MATSUMOTO. Editor of the "Japanese News," N. Y. We clip the following paragraph from the October number of Success, to which we are also indebted for the accompanying portrait. The Japanese are an active and progressive people. Nothing more clearly illustrates this trait than the fact that, with a total population of but six hundred Japanese, New York has a weekly paper, called the Japanese News, which has its office. and editorial room on Sands Street, Brooklyn. The newspaper is published by Mr. Matsumoto, an enterprising young Japanese, who came to New York more than a year ago, a total stranger. Upon investigating the field, he found that no Japanese newspaper was published in New York, so he resolved to establish a weekly journal in that language. A great difficulty presented itself in the problem of how the Japanese News could be duplicated. Of course, printing in the ordinary way was out of the question, both because of the kind of type required, and also because of the lack of typesetters conversant with Japanese. But, nothing daunted, the young man made a careful study of all the duplicating processes invented by American mechanical genius. Finally, he selected Edison's Mimeograph, as best adapted for his purpose, and shortly afterwards offered the Japanese News to the world. Probably no other paper was ever so literally the product of one-man power as this publication. During the first year of its existence, the energetic Matsumoto was editor, publisher, printer, printer's devil, and mailing clerk. Generously supported in his laudable efforts by his companions, he has made a substantial success of his undertaking, and is now the owner of a large lithographing machine by which the paper is duplicated. The Japanese News is a four-page sheet of 24x14 inches, and is bright and newsy. Its tone is strongly American; in fact, there are very few foreigners who are so enthusiastically proAmerican as the Japanese in this country. LEADING ARTICLES AND STORIES IN SOME OF THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES, Edouard Detaille, Painter of Soldiers. By Armand Dayot. The Werwolves. By H. Beaugrand. Bismarck. Personal and Collected Impressions. By William Milligan Sloane. The Trans-Mississippians and their Fair at Omaha. By Albert Shaw. Home of the Indolent. The Island of Capri. By Frank D. Millett. The Roman Emperor and His Arch of Triumph. By Arthur L. Frothingham, Jr. The Yellow Burgee. By Chester Bailey Fernald. Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women. Mrs. George Plum stead. By Charles Henry Hart. The Pony Express. By W. F. Bailey. A Gentleman of Japan and a Lady. By John Luther Long. Bores. By George H. Darwin. The Oxford and Cambridge Race. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. The Blockade of the Confederacy. By Horatio L. Wait. A Storm at Sea. By H. Phelps Whitmarsh. Uncle Adam. By M. E. M. Davis. Life and Society in Old Cuba. II. By J. S. Jenkins. Knotty Problems of the Philippines. By Dean C. Wor cester. Dog Miniatures on Ivory. By Mary H. O'Connor. Types of Feminine Cuba. By Gibson Willets. How the War Loan Bond Issue was Made. By Cal O'Loughlin. Fashion's Whims and Fancies. By Olivia Bell. Piano Music: Danse of the Moonbeams. Characteristique. By Theo. F. Morse. Vocal Music:-Sweet Kitty O'Neill. By Florence Vivian. Hearts Ecstasy. By Lurlette. Music for Mandolin and Guitar. The Chinese and the Coon. By Cole and Johnson. FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY (November) Greater America. By Colonel A. K. McClure, Hon. William E. Chandler, Hon. Cushman K. Davis, and General Fitzhugh Lee. With Wheeler and Roosevelt at Santiago. By Rev. Peter F. MacQueen. April Bloom. By Egerton Castle. The Little Rift. (Story.) By Margaret E. Sangster. Lock, Stock and Barrel. (Story) By Frank R. Stockton. The Heart of a Maid. (Story.) By Etta W. Pierce. The Southern Woman, as She Was and Is. By Mrs. Frank Converting silver into Gold. By E. A. Fletcher. War and Trade. By F. P. Powers. By Captain F. A. A Family History. By Adeline Knapp. Gray Eyes: Fiction. By Nina R. Allen. MUSICAL RECORD. Emotional Economy. By E. S. Kelley. MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE. The Fight for Santiago. By Stephen Bonsal. What a Young Girl saw at Siboney. By Elsie Reasoner. Eviction at Dunshauglin Bog. By M. G. Sampson. The Cost of the War. By Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip. Collector of the Porte. By Robert W. Chambers. An Appreciation of the West. By William Allen White. Diary of the British Consul at Santiago during Hostilities. By Frederick W. Ramsden. OVERLAND MONTHLY. Spanish Missions in Arizona. By Henry P. Aulick. Gossip About the Presidents. By Ben C. Truman. The Redwood and the Artist. By L. P. Latimer. McQuinn's Ghost. By Erskine M. Hamilton. Phelan and Hugh Craig. By James D. The Whispering Gallery. By Rossiter Johnson. Holidays on a House Boat. By H. E. Beatty. A New Game Country. By H. D. Slater. A Maine Moose Hunt. By Jos. W. Shurter. The Ruddy Duck. By Allan Brooks. Sport in Newfoundland. By A. H. Seymour. Quail Shooting in South Florida. By C. H. Stokes. Fishing for 'Possum. By E. C. Brown. Snipe Shooting on the Eastern Shore. By N. Prentice. REVIEW OF REVIEWS. (American Monthly.) William McKinley as War President. By Gen. A. B. Nettleton. Medical and Sanitary Aspects of the War. By Dr. Carroll Dunham. Some Military Lessons of the Struggle. By Lieut. John H. Parker. ST. NICHOLAS. Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland. By Annie C. Kniper. The Lakerim Athletic Club. (Concluded.) By Rupert A Boy's Recollection of the Great Chicago Fire. The Tritons Chase After a Derelict. Clarke By By Gustave Kobbe. By Kate Upson Denise and Ned Toodles. (Concluded.) By Gabrielle E. Jackson. THE FORUM. England and Russia in the Far East. By Goffrey Drage. The Populist Conceit-The Free Coinage of Silver by the United States Alone. By Senator Justin S. Morrill. About Play Acting. By Mark Twain. The Conduct of the Cubans in the Late War. By Maj.Gen. O. O. Howard. Amateurs in War. By A. Maurice Low. Our War with Spain from the Political Point of View. By Henry Litchfield West. The Dangers of Imperialism. By Wm. MacDonald. Tammany Past and Present. By Edward Cary. A Decade of Magazine Literature. By Charles H. Eaton. Intercollegiate Debating. By Cecil Frederick Baton. THE MUNSEY. War Time Snap Shots. Swallow. (Continued) By H. Rider Haggard. By Brander Their Last Ride. By Connor Guilfoyle. THE PARISIAN. Lilot's Fig Tree. By Jean Rameau. The Screen. By Paul Bourget. How Athens was Amused. By Bertram Fauvet. Court Life in Spain. By Lionel Strachey. The American Heiress. By Mme. de Bovet. The Fete of the Waters. By Paul Marguerite. THE PURITAN. Some Red Cross Workers. Under the Emblem of Mercy. Anthony. By E. Grant Crans. Mr. Barnim's Proposal. By Tudor Jenks. WIDE WORLD MAGAZINE. Some Curiosities of Tiger Hunting. By Col. G. H. Trevor. A Race for a Gold Mine. By W. Rix and W. T. Kerridge. The adventures of Louis de Rougemont. (Continued.) How Our Baby was Stolen by Baboons. A Zulu Wedding. By James Cassidy. The Romance of the Mission Field. V. By Fred Burns. Adventures of the Comte de la Muette During the Reign of Terror. By Bernard Capes. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02. This romance presents in a series of vivid impressions the extraordinary events of the French Revolution, with the a normal individualities developed by the stress of that period. The narrative is spirited, audacious, and full of adroit descriptive touches. Adventures of Francois (The). By Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. This novel, following the author's wonderfully successful Hugh Wynne," traces the career of a "Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution,' It is crowded full of adventure, and is a vivid picture of life during one of the most thrilling episodes of modern times. Historic figures live again in the pages, and the great drama of the Revolution is handled with masterly power. The brilliant pencil of Castaigne is seen to admirable advantage the in many beautiful illustrations. Among the Lindens. By Evelyn Raymond, author of "The Little Lady of the Horse," "A Cape May Dia. mond," etc. Illustrated by Victor A. Searles. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. The scene of Evelyn Raymond's new story is partly in New York and partly in the country among the lindens." A poor family is assisted by a wealthy friend in the best possible way, he helps them to help themselves. The youngest boy is the life of the story, something of an amusing and exceedingly lively nature happening to him everyday of his life. The children of the story have faults, but strive to correct them, and have healthy and noble ideals of life and character. There is an exceptionally pleasant, homelike atmosphere about the book. An Antarctic Mystery. By Jules Verne. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.28. Artemus Ward. (Charles Farrar Browne.) Complete Works. New edition. 8vo. cloth. Price $1.50. By mail $1.65. The present edition is of a work which has been for more than thirty years prominently before the public, and which may justly be said to have maintained a standard character. It is issued because of a demand for a better edition than has ever been published. In order to supply this acknowledged want, the publishers have enlarged and perfected this edition by adding some matter not heretofore published in book form. More than one hundred thousand copies of the work have been printed. The plates had become so worn as to render it unreadable, yet the sale kept on. In preparing this new edition, many of the author's fragmentary pieces, not contained in the old edition, have been added. The earliest of the author's writings, published in periodicals in 1862, are included, together with many additional illustrations, which now, for the first time, make the work complete. It has been