Arizona republican., 1902-10-12
LITERARY NOTES


 Frank Foxcroft opens the October Atlantic with "A Study of Local Op- tion," a discussion of the management of liquor selling, which is based upon the results of the Massachusetts law but which appeals to a universal au- dience. especially since the recent Yer mont election, which was fought on this issue, and the result of which has aroused the attention of the whole country.
 Other papers on political and social affairs are Hon. H. IT. D. Pierce's in Atkinsons thoughtful discussion of "Commercfalism" Miss Scudder's we'll considered and stimulative essay on Democracy and the Church" and B. J. Hendricks analysis of Limitations to the Production of Skyscrapers.'
 Prof. Ira N. Hollis's Intercollegiate Athletics takes a place by itself, as the timely utterance Gust as the uni- versity foot ball season opens) of a universally accepted authority upon the moot and much vexed question O. inter collegiate athletic rules and differences.
 Several happy literary papers embel- fish the number.
 The October number of Ainslee's is entirely different from all preceding issues of this interesting publication. In bulk the magazine is nearly twice the former size; no illustrations are to be found except in the advertising pages; and the price is fifteen cents. To judge from external evidence, Ainslee's has jumped from the ten-cent field into the twenty-five cent field, with an ad- vance of only five cents. Another inn provement in Ainslee's Is the discon- tiruarce of the obsolescent magazine feature called "the special article" Tn most cases the special article consists of news-features that the daily papers have emptied sixty days before. h. stead of this material Ainslee's prints several striking. well considered essays. Of these Edgar Saltus' Phantom Mill lions" is easily the most original and readabie His study of the famous Humbert-Crawford Hoax in Paris scin- tillates with wit and satire. 'rhe American Wife" by Harry Thurston Peck. is a ght-from- -the-shoulder talk on the qualities and defects of the American wife and mother us com pared with her English, French and German compeers. Frank s. Arnett writes sparklingly of 9Th Cost of Liv- ing of a woman millionaire. A suffi- cient supply of facts Cn this topic Is pointed with much witty comment. But in fiction lies the m; Tn strength of the magazine, and there IS a pleasing varI- ety of it.
 The Century Magazine is about to print a series of articles by Prof. Jus tin H. Smith of Dartmouth college, au- thor of The Ire Ibadour at Home" covering the story of the Canadian campaigns of Mon tgomery and Arnold in the first year of the revolutionary war-what the author calls "The pro- logue of the An -~ican revolution" Professor Smith has undertaken to do his work, so far as possible, from orig inal sources of infO-r- 1tion, and he has personally gone over the routes of Montgomery's troc-s from New York to Quebec, and ;old's from Boston to the same poir He has given spe- cial attention Arnolds expedition through the Mai:a woods.
 The first article, which will appear in the November Century, covers Mont gcmery's Montreal campaign. All Of the papers will be richly illustrated.
 
 The October number cf Success Is a welcome one, Tor t offers a wide range of reading mater that is highly repI 1scntative of the progress of Amer:- can matters. The list of contents this month contains number of prominent names, notable among them being that of Henry Cabot Lodge, United states senator from Massachusetts, who pro vides an interesting and valuable dis. course on Good Citiz, nship. John R. Spears, who has written many inter esting articles of the sea, contributes an instructive paper entitled Farm