Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — Literary Hotes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Hotes.

The October Harper's will contain jas a frontispiece a charming picture by I Mr. Abbey of “Judith Shakespeare.” ; the heroine of William Black’s story, i which nears its close, and will have I more of the delightful engraving from ithe pen.ci!s'.of Dielman and Gibson, 1 illustrating E. P. Roe’s “Nature's Serial Story," 1 part eleven. Both Mr. Boughton and Mr. Abbey illustrate the installment of the former s clever • “Artist Sirolls in Holland, 1 " which will ; appear in that number. Horace E. Scudder will take the reader to CopenI hagen, “The Home of Hans Christian ■ Andersen, 11 and Rufus F. Zogbattm to I “The Home of Tommy Atkins," 1 who is quite another kind of person. Tommy Atkins is the popular name for thq British soldier, and the home described is the great camp at Aldershot. Boih these papers will be fully illustrated, the Jatter by the writer himself. Mexican metropolis, Monterey, will be described and illustrated in an article (Called “The Gateway of the Sierra Madre.” by Frank R. Brown. Two historical papers, one on King’s College, (now Columbia,) New York, by John Mae Mullen, and the second by Rev. Trehdvvell Walden, on Westminister and two biographical-one a remiscence of Mr. Darwin, with a portrait of him in middle age, the , other the remarkable story of a slave horse-jockey, Charles Stewart, told by ' himself and" edited by a Southern lady, will be features of the number. One of the miscellaneous papers, on “Municipal Finance,** by W. M. Ivins, pri. . vate secretary to Mayor Grace, of New I York, will attract much attention, and there will be the usual variety of i stories, poems, and departments. i 1 . : ’ • “ 7: