The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-04-26
Books and MAGAZINES.

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The American Agriculturist for May is an
unusually bright and instructive number of this
most valuable Farm, Garden and Household
Journal 1t is profusely Illustrated and repete
with solid, seasonable information. Orange
Judd Il Co., publishers, New York.
The July number of the Cornhill magazine.
London, will come out profusely illustrated
and sold for the popular price of siXpence.
MacMillan's is also shortly to become an illus
trated magazine. These innovations arise from
the success of the London editions of Harper's
and the Century, and the necessity for some
bold stroke to compete with this exhibition of
American enterprise.
Protection to Young Industries. as applied in
the United States, by f. W. Iaussig, Instructor
in Political Economy in Harvard College. is a
handsome volume, which was written in com
petition for the Toppan Prize in Political Sci
ence ut Harvard University, and received that
prize in October, 1882. The argument for pro-
lection to young in lustries is the opening chap
ter, followed by the industrial history of the
United States, and the course of protective leg
islation. Then is given short history of the
three principal manufactures. cotton, iron and
wooden; making valuable book for any one
| wishing to become familiar with the leading
industries of the United States, aud their pro-
| gresS, without reading through hundreds Of
pages of matter, as it is condensed and accurate
| III its treatment of the subject. The volume is
| printed on fine laid paper 1t is bound in cloth
and Its price is only - cts. Ii is published by
Moses King of Harvard Square, Cambridge.
| Mass.
| The Popular Science Monthly for Nav has
| the following table of contents: The Remedies
OF Nature Consumption. BY Felix l.. Oswald.
NJ. NJ. Science and Conscience. BY Professor
Thomas Sergeant Perry. Physics in General
Education. BY Professor 7. c. Mendenhall.
Microscopic Life in the Air. BY Louis Olivier,
| Illustrated.) How Much Animals Know. BY
F. A. Fernald Chemistry and Pharmacy. BY
| Professor Ira Remsen. Position and Stroke in
Swimming. by r. Lamb, G. f. Gllustrated.)
| How the Ancient Forests Became Coal Bv NJ.
e. De Saporta. \ Supcrsttious Dog. BY El-
gene n. $. Ringueberg. From Buttercup to
Monk's-lIood. BY Professor Grant Allen. ON
the Colors of Water. BY VI w. Spring. A
| Wonder from the Deep Sea. BY NJ l.. Vail
ant. tlllustratcd.) Gymnastics. BY Alfred
| Worcester A. NJ. Why are We Righthanded?
| BY W. c. Caha, NJ. u. Lcngthenng the Wis
| IDLE Spectrum. BY Johannes Gotz. (Illustrat-
ed The Boundaries of Astronomy. |. Is
Gravitaton Universal? BY Robert : Ball, +,
r. 5. On Brain-work and IIand-work. BY Il.
NJ. n. Sketch of Professor Richard Owen. i.
r. s. with portrait.) Correspondence. Ell
itors Table: Greek and Latin against Nature
and Scence-Dr. Dix on the Woman Question.
Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes.
90 cents per number; s. per annum. u. Ap-
| plcton 4 Co., Publishers, New York.
| The Waldo County Agricultural Society hold
a meeting on Saturday next. 1t is none too
soon to arrange part. at least of the pro-
gramme for the coming fair. The premium list
of the West Washington Agricultural Society
is published this week. And it is to Dc hoped
that our local society will adopt programme
that will commend itself to public patronage
and make the fair what it might and should be.
| But that need not be expected if purses and
| premiums are arranged to suit Il certain few
insiders. and if there i, lack eff harmony and
unity of purpose in the society itself. So far as
the people IRE concerned there is every DISPOSE
ton to lend a helping hand, but that win not
avail unless the manager, do what i required
| of them.
| The monthly financial circular of Henry
CleWs y Co., bankers, New \ York, gives an en-
couraging view generally of business and fnan-
| clal matters A STEADY return of confidence
| III the investment markets., is reported, and
an upward movement in prices predicted This
| prediction Is based upon the growing value Of
| railroad stocks as Investments. the facts that
| the current earnings Of the railroads are uulsu-
| ally large and the prospects Of railroad traffic
| for the Year encouraging. The prospects Of
the general trade of the country are also regard
ed as, on the whole, satisfactory.
| Now the honest and truthful fisherman hics
himself to the trout streams on tnny prrv i'll
| tent, while the unkind paragraDhers of the
American press sharpen their pencils and their
| wits preparatory to holding the angler up to
ridicule, to publishing him as a liar and to MAX
| ing him unhappy generally. we don't believe
| these ruthless photographers ever get any Of the
| trout the disciples of Walton bring home. and
we are sure that they DO not deserve any.
| The somewhat alarming statements with r.
| gard to the President having had rgor at
| Savannah are said to have no other foundation
| than the fact that the newspaper correspond
ents who had pursued the Presidential party
| We're left out in the cold" at that point. The
| President arrived at Washington Sunday even
| ing and is in good health
An advertisement in the Rocklnd Courier
| Gazette reads wv. 0. Fuller, il, Pound Keep
| er and Justice Of the Peace" From our knowl-
edge of the advertiser We feel warranted in say
| ing that all customers will receive Justice ana
| full weight.
| Oysters have not been thought 10 posses, il
| very high order Of intelligence but a recent
scientific writer says they may ~ trained to
keep their mouths shut. What relief it would
| be if certain people We're oysters.
| Subscriptions in aid Of the Shore Line Rail
road come i'll slowly. At last accounts ELS
worth had raised s. 900 of the $4,000 required;
and Bangor about half Of the $4,000 asked for
| by Col Greene.
The tanning of the skins of deceased Afri-
cans is Il Massachusetts industry. Vide report
of TeWksbury almshouse investigation.
W. c. I. L. NoTEs. The National W. Z. II.
T. has for IFS motto. l,IuS "lfa.....NIi-s Frances
L. Willard, the President, left Boston, Mass,
March 9th, for an extended tour in the West
and has reached California, having stopped on
her way at st. Louis, Mo, Trinidad, Col. Tue
son and Tombstone, Arizona, Santa re and
albuquerque, New Mexico, arriving in Los An
geles, March 18th. Miss Anna Gordon Miss
Wizards private secretary, accompanies her
AT Los Angeles delegation of temperance
people from san Francisco met them. and at n
| large public reception held the following Satur-
day evening, they were welcomed bv the Nav
or of the city. Miss Willard will spend five
weeks in California; lecturing in the larger
towns and cities and will there take steamer for