Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-28
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During the year 1888, four thousand eix
b inbred and fhirty-one books were published
IA the United States.
!. On account of great special interest in the
snbJect. the sfth and coucludf ng volume of
Hon W. II. Sevar1s complete works, d. :
voted to the Diplomatic History Of the wsr
tor the Union, has been published in separate
form
Mr.. Nicholas p. Gilman, editor of the
Literary word. is soon TO publish through
Ho1zhton. Mifiiin & CO. work on Profit
Sharing" being suiy of the evolution of
the wages system between employer and en-
ployee.
The New Enzlander and Yale Review for
February contains an article BY Rev. W. C
Stiles of Richmond entitled AN Omitted
Chapter of Robert Elsmere.r The article
embraces choice use Of words put into
strong language.
When Mr.. Gladstone has few moments
on his hands. to guard against the dangers Of
idleness. he writes another paper on Homer
One of these is soon to appear 10 the North
American Review, and what treat to the
scholar will it not be.
John Burroughs, whose delightful ou--
door books are among the most enjoyable OF
their class. has given up authorship and taken
to farming with which he is greatly enAm
CURED. He says he finds more health and
satisfaction in the hoe handle than in the
pen hols er.
The torsl number of books 10 the Boston
Public Library at the commencement of the
new year was $40 53l. This is quite a good
start toward the full million yolumn line
without which no American library can be
called great in comparison with those at
Pals, Vienna. London and the capitals of
Continental Europe.
1t is .aid that Hon. Thomas B. Reed has
made $500 90 by writing for the magazines
the past year; and were il not for the pres
sure of his congressional duties could make
a great d. al more. Wise and witty things
rush to the end of Toms pen readily, and
he knows just how to put Them down.
The letters of John Loihrop Motley the
historian, in two large volumes, are just
ready from the Harper's press, having been
edited by Mr.. George VIM Curtis The,
are said to do for Motley as an author what
the re cent publication of the letters of Thack
cray has done for that famous novelist as
revelation Of the man himself.
The librarian of Congress desires to OBJ
tain. as nearly as may be, a complete set of
fhe various reeor Is and publications of the
Grand Army in all its branches, including
national. State and local posts. ! he records
for Maine that have been published are of
mu-h interest and we hope officers Of posts
will see that copies are forwarded to our
great National library.
Twenty-Five titles devoted to Shakespeare
ha Mach - b. Goo 81 do
Press, indicates the new interest in the study
of the Rreat dramatist now apparent in liter
ar, circles. As the list is confined to the pub
locations of only one house it gives some idea
OF what catalogue could be made ont if
half dozen Other leading publishers sh uld
make a simia title list.
For once a distinguished literary editor
noes. MIR. Box, in his Boston journal lit
erarv letter speaks of Prof. Drummond
the author of The Natural Home in the
Spiritual World" but whosoever has real
the book knows its title is Natural Law ir
the Spiritual World" By the way Prof.
Drummona's recent work on Tropical
At lea" is more fascinating than novel
We were terribly sleepy the other evening
but got so interested in it that we could hardly
he induced to lay it aside at late hour, for
retiring
In their March Bulletin of New Books
Messrs. Houghton, Miffl n & Co, announce
work THE Immanept God and other Ser
mons" of which they say These sermons
were p cached in California, and were so
much appreciated for the sanity and cheer
tulness of their tone of thought, and for
their devUutness-a very good quality, MOI
invariably found in all sermons-that they
were regarded as well worthy of being
brought 10 a large audience The author
of this work is Rev A. w. jackson, at pres
eBt. pastor of the Unitarian church in thi-
city.
What may be I, rmed national monument
al cork is the new edition of the writings
Of George Washington, edited by Worthing
ton C. Ford and now being published by thu
putnams, New York in fourteen royal octave
volumes. This edition will contain
mass of new material in the form
of private letters and diaries, official CORE
sponden.e, Safe papers, etc, never before
published. The work is one that every pub
lie library and all historical students will
want, and the limited edition. only $50 copies,
seems far too small to meet the demands.