The Republican journal., 1889-12-19
Literary News and Notes.

| II /, stated that Henty N. Stanley has sold
his forthcoming book for 100000. Even Rid
| er Ilaggard must envy Stanley with his wide
/ open field Of African romance.
"Well-Springs of Wisdom" being selections
| from tie writings of the famous English divine
| Frederick W. Robertson. is announced as the
| next issue in Lothrop's excellent "Spare Min
| ute Series
Kate Field has issued the prospectus of her
new periodical which She calls Kate Fields
Washington. OF course thi, means that Kate,
field i Washington. 1t will he personal or
gan in the fullest SENSE.
Those ''twin books" Of Miss Bamford'>-the
| first and second years of the "Look-A bout
! Club can confidently be recommended to
/ young readers. They combine instruction and
| entertainment in most acceptable manner and
abound i'll illustrations that really DO Illustrate
Joaquin Miller has written a poem of the
Slerra> for the January number of The Arena
which is pronounced by competent Judges of
! poetry to be one of his best productions Ii
| describes raid of the Indians. followed by the
| hot pursuit of the rangers who finally trap the
| "red wolves of the desert who have taken
refuge on mountain, by which the river
dashes hundreds of feet below on one side
while the rangers encirce the base of the
height.
The Art Amateur winds up the year in
royal fashion. giving one of its tive coIored
| supplement plates superb picture of pears
| over foot high, and two and a half feet wide
| 1t Is perfect fac-simile of the original oil
| painting, and framed it would deceive any one
| 1t IS really marvellous how such picture
which would cost many dollars at any art store
| can be given away with a magazine for thirty
| five cents. together with all the other supple
/ ments and scores Of illustrations with the let
terpress. treating of every kind of practical art
work n 'brict
| ear present could be found than a subscril-
| ton TO The Art Amateur which is really III
| valuable to All having homes to furnish or deco
| rate, or wishing to learn oil, water-color or
china painting, wood-carving, brass hammer
| ing, book and magazine illustrating, and art
needlework. Price, $500 a year. Montague
Marks, Publisher, % Union Square, New
| York.
delicious holiday flavor pervades every
page of the Christmas number of The ladies'
| Home journal. Never has a better number of
this wonderful domestic magazine been issued.
" III Carleton opens the feast with beaut-
fully illustrated full-page poem Mrs. A. b. T.
Whitney and Maud Howe supply the novels.
while katharine b. Foot begins strong
| Christmas story which w. l.. Taylor illustrates
Theodore r. Davis gives the best glimpse in
side the White House and the State dinners
under several Administrations we have as vet
read. Mrs. A. q. Lewis has a quaintly-con-
ceived Santa Claus poem for the Youngsters,
which Margaret +. Sangsfer follows with Illus
trated verse. Edward w. Box tells what are
| the literary tastes of two such great men as
Gladstone and Bismarck. Then follows per
feet wealth of suggestions for Christmas din
ners, women's fashions, holly decorations for
the home, still further succeeded by the most
| readable articles and stories by Florence Howe
Hall, Eben +. ReXford, Eliza r. Parker, En-
ma NJ. Hooper and Mary Barrett Brown. To
be surprised what really perfect magazine
can be given for almost nothing, let any one of
our readers sent ten cents for this number of
The Ladies' Home Journal. The address is
435 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.