The Republican journal., 1882-08-24

The ChiIdrcn'S Museum for August has
new cover. the first of 4 series of improve
mrnt> to De made in this favorite family maya
zine one dollar per year Chas. X. Bill.
publisher. New York
An English correspondent says that Anthony
Trollopc is sick with Rrights disease. and i,
going to travel in Ireland where he will gather
materials for 4 new novel: that WiIkie Collins
cy"> are allin% and he is writing by dctaion
that Charles Rcadc is 4 good deal troubled with
dyspepsia; and that Edmund Yates is busy with
amen novel.
j. Il. OSgood Il Co. announce for September
an authorized edition of Lieut.. Dancnhower'S
Narrative If the Jeanette: for October a new
illustrated edition Of the Lady Of the Lake.
and fer November new novel by Nathaniel
HaWjhorne hitherto overlooked among his
papers. The plot turns On the claim Of IN
American to ancestral estates in England.
How many readers of 'Ivanhoc'' know that
the original of Rebecca the ,Icwes> was an
American Lady. whose character was largely
thc counterpart Of that most wholesome hero
inr: \ short paper in the September Century
siNr> an account Of the ludy's relation to
we novel: and, u accompany it. her miniatures
by Mcbournta has been beautifully engraved
BY Cote.
Pct"r>on'- Magazine. for Scptembcr opens
with a charming sterl-cngraying from picture
in the last Paris Salon: which i, followed by Il
beautiful double->ize. colorcd steel fashion,
plate and this by nearly fifty wood-cngravings
including colorcd pattern for a'1idy on Java
CANVAS, The Stories Of The number more than
maintain the high merit Of This wc-knownun
popular monthly. The price is but = a year
with great deductions to clubs Address. Chas
J. Peterson. 3o6 Chestnut Street. Phadrlphia.
Pa.
General George Is. Mcclellan has contributed
I" thr September number of The Century Il
paper ~ "The WAR in Egypt" which gives. a
clrar inca of tile condition, surrounding tile
Egyptian question. and contains some severe
criticisms of the conduct Of the war by England
The writer's study of Egypt during an extended
journey several years ago enables him to char
actclizc succinctIy the different Mo~lem elements
that enter into the problem.
Thc personal appearance Of none Of our pop
that ot Mr. clemens Mark TWain). unless it be
that Of Mr.. Henry James Jr. OF both these
gentlemen Mr. Cole is engraving portraits in
wood for The Century. and Mr., lioWrll> has
prepared the sketches which IRE to accompany
them. Mr.. Clcmen>'S which is spoken highly
uf both a. a work Of art and is faithful rep
rc>rntat0n. forms the frontispiccc Of the
September number. Mr.. James's will follow
soon. together with picc, Of literary work by
that writer which, il is said. will be of greater
popular interest even than .Daisy Miller
Mr.. +. V. Smmllcyt'E. V s." of the New York
Tribune contributes his second paper on The
New Northwest" to the September Century
The writer is an experienced journalist and
has the rare ability Of giving in one narrative.
and with true perspective, the hroadcst views
into new country, without negectin@ those
details which are q most interest to a stranger
Heis wcIl-cquipDed ana good-humored travel
or, and his series is likely to give the public Il
toward which the new emigration is setting
strongly. in the August number MI Smallev
traycrsed Dakota and Eastern Montana In
the September number he GOES over the Rockies
iii Montana in advance of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. \ third paper in October. will take
the reader TO the Cascade Range in Oregon. An
excellent map of all the ranscontinenta rail
ways is given with the September paper.