The Republican journal., 1881-09-15
Literature.

j K OsDoop ii Co.'S ANNol'NcEMENle The
fall list Of this well known Boston publishing firm
contains many attractive announcements Of which
a few only will be mentioned Mention has here
totUre been made of the illustrated edition of owen
Merediths famous poem, Lucille. which the pub
fishers claim is to be ''thc holiday BOOK OF the
wear This month the first Of The American Ac
tor Series in !mo volumes. BY the best writer,
will be published IN Edwin Forest by Lawrence
Barrett The volumes OF the series will be is
sued monthly. IL October is to appear the new
story ~ Blanche Willis Howard the author of
'One Summer" 1t is entitled Aunt Serena
and no doubt pictures New England Life. Walt
Whitmaus Complete Poems and \ Plckweklan
Pilgrimage by J Il. G. lassard Will also appear
in October In November 4 New and Enlarged
Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, by the Rev.
j B. Il. Walker; Parisian Art and Artists by
Henry Bacon Dr.. BreenS Practice by W. How
els and Familiar illusions. Hand Book ot Mis-
cellaneous Information and IN December an en-
tirely new work by Mark Twain, which is to be
sold by subscription only
AMERICAN Men OF LHrrEKS Messrs Hou5n-
ton, Mtftin Il Co. announce that they have ar
ranged to publish series OF volumes entitled
American Men OF Letters, using the title
generic term that may include both The
volumes will be biographical essays and studies
rather than formal biographies. The series will
be under the editorial supervision OF Mr.. Charles
Dudley Warner, who originally suggested its pub
licaton, and who has been induced to edit the
ries since the death of Mr. James T Fields They
have in press of this new series W Washington lrv-
ing by Charles Dudley Warner Noah w ebster, by
Horace L. Scudder and il PREPARATION Nathaniel
Hawthorne, by James Russell Lowell; n Z. vii
lis by Thomas Bailey Adrich Henry D. Thoreau,
by Frank B. Sanborn; J, Fenlmore Cooper, by
Prof T. X. Aounsbury; William Gilmore Smms,
by George W. Gable.
SUNDAY ScHooL SoNGs. The publishers OF Rev.
DR.. Robinson's spiritual Songs for the Sunday
School" have Just issued little book containing
Ory the hymns of that work and selling for one
half the money. 1t will be a most desirable sup
plement to the large book, greatly increasing its
usefulness and placing it within the reach Of the
largest mission schools The new edition is pret
tily bouud in flexible red cloth, and costs but -
cents The complete tune edition, bound in stiff
boards. covered with red cloth, with red edges,
costs 10 cents to schools in quantities 1t is said
that the sales of the latter work have mounted up
into the scores Of thousands since its issue year
ago. The Century Co. New York, Publishers
NOTES
The Gazetteer Of Maine, by George y. Narney,
b. B. Russell, publishers Boston, will soon be
ready for delivery
"A cheerful piece of reading for housekeepers"
is Mrs Fannie Roper Feudges How Kept House
by Proxy sketch of a wonderful Chinese cook,
printed in Scribner for September
The Chidrens Museum for September is recciy-
ed and is filled with illustrations and stories pecu-
liary interesting to children. The Museum is
published monthly by f. B. Goddard & Co. No 6
Bond St, New York, for 81 90 year or ten cents
per number
The summer novel Cape Cod Folks" which is
of the type made popular by "One Summer and
San Earnest Trifer' and which like them
published anonymously was written by young
lady Of Simsbury, Connecticut Her name is Sa-
rah p Mclean She is the daughter of Justice Me
Lean, leading citizen of Smsbury and a well-to-
do farmer there. Miss Mclean is not past twenty
one years of age and is finely educated. Sne went
! to Cape Cod as a teacher