observed that the wit of one generation is rarely appreciated by the next, but this is not true of Artemus Ward. There is a constant demand for his writings, for the reason that his jokes require no appendix for their elucidation. No one who speaks the English language can fail to appreciate his humor. It will always be funny. There is a fascination about it which can neither be questioned nor resisted. His intellect was sharp and electric. He saw the humor of anything at a glance, and his manner of relating these laughter-provoking absurdities is original and "fetching." This edition is made from new electro plates, printed on extra fine paper, embellished with 28 full-page illustrations, finely printed on color tint plates and with photogravure portrait of the author. At the Conservatoire at Paris. Translated from French by Esther Singleton. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.90. By mail $2.05. Autumn Maneuvers. By Ludovic Halévy. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02. one Ave Roma Immortalis. Studies from the Chronicles of Rome. By F. Marion Crawford, author of "Corleone," "Casa Braccio," etc. Illustrated with twenty-eight full-page photogravure illustrations, maps and hundred illustrations in the text. In two volumes, cloth. Crown 8vo. Price $4.50. By mail $4.75. These volumes are unlike any of the numerous books which have been written about Rome. The author was born in Italy, where his childhood and youth were spent in the Eternal City, so that her language and her customs are as familiar to him as if they had been his inheritance, while as the son of an artist he was especially sensitive to her charm. For many years he has been a close student of the old Latin and Italian chronicles, in many of which there are true stories more tremendous than any writer of fiction would dare to invent, and his own memory runs back to a state of society which already seems almost as remote as the middle ages. He begins with a brief historical study of the rise of Rome with sketches of some of the great men who made her greatness and afterwards takes the fourteen different regions or wards into which the city was divided in mediæval times, and goes through them one after another, describing the characteristic buildings of each as they have been in different ages, and as we see them now, and giving the histories of the people who lived and fought, and loved and died in them, leaving their names and their memories to haunt the stones forever. An immense amount of information has been brought together in a convenient form, while Mr. Crawford's enthusiasm for his subject, together with his skill and experience as a novelist enable him to breathe life in the shadowy figures of legend and romance. This book will be a delightful companion in rambles about the city, while its historical value entitles it to a permanent place in the library. There are twenty-eight full-page illustrations in photogravure of rare and historical scenes, and nearly one hundred other illustrations which have been especially drawn for the text. Baby's Record. By Miss Frances Humphrey. Large 4to. cloth, with title stamped in silver and colored inks, boxed. Price $1.90. By mail $2.05. With twelve color plates and thirty half-tone engravings, after designs by Miss Humphrey. These represent babies or children of tender age in their first attempt to walk, their first time at church, in the country, at school, first Christmas, etc, and are marked by the delicacy and truth that have made the artist's work so famous. Accompanying these illustrations are printed pages with blanks left for recording the baby's age, baptism, and all events of importance in its life. Baby Folk. By Miss Frances Humphrey. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02. An exquisite picture book for the little ones with short stories and verses, and charming colored pictures. Battle of the Strong (The). A Novel. By Gilbert Parker, author of "The Seats of the Mighty," etc. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. The appearance of a fresh novel by Mr. Gilbert Parker is a literary event of no small importance, for there are few novelists now writing in England or America who address a larger or more attentive audience. Before The Seats of the Mighty" was published, he had won an enviable reputation; this novel advanced him a long stride toward the front rank. A critic recently said that Mr. Parker is surely a story-teller. He makes his tales bristle with incident; there is plenty of conversation which has pith and point. Mr. Parker's works show uncommon skill in construction, character delineation, and the employment of local color." This array of strong qualities in the equipment of a successful novelist is well illustrated in his novel, "The Battle of the Strong.' In this novel, as in several of his previous novels which have gained celebrity, Mr. Parker avails himself of the potent charm of an historic atmosphere. The