Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

There has been a very interesting discussion caused of late by a serial article being published in Harper’s Young People. The article referred to*is called “A Trip Around Cape Horn in ’49,” and it tells anecdotes of the journey of an actual ship called the Gray Eagle around the Hoyn. The discussion is caused by letters frbm several persons who made the trip in the Gray Eagle,and they have all furnished Imany additional anecdotes of the voyage. The fourth installment of the account is in the present issue of the Young People. • Although means of travel have been greatly cheapened and improved in recent years, many per-

softs still prefer to have their traveling done for them as they sit about the hom entires ide with acopy of Harper’s Magazine. This year readers have enjoyed, or will enjoy, Richard Harding Davis’s descriptions of English and Paris life; Alfred Parson’s pictures of Japan; Edwin—Lord Weeks’s papers on India, and Poultney Bigelow’s experiences in Russia and Gerflaafty. -All these articles have been lavishly illustrated. The publishers announce for early numbers of the magazine descriptions of travel in Northern Africa, by Poultney Bigelow, with pictures by Frederic Remington; more illustrated papers on modern India, by Edwin Lord Weeks; and, by no means least, a series of illustrated stories of Chinese life, to be written by Julius Ralph, who has undertaken a special journey for that purpose. “An Intra-Mural View," a very artistic brochure, has been received from the Curtis Publishing Com£any, Philadelphia, publishers of the ladies’ Home Journal. As the title indicates, the book gives us glimpses of the interior of the Journal’s offices, and some idea of the work carried on there. The main building, entirely occupied by the editorial and business offices, was designed by Mr. Harden bergh, the architect of the Hotel Waldorf, New York, and was completed in January, , 1893. The exterior is attractive and the interior elegantly appointed and admirably planned. ;