and the history
and development of 'the two Genii who
now serve the Republic. Two brill
| liant and entertaining serials begin 10
this number NJ ISIS Jewett's The Tory
Lover, a tale of love and adventure
during the American Revolution,
treated from hitherto untouched
side, the fortunes of the Loyalisis; and
Mrs. Virgins Penelope's Irish Expert
ences, a completion af the delicious
| trilogy of feminine fun and adventure
| throughout the United Kingdom which
| has delighted SO many readers. PERTH
nent to the present Eastern complioa-
| tions are Edmund Mobiles discussion
| of The Future of Russia, and III. G.
| Whittiesey's account Of Sir Robert
| Hart. Mr.. Noble shows the inability OF
Russia, for lack of vital unity and
stability, to command the worlds
| leadership, and Mr.. Whittlesey sketches
| the Chinese Customs Service apropos
of lis great English leader, W. Il.
Smythe treats the great coming ques-
| tion of the far lWest-irrigation-a
The Struggle for Water in the West,
aggravated by tue paradoSical oondi-