The Republican journal., 1888-05-03

| Ahtens Cycopeda of Universal Literature has
reached Vol. Q, and the possessors of these neat
| and useful volumes will be eager for the compile
tion OF the work. The current volume covers the
| names from Geibel to Guernsey. A sketch of each
author is given, with extracts from their writings.
John b. Alden, publisher, New York.
Bar Ilarbor and Mount Desert Island is the title
of an attractive illustrated pamphlet by DR.. W. B.
Lapham, of Augusta, in which the varied features
OF our great summer resort are attractivey por-
trayed by pen and pencil. An interesting histori-
cal sketch of the island is given, and the illustra-
tions include one of Stanwood Cottage, the sum-
mer house of Hon. James G. Blaine
Alike unique and attractive is an advertising
pamphlet received from Sterling Elliott, the tool.
maker of Newton, Mass, bearing the legend;
True Inwariness, by an Honest Man" Mr.. FL
lott says
shops of great men oft remind us
We may make our own unique,
And departing leave behind us
Roofs which never had leak,
Business which, perhaps another,
Working in the self same line
Some forlorn and bankrupt brother,
Seeing, shall take down his sign.
Then follow preface, illustrations and adver-
tising which will repay the curious to look over
as well a5 those who may have an eye TO business
Writing for The Press, Manual for Editors,
Reporters and Correspondents, by Robert Luce,
one of the editors of The Writer ought to be on
every editors desk and in the hands of every
writer for the press. Even those who 'know it
all" or think they do-which is not the same thing
by any means-Wil find perusal of this pamph
let both pleasant and profitable. If the great army
of correspondents would commit its lessons to
memory, and heed them, weary editors would in
woke blessings on the head of the author. send %
cents to The Writer Publishing Company, Boston,
and secure a copy.
"Trusts," The Rcrcnt Combinations in Trade:
Their Character, Legality and Mode of Organiza
ton, and the Rights, Duties and Liabilities of
their Managers and Certificate holders is the title
of a neatly printed pamphlet in imitation leather
covers by William W, Cook, of the New York
bar, author of ~ Treatise on the Law of stock
and Stockholdcls.' 1t contains the standard oil
and sugar trust agreements and the results of the
New York investigations The author says: "Thc
same national characteristics which sustained
jackson III his overthrow of the Old United States
Bank can be relied upon to deal with the modern
trust There can he compromise between Il
monopoly and an Anglo Saxon people, They
have never existed together l.. X. Strouse 4
Co., Law Publishers, % Nassau street, New York.
Price, 10 cents.
Expectation Corner: or, "Is Your Door Open?'
by l.. 5. Elliott, in a little story of religion, in
srucion, fervently and rcvercntly told. 1t is pub
lishcd by John Ireland, 1883 Broadway, New York.
Price 10 cents.
"Chcap Books and Good Books" by Branler
Matthews, is revision and anpiication of an
ccmbcr, lss1; ami of an address delivered before
The Congregational Club of New York ON the
evening of February 2Oth, ISSS, and published in
the Christian Union of March 18th, l>-s. 1t is at.
tractlvciy printed and is published by The .imefi.
can Copyright League.
America \ Journal of To-Day, is the title of a
new paper To be published every saturday by The
American Publishing Company, If Chicago. The
contributors to the first number include james
Russell Lowell, Frank X. stockton, Eugene Field,
Hawthorne, W. Clark Russell and many others,
The paper is 'evoted to the advancement of dis
tinctvcly American ideas and the strengthening
and prescr ing of American industries, and evi-
IDENTITY means to deserve success. Single numbers,
10 cents S@.1o per year, in advance.