The Republican journal., 1885-07-16
Literary News and Notes.

| The July number of the Popular Science
| News (Boston) well sustans the reputation of
that excellent periodical.
| Book clubs and all vino wish TO keep inform
ed as to new publications will find The Book
Buyer Invaluable. 1t is published monthly by
Charles Scribner's Sons, and costs but 80 cents
a year.
| Mr.. Cables reply to the critics of his article,
''The Freedman's Case in Equity was finish
ed last May, but owing to its length it cannot
| appear in The Century till the September num-
| Der of that magazine. Mr.. Cables new essay
on the Freedman Will be entitled ''The Silent
| South"
| The Museum is the title of neat little il
lustrated monthly published at 1920 Sansom
| street, Philadelphia, in the interests of young
naturalists and collectors of all classes. 1t is
under the editorial management of Edwin At
Lee Barber, A. NJ, aud has notable list of
contributors. The subscription price is $50
| per year; single copies ID cents.
| The july number of the Pathfinder Railway
| Guide will be found especially valuable in this
season of vacation travel, all the summer
| changes of time on the various railroads and
| steamboat lines are shown. In addition to this
| feature there is another chapter of Legal
| Hints for Travellers" IN which ones ''rights
and risks in relying on the time tables form Il
| seasonable topic. Bob Burdette'' contributes
the first chapter of a readable series of articles
under the heading "Burdette's Visas EN- Route"
| The large colored maps continue to be a valu-
| able feature of the Pathfinder
The Numbers of The Living Age for July 4th
| and lth contain James Russell Lowell. Letters
| from private Soldier in Egypt, and Genius
| and Insanity, Nineteenth Century; The Muse
of History, Contemporary The Liberal Move
ment in English Literature, and A Vigil in
Stonehenge, National; The Torpedo Scare.
| Blackwood; Johann Sebastian Bach. "The
Father of German Music" and Curosities of
| Music, Leisure Hour; Erckmann-C Chatrain,
GentIeman's; The Queens Drawing Room,
saturday Review; Lord Beaconstield's Youth.
| Spectator; Curiosities of Taxation, All the
| Year Round; with instalments of ~ House
| Divided Against Itsef,' Mrs. DNmond,"
Fortune, Wheel" and "UneXplained," and
| poetry
Babyhood for July urges upon parents the
Importance of ''labeng' little children by al
| ways marking their full names and addresses
| IN lndetible ink on some eaSilyaccessbe part
| OF their clothing, such as the inside of the col
| lar-bahd. There can be no doubt that such
custom would be fruitful of many good re-
SUITS and 60 far toward alley iating the anxiety
| of parents in eases of their little ones straving
away from home, or becoming lost in Il crowd
~ "A
| Baby hood abounds in useful suggestions to
| mothers, and, in the variety of topics treated
| by it, contributors and correspondents, proves
its ability to fulfil its avowed intention to be-
| come channel for the best thoughts of all
who study the highest interests of child-life.
| Among its leading articles are 1.-The Baby that
Must 90 to the Country" by Marion Hurand,
and The Quantity of Food Required in In
fancy by Prof. j. Lewis Smith, physician to
the New York Founding Asylum. i15 cents
number, >l.5O year. Is spruce Street, New
| ork.
| The New York Nation printed in its issue Of
June - Il retrospect of the twenty years OF its
existence which were completed with that
number The Nation was founded July, 1865,
was sure 10 follow the end Of the war ana the
abolition of slavery. 1t at once e>poused the
cause of pare, bipartisan administration of the
| National Government; and tie present condi-
! tOn of cY>erVce reform is owing to it more
than 10 any other instrumentaItv. II ha, been
| conducted, in its TWO leading departments.
| Politics and Literature, hy thc same editors
| from the first number, and holds to-day. ;ts for
the past twenty wears, the first rank in each.
1t is the medium of the most thoughtful and
cultivated discussion in the coutry-is in
| fact, the only truly ~'to,ot journalistic forum.
Its foreign correspondence is unriyalled. Its
book reviews (by the leading scholars of the
country possess the highest authority. Each
number contains Il careful news summary. and
the bound volumes are priced Il, the best OBJ
tainabie chronicle of current history "a PIP.
quarto. 10 cents Il number; So a year. 10
Broadway New York.
Me>,rs. Funk 4 Wagnalls, New York have
the following books in press: The Peoples
Bible. BY Joseph Parker, u. D., London. \
very elaborate and important work, being Il
| series of eXpo>tions of such portions Of Scrip
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Cicely. \ new novel. BY Josiah Aliens
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literary gentleman who ha, carefully eNamiued
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$500. sermons in Song. A volume of ser
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W. VI. Evert>, b, II. l4mo., leatheretlr, .0o.
Society; it, Pecuiaritie> Practices, and Prob
! lens "A series of pl>cour>eS on social topics.
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