The Republican journal., 1884-08-14
Literature.

L'EVANGELISTE. A Romance. BY Alphon-
track of fiction, and its originality is supple
mented by intense power and interest; in fact,
it would be difficult to find romance in which
the interest is more absorbing. Nor is this in
terest the result, as is deporably the case in so
much French fiction, of highly spiced sent-
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founded on fact. 1t treats mainly of the acts
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the very best of living French romance writers,
and those who have admired his preceding ro-
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masterpiece. The work has created profound
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fully and carefully made by Mary Neal Sher-
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HOME IN POETRY. Edited by Laura C..
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NOTES.
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''Anna Maria> Housekeeping is Il capital
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the Publishers.
York has published Il convenient little manual
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The author is Prof. j. NJ. Heard, Professor of
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d. Lothror n Co. have nearly ready Il new
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which contains details Of the rescue of the
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which the brave band have Wrested from that
field of ice their valuable contributions to
science.
The numbers of The Living Age for July
26th and August ~. contain With Baker and
Graham in the Eastern Soudan, and The Fed
eIal States of the World, Nineteenth Century
SophocIe>, and Princess Alice, Fortnightiy
The Prot0-llelVctian>, Contemporary The | IL
lucky Du>edom Of Albany Whitehall Review
W ordsworth'> Relations to Science Macmillan
Madame dc krucdener. and WaIlen>ten, Gem
tleman', Tame snakes, Cu>selP>t Texas ~ a
Career, Popular Cookery, and Prayer, for the
Dead, Spectator; Pathology in History, Alcn>l
and Ncuroiosist Tile Extinct Lake, Of the
Great Basin, and Habits of Burrowng Cray
fishes, Nature; Al@crnon Sydney, and The
Prince of Orange, Saturday Review; with in
,taIment> of Beauty and the Beast" "Ihe
Baby's GRANDMOTHER" the conclusions of
"Magda'> Cow" aud poetry