The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-07-24
Literary News and Notes.

The Midsummer Holiday Century will con-
tain "A Glance at British Wild Flowers" by
John Burroughs and Alfred Parsons the artist.
1t will be one of the most decorative articles in
illustration and most charming in text that has
ever appeared in the Century.
John B. Alden, 3A3 Pearl street, New York,
sends us the first number of The Book World,
a neat little monthly. the subscription price of
which Is but % cents year. The twelve num-
bers will contain not less than $50 pages of
good literature and n pages of illustrations.
The August Century will contain. in Mr. Ca
ble's novel, "Dr. SEWER" thrilling description
of the departure of Confederate troops from
New Orleans at the beginning OF the Civil War.
The march of the New York Seventh down
Broadway is also described. with hardly less
graphic power.
The Rambler is Il Chicago weekly. in which
social, literary. musical, theatrical and artistic
matters are treated of in a fresh and original
manner, and its handsome typography adds
not little to the interest of the paper. 1t is
certainly very entertaining publication, and Is
not simply local journal.
Blanche Willis Howard, author of .'Guenn"
and "One summer" ha, written for St. Nicholas
a short story of child life in Germany, which
will appear in the August number of the maga-
zine. Joel Benton will contribute poem en-
titled 1.-The Curious House, for which Mr.
Celia ThaXter has prepared an illustration, and
Helen Campbell short story for girls, under
the title Of 1.-The 5. F. b. p
Outing and the Wheeman for August has
the following illustrated articles: ART in Au-
gust ''Tricyeing Trips in Toxic = Yachting
around Cape Cod" illustrated by Wesley Web
ber;) The Shaybacks in Camp, and AN
Unlucky Trip" Arlo Bates contributes Part
of "A Strange I1yl" and there are other arti-
cleS of interest, which with the we'll filed edi-
torial departments make up an excellent num-
Der of this Very entertaining monthlv The
Wheeman Co., 10 fremont street, Boston.
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
will be published in the double number of the
Humboldt Library of Science, &. J. Fitzgerald
New York. Part |. is now ready and Part II
will be issued in August. 1t is a commonplace
every department of Natural Science, and has
profoundly affected Philosophy History and
Art: in short that it has changed fundamentally
the whole domain of human thought. But pre-
cisely what are the conclusions and principles
developed by Darwin as the result Of his IA
nous researches: The answer is to be found
only in the study of his immortal work, the
Origin of Species. which is now for the first
time published, at a price which brings it within
the reach of ALL
Himself Again. by j. L. Goldsmith, is No. 13
Of the Standard Library. We would like to
Iook upon the person who can read chapter
Of this novel without wishing to read the rest
There is something in it, hard to describe
which touches the emotions and enlists the
Sympathies Of the reader from the opening to
the close. Perhaps the secret lies in the uu-
convcntionaity OF the story. One does not feel
that the characters were created to order. to tit
certain niche in 4 temple of art; ; but that they
are taken from the world of ncsh-and-bIood
beings about us with warm hearts, and bea ting
pulses, and passionate hopes and longines 4
vein Of spontaneous and re>i>tlc>> good-humor
pervades the book. but it is always sef-govern-
ed and never d>cordant or offensive. The
characters, some of them. would have done
! credit to Dickens himself. From the SNUG
gler> in New lor> Iarbor. and Peter McCiin-
his and his wife i'll their grog,shop in New ,Jer-
Sey, TO old >eeren With his bubbng wit and
philosophy OF yellow, and Bob Manning. the
eminent lawyer. and katt, one of the mos
pathetic characters in fiction. and Henry Viii
more. the young minister who is the hero of
the tale, there is not 4 character hut is drawn
with inimiabe skill from keen and wide
knowledge Of human nature. We are mi>tak-
en- if the book falls into that limbo OF ob>yurity
that receives nine ont OF ten of the novel, of
the day. Published by Funk x WagnaIl>' GO
and Il De. Street, n - Paper, D cents,
The August IIarper's will be especially note
worthy for it> papers on American places
"The Gateway OF Boston," III which W. II.
Rideing describes and Mc>>rs. Hals:,ll and Gar
rett picture Boston IIarbor: salt Lake City.
described by Ernest lnger>clI. with fifteen
| illustrations; and Rchield Springs, a paper
with special reference to their medicinal waters.
tinue his chatty ARTIST Strolls In Holland" in
company with Mr.. Abbey. Art will be repre-
scnted by paper on the work of the "AS>ocit-
ted Artists" by Mrs. Harrison with charming
| Illustrations of the needlework designs of Mrs.
| Wheeler, Miss Dora Wheeler, and others, as
| we'll as by the fronti>piece reproduction OF Mr..
| DeWlnS's roSc-panting. "A Prcude;" sport,
| by "Antelope Hunting in Montana" with
| illustrations by Beard and Frost; history, by
| the first of Il series of brilliantly written and
| illustrated paneis ON 1.-The Great Hal of W ill.,
lam RGfus," by Trradwell Walden. William
! Black's and T.. +. Roe's novels will have their
| usual superb illustrations by Abbey. Gibson
and pclman, and more of the charming land
| scape illustrations by Alfred Parsons will
accompany a further instalmcnt Of Mr.. sharp,
| pocm-plrture>. "Erunscript> from Nature. =
| There will also be stories and poems by Mrs.
Macquoid, Mr.. Bynncr, Lucy Larcom, Mrs.
| Fields. and others 4 paper on THE Build
Ing of the Muscle Will De contributed by
Julian Hawthorne. Among Mr. Curtis's top
les in the Easy Chair are National Conven-
| tons and College Commtnccmtnts.