The Republican journal., 1886-12-02


been admitted as evidence before the committee
of the United States Senate, which is nvesti-
eating the subject.
A portrait of Timothy Dwight, the new
president of Yale college, is published in the
Book Buyer for November The publishers
offer this summary of American and foreign
literature with the new Scribner's magazine
for the year 1887, for $40.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow is preparing articles
for both the Christmas and New Years Wide
Awake: "Longfcllow'S Boyhood" and "Long-
fellow with the Children giving hitherto un-
published letters of the poet. The price of
this excellent magazine has been reduced from
So a year to $40.
The "History of the Methodism of Maine,"
by the Rev. Stephen Allen, d. D., of Win
throp, is rapidly approaching completion and
| will 90 to press sometime during the coming
winter. 1t will be fully illustrated with por-
traits of many of the former distinguished
| clergymen and laymen of that denomination in
this state.
W. S. Lilly, one of the foremost philosophical
thinkers and writers of England, has prepared
| for the December number of The Forum an
article which is likely to command wide atten-
ton, on The Present Outlook for Christianitv"
lie holds that the belief of Chrstendom stands
absolutely intact and unassaablc from the
| point of view of science.
The December st. Nicholas is made espe-
cially attractive as the Christmas number. 1t
contains the first part of new Sea-story by
| Frank X. Stockton. "A Fortunate Opening,''
| which is something after the manner of the
authors The Casting Away Of Mrs. Lecks
and Mrs. Aleshino" and also the first part of
short serial by Mrs. Burnett.
The distinctly literary flavor If the forth
| coming Scribner's Magazine will be maintained
| by the editors and publishers very carefully,
while, on the other hand, the periodical will
be kept free from that class of articles which
| makes the specific gravity of a magazine too
formidable for the general reading public. The
| illustrated matter will leave nothing to be de-
sired.
A novel feature Of Pansy for 1887 will be
story by eleven different authors. The editor
| will furnish a serial to run through the year,
Faye Huntington will write of flowers and
plants, Rev. {. NJ. Livingston will contribute
stories of discoveries, inventions and famous
events, and X. NJ. Alden will direct a new de-
partment of church, Sunday school and mis-
| SiOnarY news
The New Moon for November is on our table
-\S usual. il contains fine list Of Short stories,
| chOte selections. and many racy comments on
current topics. The departments are all well
| conducted and are highly interesting; while the
| moral tone is unc Xceptionable and the mcchan-
! lcal execution is almost fullteSS. The maga-
zine is published at Lowell Mass, at the low
price OF one dollar year, or ten cents copy.
Petcr>on'> Magazine for December has two
| splendid steel engravings- one ''Meadow-
| sweet, and title page with Il beautiful girls
| race. lhere Is also mammoth colored fashion,
| plate, likewise engraved on steel, and colored
| by hand--a ''perfect love of a thing" as the
| ladies would say. Still more. there is a coorcd
| pattern, in Bcrn-work such as would sell for
| fifty cents, but which is given, gratis, to sub
| Srriber>, for a thrstmas-gift. Beside these.
| there are some fifty Wootl-cutS of fashion, en-
| If.rh .Illtn ,aJ
| contents more than maintain the long-cStabliSh-
| cd reputation Of ''PcirrSon" as giving the best
| original stories.
santa Claus Riddle. by Katherine Lee Bates
| promises to attain popularity hardly second
TO Moore'S ''Twas the Night before Christmas"
| The same happy spirit pervades it, and little
readers will be as deeply interested in the story
| of how Cury-Pate caught Santa Claus at his
| Christmas Stocking-tilling work, AZ they ever
| were in the description of the famous team of
| Saint Nicholas. The sixteen illustrations in
color are rapta!y done. and will afford infinite
| delight to the babies who have not vet mastered
the mysteries of the alphabet, but who can
| read pictures" a. well as the wi>est papaS and
| namma>. u. Lothrop 4 Co., Boston, publish
cr> Price % cents.
