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Against Brother" is laid in Kentucky and the time of the story is that of the beginning of the civil war. No boy can fail to be attracted by the book. THE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESS. By Flora Annie Steel. 355 pp. Cloth, $1.00. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1894. Sixteen short stories are included in this volume, the first of which gives the title to the book. Their scenes are laid in India, and they illustrate many different phases of Hindoo character looked upon from an altogether different point of view from that which Rudyard Kipling takes. Mrs. Steel's acquaintance with Hindoo methods of thought is evidently intimate, and her pictures of native Indian life are vivid and clear-cut. The book is marked by the same merit that characterized "Miss Stuart's Legacy" and "The Potter's Thumb."

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MISS HURD: AN ENIGMA. By Anna Katharine Green. 357 pp. Paper, 50 cents. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1894. SORROW AND SONG. By Coulson Kernahan. 156 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1894. THE PEARL OF INDIA. By Maturin M. Ballou. Cloth, $1.50. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. A FLORIDA SKETCH-BOOK. By Bradford Torrey. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. 1894. THE CHASE OF SAINT-CASTIN, AND OTHER TALES. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. 266 pp. Cloth, $1.25. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. 1894.

335 PP. 1894.

242 PP.

THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT, and Other Stories. By A. Conan Doyle. 232 pp. Paper, 25 cents. Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Co. 1894.

THE FLYING HALCYON. By Richard Henry Savage. 300 pp. Paper, 50 cents. Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely. 1894. GOOD NIGHT, Schatz.

In one act. By Adolf Hepner. 47 pp. Paper, 25 cents. St. Louis St. Louis News Co. 1894.

THE UNIVERSAL NAME; OR, ONE HUNDRed Songs to MARY. Selected and arranged by Mrs. E. Vale Blake. 149 PP. Cloth. Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton. 1894.

HELPFUL HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS.

When Your Mucilage Gives Out. - Should you ever have the misfortune to need some mucilage when the bottle is empty and you

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ANTHONY HOPE. Current Literature (28 c.) for October. JOANNA E. WOODS. Gilson Willetts. Current Literature (28 c.) for October.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. With portrait. Frederick Dolman. Ladies' Home Journal ( 13 c. ) for October.

JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE. With portrait. Frederick Dolman. Ladies' Home Journal ( 13 c.) for October. MY LITERARY PASSIONS. W. D. Howells. Ladies' Home Journal (13 c.) for October.

DISRAELI'S PLACE IN LITERATURE. Forum (28 c.) for October.

Frederick Harrison.

HAS ORATORY DECLINED? Henry L. Dawes. Forum (28 c.) for October.

CACOETHES SCRIBENDI. The Point of View. Scribner's (28 c.) for October.

THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF EUROPE. H. R. Chamberlain, Chautauquan (28 c.) for October.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. With portrait. Popular Educator (13 c.) for September.

PIONEER PRINTERS OF AMBRICA. S. R. Davis. Paper and Press (18 c.) for September.

Charles Ritch Johnson.

THE EVOLUTION OF ILLUSTRATING. II. H. M. Duncan. Paper and Press (18 c.) for September. MRS. ELIZABETH A. REED. Journalist (13 c.) for August 25. THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. Fourth Estate (13 c.) for August 30.

How TYPE IS MADE. Fourth Estute (13 c.) for September 13.

A CURE FOR WRITER'S CRAMP. Phonographic Journal (Port Jervis, N. Y.) for August.

JOHN LATEY AND THE LONDON PENNY ILlustrated PAPER. Sketch for August 8.

A FALLACY OF the RealisTS. Richard Burton. Congre gationalist for August 23.

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CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY. Hartford (Conn.) Telegram for August 28.

THE PENNY WEEKLIES OF LONDON. Jeannette L. Gilder. Independent for August 30.

VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD AND LIZETTE REESE. Pauline Carrington Rust. Boston Transcript for September 1.

CY WARMAN. Reprinted from Chicago Times in Louisville Courier-Journal for September 2, and in Philadelphia Press for September 4.

