National Republican., 1883-12-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. THE BAcKwooDs BOY,
on, HOW A YOUNG RA1L-SPLITrER BE-
GAME PRESIDENT. BY HoRATIo ALeER, JR.
Nnw sn SGnn h AaIrsUn on dnd mGnrg
Son. Price, Sl,25.
Among all the public men whom this
country has produced there is none since
Washington whose life can be studied with
more interest and profit by American youth
than that Of Abraham Lincoln. His honesty,
integrity, frmnoss of purpose, upright
action, charity, and, above all, his
great humanity, are qualities which
the young of tho country should
emulate, and tho author has brought these
traits prominently forward in his biography,
not by means of deductic reference but in
the incidents in the life of his subject BIZ
ographies of public men, written with
especial reference to the comprehension of
tho youth Of the country, arc of great value
in forming tho character of the rising gen.
eration, and the writer who succeeds in this
direction is public bencfactor. Mr. Alger
has succeeded admirably in the book before
us, and the boy who receives IL as holiday
gift may consider himself fortunate.
QUEsN VICTORIA: HER GIRLHooD AND
MOMANHOOD. BY GRACE GREENWOOD. New
YORK: !. X. Anderson and II. S. Allen. Washing
ton: William Balantyne u Son. Price, $780,
This may be called in one sense COM
panion book to the one Just referred to above.
That is designed pecially for boys, and this
is written with special reference to girl
readers. AS Mr.. Alger has taken Abraham
Lincoln as the highest type of true manhood
in our generation, so Mrs. Lippincott has
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in her public and private life the noblest at
tributes which make true woman. Having
had ample facilities while in Europe for col
lecting all the material necessary she has
presented biography fascinating and in
structive, and which will be read with deep
interest.
THE FAIREsT OF THREE: A tale of American
life. BY EMORY j. HAYNES New York. The
American News company
very interesting story, with nearly all
tho characters we'll drawn and their char
acteristios outlined at the commencement
consistently preserved throughout. 1t is
written with the purpose of showing the con-
tinual contest between capital and labor, and
a graphic description of the labor riots in
Pennsylvania few years ago forms some in
teresting chapters. The cooperative methods
employed by the hero in carrying on his
business is designed as an elucidaton of this
labor problem, but it is by no means certain
that the plan would work so we'll in actual
practice as it is happily drawn in this story
STATISTICAL RECORD OF THE ARMIES OF
THE UNITED STATES. BY FREDERICK PHIs-
TERER late captain United States army. New
York; Charles Scrbner's Sons.
This is o supplementary volume to tho
series which have boon issued by this firm on
the campaigns of the civil war, and contains
tho number and organization of tho various
armies employed during the rebellion, a
chronological record of engagements, battles,
&C., and largo amount Of valuable statisti-
cal information, which makes it very useful
as work of reference.
LITERARY NOTES.
The January number of the Electric, the first
number of the new volume, contains beautiful
steel engraving of 1.-THE Titan Family" "The
Poetry of the Early Mysteries by F. NJ. Capes;
'"The Wonders of Photography" from Cornhai
Magazine; "The Political Condition of SPAIN
"The Emperor Juans View of Christianity" from
Maenilan's Magozine, and a study of "The Second
Part OF Faust" by M. Betham- Edwards. from the
British Quarterly Reriet0, are among the articles
enumerated in its table of contents. Published
by E. r. Peltou, 25 Bond street, New York.
From Robert Beall has been received the S.
Nicholas for 1888, handsomely bound in two vol
umes No magazine can be more acceptable to
children than this and its great success is due to
the high class of its reading matter as we'll as IT'S
thorough adaptation to the comprehension of the
young. The Messrs. Scribner, the publishers
have Just reason to be proud of the position the
ST. Nicholas has attained.
Messrs Porter & Coates of Philadelphia, have
issued handsome holiday edition of Mrs. Nor.
tons poem, "Bingen on the Rhine" The book
is elegantly illustrated by such well-known artists
as W. n. smedley, Fred b. Schell, Alfred Fred
ercks, Granville, Perkins, J. d. Woodward, and
Edmund H. Garrett