The Republican journal., 1901-04-25
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

The Reconstruction paper in the May
Atlantic has for its theme the famsus
ku-Klux Khan, the full story of which
has never yet been told. The author is
William Carrot Brown, whose pOliti-
cal essays in the Atlantic have brought
him reputation for accurate historical
knowledge and frank, dispassionate
statement. In preparing this paper Mr.,
Brown has had access to much unpub-
llShed material and has been allowed to
use the personal testimony of some
prominent actors in the Ku-Klux move
ment.
Only brief summary of Mr.. Cleve
lands two recent lectures on the Vene-
zuela Affair was given to the public
the lectures having been specially
copyrighted for appearance in the June
and July numbers of The Century
Magazine. Few except special students
are aware of the long history of the
connection of the United States with
the subject. Among the interesting
points brought out in the lecture, and
not reported, may be mentioned Mr..
Cleveland's scathing remarks on the re-
lation OF the Senate to treaties formu-
lated by the executive branch of the
6ONOAAhAOhus L AO lOOVuAOO COuSVlUuUC
Mr.. Cleveland's most important contri-
button to history.
The May Atlantic has many articles
of peculiar interest to it's large academ-
ic audience. Professor Munsterberg's
paper on" American Productive Scholar
ship is one of the most radical and
searching of his essays in criticism.
Professor A. s. Cook of Yale contrib
utes notable essay upon teaching Eng
fish. Robert Herrick of the University
of Chicago has story entitled t'The
Professors Chance" There is dis
cussion of American prose style by
Professor D. j. Logan of the Univer-
sity of South Dakota, and of Ameri-
can poetry by Josephine Dodge Daskam.
Other features of general literary in
terest are Bradford Torrey's delightful
ilauke" and Edumnd Gosse's study of
Mandell Creighton, the late Bishop of
London, a ripe scholar who had many
friends upon this side of the water. A
notable Memorial Day Poem, ''The
Phantom Army" is contributed by
William Prescott Foster, and Sarah
Orne Jewett's Glory Lover" continues.
The leading feature of The Smart Set
for May is novelette, entitled ''The
Wage of Character" by Julien Gordon
(Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger). This is
the most ambitious story that Mrs. Cru
ger has published in some years, and is
perhaps the strongest and most brilliant
she has ever written. Another striking
feature of the number is "a Monarch
of a Small Survey" by Gertrude Ather-
ton, perhaps the most powerful short
story yet written by this author. Edgar
Saltus contributes one of his brilliant es-
says, THE Quest of Paradise" and Ed
gar Fawcett treats of the evil and the
good in the blood in strong story en-
titled debtors to Heritage" Other
stoHies, amusing or dramatic, are ''rhe
Lady Demi- Tasse,' by Fletcher Cowan;
''How Prince Max Was Bunkered," by
Henry Morrow Hyde: ''Sir Leicester's
Blind Pool" by Henry Irwin Dodge, and
"Blue-Eyed Eliphalet." by Arabella
Kenealy. Besides 500 prize poem,
''The Dancing of Suleima," by Clinton
Scotland, there are poetic contributions
by Theodosia Garrison, Caroline Duer,
Ella Higginson, Carolyn Wells, Charles
Henry Webb, Catherine Young Glen,
Charlotte Becker and Ethel NJ. Kelley.