People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

McClure’s Magazine for May will have an article by the emi nent surgeon, Dr. W. W. Keen, indicating the uses already possible soon, of the Roentgen rays in the study and cure of human deformities, injuries and diseases. The article will be fully illustrated from photographs taken by the new process. The Lincoln paper in the May McClure’s will contain some very interesting unpublished letters and anecdotes, showing Lincoln’s rare tact and sagacity as a political manager, even as a young man. It will also describe Lincoln’s life in Washington as a member of Congress in 18471849, and reproduce from the newspaper in wnich it was reported at the time an important but now unknown speech of Lincoln’s made in New England in 1848. A number of rare pictures will appear with the paper. A thrilling adventure in mountaineering will be related in McClure’s Magazine for May by Garret P. Serviss. It is Mr. Serviss’s own experience in trying to climb to the top of Mount Blanc in the midst of a fierce blizzard. The article will be profusely illustrated. McClure’s for May will cpntain the second installment Anthony Hope’s new novel. “Phroso” A full summary of the first installment will be given for the benefit of readers who missed the April number. This promises to be Anthony Hope’s greatest ro ma nee. Mr. Will H. Low, the artist, will have in McClure s Magazine for May a paper on Millet, whose painting “ The Angelus” sold a few years ago for 8150,000 the highest price ever paid for a modern painting. Mr. Low visited Millet several times in his studio, and his paper will embrace some interesting reminiscences from these visits. Careful reproductions of the more famous of Millet’s pictures will illustrate she paper. In Mc-

Clure’s Magazine for May, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps will tell the story —now become amusing, but anything else than amusing at the time—of the tumult of attack and approval that attended the publication of the most famous of her books, “The Gates Ajar” There will be a number of strong short stories in McClure’s for May, among them a railway story by Cy Warman.