The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-05-31
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News and Notes.
+. Anstey, the author of Vice Versa" "Th
Tinted Venus" etc., contributes long humor
Gus story in his best vein to the June Wild
Awake.
Mary Bradford CrowninshietI. wife of Com
mander Crowninshield of the school shil
st. Mary'S, begins serial in the June Wild,
Awake-''Plucky Smals: His Story" tale o
two "W harf Rats and an L. :. Training Ship
The Lothrop Literature Prizes (ninetv-foul
in alD have awakened lively competition
among school people, scholars and teachers. al
over the country. $4,000 to he paid to success
full competitors. See Wide Awake for parti,.
uars. The new volume begins with the Jun,
number
Miss Frances f. Wizards "W oman in th,
Pulpit just issued by ID. Lothrop Company
is especially timely in view of the recent dis
cu>sion i'll regard to admitting women int,
church conferences. The subject is treated in
bright. logical. sensible manner that will inter
est readers on both sides of the question
The new work. The Poets of Maine" com
piled by Mr.. George b. Griffith, will be ready
for delivery to subscribers early in June. Ii
makes an octave volume of S64 pages. is elc
gantv printed and substantially bound. an,
contains specimens of the verse of over 400
writers who are natives of Maine or who hav,
resided in the State.
Scribner'> Magazine for June marks the be
ginning of the Very important series ON the
Building and Management of Railways. foI
which preparations have long been making. II
Is also an unusually strong number in its liter
aFE. fcatures-IIenry james. Thomas Bale,
Aldrich. Robert Louis Stevenson, ard Angus.
tine Birrell being among the contributors.
For little folks beginning to read there /,
nothing so good as Our Little Men and Women
published by u. Lothrop Company, Boston
The June number is before us and we can say
this from personal examination. 1t is mad,
especially for the Youngest readers and ha,
plenty of short stories and pretty ver>es--al
easy for the little ones to read and understand
1t costs but dollar a year. The publisher,
will send sample copy for ) cents-or of THEN
four magazines for - cents
The numbers of The Living Age for the
weeks ending May 18th and 26th contain kas-
par !iau>er. Quarterly; "reminiscences of Car
dinal Mazarn. Westminster: Islam and Civ liz
alton, Contemporary: HYMNS and Ilvmnals
and Among the Islands Of the south Pacific
Fiji. Blackwood; Marino Faiero. and Dickens
Characters and their Prototypes. Temple Bar
The Typographical Instinct in Animals, and
Ru>kin's Forge. Leisure Hour; Matthew Ar
mold, Reality and Romance. and The Cashier
ing of the Tin Soldier. Spectator: Old Naval
\
ber>': Mr.. Matthew Arnold'> Earliest Pullra-
ton. AthenIum: Scientific Progress in Elcmcn-
tary Schools. Nature: Death of Matthew Ar
mold. and Elements and Meta-ElementS. Times
with ''The Polruan Fcrrvboat' - The Hermit
of lie Croisic," and poetry.
Mr.. George kennan'- second illustrated! ~.
per in his Siberian series will appear in the
June Century under the title of "Plain> and
Prisons of Western Siberia" 1t will contain
a description of the writer's Inspection of the
forwarding prison at Tiumen, built to accom-
modate 800 prisoners. where. at the time of Mr..
kennanS visit, 1,i1 men and women We're i'm
priSoned. In rooms built to accommodate not
more than 30 men. 100 Were sleeping. II
hreathed as little as | could while there" says
Mr.. KEENAN,, "but every respiration seemed to
pollute my very soul, and became faint from
nausea and lack Of oxygen. 1t was like irving
to breathe in an underground hospital DRAIN
Mr.. kennan gives one good idea of the enor-
nous size of Siberia by stating hat its territory
would contain the United States. including Al
a>ka, with all of the States of Europe except
Russia. and there would still he 100000 square
miles to spare.
The Forum for May, Il larger edition of which
was called for in advance than had ever been
issued of any previous number. contains arli
c'es on the following wide range of public
questions: The Judiciary. Municipal Govnri-
ment. River and Harbo.' Bills. The Liquor
Traffic. The Railroads. The Public schools.
