National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-26

page her close familiarity with her subject, and
she has succeeded in imparting her own knowl-
edge in language readily comprehensive by the
young.
! QUEENIE'S WHIM. A novel. By Rosa NoUCHETrE
| CARY author of" Nellies Memories" "Wooed
| and Married" &c. Philadelphia: j. B. Lippin
colt & Co. Washington: G. A. Whitaker.
Apleasant story, and excellently told, is
this ola strong, proud, powerful, womanly nature
depressed in IFS development by poverty; bruised
and wounded by the constant annoyances attend
ant upon teaching in fashionable boarding
school, and expanding its wealth of affection upon
heryounger sister, over whom she watched with a
mothers care and sOlicitude until the tender
flower trsnsplantcd TO heavenly atmosphere.
Queenie Marriott is character which grows in the
affection of the reader. and the interest in her
struggles her trials, her griefs, and her final hap
piness increases with every chapter. The reading
of this book will certainly have q most salutary
effect, for it conveys wholesome lesson of self
reliance and devoted sisterly affection.
THE BLACK VENUS 4 tale of the Continent.
BY ADoIPHE BELoT, author Of La Grande
FlOrine," The Strangers of Paris Translated
by George ID. Cox. Philadelphia: T. b. Peterson
d Brothers.
In this book the reader is taken to
equatorial Africa, aud the strange people and still
stranger customs of that region described with
wonderful effect. The Black Venus" is, in fact,
happy combination of travel and fiction, and
through it runs vein Of most felicitous and pleas
ing humor. II is TO great extent. love story,
but q love story utterly ont OF the common track,
and therefore all the more interesting, while that
portion of the tale relating to the Black Venus and
the AlnazOns is full of weird beauty. Ii is eX-
cessfvely romantic from beginning 10 end and
contains an immense amount of valuable and en-
Pertaining information concerning the Dark Con-
unent" and its numerous tribes, which has been
worked into The story in mastery way. 1t is from
the and incidents in this book that the spec
tacular play of the BLACK Venus which sue
eessfully produced by the Kirslfy Brothers in New
York, was dFanlatized
THE REIGN OF MONOPOLY. BY T. A. BLAND,
author Of Farming Profession" Life of
BENJAMIN f. Butler" &c. Washington: Rufus
II. Darby.
This is a little pamphlet of only about
fifty pages but il is expose of the evils of monop
oily in nearly every phase in avigorous and most
emphatic manner. II will well repay perusal,
whether all the remedies suggested are agreed to
or not.
HISTORY OF THE GoVERNNENT PRINTING
OFFICE.
The manuscript of this work has been
prepared Win great care, the very nest SOURCES Vi
information consulted, and the most interesting
features of the establishment ore described. The
history ofpublic printing from the year 1889 to 1881
is given briefly and list of employees at the date
of publication is appended. twill be sold by sub
scrip!ion by r. W. Kerr, Government Printing
Office.
Scribner for March has a number Of in
teresting points. The second part OF Mrs. Burnctts
piquant novelette,. "A Fair Barbarian will be
eagerly read by those who have read the the first
part, and will be found even more interesting. |
Ericsson's Destroyer, and Her New Cum is the
subject Of q new paper, by Mr. Charles Barnard !
In Musical Possibilities of America" Mr. Theo- |
dore Thomas writes practically of vocal and in
strmental culture, church and theatre music, bad
and good methods Of teaching, and of American
vioins. Never before engraved portraits ofCharles
and Mary Lamb, from old paintings, embellish
short paper by Mr.. John Arbuckle. I'm London
with Dickens is chronicle Of the localities of
Boz" including Acknowledgements house, Lime
house Hole, Jenny Wren'S house, the Inns of !
Court, &c. There is an illustrated article
On John Singleton Copley." by his grenddaugh- /
ter. Mrs. Amory, giving biographical account of
American painter popularity little known. Still
further variety is given 10 the number by second
paper of "Recolections Of American Society" by |
Mrs S. W. Oakley; all illustrated paper on Striped /
Bass" by Mr.. Francis ERdicou; account Of I
Professionalism in Italy," by Rev. Washington
GLADDEN.: more Notes Of Walker including |
discussion of Shakspeare's Natural History, by |
John Burroughs: " A Dangerous Virtue" strik- |
ing short story, by Mr. 81. H. Boyesen; the fifth !
part Of Mr. SchuyIer's Peter the Great as Ruler |
and RefOrTner," and the concluding paper of |!
Glmpses of Partisan Art" with studio sketches |
by Jourdain, Alfred Stevens, Rico, EgusQuiza, |
Madnzo and others. Among the poems there is |
sonnet 1.-TWO Homes') by DIR. Holland who, in !
Topics Of the Time writes of George Elliot " |
and 1.-The Metropolitan Museum" Home and |
Society" treats of a Mothers Duty to her Girls
" s New Cooking Stove" and Servants Rooms |
and Quarter"
The March number of the Eclectic has
varied and interesting table of contents, which |
shows the advantages of the recent enlargement. |
1t comprises the following articles: The Dawn of |
Revolutionary Epoch, by H. u. Hyndman; |
On Some of Shakspeare's Characters: I-0phe !
La" by one who has personated them Helen |
Faucit Martini; Aerial Navigation" by DR.. Will |
lam Pole, F. r. S; "A Day with War Balloon" |
by Henry Elsdale. r. F.; Lord BeaeonSield's |
Worldly Wisdom" Geists Grave" @ poem by |
Matthew Arnold; Field Marshal Suwarrow: |
" The Jews in Germany" by the author of Ger
man Home Life;" George Elliott" "a Winters |
Evening in the Fens;" d" Kith and Kim novel,
by Jessie Fothergill chapters 1. to I'LL; The
Prophetic Power of Poetry, by J. C. Sharp, pro-
fcssor OF poetry at Oxford; " On the Truthfulness
of Human knowledge" (The Unity of Nature, Part
W bv the Duke OF Argyll; Death and Its Super
SaiDte- Beuve; Folk LullGbies," by
Evelyn Darlington; Penny Fiction by James
Payn; 1.-The Ants as Farmers "Phosphores-
cence;' and striking poem by Alexander Ander
son, Drew the Wrong Lever" Besides there are
we'll editorial departments of literary notices.
foreign literary notes, science and art, and mis-
cellany.
The International Rceie,c for March has
the following interesting table of contents; l.
1.-THE Solid South" Edward Atkinson (Boston);
IL Modern Public Debts" Henry c. Adams
BALTIMORE; lit The Scientific Relations of
Modern Miracles William A. Hammond New
York y. "; w." Ireland-II.," Leonard Court
ney London, Eng.l; Y.-"The Irish Land Cues
tion,' Justin Mccarthy Nondon, Engl; VI" The
Early Days of Fox, Henry Cabot Lodge (Nahant,
Mass; VII" Jacques Ofienbaeh," William +.
Apthorp t8ostOn)
1t is announced that a new edition of
" Worcestcr's Quarto Dictionary will be ready |
shortly, with supplement of over 200 pages, con-
tanning more than Il, 900 new words and yocabu
larry of synonyms. The publishers u. B. Lippincott
& Coz claim that the additional matter renders this
work the most complete dictionary of the English
language published.
The New Society Reporter.
well. how did you get along at the party last
night?" asked the city editor of new reporter,
whom he had engaged the day before, and whom