Arizona republican., 1902-10-30
 LITERARY NOTES

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 ford. Mrs. Mumford has evolved some
 very dramatic situations, and at the
 same time has peopled them with
 characters that talk and act like hu- man beings. The leading comedy per
 sonage in the story is tomboy, drawn with delightful freshness and humor.
 An eXcellently amusing story Is 'The
 Snub- Nosed Soubrette," by George H. | Brennan, who writes of the experiences | of a transforming manager evidently
 as one that knows" The Future Duch- l ess," by Elizabeth Duer, is a pretty ! drawing-room comedy that reads cas- | lily. "Halfyard's Mutiny," by Norman Duncan, is splendid story of New | foundland life, into which enter all ! the feeling and atmosphere of that re-
 mote cline. Harvey Sutherland, auth
 or oi the Book of Bugs" reappears | in Ainslee's with a very tmusing essay,
 entitled. 'The Hole in the Saucepan"
 Among the Philistines," by Herbert
 E. Hamblen, is dramatic account of the trials of an inventor who gets into the tolls of capitalists. "The Comics | sions of a Society Woman is ar anon ymous contribution that is we'll writ ten and interesting. "A Bachelors Cost of Living" by George Barry Nal l lon, is very well done, and contains in- formation that is very suggestive. In all, Ainslee's has thirty-nine distinctive features. including in its list of names Robert Hitchins. Lloyd Osbourne, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Caroline Duer. E. g.
 Van File. Joseph c. Lincoln. Carolyn Wells, Dufield Osbourne. and others | 160 pp. 15 cents. Ainslee Publishing Co. New York.
 The contents of the first number of "The Reader magazine include. in ad- dition to the monthly departments Of
 news and reviews, story about Dante and Beatrice by R. V. Risley; a selec-
 ton from a new rendering by Bliss Carman of the lyrics of the Greek poet ess Sappho, who has been made famil- far by Swinburne and Tennyson; the | first of a series of reports of the sit tings of the Literary Emergency Court. (Mark Twain and Oliver Herford, jus tices of the court which deals with "The People Against Richard Harding Davis" is full of amusing situations;
 'Rudyard Kipling as an Illustrator" with illustrations: a frank article, "The Attitude of the Jews toward
 Jewish Fiction" by Bernard G. Rich | ards. a well known literary Jew: Lon don and Paris Letters, and twenty or
 more other original contributions. The
 cover oi "The Reader is about the most attractive of any of the maga- zines.
 The best detective story that has
 been written for a long time, and one
 on quite different lines from the Sher lock Holmes variety, appears over the | we'll known signature of Anna Rather inc Green, in the November number of
 Ieslie's Monthly. The reward of s100 offered by the editors for the first solu-
 ton of the mystery sent in before the publication of the final installment of the story three months hence shows their confidence in the interest this fic
 titious problem will arouse.
 Dr. Henry van Dyke has not written l many short stories lately. but he has
 one of his very best and most charac teristic ones in this number of the magazine, a story with all the charm
 Of mediaeval setting and the healthy tone of a struggle of today. There is besides another story of Glengarry School Days, by Ralph Connor, which brings out in Connor's quaint and hu- | morous way all the worries of an old | time examination.
 William Winter the foremost drama tic critic in the country, contributes an authoritative and masterly criticism
 on Richard Mansfield, probably the foremost actor on the American, stage.
 Another theatrical article on "The
 Making of a Play" from the stage
 managers point of view, is illustrated by a unique series of remarkable pho he h,- ha IrpO dramatic photographer.
 Agnes C. Laut. who in Lords of the
 North" proved herself an authority on | the Hudson bay regions. has an article in this number on the greatest fur company of the world, vivid and ac- Curate account of one of the greatest companies that has ever existed. The last installment of the Autobiography
 of a Thief" md one or two bright bits 1 of fiction and verse, complete the num- | Der.
 The November Thanksgiving issue | of Success" has arrived, with a long list of good things that are quite ap- | propriate for this season. It opens with
 a new poem by Alfred J. Waterhouse, i entitled An Old Thanksgiving Day" which is illustrated in an elaborate fashion by George Varian. The chief | feature, however, is the first install
 ment of a stirring fiction story by | Henry Wallace Phillips, entitled. Hi
 ram Bennets Gold Mine" It is the
 story oi a young man who went west | to investigate a "Salted' mine. If MT.
 Phillips story holds out as entertain | ingly as it has begun, he will have
 written thoroughly good narrative. | Henry M. Stanley tells the aspirants | for African fame what is still awaiting ! the explorer in the Dark Continent" William Davenport Hubert furnishes | another of his faGcinating animal stOr- | ies in "The Mink Who Left His Nl- | tive Stream" John Gilmer Speeds
 article, on "The Pace That Costs" a
 clever account of the eXtravagan of
 the rich Americans, is full of interest. Burton J. Hendriks gives a goody amount of necessary information in 1 'The Meaning Of the Sky Scraper' | Trust" and the women readers will
 find much to interest them in When Betty Entertained" "A New Profes-
 sion for Women" and "If I Were a