Show LITERARY LITEll Alir NOTES OVERLAND MONTHLY the september overland open opens with a striking at story O 0 of the bret ilarae school called the lone woman of key keya paha mountain by a new writer joha john IN milton lilton offman 11 Hoffr nan his ilia future work will be looked for with interest the other fiction of the number is a long etory story of oregon or washington territory called jnet janet crag craig and introducing a very lovable heroine and an installment of the dramatic mexican serial la in which the two principal character characters chata chats and chinita make their advent u upon p the stage prepared for them by ton the e previous chapters the vivi vividness ness wit with h which the various occupation occupations classes clae see talk and behavior of a mexican hacienda are brought before the readers eyes is remarkable we believe no euch such study of or mexican life has ba ever found its way into literature the period ie is of Comon forts ascend ency with the figure of juarez Juare visible in the distance and the disturbances leading to his triumph play a large part in the story there are also several notable sketches in this number of the overland Ot erland chief among them an account of the ascent of tacoma by george bayley of oakland who tells the story and P B van trump and james longshire of washington washingto territory mr bayley believes ohp this Is to be the second ascent actual summit ever made for those of general kautz the earliest of all in 1857 and of mr emmons of clarence kings geological survey were be he thinks only to subordinate sum mits miti gen general eral hazzard stevens and mr van trump undoubtedly reached the summit in 1870 and besides thole those named above no white man and probably no indian so great ie is their superstitious fear of the mountain had ever attempted to climb it until this party I 1 in 1884 the account of this piece of mount mountain aln work scarcely to be ri in this country is a most interesting one A moqui indian fete an account of the snake dancea dance beer drinking in germany end and some japanese folk I 1 lore are also entertaining sketches the poetry of the number is of noticeably tice ably high character Lir rELLe LIVING AOI the numbers of the living age tot for august and contain native india asiatic quarterly on the study of science by sir john lubbock contemporary letters and letter writers nineteenth century christo Cb ritto pher north macmillan Muc millan parrots I 1 eller I 1 ave met blet cochill Com hill elizabeth fry blackwood ackwood El the monks of islam the tile Temp lars good bood words A tropical calm and sunset and the chateaux of touraine 0 spectator jacobean houses in the north orth saturday review beaconsfield Beacons field and the men of the turkish army st jamesf rames in Heli goland alt all the year alar sound round wi with th installments instalments of treasure trove A garden of memories and don angelos stray sheep and poetry for fifty two number numbers of sixty four large pages each or more than pages page a year the subscription p price rice 8 ie low 1 0 w while for 1050 the faub publishers lish erso offer ff e r to send anyone any one 0 ef the american monthlies or weeklies with the living age for a year both postpaid littell aco co boston are the publishers |