The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-28
WITH THE MAGAZINES.


of dullness. In it's 100 pages of stories,
verses and witticisms there are sur
prises and delights for the most blase
reader. The August number opens
with novelette, of remarkable power
and originality, entitled Miss Sylves-
ter's Marriage" written by Cecil
| Charles Miss Sylvester, the niece of
a society leader in New York, has some
of the wild blood of the South Ameri-
can Spaniard in her veins, and she is
| fascinated by Count Geraldine, dar-
| ing adventurer, who claims to be worth
millions as the beneficiary Of a pearl
| fishery concession. The story of their
sensational marriage and it's strange re-
suit is told with great realism and adj
| mirable art.
In the last half century the railroads
of the Northwest have done more to
debauch Legislatures; more to corrupt
| the morals of Governors; more to re-
turn incompetent. hard-minded, de-
| based men to the United States Senate;
more to deprive State and county ana
| municipal treasures of their just dues;
| more to increase the discomfort of the
agricultural classes, than any other
factor ever brought into that section,
says H. L. Cleveland in Everybody's
/ Magazine.
The aboriginal Comanche still de-
nounces the Arapaho, and the Chippewa
the Sioux, because the Arapaho and
Sioux are still. as occasion offers. tbru-
tai. domineering, merciless. The settler
the citizen-of the Northwest, for the
same reason, holds to denunciatory
terms (nearly three centuries old and
having an Indian origin )when he is
aroused on what time serving editorial
writer's are pleased to term the "in-
consequential railroad question: The
last time that it was ''inconsequentiaf'
| it cost the more than. twenty railroads
centering in Chicago fifteen million
dollars in destroyed property. let loose
the dogs of the mob on great metrop-
oils. threw thousands of men out of
employment, and sacrificed the lives of
at least twenty-five human beings
| And this was brought about because
| the majority of railway presidents,
railway managers and railway stock
holders have not in sixty-five years or
continually increasing wealth departed
far from the blood heated spirit OF the
Indian-the Sioux-who said, When
he stood by the waters of the otter,
Red, and Bots des Sioux:
'"rhis is to be my work. All that
grows upon the earth is mine"
Henry van Dyke is never. so happy
as when depicting the rugged life or
the wilds of Canada. He has chosen
this picturesque background for a de-
lghtful new story "A Year of Nob1ll-
ty." to appear in McClure's Magazine
for August. in which he lays bare the
heart of a French Canadian guide, one
Jean Lammotte, who has an expert
ence with "a smooth prospector OF un-
claimed estates in France" Jean is GER
tainly pretty good kind of marquis
and he is an interesting nero, VINO
plunges into several kinds of danger,
energies unscathed, and hnally WINS
Madame la Marquise. It is a story Oh
the right sort: story of actlon-a loVe
story-and one that ends happily Inc
pictures are by Charles >. Chapman
who has been so successful in illustra-
ting DR.. van Dykes stories
About a wear and half has elapsed
since the publication of story by Rich-
ard Harding Davis. and this fact gives
special interest to the announcement OF
Mr.. Dayis's new story to be published IN
the Fiction Number of Scribner's Maya
zine. 1t will be longer than the usual
magazine story: in fact, it might justly
he called a novelette,. The title of the
story. "a Derelict," is an apt charac-
terization of the brilliant but erratic
Young newspaper correspondent, whose
experience during the sea fight at San
tiago form the material of the story. AS
right be expected of the author, 1T is a
vivid narrative of adventure, and the in
cidents are set in scenes with which Mr..
Davis has become closely identified, both
| in fiction and reportorial work. The main
episode of che story takes place in THAI
| thrilling twenty minutes of the sea night
at Santiago-that twenty minutes in
which an empire which had begun with
| Christopher Columbus was wiped of the
map" 1t is doubtful if Mr.. Davis has
! done better piece of work in ficion than
| this story. With it's many fine illustra-
| lions by Walter Appleton Clarke, it is
sufficient in itself to carry number
which contains in addition a capital story
| by Octave Thanet, illustrated by Chris
| ty; new sea story by j. b. Connolly,
| illustrated by Burns; the beginning or a
serial by ]. A. Mitchell, the author of
'Amos judd" and many other alluring
/ fiction features.
In the August number of Success
| Thomas Nelson Page sounds this note
of warning: Yesterday it was works
of realism; today, it is novels of ro-
| nance. The fashion of the hour deter
| mines the book. Authors are in danger
of throwing away their gifts in COM
petition with the manufacturers oil
/ time serving novels, and of writing
| with one eye on the department store
| counter and the other on the melodra-
matte stage. If they wish to build up
| permanent American literature, and at
( tain real literary success, they woulc
| do well to refuse to be led further alons
! the broad and dangerou way of today
| and turn once more to the steep anC
| toilsome road of true literature
| L'Enfant Espion and other stories
| Edited by Reginald r. Goodell M. A.
! Instructor in Modern Languages, Uni
versity of Maine. Cloth, 12mo IA:
| pages. Price, As cents. American Bool
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