The Republican journal., 1885-10-22
Literary News and Notes.

The Popular Science News, Boston, always
an excellent publication, shows steady i'm
provement. Each number contains something
of practical value.
Some of Emerson's letters to Carlyle and
Carlyle. letters to the Concord Philosopher
have been stolen, and Emerson's family warn
the public against purchasing any of them.
The favorlte Ladies Floral Cabinet contains
a store Of good things and the October number
is richly freighted. The amateur forcuIturst
and the housekeeper will find this magazine iu-
valuable. Ladies' Floral Cabinet Co., % Vesey
street, New York.
A dainty volume called s'Success in Life," by
Canon Farrar, the celebrated English preacher
now visiting this country, Is nearly ready by
Cupples, Upham & Co. 1t will be tastefully
gotten up in the parchment paper style, and
prefaced with brief biography of Canon Far
rar, giving matter new to American readers.
The October number of The Bay State Month
ly contains fine steel-plate portrait and bio
graphical sketch of Hon. W. W. Crapo, fine
y illustrated article on the city of Holyoke, the
last portrait of Daniel Webster and many artl-
cles of historical and general interest. This
magazine is improving in all its departments.
Bay State Monthly Co., 43 Milk street, Boston.
The New Moon, a bright little magazine
printed at Lowell, Mass, Is now in the fifth
year of its existence. Like every thing about
Lowell, it looks thrifty and sensible, and is
chock-ful of reading matter suited to all tastes
dealer in the United States and Canada at ten
cents copy, and its subscription price is only
one dollar year.
The October number of the United Service
Magazine opens with an article on '1he Battles
of Nashville" by Col. A. &. Bracket, Third
U. S. Cavalry. Other articles of interest are
"Recollections of 1861" 'National Encamp-
| ments' and New York at the Mercy of
Foe" The serial. are continued and the de-
partments well filled. T. III. S. Hamersly, pub
lsher S35 Broadway, New York.
The four magazines published by d. Lothrop
& Co., Boston, are all worthy of the highest
commentator: Wide Awake Is beautifully
Illustrated, notably sensible and practical, and
at the same time wonderfully entertaining.
The Pansy is equally charming and suitable for
| weekday and Sunday reading. Our Little
Men and " omen is most admirable for the
youngest readers. Babyland never fails to
carry delight to the babies and rest to the
mammas.
One of the last stories of II. H.''-"The
Captain of the Heather Belf"-will appear In
the November Harper's. The same number
will include a story by f. Anstey, the author
of ''Vice Versa" and The Tinted Venus"
called "The Singular Case Of Mr.. Samuel
Spoolin," with illustrations by Reinhart.
Among the poems will be Summers Decay"
by Nora Perry, illustrated with full-page
picture by c. \. Turner, and others by Louise
Chandler Moulton and Frances l.. Mace
General Grants paper on Chattanooga will
be printed in the November Century. 1t takes
up the writer's military career at Ncksburg
and follows the campaign of Chattanooga from
the beginning of his connection with 1t. The
| motives and conduct OF the campaign are said
to be set before the reader fully and clearly,
and with much personal interest. His Wilder
ness article, which is to follow soon, is a de-
dorncss campaign, by which General Grant
meant the movement of all the Unlou armies
begun in May, 1864.
Mrs. Burton Harrison's clever ''Bric-a-Brac
Stories, published BY the scribners, is the first
book by an American author issued by Ameri-
| can publishers, to be completely illustrated by
Walter Crane, the famous Eng lsh artist. Be-
side the twenty-four quaint full-page pictures
Mir. Crane has furnished a most original and
striking design for the cover, In which the
articles of bric-a-brac. which suggest the tales
are skillfuliy displayed. Thi, cover, in fact, is
| altogethcra novelty In American book-making; ;
and how elaborate and rich are the Oriental
colorings may be intimated from the fact that
the binding of every volume undergoes twenty
four separate prlntings in color.
The Brooklyn magazine with its October
number open. new volume with a handsome
new cover, and an excellent table Of contents
The first chapters are given Of Mrs. Dahlgren's
| new novel Lights and Shadows OF a Life -
there is a notable discussion on the topic Has
America Need of Westminster Abbey the
editor of the Brooklyn Eagle writes of Jour
| nasm In Brooklyn" Mrs. Lisle Lester auspic-
iously opens her series of papers on the "The
| Lives and Homes of American Actors" by a
description of Edwin Booth as an actor, and
| as he appears and acts when around the home
circle, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's "Monthly
| Talk" is devoted to useful and practical con-
| sideraion of model Kitchen two poems
are given by William II. Hayne and Mrs
| Celeste Winslow, and these attractions are fol-
lowed by the usual well-flled departments.
A writer in the forthcoming (November)
| Harpers, treating Of The Defence of our
Sea-ports,' points out that In nine of our sea-
| board cities alone property valued at So ,322
| 100000 Is exposed 10 destruction in case Of
| war, because of our lack of sea-coast defences
adequate to cope with the navies of the fighting
| powers. He sketches the remarkable develop
ment of ordnance and armor since our war,
stimulated in large measure by Its lessons, but
| in which we have had no part. The new Eng
| llsh guns throw a shot of 2000 pounds, penetra-
| ting 80 inches of iron at a distance OF thous-
| and yards. and have an effective range of six
miles. The writer urges that immediate pro-
| vision should be made for an extensive torpedo
| outfit, for gun factories capable of producing
| the modern guns, and for general system Of
coast defence, at an expenditure of ten mill
| ions year for six or seven years. 1t is an
nounced that this paper will be followed dur
| ing next year in Harper's by careful study Of
| THE British Navy" by Sir Edward Reed, and
| 10y paper on krupp's gun factory, both fully
| illustrated.
| Peterson's Magazine for November is on our
| table-ahead, as usual, of all, the other lady's
! books. 1t has charming stee-plate, "a
| Feather In Her Cap" mammoth colored
fashion-plate, some fifty other illustrations, and
! several original stories Of unusual power,
| written by Mrs. A. S. Stephens, Frank Lee
| Benedict, etc How the publisher can afford to
/ keep improving the magazine. as he does, Is a
| standing wonder. With this number appears
! the Prospectus for next year. 1t promises
even better things, and peterson" always
| keeps his promises. There will be over 1900
| printed pages, IA 4steel-eDgravings, - mammoth
coored steel fashion-plates, from 800 to 900
wood-cuts, six copyright novelets, one hundred
smaller original stories, etc. In short, the
magazine will continue to be, as heretofore,
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