Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-01-17
LITERARY NOTES.

edition OF W0rceSter's Unabridged DtctiOn'
ary, published by the j. b. LippincOti
Co.. Philadelphia, is the finest and mOsi
elaborate dictionary that has ever been
published. We have already noticed the
work editorially. but have felt it to be din
cult to set forth, in a newspaper article,
the true and exceedingly great merit Of the
book. Ii seems TO be a work that all per
sons who wish 10 be intelligent should
possess. Copies can I've seen at the book
store OF Messrs. c. Ii. Pierce & Co., Mar
ket street.
American Authors" by Amanda B.
Harris. Boston: ID. Lothrop Company.
Price SI.0o. This is one Of the books We
can heartily commend to young readers,
not only for its interest, but for the infor-
nation 1t contains. All lovers OF books
have natural curiosity to know something
about their writer's, and the better the books
the keener the curiosity. Miss Harris has
written the various chapters of the volume
with full appreciation of this fact. She
tells us about the earlier group OF Ameri-
can writers. Irving. Cooper. Prescott, En-
er,on and Hawthorne. all of whom are
gone. and also Of some of those who came
later. among them the Cary sisters, Tho
reau, Lowell, Helen Hunt, Donald G.
Mitchell and others. Miss Harris has n
happy way Of imparting information. and
the boys and girls into whose hands this
little book may fall will hnd II pleasant
reading.
We have received from the publishers.
Messrs. c. A. Montgomery & Co, New
York. Through the courtesy Of Messrs. C.
II. Pierce & CO.. Market street. . copy Of
''Goodholme's Domestic Cyclopedia Of
Practical Information" large and most
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the household. The new and revised edi-
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Martha J. Lamb. says:
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Florida is shouting out voice, this new
year. which pierces through the clamor
about California and its bosms, and Jack
sonville. with its great sub-trcpical expos;-
tion. and St Augustine. with its three new
hotels, each an immense solid
mass Of concrete that. without seam, |
will endure for ages, and with its
other magnificent local features, present
of attractive ness that Is une-
lualled in the world. The man who has |
done more for Florida than any other ten, |
Is Mr.. Henry NJ. Flagler-of course an |
Ohio man-who has invested several MIL |
Ions o! dollars in the splendid Ponce dc |
Leon and the Alcazar, with other improve
ments, arS who, in his immense outlay, |
has shown mis- practical sense, and will ut |
no distant day. reap generous reward for |
his taste, enterprise and public spirit But
we may say more of Mr.. FlagIer. He las
built splendid Methodist church, and pre-
sented 1t. with the lot. TO the local Metho-
list organization, and has given ine lot to
he Presbyterans and will erect very fine
,difce upon it at his own expense.
This very important dispatch from Paris
appears in the Cincinnati Commercial
}dzette
The Unirers's dispatch from Rome says:
The English cabinet accepts. in principle,
he pope's mediation between England and
reland. based upon Mgr. Persico's report
The pope demands moderate home rule.
md advises the conservatives to take the
vind out of Gladstone's sales by adopting
he leading points in his programme, with
he support of the Irish clergy"
The man who said In his seat In the SEN
Ite that no man should call JEFF Davis q
raitor without answering personally to him
or the Insult. will now occupy seat on the
upreme court bench. With Lamar thus
onored. well may We ask: Has patriotism
ed TO brutlsh breasts?-OhiO State Jour
at
We venture the assertion that 1t has, at
,ast, taken vacation.
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS.
Dan nriscoll will be hanged in New York
leHt Friday.
The strike at Pottsyille has been quiet
or some days.
The international Cigar makers Union
as ordered strike in several places.
Ten Southern railroads are charged with
iscrimination in favor of the Standard Oil
ompany-
At Augusta, Ga. Joel Weeks, a butcher