The Republican journal., 1882-12-14

Literary News and Notes.

The November number Of Houghton. Mitiiin
& Co.'S Literary Bulletin contains their an
nouncements Of holiday publications heretofore
noticed. The specimen illustration from the
holiday edition Of the Poems of Thomas Bailey
Aldrch i, very beautiful.
The Christmas number of the London Ora
phic was published simultaneously in England
and America on Dec t. All Of the Illustrations
are printed in colors, and The large plate is from
Il painting executed expressly for this number
by j. L. Miilais, Il. A. II is portrait of Lit
tie Miss Camp" and is we'll worth the price of
tn" paper. Over half million copies of the
Christmas Graphic were issued, and one firm
in New York imported 5000 copies.
A new candidate for popular favor is the
Golden Argosy, a weekly paper for boys, pub
lished by +. q. Rideout & Co., 10 Barclay ST..
New York. The typographical appearance of
the Argosy is very fine, the best of paper. ink
and press-work contributing to this result. In
the first number begins serial story by Hora-
ito Alger, Jr., entitled DO and Dare or, A
Brave Boys Fight for Fortune" also another
serial story by Edw. 5. Ellis the title of which
IL ~ i'm Ntlllt. o. you Helps lutID IIdu
Help Themselves" Frank A. Munsey is the
editor, and f. l. Warren. late of the Kennebec
journal, both well known in Maine, is con-
nccted with the new paper.
The Living Age enters upon its fortieth wear
in 1883 1t aims to present the ablest ESSAYS
and reviews, the choicest serial and short sto-
ries. the most interesting sketches of travel and
discovery the hos tba
bic biographical, historical, scientific and politi-
cal information from the entire body of foreign
current literature, and from the pens of the
foremost living writers. The subscription price
is cheap for the amount of reading furnished
but the publishers make a still cheaper offer, to
send the Living Age and any one of the Ameri-
can 81 monthes or Weeklies, a year, both post
paid, for 5000; thus furnishing to the sub
scriber at small cost the cream of both home
and foreign literature. The publishers also of
fer to send to all new subscribers for the year
1888, RENTING before Jan. 1st, the weekly num-
bers of 1889 issued after the receipt of their sub
scriptions, gratis.
The Century Co. announces for immediate
publication in this country, from advance
tiOnary, a work which has been accepted in
Great Britain for more than quarter of CEN
fury Il standard lexicon of the English Ian
guage. The new edition has been in prepare
ton for more than ten years, and so greatly
has the vocabulary been augmented and so ex-
tensive and important are the changes resulting
from the revision, that the Imperial Dictionary
as now issued, may almost claim to be new
work. 1t contains about 10000 words with
words and the grammatical constructions into
which they enter are generally most clearly
shown by means of illustrative quotations, vast
numbers of these are given, many thousands of
them being inserted in the present edition for
the first time. The encyclopedia character of
this dictionary is said to add greatly to its use
fuiness as book of reference, and to relieve it
of the imputation common to dictionaries of be-
ing unattractiVe reading. 1t does not confine
itself merely to giving the meanings of words;
it gives, also, as rule, some account of the
things to which words are applied, going more
fully into general and scientific particulars than
has been hitherto the practice in dictionaries.
The work is complete in England and will be
issued here, as it is there. in four volumes of
convenient size, each containing 100 to 800
pages. The price in this country will be lower
than that in England