The daily gazette., 1883-03-19
LITERARY MENTION.

Farmer Stebbins on the Bowery,"
WIN Carleton's latest, appears in Hdrper's
Weekly for March II.
The Musical Herald, published in Boston,
loses nothing in worth as 1t increases in age,
and the March number contains much that
Is new.
The leading article In the Continent for
March 81 is Mrs. Helen CampbelPs "Three
Stages in American Literary Development"
which is charmngly illustrated.
The The Ladies' Floral Cabinet for March
| is as exec llent number as its predecessors,
aud cannot fail to interest all who may
chance to pick it up. 1t is published at %
Vesey street, New York.
Captain William Thomas, of New York,
publishes the fifth edition of pamphlet
which explains the use of the planisphere,
thus enabling any one to tell the time of
day without watch.
Major Ben Perley Poore has written
| for the April Century paper on the capitol
at Washington containing many remi-
niscences of events that have taken place
within its walls, as well as a history OF the
building.
New York Life announces that with next
weeks issue it will begin series entitled,
"Biographettes, being "liie-like portraits
and carefully compiled biographies. Mark
Twain and David Davis will figure In Nos.
and 2, respect lively.
The American Institute, of Boston,
offers a priza of $50 for the best essay on
"The Application of the Principles Of
Psychology to the Work of Teaching" The
essay need not exceed 5000 words, and must
be sent to the Secretary before the 18th Of
May.
The International Regie,c for February and
| l,s. 81,
same time announces its change of editorial
management. William Ralston Balch will
henceforth be its responsible editor and it is
proposed to make IL one Of the best of its
kind.
ID. Appleton " Co., of New York, have
issued new edition of John Esten Cookies
"The Nire inia Comedians, or Old Days in
the Old Dominion" 1t was first published
nearly 80 years ago and it deserves to win
for itself new generation" OF popular
favor.
The paper on "ModerA Fiction" which
Charles Dudley Warner lately read in New
Haven, is to appear in the next number Of
the Atlantic. "Pillow Smoothing Authors,
with Prelude on Nightcaps and Comments
on an OLD Writer" by DIR. Holmes, will APP
pear in the same number.
-Bretano Brothers, of New York, have
/
description OF the new process of hat ching
eggs and raising chickens by means ofhorse
manure, the invention of Professor A..
Csrbet II is entitled "How to Make $500
Yearly Profit with Twelve Hens"
-4mericd for Februry- March is devoted
to u series of careful articles on Protection,
by J. r. Dodge, John Roach, Nelson Ding
ley, Judge Lawrence, and David II. Mason
in which the relation of protection to manu-
features, agriculture, trade and ship-build
ing is discussed: the series closing with al
article by Giles B. Stebbing ON "Tarih no
4 Tax"
S ID. Binswanger " Co., publishers, Balti
more, are to issue in short time a small
volume entitled "The Science Among til
Jews Before and During the Middle Ages,
: an essay translated by DR.. NJ. j. Schleiden
prominent German botanist. The wor
a will be a valuable contribution to literatur
n upon the subject, and will be sold at s
. with flexible cloth binding.
, The IIarpers, in order to encourag
> young American artists, have offered a
D award of $1,000 for the best original draw
,r ing TO Illustrate Alfred Domett's "Christma
10 Hymn" The artists must not be oyt
25 years old, and the successful competitc
will be expected to Use the money for tn
ie prosecution of art study. The drawing wi
Il be Published i'll HdrperS' hdgdzitte for ID,
n cember, 1883.
N The April eenit9y will contain six ful
page illustrations among them a picture
''At Sea" drawn with the graYer, withou
= previous drawing or photographing Of II
10 subject, by Elbrdge Kingsley. 1t will illu
q trate one Of John BurrOughs's Out-of- dot
TO papers, This picture is noteworthy as beiI
-, particularly eOmmended-and, indeed, u
= only American engraving that was con
| Ia Ian, In,
d lecture in New York
ry A new anonymous prophet has arise
At and, lifting the curtain which hides the ne
70 decade, he pictures the "Battle of Il
H. Moy, and tells in u realistic manner he
- Ireland gaiGed her Independence. t'N
5, more landlords, no mOie agents, with the
lie blighting and witheriug trains of tithC
nd distrains and cvictions, no more po
10. laws" Such is to be the fruits of I'll
A. great battle which is to take place early
10 1894. This brochure is published by Lee
ed Shepard, and will no doubt be very popul
of among the "sons of Erin"
di- In the North Americatl. Reoieip for A pr
no the scriptural and the legal aspects of
Yorce are presented respectively by the RI
DR.. Theodore ID. Woolsey and Judge
E, Jameson DIR. Z. Bender, Il Canadian, u
ne der the title, "a Canadian view of AnneS
in tion," makes forcible presentation of t
re- reasons which incline many citizens of
,er- Dominion to regard with favor the idea
-, absorption by the United States. Senat
N' John A. Logan sets forth the need viii
ust exists for "National Aid to Public School
hat in the several States aud territories. T
one Rev. Dir. Howard Crosby writes of " I
al Dangerous Glasses" that menance the D
petuity of civil order and the peace of
oou community, meaning the manipulators
les corporation stocks and the men who, havl
sys- amassed enormous wealth, use It for
50 farous purposes. James c. yelling, Pr,
dent OF Columbian University, treats
4" Race Education" the problem that G.
fronts the philosophic statesman, of
ior- presence in our body polite of strC
hat negro contingent. "The Water Supply
still Cities " is discussed by Charles F. VI
I'm gate, Ethical Systems by Prof F.
Hedge, =" Street Begging" by Rev.
slhe Charles F. Deems, and " Criticism
)uld Christianity" by o. B. Frothinghi
ces- Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New Yc
izep and for sale by booksellers generally.
lor Delaware Don't Whip WIFE, -Beate1
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