The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-06-29
Literature.

| The VILLA BOHEMIA. BY Marie lie Barn.
A bright little book, just the thing for summer
reading. Four girls, with an elderly woman as
a chaperOn, lease an old mansion in the coun-
try, and settle down for ''seclusion, reflection.
and study They mutually VOW not to speak
to a man for five years, and on taking posses
sion nailed board to the lane fence on which
was inscribed in threatening capitals mo man
permitted on these premises, under penalty of
| the law" OF course the four Young women
We're all married before the summer was over:
but how this came about the reader will natt-
rally want to find out from the book. The author
is We'll known as u successful writer Of verse
and has, we believe, published volume of po-
ems. She has another book in press, "A Mod
ern Titana A Love Story of To-day" kochcn-
docrfer 4 Uric, publishers, 200 Broadway,
New J ork.
NIGNETTES FROM NATURE. BY Grant Allen.
No. 80 of the Humboldt Library Of Science.
Price 10 cents. OF the twenty-five ESSAYS of
which this volume is composed, there is not
one which does not bear the impress Of original
| thought and intimate knowledge of natural his
tory. 1t is a most entertaining and instructive
book The author possesses that genuine feel
ing for Nature which makes Il man lind unfail-
ING delight not only in what is grand and impos-
ing, but III the lowlest objects that meet the eve
in ramble atield The work affords most de-
ligitful summer reading. J. Fitzgerald 4 Co..
publishers, 30 Lafayette Place, New York
NOTES.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow, who has been So
lected to write the biography of his brother the
jS ,,Itl,1
Pa.
The Family Library is Il new weekly literary
paper published in New York, at s. per year,
or cents number It contains a new and
complete novel IN each, written expressly for
the Library. a list of 36 of the stories ready
for publication are given. We are indebted to
the international News Co. of New York for
the 35th number of the Library.
The numbers of the Living Age for the 10th
and 18th of June, contain the following articles:
Jonathan swift. Quarterly; The Already Of our
GrandfatherS, Nineteenth Century Marcus
AureIitls Antonnus. Fortnightly: The last
King Of Tahiti Contemporary; 4 Visit to the
| Queen Of Burmah, and Charles Lamb and his
| Friends. Fraser; A la Mode in 1900. Temple
Bar; Poor White Trash, and the Convent of
Monte Oliveto, near Siena, Cornhill; The Next
World, and In MemOriam--Dr. John Brown,
Spectator: Ice-Making in India, and The Pepy-
sian Library, Chambers journal; Hebrew
Trans Stations. Jewish Chronicle: with install
ments of '.Thc Ladies Lindores, '.Aunt Mona"
and "Cccily," and the usual amount of poetry
Lovers OF yachting viii be Interested in II pa
per on THE Evolution of the American Yacht"
by ). Il. W. Benjamin, in the July Century. 1t
shows the growth of the sailing-yessel, from the
Dutch pink and the invention of the first
schooner by an American in 1713. down to the
present time. incidentally touching on points Of
similarity and contrast between the English and
American Saling-yessels. Among the iliustr;-
tions. of which there are nearly thirty, are
DlanS and tjin0IaIOS n of he 4
typical vessels of the different classes. portraits
of famous inventors, etc. This paper will be
followed i'll the August issue by one ON THE
American Steam Yacht
PetcrsOnS Magazine for July is before us
with one of the most exquisite steel engravings
we have ever seen. ''Chasng the Butterfly"
alone worth the price of the number. Then
there is charming colored steel fashion-platc
with five figures; Il colored pattern in crewelS.
''PomegranHteS and Leaves" and something
like fifty wood cuts of dresses W0rk-tablp pat
terms. etc.. ETC.; perfect galaxy of good
things. The most noticeable article is an Illus
trated one. "a London Dinncr-Party.' by Mrs.
Ann ). stephens, describing dinner. ut which
She was present at the late Earl of tarIi>e's.
| There ~lrc in addition several capital love sto-
ries. \ new volume begins with this number
| atfordng an excellent opportunity to subscribe.
Address Peter>on'S Magazine. BOG Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The leading article in the North American
Review for july is profound and sympathetic
study of Emerson rs Poet" by f. p. Whip
pie. In III hydraulic Pressure iii Wall Street"
a writer who withholds his name but who man
lfestlv Is no novice, exposes many of the tricks
and devices by means Of which fictitious values
are created, and the unWary lured daily to ruin.
Desire Charney contributes the eleventh article
in the series on The Ruins of Central Amcri-
ca" and records the croWnng triumph of his
exploring expedition namely, the discovery Of
4 great ruined city in the hitherto unexplorcd
of | mate Ia