The Republican journal., 1881-11-10
Literature.

ROSEMARY AND RUE When the leaves fall the
robin redbreasts, save few stragglers, leave US
for SUMMER eillGes But the sage green volumes
put forth by j. r. Osgood d Co., Boston, under the
name of the Round Robin SERIES remain to cheer
the winter freside, after furnishing entertainment
in the long summer days Each month adds a
volume to the series, and the newest whose title
is gwen above deals with the Yorktown and New
port of century ago. Like "A Nameless Noble
man. of the same series, there is blending of
French and American scenery, and it is limited
that the two books are by the same author. That
however, is a matter which need not concern the
reader, who will find the present volume interest
ing and thrilling enough to satisfy the most exact
ing.
The PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. This is the title
Of "Mark Twain's' latest book, to be published BY
J. R Osgood d Co. in December for the subscrip-
ton trade 1t is romance for young people and
Is marked by quantities which the popular humorist
had not before been suspected of possessing The
story turns upon supposed change of places be.
tween the son of Henry VIII. and a low born
youth whom he resembles. The subsequent his
tory of the false prince and the false pauper af
tords opportunity for many striking contrasts, and
there is a vivid historic realism in some of the pas
sages, The dialect of the period is pretty well
sustained, and the New York Tribune describes
the humoI as Cervantean, though with a tender
ness tina, Cervantes could not know
NOTES.
MIR. Alfred Tennyson has published in the Nine
teenth Century dramatic monologue entitled
Despair 1t is an account of the suicide of an
unbehever
The November number of the Boston journal of
Chemistry has been received This is not a tech
meal publication but of interest to all classes
and professions, and merits place in every house
hold Its agricultural matter is particularly good.
The November number OF the Illustrated Scien-
tlhc News Mum a Co, New York, publishers,
illustrates the removal of Flood Rock. n. Y, bv
tunneng, an article cotton future and many
other subjects of interest 1t is an excellent pub
Hcation in all respects.
The December number of The Century Magazine
Will be devoted chiefly to memorials Of President
Garfield which have been in preparation for sew
eral weeks, and of its late editor, Dr. Holland
whose last work for the magazine was an editorial
tribute to the murdered President
~ nclo Remus, alias Mr. Harris, is described IS
tomato-catsup blonde He looks as # uis face had
been shottel with Worcester sauce He has red
hair short, stu0by moustacbe and imperial of the
same color, and a brow not lofty but bulging with
Wit and humor, His shape is short and stout with
tendency to stubbiness He is slow of speech
and quiet of demeanor
Our Little Ones, monthly magazine for chill
lrar al
the Russell Publishing Company Boston, is really
a work Of art, pictorialy and geographically
while its reading matter is pure in tone and well
calculated to please those for whom it is written
With the beginning of the new volume that excel
lent periodical The Nursery will be incorporated
with Our Little Ones and the publishers promise
that the best features of both magazines shall be
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subscribers Address Russell Publishing Co, Bos
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