Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-07-24
Literary Notices.
The Authorized Pictorial Lives of
Cleveland and Hendricks.

Cleveland and Hendricks.
Announcement is made of the rapid |
completion of a Pictorial work eompris-
ing the lives of the Presidential candi-
dates on the Democratic ticket, written |
bkthe veteran author, Col. Frank Trip |
lett, and published by N. d. Thompson |
4 Co., st. Louis, Mo-, and New York.
This work Is sold through agents exclu- |
slvely. It is designed, not only to serve
the popular taste and want in giving, |
exhaustively, the facts in the boyhood
and manhood of the Candidates-theirl
private lives and public services-but
to have a more enduring interest than
the ordinary campaign book. To this
end the publishers have engaged on the
work corps of skilled designers and
engravers to elegantly and profusely
illustrate the scenes and incidents in
the lives of these eminent men, now so
prominently before the people. Per-
sonal anecdotes and "reminiscences will
constitute a leading and certainly a
most entertaing and instructive feature
of this timely work.
Col Triplett has marked ability, and
enjoys especial distinction as a Bio
graphical writer. While exhaustive in
the recital of facts, his powers of analy-
sis, and his keen insight into the phi
losophy of events and measures, give
him special prominence among Amer
lean writer's of personal history. 1t is
not too much to say that he is better
prepared for the work in hand than
any other American author.
The books from his pen, of which
several have been published, have met
the popular taste and been more than
ordinarily successful. They have given
him high rank among American au-
thors, and the public men of the day.
This has given him unsurpassed facil-
tiles for procuring all the material for
the work now in hand. AS a book of
fascinating interest, beauty and pro-
fuseness of illustration, and of compre-
hensiveness of fact, it will commend
itself to every vote.
To the book agent this rare combina-
tion Of authentic history, pictorial
illustration and brilliant authorship,
will at once suggest the universal de-
mand it will create, and also the advan-
tages in interest it has over the ordin-
..Ty campaign book, and the grand OPP
portunity it offers for profitable agency.
We advertise it in another column.
Godey's Lady's Book for August is an
excellent Midsummer number, open
ing with a pretty poem called "The
Flower Gatherers," which is made the
subject of tasteful steel engraving
Miss Mather's story, "Dreeing of the
Weird,n multiplies its charm as it pro-
ceeds, and is making good hit for the
Magazine. The present number con
tains also the opening chapters of
serial by Christian Reid, 1.-THE Story o
an Elopement," which bids fair to ado
another laurel leaf to the chaplet o
this popular novelist. The whole lit
erary tone of the Magazine seems to b.
improving under the present manage
ment, and it looks now as though God
ey's had taken new lease of life ant
had before it future ofgreat brilliancy
"Old vicissitudes" comes forward thi
month with droll account of his "Ex
perience Seeking an Earthly Angel; OF
in other words, The Right Kind of
Wife," in which he gives verbatim
copies of the letters received in answe
to his advertisement (names only bein
omitted). The pen portraits drawn b
are decidedly amusing. HThe Nut
Brown Maid" increases in interest q
the story advances. There is a fine al
ray Of talent embodied in the shol
stories and poems.
The North American Review for AT
gust contains an article by Justie
James V. Campbell on "The Encroacf
ments of CapitaP' which will comman
the serious attention of all reader
Richard A. Proctor treats of"The Or
gine of Comets" and succeeds in pr,
senting that difficult subject in a ligf
so clear that persons who have little {
no acquaintance with astronomy ca
follow his argument. "Are We a N,
tion of Rascals ?' is the startling title
an article by John F. Hume, WI
shows that states, counties and munic
palities in the United States have a
ready formally repudiated, or defaulte
a the payment of interest on an amour
of bonds and other obligations equal
the sum of the national debt. Juds
Edward G. Loring finds ''Drift towal
Centralization" in the recent judgmel
Of the United States Supreme Court G
the power Of the Federal Governmel
to issue paper money, and in I'll
opinion of the minority of the san
court rendered in the suit for I'll
Arlington property. Julian Hawthorn
writes of "The American Element
Fiction" and there is a symposium {
prohibition and Persuasion by Ne
Dow and DR.. Dio Lewis.
The August number of THE Popul
Science Monthly contains two brillial
and striking articles on the future
religion. The first, THE Ghost of r
ligion,' is by Frederic Harrison, and
an attack on Mr.. Spencerss 'UnknoN
able,' and the second, 'Retrogressi'
Religion, is MIR. Spenser's repl
Grant Aliens 'Hickory-Nuts and Blu
ternuts,' DIR. G. G. Abbott's Some Rar
bles ofa Naturalist, and M. j. Fische,
NV Monkeys may be equally We
described as lively or amusing essay
or as scientific articles, for they a
both; and DIR. Peale's The World
Geyser-R Regions with several full-pa
Illustrations, is also readable, scientif
and instructive. The serious side pl
dominates in Mr.. Lee j. Vance's 'Scie
tific Philanthropy which is revie
of M. Fouillee's articles on the sar
subject in the Monthly for Janua
and February, 1888; and in the par
ofDr. Heinrich Jaques, of the Austri
Chamber Of Deputies, on the questi
of the reparation which it is the du
of the State to afford to persons W
may havegbeen condemned for offens
of which they were NOT Ullilty