The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-01-29
Literary News and Notes.

| Literary News and Notes.
The Florida Times Union illustrated Annua
and Year Book of Florida for 1885 Is the mos
tasteful well as useful publication of the
kind that has come to our table the present sea
son, and is a credit to the management of ou
Jacksonville contemporary.
Mr.. Blaine will not have his second volume
| of Twenty Years in Congress- completed un
| til about the first OF next MAY. He is at pres
ent engaged upon the reconstruction perioC
which followed the rebellion. His next book
it has been said, will be "a history Of American
politics from 1888 to 1915.
The Midwinter february Century contains
an article by DR.. W. George Beers, of Montre-
| al, on Canada as Winter Resort" profusey
| Illustrated by Henry Sandman, with views OF
tobogganing, curling, racing on snow-shoes
etc. The Montreal carnival will give this paper
an especial timeliness.
| The February St. Nicholas contains a new
| versitied chronology of the soveregns Of Eng
| land, by Gail Hamilton, entitled "Engsh
| Kings in Nutshell" 1t is intended as an aid
| to the memory for boys and girls. In this Feb
ruary number also appears the first chapters of
E. 2. Roe's new story, "Driven Back to Eden
Mr.. Geo. VIM. Curtis suggests as to ''woman's
| rights" that there is one right of woman
which the most unreasonable conservatism will
| not deny, and that is the right of earning her
own living by her own industry and skill
This is apropos of the women's exhibit al New
Orleans, which he discussed In the February
Harpers.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, of w ashington has a
paper describing The Lick Observatory of
California;" with illustrations, in the February
Harper's. The story of the making of the
great telescope, for which the observatory was
built, and that of the life Of the California
millionaire who gave it, belong to the truth
which is more interesting than fiction.
Charles Dudley Warmers editorial preface,
which has become an interesting feature of the
Editors Drawer in lIarper's Magazine, men
tions in the February Number curious feature
of the Elmira Retormatory in New York State,
where a class III Casuistry or Practical Morality
is held among the convicts every Sunday. He
tells an amusing story of one Of the discussions
on the topic is honesty the best poIicy?"
VIM. Hanley Smith, of Peoria, H., is the al-
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l
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| Interested
In the January number of the North American
Review, the question, "How shall the Presiden
be elected?' is ably treated by five happil,
chosen writers, viz, two United States Senators