The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-08-09

ne August number OF the American Garden
makes specially of water plants, but contains
4 good variety OF other SeaSOnablc matter.
"A Mexican Girl is worthy of its place in a
series made memorable by books like ''Guenn,"
rsllas Lapham, The Story of Margaret
other >insulary strong and entertaining sto-
reS.
''Lothrops Summer Series is proving inn
men>ely popular. Such books as '.Patience
Preston. NJ. d. ''Romance Of Letter."
John Greenleaf, Minister" etc., are not often
found printed on fine paper in choice bindings
at % cents. Try one.
Golden Days is true to its name, and like the
gilded dome of the State House in Boston rises
above its competitors in estimation of juvenile
readers. while their elders find much to inter-
est and instruct in its broad. wel-filled pages.
- per annum. James Elverson. publisher.
Philadelphia.
Henry Bacon has reproduced in black-and-
White his famous painting. 1.-The Boston
>choolboys and General Gage" now owned by
Columbia College; the drawing accompanies
Edward Everett liale's serial. '.The Story of
Boston Common" and appears in the August
Wide Awake
The first August issue in Ticknor> Paper
Series is an entirely new novel of the far West.
peculiarly rich in coloring, and sure TO enchan
the attention of even the most blase of story
readers. A well-known journal calls it IAN
extraordinary story of life III the high Sierras.
written by Colorado author. 1t is TILED with
wonderfully vivid word-paintng; and depicts
the loNemaking of Spanish-American senori-
Ia and transplanted New-Enyland schoolmast
| err
| The Forum for August contains an anal ss
of the British and American Governments 10y
Judge James NJ. Love, of Iowa, who shows
that we have much better system of checks
agalnst the evils Of party. prejudice and popu..
Lax whim than the English. 1t is Il study of
! the two Governments by the oldest L. $. judge
| iii point of service, except one, now on the
| bench, Judge Love having been appointed in
| lSo6 The second of the economic articles by
| Edward Atkinson. which the Forum has Sc
| cured. is "Mu>t Humanity Starve at Last"
1t is an effort towards the building up of Il dis
| tinctly American Social Science.
! While The contents of Outing for August are
admirably adapted to this lazy month, there is
nevertheless enough Of soul-stirring sport to
! captivate the most enthusiastic sportsman.
| The disciple of lsaak Walton will read the arti-
ce. A Rare Fish, wondering that such ac-
counts have never before reached his ears,
while the spell will be further enhanced by the
charming Illustrations. Following this is Il
>ea,onablc article by Francis Trevelyan on the
many ard varied delights of Old Father
Thames, entitled, The Thames of Londoncrs.
\ stirring ballad of the steeplechasc course.
How we beat the favorite. by Adams Lindsay
Gordon. will interest even readers who per-
hap> have never seen race track. This Is not
all the feast. of course: and other articles. with
I the Wcil-ied departments, make Il brilliant
/ number
The Midsummer issue of The american
Magazine ahound> with interesting and timely
| literature. DIR. W. r. Hutchinson presents the
fourth Of his finely illustrated articles in the
series ''Along the Caribbean in this instance
dealing with Trinidad. Another entertaining
paper is entitled ''Where Burgoyne Surrender
| ed" by {. ii. Crandall. in which is described
| the Saratoga Monument that is soon to be UNI
yelled. Frederick G. Schwatka, the noted
Arctic EXPLORER, tells about 'The American
Arctic savage" i'll an entertaining manner. and
Trebor OH has an illustrated paper on ''SiX
story-Tellers for Children in which she
speaks of the lives and work of Louise lmoScn
Quincy. Margaret sidney. Mrs. Abby Morton
Diaz. Nor; Perry, Mrs. Lizzie w. Champncy
| and Alice Wellington Rollins. joel Benton
has poem on ''Md>ummcr,'' and Sara r.
Goodrich describes 1.-The Country in Mid>um-
mer."
In War-Timc> al La Rose Blanche, by NJ
+. NJ. Davis. is Il picture of life on a large
southern plantation during the war. when all
the men. and even the boys, were away in the
service. and only the mistress with the smaller
children and the house servants were left be
hind. The narrative is not an imaginary one :
the characters are real. and the main incidents
are related as they really happened. 1t is only
through such books as these that one gets a
knowledge of the trials and sutfering> through
which the home people of the South passed
during the long four years struggle. At the
North there was suffering enough. but it was
rot from lack of nece>saries of life. The wives
and children of soldiers were amply provided
for. But in the South delicate women and ten
der little ones lived month after month, with
out change. upon the conmOnest and coarseSt
of food. and oftentimes with an allowance that
would scarcely fulfil the demands of hunger
The people ut La Rose Blanche were not so
badly of As that, however, although sadly
nnche.i at times. The plantation was for Il
time the camping-ground of a Massachusetts
regiment. and the fowls and live stock went to
supply the demands of its larder. The authors
| style is bright and half humorous. The story
i full of pathetic touches. and the reader who
does not feel his eyes moi>ten in some parts of
it lll>t have particularly hard heart. The
ten sketches which illustrate the text are from
the pencil of T.. W. kemble. ID. Lothrop Il
Co.. publishers, Boston. Price Sl.23.
The August number of the Atlantic Monthly
is characterized by pleasing variety and range
OF topics. South Carolina is the scene of the
opening article, .'The Mistress of >ydenham
Plantation" by Sarah Orne Jewett. from which
the reader is transported to the beginnings of
| lapai Rome in the following article. "A Bsh-
op Of the Fifth Century" an article which we
are inclined to attribute to Harriet Waters
| Preston, in part. at least. inasmuch as it is
signed Ill W. T.. X l.. D. Edmund Noble is
the author of "a Call on Mother Moscow"
descriptive of city far more fascinating ard
A>atir than the scmi-Parsian capital of Rus
sia. In AN Enchanted Day. Julia {. Il. Dorr
gives a refreshing pen-picturc of a delightful
excursion in bonny Scotland. The serials of
this number are the concluding chapters of
''lone Santo," and two further installnentS of
the highly cocrcd romance by Charles Egbert
, ffaddocN. The DeSpot of Broomsedse Cove"
a story which abundantly Sl>tains the authors
high reputation. Two exceeding timely and
| practical contributions, which will be given
close attention Just now are Horace L. Sc,,tl-
| ders article on ''Itcraturc in the Public
Schools" and an unsigned but powerful review
OF the new book of political Essays by
James Russell LowclI-a book, as well as
rrilHHe. which appears opportunely, in the
heat of Presidential campaigning. Another
| practical contribution is furnished by President
| Eliot of Harvard under the caption Can
| school Programmes be shortened and Enrich
ed:' William IL. Downes discourses on ''Bos-
ton Painters and Paintings" Agnes l.. Carter
writes about John Evelyn's Daughter;' and
| William Cranston Lawton adds a brilliant es-
| say on "The Prometheus of -ESchvus." The
| poetry of this number is by Helen GRAY Cone
and Lucy 4. Bull. IIoughton, Mfin q Co.,
! Boston.
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