scenes are principally laid in the Isle of Jersey. The story opens in January, 1781, when a company of French soldiers was sent by the king of the French to capture the island from the British. The characters are largely inhabitants of the coveted island, who fight, run, make love, and diplomatize in very national fashion and with no consciousness of making history. The French Revolution casts its lurid light on the scene, and its passions add to the dramatic effect of the novel. The story is graphically told and will add to Mr. Parker's great and growing reputation as a novelist. Mr. Leon H. Vincent is a delightful lecturer upon literary topics. His forte is biographica literaria. A genuine lover of books for book's sake, he is capable of producing a charming volume. The Bibliotaph and Other People. Filled with literary gossips, quaint conceits, and felicitous phrasing, Mr. Vincent's book is one of those that we take up and read anywhere. At one moment your impression is clear that the prime quality of this book is its wittiness; next you are struck with a certain easy omniscience of the author concerning first and second editions and bindings. How the devotees of D'Israeli the elder will rejoice in this his disciple! To turn over these pages is like visiting a county fair-every exhibit calls for a premium. The Bibliotaph bought books for the pleasure of buying them, then he stored them away, buried them in an inaccessible place, expecting to live to the day when he might collect them about himself. There is a picturesqueness about this form of bibliomaniac never before displayed. No doubt it has its own proper place among the final causes. In the meantime we chuckle over Mr Vincent's description of the genial "crank.”—(The Outlook.) By Blindman's World, and Other Stories (The). Edward Bellamy. With an Introductory Chapter by W. D. Howells. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. Not only the multitude which has read with uncommon interest and sympathy Mr. Bellamy's remarkable story "Looking Backward," but all who enjoy a good story well told, will welcome this new book, which contains fifteen stories now first appearing in a volume, as follows: The Blindman's World; An Echo of Antietam; The Old Folks' Party; The Cold Snap; Two Day's Solitary Imprisonment; A Summer Evening's Dream; Pott's Painless Cure: A Love Story Reversed; Deserted; Hooking Watermelons; A Positive Romance; Lost; With Eyes Shut; To Whom This May Come; At Pinney's Ranch. Mr. Bellamy had an active imagination, which moved largely in the direction of his humame sympathies; and while the reader who demands primarily an entertaining story and is not anxious about its inmost significance will find these stories of more or less engrossing interest, those readers who honor the philanthropic spirit of Mr. Bellamy, and those who seek in stories something deeper than mere dramatic incident and more permanent than an afternoon's beguiling, will heartily welcome a book rich in qualities they have grown to admire as constituting so largely the hope of the world and the high joy of living. Mr. Howells furnishes a charming, characteristic introduction. Bob, Son of Battle. By Alfred Ollivant. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.03. This tale is as full of novelty as it is of merit, and to be both new and true is a rare distinction for any story. That it discovers new and admirable material in shepherds and shepherd dogs and their thrilling rivalries and contests (the scene is laid in the North of England) is really one of its minor merits. Its great claim is in adding another to the living unforgettable characters of English fiction. Meet Adam M'Adam and you may hate him or you may love him, or you may try to hate him and love him in spite of yourself, but one thing is certain, you will never forget him! Boys of Old Monmouth (The). A Story of Washington's Campaign in New Jersey in 1778. By Everett T. Tomlinson, author of "Guarding the Border," ""Washington's Young Aids," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. Mr. Tomlinson has attracted so large a constituency by his very successful books for boys, that this new book will be hailed with acclamation. It deals with a period and a locality exceedingly familiar to him, being a story of Revolutionary times in New Jersey. Its heroes are two boys, one the son of a patriot whose family has been outrageously treated by Tory desperadoes, the other "a bound boy" whose employer is a traitor. The boys are intensely patriotic, and figure in important scenes in the Revolutionary struggle, one of them taking a heroic part in the battle of Monmouth. Washington, Greene, Lee, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, "Captain' Molly Pitcher, and other prominent figures in the war are in the story, in their proper characters. The story is thoroughly interesting, the historical background and atmosphere true to fact, and the book will find a large army of readers. |