The Republican journal., 1883-08-23
Literary News and Notes.

ions, receipts, and fine engrayngs. Each NUM-
ber of this favorite monthly, it is safe to say, is
worth the annual subscription price of 81.
Charles J. Peterson, publisher, 306 Chestnut
street. Philadelphia
The September instalment of " The Bread
winners the new anonymous serial begun IN
the August Century, will take the reader to
spiritualist ''seance," and contains also charm
ing chapter in which the heroine Alice Bedding
Gas distinguished from the forward beauty
Maud Nlatchin) shows of to high advantage.
Col. George f. Warnings story of his thorough
bred mare, ''NiX,' as told in the book called
''Whip and Spur" has been published in
separate pamphlet by J. X. Osgood & Co.,
Boston. "Col Warnings horses as Mr.. Hig-
gnson has said, ''are like DIR. John Browns
dogs, genuine and half humorous creatures"
The price of the pamphlet is only ten cents and
every admircr of the ,'noblest friend of man
should own Il copy
''Will New York be the Final World Metrop-
oils" is aqueston W. c. Conant will ask in the
September Century and answer in the atrma-
tive with Il curious array of facts and argu-
nients. He predicts that before another century
Passes New York's population ''will surpass
that of London and that it will be the unrvaled
center of finance and commerce. of luxury
and fashion, of art and lterature-the heart
aild brain, in word, of the civ aized world"
\ paper on Cape Cod will be the opening
article of the September Century Those whose
knowledge of the Cape is limied to its whimsi-
cal appearance on the map, suggesting barren
strin n
numerous engravings and the interesting text
that Cape Cod is land of green fields groves,
game, birds, and romance, as we'll as of dunes
and fish The writer (whosc signature, "F.
Michcl," conceals Il writer of New England
stories dwels with special interest on the
honest pecularites Of the inhabitants.
The numbers of the Living Age for August
4th and llth contain Count Rumford. by j.
TfndaI, The Ethics of Biography. by Vi. q. W,
OHphant, Contemporary Life and Thought in
France, Contemporary; The Coming of the
FFiarS, Nineteenth Century; A Chapter of
Autobiography, by Bishop Wcrdsworth Fort
nightly; Warlike Adventures of a Peaceful
Pfima Donna, Temple Bar; Across the Plains.
L4ngman's; y Letter Of Leigh Hunts, Athe-
na aeum; But Yet W oman. and The DeStruc-
ti9n Of Niagara, Spectator; Botanical Tran>gre~-
si6ns, Month; The Story of a Boulder, Nature;
with an instalment of THE Wizard, SON"
and LA Dame la Tas>c de The" and Grand
mother and her three Lovers" bv MN. Erck-
mann-C Chatrain, and poetry.
The North American Review for Spptcmberis
am admirably constituted number, whether we
regard the timeliness and Importance of the sub
jcdtS presented, or the eminent competence of
thf authors chosen for their discussion. First
COMES ''state Regulation of Corporate Profts''
byI Chief-Ju>ticcr T. NJ. Cooley. of Michigan
showing how far, by wise legislation and by ap-
plying in the spirit of enlightened jurisprudence
the principles of the common law the harrow
ing eXactons of corporate companies and momo-
poles in general may be restrained and the in
telestS of the people ctlcctualy conserved.
John A. kass0n, NJ. C., writes on ''Muncipal
Reform" and offers suggestion, for the ;ltate-
ment of the evils of mSgovcrnment ia our great
municipalities that will command the earnest
interest of all good citizens without respect to
party, Richard Grant White treats of Glass
Distinctions in the United States" Il subject
that is destined to occupy more and more the
attention of the American people great for
tunes increase. shooting at sight" is the sub
ject of some pertinent reflections by James
Jackson, Chicf-.Justice of the State of Georgia
"lh Facts about the Caucus and the Primary"
George Walton Green unveils the tricks prac-
tlcdd by political managers in large cities. The
Wel-knoWn English essayist, W. II. Malock.
contributes Conversations with a Solitary" in
which bn sets fortl, will,
arguments adverse to popular government The
ReE. Dr. u. 5. Phclan contributes, an article
sparkling with epigramS, on the ''LimitationS Of
Frdethinking." Finally, Grant Allen, the most
chalming ofa living writers on natural history,
disfour>es on AN American Wild Flower"
Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New York.
and for sale by bookseller, generally.
- The Popular Science Monthly' for Srptem-
ber begins with a clear exposition of THE
Germ Theory of Disease" by DR.. H. Cradle,
who, in plain words, showing his command of
the Subject, explains the theory, defines the en-
tent to which it has so far been found surely
applicable and sums up the evidence on which
it rests. DIR, Felix l.. Oswald continues his
pungent prescriptions and recommendations of
Tile Remedies of Nature" with a paper on
"ASthma," and its treatment. In "Firt-prouf
Building Construction" Mr.. William +. Ward
describes and recommends system Of Building
with iron and hetoa without wood, Which he has
trled and found practicable and effective. IN
sanity" by one who has been insane, is Il pic
ture, from the inside, ofa disease whose moving
springs and workings can be only most obscure
Iy perceived from the outside, and offers >ug-
gcstions, derived from the authors own rN-
perifncc, aS to points i'll Witch the treatment OF
the insane and management of asylums should