The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-10-27
Literary News and Notes.

Mrs. Laura +. richards, one of Maine 5
gifted writer's and a most delightful wo-
man. contributed to a recent issue of the
Boston Sunday Globe most sensible az
ricle upon the retiring hour for children,
under the title EARLY to bed She al
cues with great force that if We would
have our children bright and childlike
rhey must retire early and get the weary
brains at rest as we'll as their tired bodies
1t WAS a most timely article in these days
wlsn children are allowed to keep as late
hours as their parents at the cost of their
precious health and at the risk of shatrer~
ing their constitutions for life Fairfield
journal.
Harper Magazine for November par
7icularly strong in fiction. The two seri
ais Jane Field" 10y Mary Z. Wilkes
and The World of Chance by w. d.
Howells-are concluded. The short sto-
lies include THE Rivals" by Francois
Coppee, 1.-The Boy Orator Of Zepata City"
by Richard Harding Davis, and Mr.. Ben
iamin Franklin Gish's Ball, by Mrs. NJ
t. NJ. Davis-al illustrated. Thomas
Nelson Page Introductory contribution
10 the Editor $ Draweris a highly amusing
sketch relating 1.-THE True Story OF the
surrender Of the Marquis Corvallis
Game Laws in Brief, United States and
canada is the title of handsome illus
rrated pamphlet issued by the Forest and
Stream Publishing Co., New York. 1t
gives the provisions relating to fish and
game, limitations as to size or number,
transportation, non resident requirements,
and other restrictions. for the practical
guidance of sportsmen and anglers as to
shooting and fishing. The laws as given
are those in force at date of issue. Oct. /.
1892. The contents are indeXed by States
and Territories. Numerous illustrations
from photographs add to the interest Of
the work. Price % cents.
George William Curtis last contribu-
ton to the Easy Chair-a plea for Christ
mas-is published in the November num-
Der of Harpers Magazine. and with it
that department of the magazine is dis
continued. The Easy Chair was started
in September, 1871 with Donald G.. Mitch
ell as its writer. MI Curtis connec-
ton with it began with the number for
October, 1888, when he and MI. Mitchell
became joint editors of the department..
The latter was responsible for the foreign
paragraphs. which appeared for some
time under sub-heau as ''Our Foreign
Gossip" although still part of the Easy
Chair. In March, 1853, Our Foreign Cos
sip became distinct department called
Our Foreign Bureau, and from that time
MI. Curtis was the sole occupant of the
Easy Chair. The discontnuance of the
department at the present time is signal
mark OF respect to the memory of him
who for nearly forty years had impaired
To it SO much OF his own personality that
it seems impossible to imagine an Easy
Chair with any other occupant than him
self.
A valuable contribution to the political
literature of the day is a pamphlet of III
pages 10y Henry v Poor, editor OF ''AIan-
ual of Railroads of the United States, ;"
etc, entitled ''The Tariff It's bearing
upon the industries and politics of the
United States. Mr.. Poor concludes /:
THE Tariff, in the present struggle, is
the ostensible issue. y far higher one is
involved. The assault upon the tariff is
but a blind for the purpose of assailing
more etfectually the conditions upon
which our National life rests. The issue
squareIy raised by the declaration of the
recent Democratic convention is precisely
the same that confronted the country in
1882, and again in 1851. Because of the
Indifference OF timidity of the North in
1882. the only solution of the issue in 1861
was an appeal to force. If not seasonably
met and disposed of at the ballot box. it
must again be met by force, for no Free
Government can exist without a judicial
ARM This pamphlet should be widely
read. Published by H. V. & H. w. Poor,
10 Wall Street, New York. Price % cents
The first edition of Edwin Checkley' S
''Natural Method of Physical Training
was published in 1890 and met with an
unexpectedly large sale. The character
of the press and personal comments on
the book and the system of health rules
it advocates is indicated by the extracts
printed in the last pages of the new edi-
ton. The author of the book is a young
engineer who, some years ago formulated
a system of physical training which at
tracted SO much attention to himself that
he took up teaching and afterward
wrote the present treatise. He is only
five feet, five inches in height, but has been
called the strongest man Of his weight
us pounds) in America In 1890 he beat
the long distance bicycle record, riding
from New York to Chicago in little ovel
IA days without any special training, pur.
s1lant to the theoies set forth in his DO ok