The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-03-26
Literature.

Bishop OF Carlisle; Prof. Lord Rayeigh, of |
Cambridge; Prof. Balfour Stewart, of Owens |
College; William Crookes, Alfred r. Wallace,
aud Prof. w. f. Barrett, of the Royal College |
of Science Dublin, met and organized the So
ciety for Psychical Research. In published |
circular, it set forth as its professed aims and |
objects: To examine the nature and extent
of any influence which may be exerted by one
MIND upon another, apart from any recognized |
mode of perception the study of hypnotsm,
mesmeric trance. clairvoyance. and allied phe-
nomena; q careful investigation of data re-
gardlng apparitions and AN inquiry into the
phenomena commonly called Spiritual. MIR. |
Hovey's volume is based upon the records of |
the Society upon this particular branch of psy-
chieal investigation, and largely made up of |
experiments. which are very lucdy explained, |
and oftentimes with the aid of diagrams. 1t is
believed that the book sutfices to establish |
Mind-Reading as a fact; though of this, of |
course, every reader must judge for himself. |
Incidentally, the author speaks of mesmerism |
and cairvoyance. Mr.. Hovey is pleasantly re-
membered by many editor of the Boston |
Transcript and later of The Budget, and to |
them nothing need be said of the grace and fin |
ish of his writings, his scholarly tastes and crit
ical abilities. The new circle of readers to
which this volume will introduce him will find
Mr.. Hovey painstaking editor. and something
more. He has certainly produced very inter-
esting as well as valuable book. Cloth, illus
trated, $1.25. Lee Il Sheperd, publishers Bos-
ton.
WORKING PEoPLEAND THEIR EMPLOYERS.
BY Washington GLADDEN.. The author Of this
work is widely known as spirited writer. He
grapples here with one of the difficult and vital
problems of the times. He is, however, at
home with his theme. He says: 1.-The greater
part of my life has been spent among working
people, in working with them, or in working
for them Sure of his ''audience," be uses
plain and forcible words. both to employer,
and employees. The questions discussed Dy
him so sensibly and practically, are among the
most important and pressing involved in what
is called 1.-The Labor Question: The book
ought to have wide circulation. 1t cannot
fail to do good A New Editon.] Published
in Funk 4 Wagnalls 10 and II Dey Street. n.
| " Standard Library. Paper, 25 cents.
NOTES.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont's souvenir" in
| the Chautauqua Readings of the April Wide
| Awake ahounds with "reminiscences of Mrs
| Madison, the wife of President Madison, and
of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.
| hitherto unpublished portrait of Mr.. Lin
coln taken just before he became President is
the frontispece feature of the April Harpers.
| 1t is accompanied by a poem, written by W. p.
Garrison, Esq. a son of VIM. Lloyd Garrison
and namesake of Wendell Phillips, on The
| Vision of Abraham Lincoln, April II, 1865
| The extension of our railway system towards
| and into Mexico has been one of the most re-
markable developments of recent years. 4
paper. along the Rio Grande" =" by Mr.. Sylyes-
ter Baxter, in the April Harper's, gives an en-
tertaining sketch of that country before and
| during the making of the railway there. and
many illustrations by W. l.. Metcalf add to its
| interest.
| Charles Egberf Craddock's serial story now
publishing in Wide Awake, "pown the RAJ
vine," is eonsidt ed by critics and by the au-
thor and cher friends, as among her most inl-
portant productions. The story is very popu-
lar with readers in general because of its swift
| dramatic movement; and its characters, each
and all, are Tennessee mountain people, and
the dialect is particularly picturesque and hui
| morous.
! Professor A. b. Palmer, in Wide Awake,
| discussing the action of alcohol upon the lungs,
declares there are no >tatstics-no recorded OBJ
| servationS and comparison of numbers of cases
| which afford the slightest indication that the
use of alcohol in any form or quantity prevents
| consumption. 1t grows more and more difficult
| to find really unassailabe excuses for liquor
| drinking. The con>umption-cure theory has
had a long service. and now that it has been an
INITIATED it will be hard for the topers to devise
| one is useful
The deyotee of the rod and line will be touhly
interested in the April IIarper's. which con-
tains charming full page illustration bv Al
| fred Parsons of Wordsworh's sonnet written
on blank leaf of copy Of THE Complete
Angler" and an interesting paper on "Fly-tish-
ing" by Mr. II. P. Wells, an authority on the
| subject, with a fine illustration of an eight
| pound brook trout and number of diagrams
showing how to hold the rod and 80 east. A
book on the same >ubjecl 10y this writer is in
| press by Messrs. Harper Il Brothers
| With the current issue the Maine Historical
and Genealogical Recorder enters upon its sec
ond volume The opening article is sketch of
the career of Col Aexander Rigby (wih por-
trait) and his connection with Maine as propri-
etor of the Plough Patent and President of the
Province of Iygonia W. II. Smith gives the
| stnealogy of the Scott Family of Pttston. The
| Records of the First Congregational Church in
| Scarborough, and The Early Settler, of Weld
are continued. There are Notes on the Skill
lings Family, compiled by WIN. b. Lapham.
and other matter Of interest, with the various
| departments Quarterly. 50 per annum. s. NJ.
| Watson, publisher, Portland.
| The numbers Of The Living Age for March
| l4th and 2lst contain, 4 Word more about
America by Matthew Arnold, Nineteenth Cen
| tury; Gain>borough, National Review; Jane
Austen at Home, The Upper Engadue in
| Winter, and The American Audience, Fort
nightly; The Crofter Problem and NJ. Sardous
| Theodore, Contemporary; Experts IN Hand
| writing and De Banana, Cornhill; A Week
| with George Eliot and A Crmean Snow
| storm, temple bar, A French HuguenOt VII
age In Germany Boys in the Chrysali., Kill
| ma-njaro, and Age and its Consequences,
| Spectator: The Life of the Alahdi, Telegraph;
| with instruments of "A House Divided Against
| ITSELF" and 'Plan Frances Mowbray," and
| poetry.
| The Bay State Monthly for March has IA rich
table of contents, and is finely illustrated
There are three steel plate engravings-por-
traits of the well-known book publishers.
Messrs. Lee 4 Shepard and of the public
spirited merchant and manufacturer of Fitch
burg, Hon. Rodney Wallace. Interesting
sketches are given of the lives of these gentle
| men. Illustrated papers, giving the report of
the battle of Shiloh from the memoranda and
| charts of Major-Generu Lew Wallace bringing
out his differences in statement OF facts and in
| Judgment, from those of General Grant, and
| defending himself from the criticisms of the
latter, and also of the city of Fitchburg add to
| the interest of this number. There is an able
| paper upon 1.-The Past and Future of Goldn
and another on ''National Bank Failures with
continued stories. This magazine well merits
its growing patronage. John n, McClintock E