Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
New Publications.

-Harper's Monthly for December begins
the fifty sixth volume of this standard peri
odcal, and offers the following very accept
able table Of contents: Millions Hymn or
the Nativity, with seven illustrations by
Fredericks; Many Leaves end few Grapes, a
Christmas Story, by Virginia w. johnson,
With two illustrations; Elizabethan and
Later English Furniture, by Harriet Pres
colt Spofford, with twenty illustrations;
Back to Back-a story of To.Day-( con-
cluded) by Edward Everett: Hale; A Memo
ry, Poem, by A. j. Requier; The Metro
poitan Newspaper, by William H. Rideing,
with twenty seven illustrations; Monmouth,
a Poem, by James T. Fields; Master Rob-
beys Romance, Story, by Henrietta Fl.
Holdich: To Friend who Slept Ill, Poem,
by Edgar Fawcett Keramos, Poem, by
Henry W. Longfellow, with fourteen illus
trations; The Man in the Cage, Story, by
Rebecca Harding Davis; A Year of Ameri-
can Travel-Part H., by Jessie Benton FIRE.
mont; My Uncle's Heiress, a Story, by
Charles De Kay; Jamrach's, by Moncure D.
Conway; The Daily Advertiser, Story, by
Horace E. Scudder; Da Capo, Story
Part l., by Miss Thackeray; Was it Love
or Blindness? Story, by A. P. c.: The
Cosmogony of paradise Lost" by E. S.
Nadal, with four diagrams; Editors Easy
Chair; Editors Literary Record; Editor S
Scientific Record; Editors Historical Re-
cord; Editor Drawer. New York: Harper
& Brothers.
Appleton's Journalfcr December Cd. APP
pleton 4 Co., New York;. Contents: From
tispiece ILLUSTRATION to Poem, "ln the Art
Gallery"), by c. S. Reinhart; ''The Head
Waters of the Rhine" with Gig hit ilustra-
tions); "By Celia's Arbor," by Waller
Besant and James Rice with two illustra-
tions), Chaps. X.-XIII.; cat the Door
(Poem), by Mary Keely Boutelle; GA Night
in the Mountains. by Rebeeca Harding
Davis; "Twilight" (Poem), from The French
of Victor Hugo, by Florence A. Kendrick;
Conservation and Imagination by Junius
Henri Browne; ga Trip to the Bermudas. .
by S G. W. Benjamin; 'In the Art Gal
lery" (Poem), by Edward Renaud; s'Moun-
tain Harry" by Ernest lngersoIl; IA Morn
ing Call on the Inkerman Cave Folk" 10y
David Ker; "Tbe Master of Rushen," by
Amelia E. Barr; LILLIAN" (Poem), by Rich
ard Henry Stoddard; can Artist on Art';
"New Egypt" by Charles H. Woodman;
"Cherry Ripe!'' by Helen B. Mathers,
Chaps. XXXVII. XII; Ellis Western
Katharine" by Ella Rodman Church; "a
Puzzled Ghost in Florida (Poem), by Sid
ney Lanier; Editors Table; Books of the
Day.
The Popular Science Monthly for De-
cember has the following excellent table OF
contents: The Growth of the Steam En-
CINE, by Prof R. H. Thurston. ILLUSTRATED;
Star or Star. Mist, by Richard A. Proctor;
Language and the English Civil Service, by
Prof. Alexander Balm; On the Comparative
Stupidity of Politicians; The Laryngoscope
and Rhinoscope, by F. Seeger, NJ. D., (illus-
trated:) Evolution: its Origin, Progress
and Consequences by Prof. John W. Draper;
The Great Bengal Cyclone of 1876, by Carl
Dambeck; Our Six-footed Rivals; History
of the Dynamical Theory of Heat, by Porter
Pointer, (illustrated;) Open Air and Health
by Dr. Paul Niemeyer; The Tides, by Prof
Elias Schneider, Gllustrated;) Modern Su'
persttions; Sketch of Prof Rankine, with
portrait;) Editors Table; Literary Notices
Notes &c.