The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-12-28
NUMBER 81.
Literature.

ing of Christmas numbers of periodicals origi-
mated with English publishers. but the idea has
been taken up and improved upon by Ameri-
can publishers, and this year they have thrown
their London rivals completely in the shade.
1t is said that the letter-press and illustrations
of the Lothrops' "Christmas"- Christmas
Wide Awake dec. No)-cOst over $40. 900, and
that authors and artists, here and abroad, have
been busy for year in its preparation: and
the result is well summed up by the Boston
Transcript, when it says: The holiday num-
Der of Wide Awake, just out, is the wonder of
all the wonderfully beautiful chiercn's maga-
zines and books of America. Without dispute
the largest, handsomest. most artistic and best
number of young peoples periodical ever
issued" Bound in a new cover in coors, pro-
nounced the finest magazine cover in existence,
il contains l44 pages and $50 pictures. OF the
letter-press the Boston Traveller says :"No such
store Of high-class literature was ever gathered
into one number of any periodical before :" ana
the critic of the Boston Times says of the Illus
tratons: They are genuine works of art
some of them eXquisitely ideal; :" and the Boston
A. d. I. Whitney, Miss Phelps, Rose Terry
Cooke, Margaret Sidney, Rose Kingsley Mrs
Mary ID. Brine, Arthur Gilman, George Cay
Eggleston, Celia Thaxter. Edward Z. Hale, NJ
+. B.. Mrs. Clara Doty Bates. Nora Perry, Mrs.
Daz, Fred A. Ober, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Christina Rossetti, Mrs. Mulock-C Craik
Philip Bourke Marston, Susan Coolidge. Marion
Harland, Margaret j. Preston. Prof. d. \. Sar-
gent, and dozen OF twenty others-"This is
brilliant galaxy to be got together between the
covers of a single number of young peoples
magazine, and when Santa Claus understands
that this richly laden number can be bought for
twenty-five cents, it would net be strange if he
We're to order a special edition for his twenty
ffth-ot- December uses: and we ourselves
would add that should this number of the Wide
Awake be examined by parents who feel anX-
iouS to put into the hands of their young folks a
magazine of high literature as pure and stimulat-
ing as it is gay and entertaining. they would Sc
cure the periodical fa~ the year at once especial
ly as they may be assured that the same distin-
guished authors and artists will contribute Of
their best TO the succeeding eleven numbers.
D. Lohrop 4 Co., publishers Boston.
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. The Janu-
airy number has 4 portrait and sketch of the
late Henry Draper The opening article on
"Th, Great Comet Of lSS3" is by Professor
Young, of Princeton, one of the Very few
American writers who are capable at once of
discussing the subject fully from the scientific
point of view, and of answering the questions
the public asks in the way it wants Them an
swered. NJ. Fouilce contributes a paper on
"Scientiic Philanthropy" in which thn eNpedi-
ency of public charity and its ultimate bearing
on the future of the race are ably and candidy
discussed iii the light of the views of ;hc Dar-
winian school of philosophers and of 4 critical
examination Of them. d. q. g. Abbott's
Traces of Prc-lndian People" il another
scientific and popular discussion Of a subject on
which curiosity is awake by an author most
competent to treat it. Dr. Roberts "Bodily
Deforlnities in Girlhood'' commend> itself by
its very title to parents and teachers Il, IA sub
jeet Of the first Importance. Mr.. Fngier ,
"Timc-kePpng in London" Professor Brook
"Speculatiyc Zoology" md Dr.. MiIcs'> '>ricn-
tiic Farming at RothHmstcd," are concluded.
Professor Lockwood gives graphic account of
the finding Of "a Ma>todom in III Old Beaver
Meadow" at Freehold. New JERSEY. Dr. Felix
Oswald n.r;t.. il III. ,.l,,,,,t,ri.+i,,,. ,,.i,, ~
l. ... 4, .,,.: .:.; :,
Herbert Spencrr'S after-dnn;r speech. deliver
ed at the farewell banquet given 70 him on the
9TH Of November, Which attracted and deserves
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