The Republican journal., 1886-07-22
Literary News and Notes.

North's Philadelphia Musical journal for
July contains the usual quotas of choice music
and literature
The Pansy for July has new, cool tinted
summer Dress giving the exterior an attractive
appearance while its contents are also attrac-
tive. "Pansies for thoughts" is its motto. ID.
lothrop X Co., Boston,
George Makepeace Towc has Just completed
Young Peoples History of Ireland as a
companion volume TO his recently published
Young Peoples History of England" The
Irish history will contain an Introduction by
John Boyle O'keiy, and will be published in
the early autumn by Lee and shepard.
DR.. a. f. BlaisdeIl, author of the popular
physiological textbooks, "Our Bodies" How
to Keep Well" and THE ChiIl's Book of
lleath,' has revised and Lee and Shepard
have just published, ''OutincS for the Study of
English Classics" which has been very rcli-
able practical guide to English literature for
teachers and rcchri>tcncd it ''Study of the
English Classics'
The Bangor Historical Magazine for Nav has
Mount Desert Island; incorporation of the
Town Of Mount Desert; Incorporation of the
Town of Eden; Incorporation of the Town of
fremont; Maine Central Railroad Co., and its
system; Deer Island Papers; Incorporation of
the Town of Deer Isle; PublishmentS on Bar
cor Records; surveyor of Eastern Lands.
The last information from the globe girlling
Whcelmml, Thomas Stevens, has Just reached
the editor of Outing. dated Con>tantinoplc,
June 10th. The despatch states that he arrived
there tine day before. and intended sailing for
India on the twcnty-third of June. lie was
held nineteen days Il prisoner i'm Atghanistan.
when only ten days from Calcutta, and could
easily have made his goal had the English mill
tary authorities not had strong reasons for not
letting him behind the scenes on the British
Frontier.
Tirknor Il CO.,. Boston, have published ~
Moonlight Boy" a new novel hy the author of
'''The Story of a Country Town" The remark
able success of Mr.. Howe, preceding novels,
portraying with intense vigor the pathos and
humor of the great West, gives adequate rc;l-
son for promising great run for this new and
brilliant story. The enthusiastic approval of
W. u. IIowell~ and Mark Twain. and many
other prominent critics, and of the saturday
Review, and other transatlantic authorities.
welcomed the first Of IIowcs books and it can-
not be loubtyd that similar favorable rcceI-
ton. and sale reaching up into the five fig
urr>, will welcome ~ Moonlight Boy" his
crowning work, on which the author has been
engaged for two wears.
The July Outing has more than eighty illus
trations. and the following attractive table of
contents: Ranch Life and Game Shooting in
the West, N.,-'l'hc Last of the Elk BY Thco-
dore Roosevelt illustrated. The History of
American Yachting. III. BY Capt. Coffin. H.
u>trated. The Sunset Land. \ Tale of Rocky
Mountain Adventure, IL. BY Capt. Edward
kcmcyS, Jr. Illustrated. After Geronimo. v
BY Lieut.. John Bigtlow, Jr. Illustrated
Around the World on Bicycle X. BY Thom-
IL Stevens. illustrated. The Last Voyage of
the Surprise, III, Illustrated Famous Oars
men of the Tyne. Aaron Watson. Illustrated
The Matterhorn. Edward Wympcr IIh,tra-
ted The departments are, Is usual, full and
complctr. - per year. Outing co.. no Mas
>au street, New York.
Rev. Charles +. ThWing, of Cambridge. with
The as~istaure Of his wife, has just completed
an original and deeply interesting work. Tie
Family; AN Historical and Social study" 1t
ccnNer> the Prehistoric Family; The Family
am ,n@ the Greeks, Romans and Jews; The
FaniIy-thc First Christian Centuries and the
Middle Ages; The Family and the Church,
Catholic and Protestant; The Family as an In-
Ntitution, Divine and Human The Family As Il
Basis of Social Orders The Family and its In
diviluaI Members; The Family and Property;
The Family a> Il social Institution; The Fami-
ly Destroyer Divorce: The Family and the
Divorce Laws Of tile nited States and Europe
The work i the first historical and philo>opIi-
"H study yupon the important subject of divorce,
and other social problems. 1t will hc PUBLISH
Cd by Lee and ~hcpar,l