The Republican journal., 1903-10-01
Literary News and Notes.

pOratlOnS are so Iull VI luCCiooV AZ
every detail that they read IKE ro-
mances. The greatest corporation IN
the world is undoubtedly the billion
dollar Steel Trust, and its story, whlch
appears in The Cosmopolitan for Octo-
ber, forms one of the most important
chapters of American business history.
John Burroughs is to contribute to
The Century for 1904 number OF artl-
cles on Current Misconceptions in
Natural History" giving his views as
to what he believes to be errors OF OBJ
servation, record, or deduction on the
part of contemporary writer's on nature
subjects. The echoes of Mr.. Burroughs
article on similar topic which appear.
ed in The Atlantic last spring are still
reverberatipg, and in this series MI:
Burroughs will take up the subject
more fully, publishing his matured
opinions as to instinct, the alleged
teaching of young animals by their
parents, the play of animals, and kin
dred themes
Thackeray's most important Amerl-
can letters are to see the light in the
November and subsequent numbers of
The Century Magazine. They cover
both the first and second visit of the
novelist to America, and record his
friendship with the Baxter family of
New York. The letters are said to re-
fleet Thackeray's various shades OF
opinion concerning America and its
people with all the authors frankness,
yicacity, and charm. A number of un-
. published sketches accompany the let
ters, including good d-humored carica-
lures of Longfellow and George Will
liam Curtis. This is believed to be the
most important Thackeray 'fnd''
which has been made for many years.
For some time it has been known
that Sir Thomas Upton did not con-
sider the international yacht races, as
conducted at present, fair test OF the
abilities of England and America in
shipbuilding. In an article in The Cos
mopolitan for October, Sir Thomas pre-
diets that the course of the internation-
al cup race of the future will lie across
the ocean. This would, of course, ne
ceSsitate boats of useful class, not
mere racing machines, and would both
promote a keener rivalry between the
foremost European nations and Amer
lea. and at the same time encourage
advances in naval architecture and be
of the greatest value to shipping. The
Cosmopolitan has offered a tive-thous-
and dollar cup for sailing vessels under
conditions which make all the competi-
tors of the greatest use to commerce.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth has
published the first chapters of the story
of her life and work in Leslie's Month
Gle not only interesting but Of great
permanent value She tells rot only
what she has done for our prisoners.
but what she is doing to-day. There is
another story of the delightful Pettison
twins in the magazine this month, and
rafting good Spanish ro-
nance, together with an amusing bur
lesque, which describes strike of the
babies against scientific motherhood.
These with six other short stories rep
resent the fiction of a particularly good
number. There ls also an interesting
personal narrative of man who work
ed-his way out West as a day labOrer;
al article on "Clouds," with some re-
markable Photographic illustrations,
and three or four excellent bits OF
verse.
Everybody's Magazine for October
comes heralded with the announcement
IIldI Ullu6I ItS utN Illdl1dStllGllt tIc
circulation has grown by 100000 copies
during the past four months. Now the
normal summer history of almost any
magazine is one OF loss: June to Sep
tember. while the reading world is out
OF the range of news stands and spends
its evenings out of doors, the sales fall
off by thousands, and the philosophic
editor Dides his time and puts his
strength on the autumn numbers,
which are to pull him back to his high
water line, and perhaps a little beyord.
For a new enterprise, these months
would be presumably as the obscure
but necessary run, prefacing the brave
Jump i'll the fall. One picks up the
new Everybody's to see why it has vio-
lated the usual procedure. Articles,
stories, pictures, poems, proverbs, com
ment of the times, portraits of the en-
inent, intimate condolences from the
publishers; somewhere in these lie the
secret of success.
The editors of the Atlantic Monthly
We're fortunate when they secured for
their magazine the reminiscent papers
by Sir Leslie Stephen, which begins
auspiciOusly in the September number
With characteristic mOdesty, Sir Les
lie enUlCleS his "reminiscences some
Early Impressions, but they are of
much more Importance than might at
first appear from so casual a title. This
first installation, which deals with life
at Cambridge University in the middle
of the last century, throws light as
clear as it is fresh upon many Of the
larger intellectual movements about
which the young men of those days
were concerned. Sir Leslie Stephens
ripe and mellow literary faculty was
never seen to better advantage than
here, while his peculiar vein of cool
and subtitle irony runs through every
page and makes very delightful reading
1t is announced that later papers in
the series will deal with Sir Leslie's
experiences in journalism and in edit
ing, and with other matters which are
sure to furnish reading as instructive
as delightful.
Pearson's Magazine for October has
list of interesting articles. In the
line of fiction are three short stories
(The Blood Red Haze of Madness, by
Mr.. William Hamilton Osborne, a most
unusual and weird story; Deacon Tut
ties Warning, by William Foster
Brown; and A Maid of Dreams by Mr..
Crittenden Marriott); also, Cyrus
Townsend Brady's serial, Sir Henry
Morgan-Buccaneer; How Don Q's
Sword was Drawn for the Queen, an
nthor of tho c,,rnricinr nnn n o6