The Republican journal., 1883-09-27
Literary News and Notes.

Reverend IDOL" is writing another book.
Messrs. Lee and Shepard will soon issue Mrs.
Livermores long-promised book, under the
title of "What Shall we do with Our Daughters:
-Superfuous Women, and other Lectures"
Will Carlton began contributing to the papers
when a boy. In graduating in 1869 be was the
poet of the class and read Riffs in the Clouds"
maiden effort. Since then four books of
poems have been issued, and the aggregate
sales have been 5000, 600.
The anonymous author of ''Their Club and
Ours" the story of boy life in Maine, which
has caused q genuine sensation among young
people, is fourd to be John Preston True,
youthful writer who is added to the list of those
who have been introduced to the public by d.
Lothrop Il Co.
Of the home monthles Peterson's Magazine is
always first at hand and first i'll point of merit.
The October number was published last week.
Peterson's speciaIties arc entertaining serials
and bright short stories, and its steel fashion
plates colored BY hand. Charles j. Peterson,
publisher, 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
The capture of Jefferson Davis will be fully
treated by Mr. Burton n Harrison in paper
to be published in an early number of The
Century. 1t is a narrative of personal eX
perience, describing the retreat Of Mr.. Davis
and party from Richmond at the close Of the
Rebellion, and is said to be of decisive his
torcal importance with regard to the event of
which there has been so much dispute.
The editor of st. Nicholas has partly made
out Il programme of good things for boys and
the coming year; it includes serial stories by
Louisa NJ. Alcott, Captain Mayne Reid, j. T.
Trowbridge, and H. H. Boyesen. The list of
contributors to this magazine for 1884 includes
f. r. Stockton, "II. H. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, Mrs. A. ID. T. Whitney, Joaquin Mil
Ter. Charles Dudley Warner, Julian Haw-
thorne, Philip Bourke Marston, Susan Cool
idgc and many other distinguished writers.
Among the holiday attractions in Houghton.
Mitliin & Cos list for this season is i book by
Miss Phelps, Beyond the Gates, which
carries farther the tender and reverent con-
lectures and suggestions of the unseen world
contained i'll ''The Gates Ajar;" and new vol
umes OF poems by MI Whittier, Nj Story and
Mr.. Aldrich. The long-promised three volume
popular edition of Shakspcare'S works, edited
by Richard Grant W mite, and to be known as
the Riverside Shakespeare, will be ready soon :;
the new series of American Commonwealth.
just opened by Mr.. Cookies volume on VII
ginia, will be continued by histories of Oregon
by the Rev Dr. Barrows, of South Carolina by
the Hon. Wm. II. Trescott. of MARYLAND by
Prof. VIM. II. Browne, of Kentucky by Prof.
n. 5. Shaer, and of PcnnsyIyani by the Hon.
Wayne McN eagh; new volumes are promised
in the American Statesmen and American Men
of Letters series; and last, but not least. Mr..
Scudder has another Bodley book ready for
boy and girl readers. in which he will describe
the observations and adventures Of the Bodlcy
family in England.
The high character of The Popular Science
Monthly" is vigorously sustained BY Its October
issue. OF its fifteen articles there is none
which will not repay careful reading and from
which something new and valuable can not be
learned. The present state OF thought in re-
gard to the nature Of life is well reflected in
the first article, by Paul X. Shpman, ON Mat
ter Living and Not-LiNmg." Dr Bayard then
takes Il hand i'll the conflicts Of the medical
schools, to show that ''lTomuopathy" is Sci
ence." DR.. Abraham jacob has an elaborate
and most interesting article ON The Historical
Development of Modern Nursing" "Clothing
and the Atmosphere" by Radau; The Chem
istry Of Cookery" by Professor Williams: and
THE Alcohol-lIabit," by DR.. Oswald in his
series on The Remedies Of Nature" are papers
Of great practical worth. Those Of more pure
~ scientific interest are "Cycones and lorna
does" "The CoorS of Flowers" ''Negetating
Animals" "1ow the Earth was Pcopled,'
"Ihe Livcr-Fluke in Sheep" THE Savings of
Science" etc., etc. There are a portrait and
biographical sketch Of the celebrated hygienist
large mass OF criticism and miscellaneous in
formation i'll the editorial departments. The
October Monthly" is kind of scientific book
that will be permanently valuable, and this is
wherein it differs from most of the other maga-
zines. New York: d. Appleton 4 Company.
Fifty cents per number s. per year.
The North American Review for October
presents most attractive table of contents.
Senator y. 7. Hill writes of "Gold and Silver
rs Standards of Value" and maintains that
silver should be coined is well as gold, not for
the purpose of initiating the currency. neither
in the interest of the Slycr-mning industry,
but for the broader and more equitable pur-
pose Of preserving uniformity in the value of
metallic money, and of preventing Such con-
traction of the volume of money rs would
produce financial disaster. In ''>omc Aspects
of Democracy iii England, A. Y. Dicey makes
clear to the American reader how it is that
while all the forms of monarchy and ariSto-
cracy persist in Britain, the democracy. or. in
other words, public opinion. absolutely con-
trolls the action of the government Inder the
title Of 'CO-operatiye Distributions" the Rev.
DIR. r. lIebcr Newton gives an instructive
historical sketch of the rise progress and
fluctuations of cooperative merchandising in
the United States during the past fifty years.
Prof W. Boyd DaWkins writes of "Early Man
in America. whose mode Of life and whose
implements appear to have been identical with
those Of the races that contemporaneouSly in
habitcd the Mediterranean countries, the Nile
basin, and the tropical forests of India The
possibility of" Astronomical Collisions" Whptll-
er of the fixed stars with one and another. or
of comets with the sun, the earth. or the other
planets, is considered by Prof. c. A. Young.
Moncure d. Conway discourscs learnedlv, and
at the same time most entertainingly upon the
''Sant Patrick Myth. Van Buren, Denslow
in an article on Board of Trade Morality'
makes Il vigorous defence of the practices OF
the Corn Exchange and in particular replies to
the structures of Mr.. Henry ID. Lloyd, contained
in the Review for August. Frederic Harrison
contributes an article. invaluable to the hstor-
ical student, on ''IIistories of the French Rev
oluion". Finally, the Rev. +. +. Hale presents
an inventory of the volume and distribution OF
"Social Forces in the United States Published
at 80 Lafayette Place, New York $500 year
30 cents Il number.
A man in Auburn cleaned out his well one
day last week. The well hadn't been used for
ten years, but the present drouth drove him tc
the necessity of increasing the family water
supply The curb was dilapdaed and the
stones around the upper edge falling in and
were grass grown. There was nothing but an
| old tin can or two at the bottom of the well