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LITERARY NOTES.
Little Men arid Women Baby-land.
With 1900 the volume, enters upon
its twenty-fourth year. Tho host
authors and artiste continue their con
tributions to tho delight of tho liltlo
people for whoso instruction, amuse
ment and entertainment their boet en
deavors aro put forth. Somo of tbo
good' things in the new volume tiro
TWO NEW SERIAL STORIES: "A
Little Princo and PrinceBB of Egypt;
a Long-Time-Ago Story," by Oliver
Harper.
"Tho Adventures of Spotty," by Kato
Upson Clark.
ROTABLE ARTICLES: "Playthings
That Are Alive" (in six parts,) by
Judith Solia Cohen.
"Some Famous Animals,' by Cora
Haviland Carver.
SHORT STORIES: More than the
usual number of short storioa written
by men and women who "know how;"
and there are very many pictures to
illustrate these.
THE BABYLANDERS aro entertained
every month with dainty verse unci
pretty pictures by Margaret Johnson.
CRADLE SONGS OP MANY NA
TIONS tell, in twelve parte, how the
' wee babies of other lands are sung to
eleep every night.
And there are various simple oc
cupations which suggest to the moth
er ways and meads to keep active lit
tle ringers busy.
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The ''New Lippincott" for January,
1900, begins the year with a complete
novel, full of fresh sensations and amuB
ing episodes, called "The Bread Lioe,"
by Albert Bigelow Paine. This is a
tale of fun and love in New York's
bohemia, beginning with New Year's
night at the Model Bakery on Broad
way, where some com radon encounter
IThe Bread Line," and ending there,
after a year spent in trying to start a
newspaper in a bohemian studio. Love
plays a single part in redeeming the
hero.
The significant series of etoriei on
Mormon Life, by Mrs. J. K. Hudson,
begins in this number with "The Third
Wife." These should prove as useful a
weapon against the renewed menac of
polygamy as the expected Congressional
action.
The short fiction will contist of three
extraordinary stories by comparatively
ncj writera: "Behind the Lines." a
I tale of social lite in Washington, by
f Archibald Willingham Butt; "the
SMry of a Sky-Scraper," 'by Percle W.
iprt:a tale of today in , taller New
Work; and a charmfng fairy tale for
'VohrlBtmaB, by Evelyn Sharp, a new
Jt London writer, enwiea -in m x-rmwwB
Shoes."
Of timely papers there are many.
"Art nod the Gamora," by F. Holland
Day, Ib illustrated by an example o. this
master in a now field of itrt; Mrs.
Crowninsbiold's description of the pro
gress uf tho great Paris Exposition,
under tho titlo of "The Paris Fair in
Outlino," aiust attract both those- who
aro to visit it and thoeo who aro not;
"An English Music festival," by
Thomas Whitney Surotto, tho popular
University Extension lecturor, should
appoal to hiB wido circlo of hoarerp, ae
well as to all tho musically inclinod.
Tho third paper by Ignota, in a series
on English society, ia entitled "English
Political Houbo Parties," and reveals
much about tho drawing room side of
recent political history in England.
Dr. Thoodore E, Wolfo, in "A Bookish
Corner of Now Jer8e," talks about
such interesting people as tho Gilders,
Dr. C. C. Abbott, "Clementine," tho
poetets, Thomas Dunn English, and
others.
Obarlos G. D. Roberts contributes a
quatrain called "Tho White Frost," and
Thooeoflia Pickering Garrison, a poem
appropriate to the season, under the
titlo, "Two Women."
Tho January Century will contain a
poem by Rudyard Kipling, "In the Mat
ter of One Compass." Dr. Mitchell's
story, "The Autobiography of a Quack,"
ends in that issue, but another serial
by Dr. Mitchell will begin in the March
number. It is called ltDr. North and
His Friends," and one who has read the
manuscript calls it "an epitome of the
science, culture and common Benae of
the nineteenth century."
Mr. Charnberlaln's War ir South
Africa.
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It had been the confident boast of the
British promoter of the war in South
Africa that their troops would oat their
CErietmaB dinners at Pretoria, 'Johan
nesburg, and Bloemtontoin. The Tory
press ot England spoke of the Boer as a
mere fly on the wheel of the chariot of
Progress, to be crushed at a single turn.
It was Mr. Chamberlain's opinion, un
doubtedly, that the Boers would not
fight. As we explained at the time, Mr.
Chamberlain never dreamed of bring
ing a hideous war upon England, being
confident in the potency of those
methods of bis that had for some time
been lauded by his admirers as the
"new diplomacy." His theory was that
the way to get all jou want in dealing
with A small power is to invent.' pretexts
for a quarrel, appear to have serious
.grievances, enter upon a course of ever
shifting and incroaniog demands, and,
while negotiations are still pending, to
i ship troops and make all the appearance
ot preparation for war. To Mr. Cham
berlain's great surprise, the small na
tion of like blood with the men who
under William of Orange fought so
gloriously against the army ot the Span
ish Inquisition spoiled the game of the
new diplomacy by preferring to tight
against incomparable odds rather than
to do the obliging and logical thing and
permit themselves to bo bluffed.
All the Boors, ot both republics
men, women and children combined
hardly begin to equal in number the
population of the obscure suburban
town of West Ham, near London. Yet
the very same London papers which a
few days ago thought the Boers could
npt and would not tight, and that a few
British regiments could go to Pretoria
without firing a shot, had now gone to
the opposite extreme of regarding the
Boer armies as the most formidable
evar known in the history of warfare
and were begging their readers to con
aider that the British empirn was en
gaged in a life-and-death struggle.
This tone merely invited the contempt
of the world, while it also provoked the
freer expression of enthusiastic admira-
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