The Republican journal., 1892-08-25
Literary News and Notes.

Petersons Magazine for September is
copiously illustrated. Miss Callne,
by Robert c. V Meyers, is an interesting
story. Mr.. Englehardts Nephew by
William Bilbo and "A summer Fallow''
by Loise Pease, are a couple of tales as
unlike as they are good. ''Under the
Rose by Miss Kent, is the first install
lnent OF novelet. The Court OF Mon
Change, and Meath Orchard Boughs'
are all illustrated in a way which makes
the different stories. articles and poems
very attractive The fashion and house
hold departments are thoroughly practical
\ Maiden of Mars, by General f. NJ
clarke. has been received from Charles f.
Sergel x Co., Chicago. 1t is a novel that
is novel. and it should be borne in mind
that the title is not \ Daughter Of Mars,
but \ Maiden of Mars. The hero, by
means that need not be told here, visits
the planet Mars and describes the life
there. lie also meets and loves a rare
and radiant maiden of that other world
The style OF the authoris fascinating, and
it may he that his aim has been to show
MS what the future may have in store in
The way of electrical Development At all
The Lance of kanana, by Add ell Arda-
van, Harry W French comes to us from
the press of the d. Lothrop Co., Boston,
The author of this weird romance, who is
not unknown to Maine readers, writes
from intimate knowledge of the Arabs,
who gave him the name attached to his
story. He has made good use of the To-
mantle history of Kanana. the brave Bed
-I,,,
made the slave OF her enemies. The
young hero moves before us with simple,
unconscious grace and dignity; bearing
The taunts of the tribe for his supposed
cowardice because he refused to lift a
lance and take life, except for Allah and
Arabia; welcoming the opportunity OF at
last proving his courage; and showing
such bravery and fortitude in the fulfill
menr of his vow as to thrill the heart with
admiration. The story of kanana jour
ney across the desert, the difficulties
which he SO nobly overcomes, the Won
derful intelligence of the white camel and
the dromedaly under his guidance, are
recited with a verve and feeling that carry
MS along breathlessly to the close The
tragic ending comes all too soon, and we
realize the nobility of character of the
hero whose name has come down through
the ages, as the deliverer of Arabia.
Jack Brereton Three Month Service
by Miss Maria Mcintosh Cox, recently
published as Il serial in Wide Awake, is
now issued by the d. Lothrop Co., Bos-
son, in book form, handsomely bound and
illustrated. 1t is a capital story. TO the
young people who nave grown up since
the Civil War, the history of those years
Of gallant struggle. of noble self-sacritice
and of terrible suffering. seems at the
most but vague and visionary. TO see
the events of those stirring times through
the eyes OF a boy who was indeed muster
ed into service. and Il true hero, though
he did not serve on the tented field, to he
a participant Of his noteNceptional eXpe-
rience. will make the old wal-times seem
very vivid and real. Jack father was a
soldier one of the men who went into the
army purely from a sense of duty and
from love of country, leaving his little
family to the care and protection of his
oldest son. How the boy who had been
duly sworn into home service, suddenly be-
came a man in his prudent forethought
and his tender consideration of the deli
cate little mother and the young children,
how he worked for them. watched with
them for tidngs of the soldier father, up
held the heartsick mother when bad news
came, even though his own heart was full
Of GRIFFIN short, how Jack Brereton
proved himself a hero, the worthy son of
his brave father and, we had almost said,
his Drawer mother, is all told in this
simple, unstudied, yet intensely realistic
story, which but repeats the history of
many families during the war, all over the
length and breadth of our land. 1t is be-
cause the story is real, that it is so full of
thrilling interest; real in the sense of re-
presenting the sublime heroism, the pitiful
anxiety, the grand devotion to country,
which marked both the men in the field
and the wives and children who staid at
home to suffer and to wait. The suspense
was hard to bear, the dread of what might
come anytime to loved ones fighting far
away, paled the cheeks of waiting women
and children, but still the war went on,
to reach at last its glorious contamination
n land freed forever from the curse of
slavery.