The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-03-15

The New Moon for February has All
abundant store of short stories sketches and
| poems, with entertaining departments.
| Tcknor A. Co.. Boston. have published in
their Paper Series Of Original Copyright NOV
! els. .'Indian SUMNER by Mr.. William Dean
| IIowells, and .'lAdventureS of Widow" hv
MR. Edgar Fawcett.
White Elephant" has returned to New York
| from South America. In eleven years he has
Travelled 265,0O0 miles, penetrating every por-
tiOn Of the habitable globe.
The March Pan>y contains: Pu,,y's story
on the Golden Texts for the month. pan>y'>
other story. Up Garret. Margaret Sitlney's
story The Old Brimmer Place. Mrs. Aren't
balds story OF 4 disagreeable girl \ cat
story. Mrs. Livingston, Pansy society story.
a sea story. Several missionary sketches.
The Indian School at Carlisle. BabyS Corner.
Pictures, dozen or two. A lot of letters to
Pansy from boys and girls. And Queer
story. 81 Il year. ~ cents a number.
The numbers of The Living Ayc for Frbr,-
AIRY 25th and March 3 contain Darwin'> Life
and Letters. and Cahot'> Life of Emerson,
Quarterly: Personal Experience Of Bulgaria.
and The Evolution Of lIumor, National Home
Rule in Norway. Nineteenth Century; A Ja-
cobean Courtier. Fortnightly; Mary Stuart in
Scotland. Blackwood; \ Night in the Jungle.
Macmillan: Some WccamicaI "reminiscences.
Bar; Un>er Fritz. Time: Thackcras'> Brgh-
ton, All the Year Round; with "A Iumblcr Of
Mix 1.-The Five llorsc>hoe>." and poetry.
Frost insects and birds are the worst foes of
both the practical and amateur gardener. 50
Mr.. Charles Barnar,-ilorst, economist and
one of the editors of the Century magalinc-
has invented very practical and exceedingly
simple arrangement for the protection OF
plants, which can be made for about fifteen
cents. In Il recent test in February the tenn
perature beneath it was G3 deg. when the lhcr-
mometer stood at - deg. outside. This inve,!-
ton is not patented. but has been purchased by
The American Garden. of 7Jl Broadway. New
York. who will present it graft, to the GARDEN
ing public of America. Better send Il dollar
to the publisher and learn all about Barnar,l'>
invention and get this best of all the -ardeuin.
magazines for Il year.
Dplthera is now such common disease
that it is of the utmost Importance for every
mother to have some idea of its symptoms and
character. An article in the March number Of
Babyhood supplies all the Information which
it is possible to give in popular form concern
ing that scourge of the nursery. The artirf" is
by DIR. Chapin. Professor of Diseases of Chill
dren at the Woman's Medical College, Of New
York. and is thoroughly practical. 1t gives
plain directions for the examination Of The
throat, which it is insisted should he made in
every case of illness in children. A number Of
Illustrations help to make clear the difference
between simple tonsilitiS and dphthela aMd
the changes in the appearance of the tonsilS in
both diseases. The March number is for sale
by news'ica!ers everywhere at - cents.
The Writing Of Speeches" is charmi.gly
discussed by Hon. John u. Long. in the March
number of The Writer (lbo>tonl. George Al
fred Townsend writes on '''rhc Newspaper for
To-Day" and Rev. DR.. Lorimcr has Il bright
article IN the series entitled GLOW | Write My
Sermons - "MarkeIahle Literary Goods. :
hof Of inf
Bores." 'Rejected Manuscripts, and ''Rc-
quisic> for Writer'S" are titles Of some Of the
other articles in an unusually interesting nunG-
Der. score of questions about literary work
are answered in the department of "QucrieS,'
and in addition there are book reviews help
ful hints and suggestions, news and notes. and
unique reference list of literary articles in
periodicals. The Writer is edited and publish
ed by William ii. Hills and Robert Luce. both
editors on the Boston Globe. and costs but
one dollar a year. Address: The Writer. =.
q. Box l, ,9O5, Boston, Mass.
Multitudes of young people. aS well a> chii-
dren of larger growth, will be sorry to hear
of the death of the author Of Little Women"
The event was wholly unexpected, and coming
soon after the deccaSe of Miss Alrott> aged
father it is peculiarly invested with dramatic
pathos. Miss Alcott was born in 1888. She
began writing while still in her teens. and for
the past thirty years she has been almost con-
stantly engaged in writing for children. Lit
tie Women was published in 1865. 1t was re-
ceived with favor that placed Miss Alcoti
among the most popular writers Of rhil1ren'S
books, and her popularity was enhanced at the
appearance of the sequel. Little Men" three
years later. The list of her published works
is of considerable length. and it can be said of
them as it cannot of all literature of this class,
that they are wholesome as well as entertain
ing. Miss Alcott and her father were much to
each other in life, and sin death they are not
dividcd.'