The Admission of Utah: and Of foreign qtie>-
tions. The Irish Problem. and the Temporal
Power of the Pope. Other articles are ''Ohjec-
tons TO High License" by Rev. DIR. Leonard
W. Bacon; What Shall the Public school
TearhT by Judge X. c. Pitman; ">team and
Its Rivals" by Prof. X. II. Thur>ton: and
The Pains of Fear by Eliza Lynn Linton
The growth of the Forum is significant III
dication of the taste of the American reading
public, which does not demand >en>ationa>m
but does desire the discussion of practical LIN
ing topics. The Forum is published at 253
Fifth Avenue. New York.
Among the living topics of the day which
will be discussed in the Forum for june are ::
THE Pending Tariff Discussion" by the Hon.
W. ID. Kelley. who makes Il review of Ameri-
can tariff legislation during the last hundrcd
years to show what disastrous effects the pass
age of the Mills bill would have: THE Negro
in Politics." by Senator Wade Hampton, of
south Carolina. who reviews the recon>truc-
ton period of politics in his state to show the
effects that Negro supremacy had there: "Rai!-
way Problems,' by senator j. +. Wilson. who
discusses the Government regulation Of rail
ways, and by Prof Arthur I. IIa,i'ey. who
shows that the remedy for railway strikes is 10
be found in the development of railway man
ayers. who are great leaders of men As we'll rs
great makers of dollars; Labor Troube>.' b>
Sayist, who makes plea for the universal
study Of the principals Of political economy:
''Family Economics" by Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe. who discusses the pecuniary obligations
OF Il man to his wife and daughters. The Forum
is now published from its new offices at 2:3
Fifth Avenue. y. y.
The Popular Science Monthly again offers in
its June number IA list of subjects and articles
which will command. as they deserve. the at
Of. t,l.
The opening article on 1.-The Surplus ReNe-
nue." is by the eminent economist. Edward At
kin>on, and suggests a way--a very simple way.
too-apparently overlooked by other cconon-
i>tS, of solving great problem of dealing with
the surplus. which does not involve any conflict
Of economic policy between the dominant par
ties. Another economical article. on ''rhc
Philosophy of Commercial Depre>>ion." by H.
q. >. Noble. indicates. as the ultimate source
of all financial disturbance and mischief "mili-
tant tendencies which still prcdominatc in IL
part of the world and cmbarrass the rest of it.
third paper in the same line is that of Mr..
Joel Benton on "The Earned Decrease w. the
nearned increment" whicn is devoted to
the demolition of Mr.. Georges great busbcar.
and shows pretty ctfectuallv. that i land-own-
crs ever make money by holding their estates.
they have. on the average, to earn it more than
once before they realize it in possession. One
of the most potent documents for temperance
Effects of Moderate Drinking" which shows
how liver. kidneys, heart, and brain are surely
ruined by indulgencc> which many defend as
and some believe to be beneficial
In the Atlantic Monthly for June the first
part of an entertaining though st mewhat >atr-
ical two-part story entitled ''MiSe Farrcl's Be
quest" by j. T.. Quincy, holds the place of hon
or. In a sunny and charming vein, Julia G. X.
Dorr writes under the head of ''To Caw'lor Cas-
tie and Culloden Moor furnishing breez,
and picturesque account of her visit to the
ancient home of King Duncan and the famous
battlefield where the hope of the Stuarts re-
ceived its death blow. Theodore Chld's article
on 1.-The Literary Career in France is timely
to periodical literature. inasmuch
AS there Is just now so much discussion in the
newspapers concerning the rewards and draw
backs of authorship. Some new and significant
Information, of particular moment to hi>tv,i-
ans ana gcuSrapners, Is contained Iii an article
by Francis Parkman, entitled 1.-The Discovery
of the Rocky Mountains Ellen Terry John
son, who styles Madame DIES Ursins ''Thc
Queen behind the Throne" writes in manner
at once thoughtful and graphic concerning that
remarkable woman. her wild ambition, and
her great influence. The serial chapters in the
June Atlantic are combinations of the study of
Japan by f. III. House. entitled "Ione Santo,"
and 1.-The Desp0t of BroomsedYe Gove," by
Charles Egbert CraIlock, Miss Murfree.)
The Yokohama shopkeeper whom Mr.. House
will be recognized by all who have
Travelled in the East rs faithful picture of
many of the low commercial adventurcrs who
infest Japanese seaport towns, and whose
presence and example are such Il hindrancc to
the evangeliZation of Japan, China and India.
The poetry of this number is by Edith NJ.
Thomas. Graham X. TomSon, and an anony-
nous writer. whose identity, however, We VEN
ture to assert readers of magazines will not find
n Al n N hn IL.