Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-11-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Charles A Dana, who Is si1ty-one
years old, and has led busy life, wishes
rest from newspaper work.
If any OF our readers wish 10 make
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Of those OF limited means. A years good
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tainly the most original and interesting,
a. most all of its friends admit. This
December issue j. certainly great mum
Der, and should be seen 10 be appreciated.
4 sample copy is sent for ten cents. Here
i the list OF contents, and our readers can
Judge II what we have stated Is not tout
rrai "A Month in Scotland" "Marian's
Old Aunt;" Marian Towards Triumph
Departed Music" Two Christmas
Days =" Where Hast Thou Flown Have
DOuc Well!" lone Summer; "Blancas
Revenge" How 10 Enjoy the Annual
HOLIDAY" money" Christmas Songs"
what brought Blanche Eliot 10 Boston;
A Backwoods Wedding" Chicken
Farm" Courage, Brothers" The Imp
AZ Misserly's;" The Brevity OF Life"
Young Peoples y-Teller-"Fred and
FloSsie:" "Old Jacks story "iiow She
Was Found "A Christmas Song Ruth
yeu's Puzzle-Page;" Editorial Notes :"
The Housekeeper; Curious Matters ;"
Things Pleasant and Otherwise" ''Our
Picture Gallery" Now is the time 10 sub
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a copy.
-HIrDers Magazine for December Is
| striking number, presenting many novel
/ features. The first installment OF new
novel. Anne" by an American author
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson II
very promising The story is sharply
IAmerican. Its early scenes are laid in an
| island on one of the great western lakes
/ a military post, an old fur-trading station.
The city OF Pittsburgh is the subject OF a
very interesting paper by u. +. Muller,
/ forcibly illustrated by Shirlaw. The num-
her opens with twelve Christmas Carillons
| by Annie Chambers ketchum, with four
| excellent Illustrations by Fredericks. -
! Noncure ID. Conway contributes the nrst
of a series OF papers, entitled The Eng
/ fish Lakes and their Genii. Rose Terry
Cooke contributes another OF her charac-
teristic New England stories, with four
Illustrations by Abbey. The Sixth Year
of Ouong See," also beautifully illustrated,
is an interesting description by Catherine
Baldwin of a New-Years celebration IN
| Chinatown San Francisco. Miss Sarah
O. Jewett contributes poem, Two Morn
inys. with an illustration by Fredericks-
Other poems are contributed by James l.
Fields, III. X. Hudson, John B. Tahb, Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop, Philip o. Sullivan
and Miss Ada NJ. f. Nichols. A short
story, Miss Cabot's Guest" is contrib
. 7ted by Horace L. Scudder. Charles +
m, wing shows in an able article the results
in ~ Gent Movements in Woman's Edu-
IN article by w. T. Davis, entitled
S.rhe Onee,,. Ministry, Lords, and Parlia
-, " gives a satisfactory explanation Of
ny. neu o,,,sstion of :he British Government
and Mr. Edward Rowland contributes |.
sngsestiye article, entitled "A Great City'
Henry James, jr's. novel, ashins.oi
Souare." is concluded ID this NUMBER an,
] will be followed by new seriai Io'el
entitled "A Laodicean, oy ihobis~ Ftaut
THE Editors Easy Chair treats OF th
Newspaper and Orator, the lnnuence v
Rvron. the Rugby Colony "a Iennessee
ami the Irish Agitation; ana eos'a'us
communication from wendell fhliilPs' 0oi
Ting a yery common error in the use
n ss a prefix Co French family names
The other Editorial Departments are wei
xustaiued.