Household Notes and Queries, \ Family
| Reference Book. BY the Wise Backbir.l. is Il
| volume which will have special interest for
| boys and girls from the fact that it answers
| Iy asked in every household and which are not
| always satisfactorily answered. They are upon
| almost every conceivable subject the care of
| pets; out and indoor sports and amusemcnts;
| The best ways of doing innumerabe things;
| directions for making useful and ornamental
articles: the selection of holiday gifts: recipes
| for making perfumes, taking out stains. for the
| care OF mosquito bites, etc.; hints on etiquette
| suggestions is to dress. and other things which
| the reader will lind out for herself or himself.
f,.,.I IL,
| and 50 clearly that even the Youngest reader
| Will understand it. 1t is a book which will he
| consulted daily in every household where it
| finds place. and it should find place in every
| household. ID. Lothrop 4 Co. Boston, pub
| fishers. Price 60 cents.
The Popular Science Monthly for December
| has the following table of contents Science
| and Theology, by John Burroughs; Geological
| Supcr>ition>, by Felix l.. Oswald, NJ. d.: The
| Higher Education of Woman. by Mrs. +. Lynn
| Linton; Energy i'll Plant-CellS, by Professor L.
| H.. Mcbride. (illu>trated); Geology Of the
Atlantic Ocean, ii. by Sir William Dawson;
| The new Requi>itionS for Admission at Harvard
| College, by Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke;
| Life in the South-Sea Islands, by Captain
| Cyprian Bridge, II. ~. Some Outlines from
| the History of Education, by Professor W. Il.
| Benedict, (concluded) The Physiology of At
| How to Warm our Houses, by +. y. Robbins;
| The Wings of Birds, by Professor w. III.
| Flower. +. Il. :; Measuring the EarthS sur
face, ulustrated) by Francisco SanSone; Sui
| Read; Sketch of NJ. .irago with portrait
Editors Table, The Lesson of Virgins Liter
any Notices, Popular Miscellany. Notes.
The Christmas Harper is a royal banquet of
refreshing variety, with sturdy staples, rare
novelties, and delicious tlainties worthy Of the
generous holiday saint. Everything is com
plete in itself, the serials bein. omitted from
Rns 10 t1,p +,
of The Boyhood Of Christ" by the author of
"Bcn-llur,' the llowells farce. The Mouse
Trap Gibson'> delightful Wood Notes" and
the bounteous departments Of confidential dis
course, of literary Judgment, and of overflow
ing humor, presided over by the gcnuses of
4. " Curtis. W. u. IIowellS. and {. ID. War
| ner. we are RECALLED with six short stories (four
of them beautifully illllstratc,D. and five illus
tratcd poems. OF the abundant cuts, twenty
five occupy full pages, and four are printed
separately on plate paper Notwithstanding
the unparalleled richness of this number, we
are assured by the publishers that it is only
Christmas form of the exalted standard which
VIII be uniformly maintained throughout the
year; and the magnificent prospectus detailing
the coming treasures gives splendid promise
| to the volume begun by this number.
"Lincoln as Soldier. Surveyor and Politcian'
Is the title of the second instalment of the
Authorized Life of Lincoln, which appears in
the December Censlry This portion of the
history contains 1ufthcr details of IincOlnS
Ilfe at New Salem; description of the voyage
OF The IaliSman; full account of Lincoln's
experiences in the Black Hawk War; Lincoln's
unsuccessful canvass for the Legislature; his
experiences as store keeper and postmaster as
well as surveyor: his subsequent legislative
experience; his first meeting with Stephen A.
Douglas; the description of the Bedam egis-
!ation in Illinois in lS3G-'37, in which the
youthful Lincoln took part; and the Lincoln
stone protest. The illustrations include among
other things, picture of the cabin where
I.incolns father died a portrait of Mention
Graham, the schoolmaster; a fac-simile of
Lncoln's exercise book a portrait of EbeneZer
Peek: the Indian chief, Black Hawk; the Hon.
o. II. Browning; Judge Stephen Il. Logan
Elijah 7. Lovcjoy; and the Hon. John j. Stuart.
There are also number of fac-Similes of in
tcreSfng documents, among them road-s,r-
vey in the autograph of Lincoln himself.
Around the World in Small Boat.
f. A. Cloudman, of Roundout. n. Y has