The Republican journal., 1885-09-24
Literary News and Notes.

Kate Greenaway's Christmas book this year
will be called "Marigold Garden
The Forest and Stream Publishing Company
announce for immediate publication ''Small
Yachts an eaboratey illustrated Quarto, by
| c. p. Kuhnardt.
Gen. Grants third paper in The Century
war series, description of the battle of Chat
tanooga, will appear in the November Century.
The Wilderness article will be printed in one
of the Winter numbers.
| The Brooklyn Magazine will celebrate its
entrance upon its second year of publication by
appearing in new and handsome cover with
the October number, from special design by
| leading New York artist
Lieut.. kell, Executive Officer of the Alabama,
and DR.. Brown, Surgeon Of the kearsage, have
written accounts of the famous fight between
those two vessels, and the articles will appear
in an early number of The Century.
| The new novel which Mr. W. d. Howens is
writing for The Century will be in Il lighter
vein than The Rise of silas Lapham." 1t
treats of a simple-souled, pure-heared country
youth, who comes to Boston with a trashy
| poem he has written, and with no other visible
means of support Some Of the characters in
| ''SiIas Lapham' will reappear III the new serial.
Mr.. Howells has written a story Tor St. Nicho-
las called "Christmas Every Day" for which
his little daughter has furnished humorous
| illustrations.
Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren, author of the sue
| cessful novel Her Washington Winter" and
/ other works, has completed Il new novel enti-
tied Lights and Shadows of Life" which will
appear in The Brooklyn Magazine. the first
InstaImcnt to be published in the October
number. Mrs. Dahgren's new work, which is
described as Southern tale of great beauty and
power is pronounced by all who have read the
MS to be the most perfect piece of literary
work she has yet accomplished. and which
promises to materially add TO her reputation as
a writer of fiction.
Mr. Edmund Hudson, The husband and liter
AIRY executor of Mary Clemmer, viii soon
publish, through Ticknor 4 Co., a new and
enlarged edition of her "Oulines of Men,
| Women and Things" embracing several of
her later articles and sketches, to be entitled
simply Men, Women and Things; new edi-
tions of the novel 'll- Two Wives and Poems
of Life and Nature" and volume containing,
| beside a portrait of Mary Clemmer, sketch of
her work and character, by Mr.. Hudson. and
| several tributes from friends. to be called AN
| American Woman; Her Life and Work. The
four books will be uniform in size and style
and the last mentioned which will be practi-
cally biography, Will interest ali who are in
terested in woman's progress. whether they
have read any Of the other volumes or not.
The October number of the North American
Review contains twrnty-three articles by as
many different contributCrs-among whom are
an English Cardinal an American Admiral
| two American Major-Generais, two American
| eX-Ministers to European Courts, an American
Artist, a n. y. Asscmbyman, an eX-Uuitcd
States Senator the Mayor OF New York, an
| eX-Goyernor of New York. two distinguished
| American Men of Letters, and a famous Amer
lean Financier-Manning, Ammen. Ben. But
| Ter, Fitz John Porter, Eiihu b. Washburnt
VIM. Waldorf Astor, (hjS first appearance in
ltterature). j. b. Eu>ti>, Of Louisiana VIM. K.
l'ra"e, ol New ljin, noocorc Roosevelt, ilo-
ratio seymour, +. z. Nhipplr, Charles T.
Congdon, Dormau Is Eaton, and some other,
less known. There is also very rharacteri>-
tic private letter from Gen. Grant to biz
father, written from ,liliken'> Bend. just wv,
days before lie started in the Nicksburgn Cam
paign. It i contributed by Col Fred Grant.
The principal engraving on steel in Peter
sons for October, The Star of the Night j. It
portrait OF one of the lovriest of women. and