The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-25
LTTERARY NOTES.
New BookS and Recent Publications
Received By ssThe Miner"

timely articles, one on .'Riel and His Rebel
ion;" another on 1.-THE Theater OF Confic
in Central Asia" another on Civilization
and Savagery in Africa, " being the hunor
Gus experiences and exploits OF q mission
!, airy in that dark continent; and a full pag'
from the West to supply Eastern anC
European markets. There are also illus
4 trated book reviews, and a number o
bright and readable articles on miscella
\ neous topics and questions Of the hour. In
this number, too, is a powerful serial STORY,
written for the Journal and entitled Love
: in Summer Seas" dealing with life in New
York and the tropics. The departments
: have been increased in number, and are al
we'll filled. This popular literary maya.
i zine, OF which each page sparkles with in:
, terest, is published every other week by w.
, J.. JOHNSON, 8 Murray st., New York.
The price is only 10 cents q copy, or 50 a
year, and it may be ordered OF any news.
dealer.
The November number of Baby
hood" contains an article which, it read
and thoroughly digested by half the moth
ers OF recent arrivals in the human family,
could not fail to add materially to their
mutual comfort, to say nothing OF van
gushing, in advance, the dyspepsia with
which many babies are destined to find
himselves Handicapped a few S xsRaaIrsss hfepsss
d Tbs E Fo t6e i New York Infant Asylum, and
he heads his article with the simple and
suggestive word ''Colic.". Mrs. E. W. Bah
cock describes IA Philosopher in the MUIR
sery;;" Mr. A. Allen writes on 'Children's
Fancies," Marion Harland on 1.-The Baby
Prowler, I" and q great variety Of other top
les, from lacteal sterility down to safety
pins, are treated more or less deliberately.
t16 Spruce Street, New York. $3.50 a
year.1
The Nation New York; offers a trial
subscription of two months to new read
ers for IS cents-haf rate. The Nation is
a weekly review OF politics and Of literature,
from an independent standpoint, conducted
with the aid Of the most competent writer's
obtainable. The list OF contributors whose
services are thus enlisted includes most of
the leading lame in literature, science, art,
philosophy and law in this country, and
many abroad. The Chicago Dial recently
remarked: 1t is not too much to say of
the Nation that no single agency has done
80 much in the past twenty years to ad-
rance and dignity the calling Of journalism
in America. In all departments it has been
singularly able and impartial, and its sue
cess is a cause of qualification in which
American scholars generally will SHARE"
While 20 processing to be a newspaper, the
Nation yet gives a carefully edited news
NAA AA II 0u"RC I'LL pei una
nent record. !
Few persons are aware OF the number and |
Importance of the scientific societies of |
Washington. The capital has become such
an important scientific center thata Wash
ington letter will hereafter form one of the
regular features of Science. Other new
features are correspondence from London,
st. Petersburg, etc., and a weekly supple
ment.
Life, as an artistic, humorous and satiri.
cal journal easily takes the lead OF any
thing in the world. The Christmas number
which is to be issued December 9TH, will be |
issue, and no labor or expensive will be
spared in making it the most attractive of
the holiday publications. It will contain
26 pages, profusely Illustrated and printed
in colors. A sample copy OF this journal
will be sent free to any address 40 cents a
number, IS a year, postage paid). Mitchell
q Miller, publishers, 1855 Broadway, New
York.
Science desires to be known as a journal
for all educated men. 1t aims to be to sci
ence what The Nation and other literary
journals have been to literature-a paper
for the general reader rather than the spe-
cialist. !
The English publishers of Mr.. Edwin Ar
vi - III AAS I
as a poet to o a collected edition
Of his poctical writings in six volumes.
The second part of the '''Greville Me-
moirs" has lately been published in Eng
land. 1t covers about fifteen years OF the
reign OF Queen Victoria, and misses, per-
haps by the curtailments and omissions OF
the edition, the witty sparkle of the earlier
portion.
The first volume OF the new edition of the
Life Of George Eliot contains further con-
tributions to an understanding Of the
period in which her religious beliefs were
undergoing a change-the most important
Cash, of Coventry, who gives the particu-
lars Of several conversations with Marian
Evans, while the latter was in a state OF
doubt, and who is OF the opinion that dis
.crepancies between religious profession and
conduct were at that time one OF
the chief causes OF her repulsion from
The friends OF Matthew Arnold at Oxford
are p%etitioning him to come forward as a
candidate for the vacant p~rofessorship OF
poetry-a position which he held more
than a quarter OF a century ago.
Mr.. T. Churton has made a volume out
of his papers on Bolingbroke, which attract
ed SO much attention a few years ago in
The Quarterly Review, and has added to
chem a paper on Voltaire in England.
Miss Braddon will soon publish her we'll
known annual. 1.-THE Mistletoe Bough,"
will consist of short stories with illus
b%rations. |,
The December number OF the Century Mag
azine will contain an amusing paper by
Mark Twain, entitled 1.-THE Private Histo-
y of a Campaign that Failed"
Mr.. Walter Besant has written a story
or the Christmas number OF Mr.. Dick MS
All the Year Round.
Mr.. Austin Dobson's new collection OF
verse, "At the Sign OF the Lyre," has passed {
INTO a second edition in England. =
Mr.. Joseph Hatton is to b. the writer :
his year III Bow Bells Annual. ,
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are soon to
a new edition of Kingley's Water ;
Babies, with Illustrations by Mr.. Linley 8
OF Punch. RI
Mr.. T. Hall Caine and Mr.. Robert Blu. i
;hanan are dramatizing q novel which the
ormer has written. c
A writer in Chambers journal, describing
IN "Elzabethian dinner, says the first
course was stewed broth, Cruel or hotchpot. -,
The second was game and the third Quaker : :
budding, bag marrow and black puddi ng. :
came beef, veal, fowl and game. The :
18th course was cheese, cakes, custards, .
ellies and syllabus. Elizabeth herself !
vas not a mean cater.
Strayed or Stolen $50 90 Reward
From range on Browns Gulch, about Z
October LIST, 1885, 40 head OF cattle. COM
orising cows, calves and steers, yearlings 6
and wo-year-olds. nearly all branded on
eft hip with figure 8 and on sides figure 8 :
With bar. One red COW branded Ill on
eft hip; one spotted COW branded NJ. on .
eft side. The above reward will be paid .
or the delivery Of the above described ami.