HOW TO BECOME A JOURNALIST. John Palmer Gavit. Golden Rule for September 6.

JOHN BURROUGHS. With portrait. Outlook for September 15. THE WESTERN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION. Ida May Davis. Indianapolis Journal for September 16.

S. R. CROCKETT. With portrait. Outlook for September 22. LITERARY ST. PAUL. Rev. John Conway. Midland Monthly (18 c.) for September.

THE HISTORICAL NOVEL. George Saintsbury. Reprinted from Macmillan's Magazine in Littell's Living Age (21 c.) for September 15.

CELIA THAXTER. With portrait. Eleanor V. Hulton. Harper's Bazar ( 13 c. ) for September 8.

REMINISCENCES OF CELIA THAXTER. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Harper's Bazar (13 c.) for September 15.

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NEWS AND NOTES.

The illness of Stopford Brooke has made necessary the abandonment for the present of his visit to this country.

A new magazine, called the Bostonian, is to be published in Boston, beginning this month. Its editor will be Arthur Wellington Brayley, and the periodical will be devoted mainly to the past and present interests of Massachusetts, and of Boston in particular. A novel feature of the publication will be the issuing of two editions, one in paper covers, at the price of fifteen cents, and another in cloth binding, at twenty-five cents.

The Spirit of '76 is a new illustrated monthly magazine published at 14 Lafayette place, New York, and edited by William H. Bearley. It is devoted to patriotic objects.

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G. O. Shields ("Coquina"), the author of Rustlings in the Rockies," "The Big Game of North America," Cruisings in the Cascades," and several other popular works on field sports, has started a new magazine, called Recreation. It is devoted to hunting, fishing, and all out-door sports, and is published at 216 William street, New York.

The Picture Magazine of New York is a new monthly publication, made up of eighty pictures, with only a line or so of letter-press under each. H. P. Hubbard is the editor. A similar magazine in England has been very successful.

Boston has a new colored cartoon weekly, Brother Jonathan. The illustrations deal with subjects similar to those handled by Puck and Judge, but the process used is similar to that employed by Truth. Moses Reuben is the publisher.

Articles of incorporation have been filed at Baltimore by the Patriotic Literature Publishing Company, capital stock, $5,000. The company was incorporated for the purpose of printing publications and the sale of newspapers, books, and magazines. The incorporators were Walter Vrooman, Robert B. Golden, Charles H. Myers, James Duncan, and Lawrence Bradley.

Robert Louis Stevenson thinks it is of the first importance to the novelist to be well acquainted with the scenes of his stories. "The author," he tells us, "must know his countryside, whether real or imaginary, like his hand; the distances, the points of the compass, the place of the sun's rising, the behavior of the moon, should all be beyond cavil."

"Curtis Yorke's" real name is Mrs. John Richmond Lee. Mrs. Lee was born and educated in Glasgow.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich has been writing poetry since 1856, when he produced a small volume of ballads. He was then a clerk in a New York counting-room.

George W. Cable has named his summer home at Northampton, Mass., "Stayawhile."

Among the new books announced by G. P. Putnam's Sons are: "American Song," a collection of representative American poems, .with analytical and critical studies of their writers, edited by A. B. Simonds; "Five Thousand Words Commonly Misspelled," by W. H. P. Phyfe; and "The Best Recent Books," a priced and classified bibliography, covering the publications of the year ending December 31, 1893, and being a supplement to “The Best Books," edited by W. Swan Sonnenschein.

"M. E. Francis " is in private life Mrs. Blundell, and resides at Crosby Hall, near Blundellsands, Lancashire.

That science affects profoundly even literature is ably shown in the Popular Science Monthly for October by Professor W. H. Hudson, of Stanford University, in a paper on "Poetry and Science." Tennyson, he says, is the poet who has most intelligently accepted the results of modern scientific thought.

Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, is the subject of a comprehensive and interesting biographical study, by Edward P. Mitchell, Mr. Dana's chief associate on the Sun, in McClure's Magazine for October. Views of Mr. Dana's office and of his country home on Long Island and an interesting series of portraits of him accompany the article.

