The pages of this sheet, numbered consecutively 2SJ to 2^2, are from the December Number of Scribner’s 
Monthly, and will be found of interest as containing Dr. Holland’s “Topics of the Time,” and “The Old 
Cabinet,” Mr. Gilder. The Literary Notes, and Chapters from Edward Everett Hale’s Story, 
and pages of Advertise7nents, are also numbered consecutively. 
SCRIBNER & CO. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
A CLERGYMAN’S FAIRY-TALE. 
Our clergymen to-day do not disdain to turn occa- 
sionally from parable to fairy-talk, drawing the children 
into pleasant, wholesome places by chains of gossamer. 
Rev. Edward Eggleston, in a grand fairy-story soon to 
appear in “St. Nicholas,” tells the startling adventures 
of a little Hoosier boy, who was “clean beat” with 
what he saw with his own living eyes. For startling 
conceptions and daring flights, commend us to your 
big-hearted, wide-awake, poetry-loving parsons of 1875. 
and hospitality of the Southern tribes of Indians to 
say that one is a friend of Maj. Powell. The in- 
trepid explorer is almost an oracle among these In- 
dians, and is everywhere received with the greatest 
deference, and accorded the highest privileges. In 
Scribner’s Monthly for December, he will give an 
account of the every-day life of the Indians of the 
“Ancient Province of Tusayan,” in Arizona, and will 
relate some of their beautiful and poetic traditions,, 
and describe with much circumstance the religious 
ceremonies to which, by special favor, he was admitted. 
Among the Utes and Shoshones Maj. Powell is known 
as Kah-pu-rats, meaning “ no right arm.” 
AN ICELANDIC STORY. 
Bayard Taylor very wisely cooled himself during the 
late dog-days by writing an Icelandic story for “ St. 
Nicholas,” which is to run as a serial through three 
numbers of that enterprising magazine, beginning in 
January. The story deals with the Iceland of to-day, 
and is said to be in the learned traveler’s freshest and 
best vein. 
A FINE PICTURE. 
A beautiful picture by Mary Hallock appears in St. 
Nicholas for December. It is only two children rock- 
ing in one chair, but it is a poem, a novelette in itself. 
JAPANESE ART. 
Nearly everybody in the country has, during the fan- 
days at least, some specimens of Japanese art in his or 
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acv.uiuing great praise to tne superior 
management of French finances. 
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN. 
H. H. Boyesen, “the Norwegian novelist,” is, in real- 
ity, an American novelist ; an American by citizenship, 
and, what is more than can be said of some Americans, 
in spirit also. His latest short story, “ A Scientific 
Vagabond,” will appear in Scribner for December. 
Mr. Boyesen, now a Professor at Cornell, is said to be 
engaged upon works of more importance than any yet 
given by him to the public. 
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. 
St. Nicholas, the unseen and mysterious, has, it 
seerns, a powerful ally in “ St. Nicholas,” the visible 
and matter-of-fact. That practical w’orker for the good 
of boys and girls promises to come out in December, 
or sooner, with full directions for getting up a hundred 
Christmas presents, all of home-handiwork, from pretty 
things that can be made by tots of five or six years, to 
elegant affairs that call for the skill of the biggest and 
cleverest brothers and sisters. 
We hereby disinterestedly and cordially advise all 
our young friends to read and profit by this article. 
KAH-PU-RATS. 
It is said by a member of one of the Western expe- 
ditions that it is a sufficient passport to the good graces 
isK'S, read like a 
ANOTHERI MAGAZINE ;G0NE. 
The Young People'^s Magazine, of Boston, started 
soon after Our Young Folks was merged in St. 
Nicholas, with the view of providing a first-class peri- 
odical for children, at a low price, has now been discon- 
tinued, and its unexpired subscriptions will be filled by 
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