The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.

"McClure's Magazine for August is, like
other midsummer magazines, a fiction
number. and it is full of good things. The
leading articles, "a Prisoner Among Fill
pinos," is not fiction, of course, but IS quite
as interesting as il it were. The author,
Lieut.. Commander James c. Gilmore, has
told his story well. William Davenport
Hulberts Pointers From a Porcupine
Quill is something in the Seton-Thomp-
son vein. and good Of its kind. Most Of the
stories in this number are from writers
whose names are already prominently be-
fore the public, but two OF them are not.
"Cavalleria Rusticana,'' by George
Beardsley. and "a Chance Shot," by Henry
Wallace Phillips, are in quite new vein.
The former is the story of a Nebraska
Populist politician and the love for his
wife which happened once to hang in the
balance with his political ambition. The
story is capital, and so are the illustra-
tions by Lucius Hitchcock. Mr. Phillips
story is a cowboy tale told in perhaps the
most astonishing variety OF the American
language evolved since Bret Harte The
pl,raseology is picturesque, breezy, ex-
I-essive, and unique, and the story is
lively one. That clever young writer on
Alaskan life, Jack London, contributes
story entitled Grit of Women" Con
ductor Pat Francis is a characteristic
man, and other s1ories are "a White
Sheep by G. X. Turner. True Stories
From the Underworld" by Josiah Flynt
and Francis Walton; IAN International
Wheat Corner" by ]. D. Whelpley, and "a
Pirate and a Princess" by Frederic Van
Rensselaer, Dey. The number as whole
is one of the best of the year.
1.-THE Bookman" for August contains sew
eial very-interesting features. The Mod
ern School of Canadian Writer'S is
sketch by Winifred Lee Wendell, illustrated
with portraits of Archibald Lampman. Will
liam McLennan, Bliss Carman, and others,
" London Punch as a Literary Chroni-
cler'' is an anonymous article of great in
terest, in which some CT the finest contribu-
lions to that English classic are repro
duced Other articles are "Contempc .ary
German Literature" Literary Pictures of
the Year" "a Study of Chopin" can
American Publisher of a Hundred Years
Ago" and THE Spirit of War;" poem
by Thomas Beckett.
1t is said that Mr.. Norman Duncan,
whose book. 1.-The Soul of the Street" is
announced for early publication. has spent
much time in that part of New York known
as Little Syria" and has become some |
thing Of a power among the inhabitants |
thereof. When the Turkish Minister |
visited the quarter Mr.. Duncan was
present at the reception given him and |
made the principal speech of the evening. |
1t is rather curious that in the wild hunt |
for material which is popularity supposed to |
occupy the minds of literary men and wo-
men, more of them do not take to the colo |
mics of foreigners domiciles here and there |
in this big Republic, and study them |
as nearly from the inside as possible. One |
can find in New York colonies from nearly |
every nation under the sun, and it is GER |
tainly easier to walk down Mulberry Street, |
or the Bowery, or any other avenue to the |
foreign quarter, and get acquainted With |
the people there, than to make a voyage |
to Italy or France for the purpose of |
learning the ways and customs OF the |
peasants of those countries.
The midsummer issue of Truth" con- |
tains number of good things. notably an |
article on abbott Graves" by Ethel d. |
Puffer. 'Sea-Yearning," a poem, by Alice |
Dunbar, and THE Parson of Sacketts |
Cove" by Henry Cleveland Wood.
The editors OF ''Ainslee's Magazine" de- |
vote the August number to the younger
writers of American fiction. Those repre-
scented are Stephen Crane. Harry Stillwell |
Edwards, Brand Whitlock, John d. Barry. |
and Eugene Wood. Stephen Cranes The
Kicking Twelfth" is battle story.
w. B. Yeats is writing a book on the
folklore Of Galway.