The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-09-03
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News ana Notes.
Pretty pictures and pleasing prose and poetry
make up the September number of Our Little
Ones. Russell Pub Co., Boston.
superb abertype portrait of General
Grant, from life-photograph, will be bound
In as supplement to the September Wide
Awake. and will be accompanied by peculiar
ly interesting article, containing personal rem
inseences, by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont.
The death of Mrs. Helen Hunt jackson, bet
gives special interest to two connected STORIES
among the last of her literary work, which will
be published IN the October and November
numbers of Wide Awake.
The September Outing brings the usual store
of good things, welcome alike to the general
reader and the lover of outdoor sports and
pastimes. Mr.. Arlo Bates contributes very
readable sketch of Isle au Haut, in Penohscot
bay, the serials "Loye--or a Name," and "a
Modern Tramp are continued, and there are
number of illustrated papers, the irst on
The Buffalo Meeting of the L. A. W" The
monthly record is particularly full, and num-
Der Of interesting topics are discussed in the
editorial department and Outing Club. The
Wheelman Co., 115 fremont street, Boston.
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages is
one of the most curious episodes in the history
of mankind, whole villages, towns, and COM
munities being seized with an irresistible i'm
pulse to dance and leap about, and to wander
up and down the whole of Europe, communi-
eating their frenzy to the people wherever they
wandered. The symptoms of this strange dis
order. and the mad antics of its victims are
vividly portrayed by j. +. c. IIecker NJ. d..
from contemporary annals. No. - of the
''Humboldt Library of Science" }. Fitzger-
aid, Publisher, 1893 Pearl St. New York Price
10 cents, post free.
The numbers of The Living Age for August
10th and 22d contain The Eectress Sophia
Quarterly; Winfred, Countess of Nthsdaill.
Scottish; The Work of Victor Hugo, by AL
gernon Charles Swinburne, A Swain of Ar
cady, by Augustus Jessopp, and Parliamentary
Manners. Nineteenth Century; Life in Pata-
gona Gentleman's; Eugene Bodchon; a Re
publican of 1880. and Samuel Foote the Eng
ish Aristophanes. Temple Bar; Marlborough,
Macmillan An Unknown Colony, Blackwood
A Chinese Ascot. Cornhill; An Actress's Love
Letters, and A Maori Last Day St. James
The Poet of Elegy, Spectator; with instalments
of "A House Divided Against ITSELF For
tunes Wheel The Great Keinplatz Expert
ment," and poetry.
ID. Lothrop Il Co., have published a timely
little work entitled ''Wortis of Our Hero" a
compilation of extracts made from the letters.
conversations. and correspondence of gen.
Grant. It comes when everything relating to
the Oead hero is eagerly sought for and read.
and when anything which sheds added light
upon his character as public man or private
citizen is of peculiar value. The second edi-
ton, now ready, contains In addition sixteen
pages of additional matter, consisting of per-
S0nal "reminiscences of Gen. Grant, prepared
expressly for the volume by Jessie Benton Ere
mont. Mrs. Fremont enjoyed for years the in
timate personal friendship Of Gen. Grant, and
this fact gives to what she here says real i'm
portance and interest. The frontspjcce is
an tACtlltul pOllfull OF ICu. NfinI.
Funk 4 Wasnalls Q0-12 Dey Street, New
York. have in press for issue in few days,
Nv hat the Temperance Century has Made
Certain. by Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts, which
will give in compact and inexpensive form
the facts and lessons Of the first century of the
temperance conflict lust closing preceded by a
record Of the random shots at the decanter
made III earlier centuries, BY solomon, Homer,
Buddha, MOhammed, Shakespeare and others)
with symposium of suggestions for the future
from living leaders, including Neal Dow. DIR.
Cuyler, Mes>rs Willard, President Seelye. JOS
eph Cook. J. \. Stearns DIR. Babcock. DR.. j
Q. Peck. DR.. Miner, Gen. Fisk, Geo. W. Balm
Geo, W. Bungay, Rev. II. W. Conant, Mrs.
Woodbridge, Mrs, Chaplin. Mrs. Buell.. and
scores Of others, who are permitted to give.
party" movement for or against, and also Of
other living issues related to temperance. 1t
will be issued in paper at 30 cts, and in cloth
at Sl.00.
Or. w. I. Barnard has the lead in the sep
tember Popular Science Monthly" and opens
an able and elaborate discussion on The Rea-
tion> Of Railway Managers ana Employees" "
This is an interesting branch of the great labor
question. and presents many of its problems in
a light especially favorable for critical study
The paper is very important. DR.. W. G.
Thompson considers THE Present Aspect of
Medical Elucaton." and gives much informl-
ton and many valuable suggestions upon the
subject. The "Insert Fertilization of Flowers
is an extremely interesting and beautifully ii,
Illustrated article by the German botanist Beh.
rens. and is full of nice points on this curious
topic. No man in this country-perhaps nc
man of this age-S better qualified than Pro
fessor f. ID. Cope to treat of The "Origin OF
Man and the other NelteLlales. as Il state
ment of just how that subject stands to-day, his
illustrated paper is invaluable DR.. Mary Put
nam-Jacobi concludes her essay, AN Expert
ment in Primary Education" in The present
number. 1t is practice with her own child
and is full Of originality. The Fauna of the
Sea-shore. )" by Moseev; DR.. Brehm's .'Siberia
and the EXiles": "lIow Spelling damages the
Mind by +. A. Fernald, are readable articles
while that by Professor Langley on Sunlight
and the Earlh's Atmosphere is a brilliant and
striking performance. DR.. Ray Lancaster makes
report on The Recent Progress in Biology;
}. G. Frazer eXpounds The Primitive Ghost
and his Relations" and Mascart contributes 6
most interesting article on The Physiology OF
Coors." A sketch and portrait are given OF
the celebrated African explorer, DR.. Gustav
Nachtisal. New York: d. Appleton \ GO
Fifty cents number s. year.
American Ships the Leading Issue
The first contest in the 10Th Congress will b,
upon the effort to force free foreign ships into
American trade. The ship question involve.
the whole issue of protection 10 industry. The
ship is the concentrated exhibit of all the in
.luStrieS Ihern is moi Liu.. ulaLn from unelI.