The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-05-05

With the May number of The Arena
volume V is closed, the review being now
two and a-half years old. 1t has been
phenomenally successful, occupies field
exclusively its own, and has brilliant
corps of contributors. Since last NOvem-
Der its subscription list has increased a
little over thirty three and one third per
cent, and it's circulation already exceeds
that Of any high priced review published
in this country with one exception.
The Arena comes in competition with
none of the existing magazines or re-
views, being essentially different in ma
teral and makeup. 1t has fairly won the
high place it holds in the estimation of
the reading public. Arena Publishing Co. j,
Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
The Popular Science Monthly for May
contains: ''Herbert Spencer and the Syn
thetic Philosophy William D. Hudson
''Science and Fine Art, H. Prof Emil
Du Bots Raymond; "Cave Dwellings of
Men," w. H. Larrabee. illustrated }
Evolution of Folk Lore. An Old Story
in ii New Form David ID. Wells: AN
thropological Work in Europe, Prof F.
starr, UllustratedD why we should
Teach Geology Prof. \. 5. Packard
The Limitations Of the Healing Art, "
Dr. H. Nothnagce: ''Dendrites. NJ. Stan
islaus Meunier Gllustrated:) Energy as a
Factor in Agriculture. DIR. Manly Miles !:
Bad All and Bad Health. H.. II. Wager
and \. Herbert: "A Desert Fruit, Grant
Allen, and sketch of Aessan,iro Nolta'
with portrait.)
The numbers OF The Living Age fol-
April 10th and 23d contain The Core
| Il ~ ; Il. ~
inburgh; The Road from Newfoundland.
tcenth Century, Fortnightly: Recollec-
lions of Tewtk Pacha, and Napoleon the
Third at Sedan. Nineteenth Century: So
ciety in Naples, National; The Race
Across the Atlantic. Scottish: CONVERSE
tons and Correspondence with Thomas
Carlisle, Contemporary: Edward Craeroft
LEROY, New Review: Benjamin Robert
Hayden, Temple Bar; The New star in
the Milky Way, Saturday Review: Notes
on Bird Music, Chambers The Ancient
Tombs and Burial Mounds of Japan, Ma
trre: with "How She GOT out of it, :"
''Who Rang the Belle ''Boomellen
and poetry,
Breezy, seasonable a magazine for la
dies and gentlemen from cover to cover
is Outing for May. The plash of waters
the rustic of leaves. the spirit of pure
outdoor, shealthful pastilnes, enliven its
eighty handsomely illustrated pages and
make it what it is, valued instructor in
beneficial exercises. and AN encouragel of
a closer intimacy with Nature wondrou>
charms. The contents are as follows:
by Wheel from Havre to Paris. 10y j.
W. Foselick. illustrated: George Dale $
! Ambition, 10y Lorenzo Griswold: May
Rides" by Jessie f. @ Donnell: "A Bout
with a kingtsh, by Ed. W. >andys, illus
trated; Harry Career at Yale (con-
trated; The international Field Trials of
| 1891, by damon, illustrated" \ Day
with Gun and Canoe. by "Nomad
| Wenona Gilman. illustrated: THE Erolu-
ton OF the Forty-Six Footers' second pa
per- by George 4. Stewart illustrated
| hy Cozzens: The Eace-coulses of the
! East" by Francis Trcvelyan. illustrated
by lily. Stull: The Training of the Iar-
ward intercollegiate Team of 1891. 10y
John Corbin. illustrated: 1.-THE Maryland
National Guard. by Hanson Hiss illus
tlated; ''F'rom the German Ocean ~ the
Black Sea (continucd) ny Thomas
Stevens, illustrated, and the usual edito-
lials, poems, records. etc.
Nh. Scudder should be conyrat uated ON
his success i'll obtaining for The Atlantic
the brilliant correspondence Of Ralph
Waldo Emerson and 1horca,l, which oo-
cupies the first place in the issue for the
month of May. Tile letters are edited by
Mr.. f. j. >anborn, Of Concord. and they
give characteristic glimpses of the life
II,
friends during ''the Dial period. as the
editor calls tin other words, 1873. 4
fit companion piece to these letters is the
Roman Journals of Severn, the friend of
Keats which givequite a thrilling picture
OF the events preceding the fall of Papal
Rome These papers are edited by Will
| liam Sharp. Apropos OF Rome, Harriet
,, Waters Preston and Louise Dodge CON
'Private Life in Ancient Rome and Mr.
Crawford continues his italian serial,
''Don Orsino. The short story of the
number with the odd title "A Cathedral
Coultship.' is furnished by Kate Doug
las Wiggin. Two unsigned articles will
attract attention for their cleverness. the
first being "A Plea for Seriousness, the
second THE Staying of the Gerryman-
der, a keen thrust at this political mon
ster. Two papers remain, which are more
than usually valuable: Professor J. j..
Greenough s article, ''rhe Present Re
| luirements for Admission to Harvard Col
lege, and David Dodge's semi Historical
view of ''Home Scenes at the Fall of the
tonfedcracy. \ few other papers, some
poetry, and reviews, including of course
the inevitable criticism of Mrs. Ward $
| "David Grieve' and IIardv's Tess of
the ID Ubervilles, complete Il strong
number of this standard magazine IIough-
ton, Mitflin x Co., Boston.