The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-01-12
Literature.

GOSSIP ABOUT AUTHORS AND NEW PUBLIC ATOMS
Owen lnnsly." the new poet, is said to be Miss
Lucia ". Jennison, of Boston.
Mr.. c. A. Boston, native Of Franklin Co is
preparing large history of Androscoggin and
Sagadahoc counties, to De published next year by
Cleveland Ohio firm
No % of the HUMBOLDT Library contains Fash
ions in Deformity," by William Henry Flower,
K. S and M ,nners d Fashion" by Herbert
Spencer. Price, Is cents J. Fitzgerald & Co.,
publishers, New York
Roswell Smith. the new proprietor OF the Cen
fury Magazine, started off by making $4,000 worth
of Christmas presents to his employ es and distrb-
uting $4,000 worth of Century stock among the
leading members Of his business and literary staff
Rev. D Q. Cushman, of Bath, is now carry ing
through the press history OF the ancient settle
ment and modern towns Of Sheepscot and New
castle, 1907 1881, the collections of which be has
been a long time in making. 1t will form an Svo
volume of 500 pages, 100 Of which are already
through the press.
Judge A. W. Tourgee is to be the editor of a
new illustrated literary weekly which is about 10
appear in Philadelphia Miss Kate Field is TO have
charge of department devoted to co operative
work among women and Mrs. Louise Chandler
Monton will edit column Oh social customs A
decorative art department will be conducted by
Mr. Donald & Mitchell and MIR Louis Tiffany
Golden Days weekly illustrated paper for DO, ;
and girls, is now issued also in monthly parts,
with an attractive This is an excellent pub
lcaton designed to take the place If the fsshv
story papers which have done much to corrupt
the youth OF this country, and has met with richly
meTited success. Among the regular contributors
is Frank H Converse. son Of the late Judge Con
verse, of Damarscotta. James Elversor publisher
Philadelphia.
Ncuerated Lanes in literature lend peculiar
interest to the contents of the Mdwinter number
of The Century. which will include among its con
tributors Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W Long
fellow, and the late Dean Stanley. Other familiar
names in the list of contributors are E c Sted
man, " Howells, Mrs Frances Hodgson Bur
nett, II Maurice Thompson, Frank R Stock
ton, and George Warng Jr,
A fine portrait of George " Gable, the auth II
of The Grandssimes" and Madame Delphine g"
has been engraved By Cole and will be issued as
the frontispece of the Midwinter Century 1t is
accompanied by biographical sketch and critical
study, in which George Waring. Jr touches
upon many points of interest in the noveists ca
reer and brings into relief the earnest conscen-
tious side Of bis character.
The failure of the American Book Exchange has
resulted in the forming of a new concern, to be
known as The Useful knowledge Publishing Co,
OF l62 William Street. New York, and which pro
poses to continue the publication of good books at
low prices. The first work published BY the new
company is an edition of Macanlays Life of Fred
erck the Great" neatly bound in cloth which
they sell for the surprisingly low price of 20 cents
They announce valuable series of encr clopedias
in preparation, TO be published in large octave
volumes. efover 600 pages each, in cloth bind
ing, at 81 % per volume
The North American Review will present in its
February number to be published on the 18Th of
the present month Part III. Of its series of arti
Giles on The Christian Religion" 1t will be from
the pen Of Geo P Fisher, the eminent profess or
of ecclesiastical history in the Yale DIVINITY
School,-as thorough a scholar and as able a de
fender of the Christian faith as this country affords
powerful presentation OF the claims of Christian.
ity is expected
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, the Maine writer, say 5
the Literary World is the daughter of DR. T II
Jewett, for many years physician of wide repu
tation and practice in Maine His widow and two
children still live in the family mansion at South
Berwick, an interesting region full OF tradition
The doctor used to take his young daughter with
him on his daily rounds recountng to her on the
way fragments of family history anecdotes and
observations gathered during his long medical ex-
perence Thus Miss Jewett accumulated much
material which has been exceedingly useful to her
She began to write when she was nineteen