The gibberish that sometimes appears in the middle of a sentence or a paragraph, in newspapers that use the type-setting machines, simply means a space left blank to be filled up in the corrected proof. The compositor throws the type in higgledy-piggledy, just to keep the required space; occasionally the proof is not corrected, and so the jargon slips into the newspaper. The Boston Transcript observes, apropos of these slips: When one reads that 'John Blank, while a man of great wealth, was nevertheless a hyzmnpfctl man,' one feels that, though it may be perfectly true, it ought not to be said, under the circumstances."

Rand, McNally, & Co. have in press the copyright edition of a new novel, entitled "The Birth of a Soul," by Mrs. A. Phillips, author of "Man Proposes."

The Bookseller, Newsdealer, and Stationer (New York) for September 15 is the "fall announcement number," and contains a complete revised price list of all domestic and foreign publications handled by the trade through the news companies.

The schedules of Charles L. Webster & Co., book publishers, New York, of which firm Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Frederick J. Hall were the partners, show liabilities, $94,191; nominal assets, $122,657; net actual assets, $54,164.

The New Education (New York) offers prizes amounting to $725, to subscribers only, for the best articles on educational topics submitted before December 31, 1894.

Richard Harding Davis was thirty years old last April.

"An Intra-mural View of the Ladies' Home Journal" is a beautifully printed and illustrated pamphlet describing the Home Journal's publication building. The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, will send a copy to any one on receipt of four cents in stamps.

The Magazine of Poetry (Buffalo) for September contains sketches of Bret Harte, Jean La Rue Burnett, Henry Coyle, Nora Perry, S. Jennie Smith, Mary Clemmer, Frederic Allison Tupper, and other writers.

Besides a photogravure frontispiece and other attractive features, the Magazine of Art (New York) for October has two especially interesting articles, "How and What to Read — Addressed to Art Students," by J. E. Hodgson, R. A., and "International Exhibition of Bookbindings," by Will H. Edmunds, with many illustrations.

One of the handsomest summer resort periodicals ever issued is the Adirondack News and Tourist, published weekly during the Adirondack season by F. G. Barry, Saranac Lake, N. Y. It is a model publication of its kind.

Professor Josiah P. Cooke, of Harvard College, died at Newport, September 3.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE TO INTEREST AND HELP ALL LITERARY WORKERS.

VOL. VII.

BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1894.

ENTERED AT THE BOSTON POST-OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER.

CONTENTS:

PERSONAL TRIBUTES TO DR. HOLMES.

F. B. Sanborn, Charles Dudley Warner, Edward
Eggleston, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, W. H. Fur-
ness, C. A. Bartol, G. W. Cable, Oscar Fay Adams,
S. F. Smith, Frank L. Stanton, Noah Brooks,
Charles King, Margaret Sidney, Julia C. R. Dorr,
Samuel Minturn Peck, Elbridge S. Brooks, Donald
G. Mitchell, Jas. Jeffrey Roche, Nathan Haskell Dole,
Nicholas P. Gilman, William H. Hayne, Joel Ben-
ton, Grace King, Caroline H. Dall, Edgar Fawcett,
Richard Burton, Junius Henri Browne, Arlo Bates,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hamlin Garland, Hamilton
W. Mabie, J. T. Trowbridge.

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strong creative impulse does not commonly survive threescore years, but at eighty-five the sparkling mind of Dr. Holmes seemed untouched by bodily infirmity. It was a ripe fruit that parted from the bough in an autumn breeze. Charles Dudley Warner.

HARTFORD, October 19, 1894.

The vanishing point of the old New Eng land group of authors was the death of Dr. Holmes. The productions of this group were marked by a certain seriousness of aim a sobriety of purpose that gave a twilight glow of Puritan earnestness even to the lighter work of its members. This underlying seriousness was relieved by the weird imagination of Hawthorne, which refused to draw in didactic harness, and it was yet more relieved by the delightful vivacity and wit of Holmes. The strain of Dutch descent, perhaps, made Holmes bubble with a jolly humor quite unknown to the Massachusetts Brahmins, of whom he was prone to boast. But his pen had also that intellectual quality which gives staying power to humor. "The Last Leaf" and "The One Hoss Shay" and the brilliant sallies of the "Autocrat's Table Talk" may outlive many productions that wear an air of greater importance. Such fun will always seem modern and will prove delightful to succeeding generations. Edward Eggleston. JOSHUA'S ROCK ON LAKE GEORGE, October 20, 1894.

The death of Dr. Holmes derives an additional significance from the fact that it marks the closing of an era in American literature. He was the last of the old New England poets. There was a richness and force of personality in these men which make them delightful to contemplate, even apart from their achievements. Where did we ever meet such sweetness of soul, such noble bearing, and exquisite urbanity as in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Where such serene, transcendental wisdom, and

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canny Yankee sense as in Ralph Waldo Emerson? Where is the man among the survivors who in beauty of person and brightness of intellect can rival James Russell Lowell? Where did we ever hear such rich flow of racy talk as from Oliver Wendell Holmes? I do not know why the last, but not the least, in this brilliant constellation impresses me as a great personality, rather than as a great poet. As a writer of verse, he is scarcely entitled to a place among the immortals. But as Oliver Wendell Holmes, the genial Autocrat, the novelist, the fanciful and versatile poet, the wit, the wag, the royal companion, i. e., in the totality of what he was, he seems to be safe from oblivion for some centuries to come. "Such were the men that New England produced in the nineteenth century," the future historian will say, and point to the splendid group, of which Oliver Wendell Holmes was the last.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.

I have no gift to write obituaries. None knew Dr. Holmes but to admire him for his rare wit and to love him for his lovable qualities. I hold with Wordsworth, who says in his "Essay on Epitaphs" that we do not willingly analyse the characters of those who have delighted and helped us, the admiration and the love they have made us feel; that these sentiments are abundant proofs of the worth which inspires them. (I quote from memory.)

W. H. Furness.

In animals, bird, beast, insect, bee, grasshopper, and fly, poets see images of mankind. Dr. Holmes found in a fish a symbol of the soul. He imported into literature the chambered nautilus from its navigation of faroff seas. With his scientific imagination he naturalized a foreign species for shores it never sailed to alive, and immortalized a frail creature in the amber of imperishable thought. It was fancied that men learned to build vessels from the nautilus, which means both a sailor and a ship. There is a spiritual lesson and motive from inspired verse. C. A. Bartol.

From the day when I read the first page of Dr. Holmes' work until now, he has seemed to me to carry to every mind and mood a sense of his benevolent presence like nothing else so

much as the call of a kind physician to the bedside of a child. In the constellation of American literary masters his light is the kindliest of all. It shone and must shine on through the generations as it shone from the first, with the soft, unvarying glow of a perfect human affection. We might reasonably fancy him beginning the utterances of a life beyond this in those words which, with such sweet and playful pretense of austerity so many years ago, he began the "Autocrat "-"I was just going to say, when I was interrupted.". G. W. Cable. NORTHAMPTON, 18th October, 1894.

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"My friends, you endanger the life of your client By trying to stretch him up into a giant." "Great poets" are few and far between in a century. America has had but one (Lowell) in this of ours; England, not many. To make this claim for Holmes is to invite comparison and criticism with somewhat damaging results. A delightful author in verse or prose one may freely and gratefully acknowledge him to be, but hardly more, so far as his work in general is concerned. But in the series of poems called "Wind-clouds and Star-drifts " he comes more nearly to deserve the descriptive adjective "great" than elsewhere; but, alas! these are not the poems of his which his admirers are enthusiastic about. These they never read. Perhaps they will one day be read more than now, and certainly such a hymn as "O Love Divine," such an exquisite poem as "The Silent Melody," such others as "The Voiceless," "The Chambered Nautilus," "Homesick in Heaven," and " My Aviary," these we may hope will long endure, and for them we can but be sincerely thankful, whether their kindly author be called "great" or not.

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