The Republican journal., 1892-12-29
Literary News and Notes.

We have received Vol. l No. OF the
American AthenMum. monthly journal
devoted to literature, the arts and sciences,
published by Mitchelfs $50 broadway
New ork, at 81 pei annum. Gossip OF
the Month by George Augustus Sala is
The leading feature, and geographically
it is handsome publication.
An order for 100 copies in the finest
binding. of ''Re-told Tales of the Hills
and shores of Maine, from san Francis
co. has been received by MIS-. H. g. Rowe.
the talented author. 1t comes from ma
tives Of Maine who are now living on the
Pacific slope and who wish to read OF
familiar scenes and events. The order
will be filled at once
The social laws which govern girls at
the theatre, opera and concert form the
third OF Mrs Burton Harrison 5 excellent
papers on the The Well Bred Girl in
Society, in the january Ladies' Home
journal, and MI. William Dean Howells
titly supplements this article with his
story OF American girl-life, The Coast
OF Bohemia. which gains much in bright
ness and spirited action as it proceeds.
Several short stories of exceptional in
terest appear in the January number of
Harper Magazine. Among these is The
Story of the Other Wise Man" a beauti-
Jul and touching Oriental sketch. by
Henry Van Dyke: The Rejected Manu-
script, New England story, by Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps Ward. illustrated bv
e. S. ReinhaIt: and The Romance in the
Life OF lefty Burke by Richard Hard
inc Davis, accompanied by several char
acteristic illustrations by c. j. Gibson
Harper's Magazine for January opens
with an entertaining article by Julian
Ralph, entitled The Old Way to Dixie .
in which that careful observer and versa
tile writer describes a steamboat voyage
down the Mississippi River from st. Louis
to New Orleans. This is the first OF a
series of articles on the South which Nh
Ralph will contribute to the Magazine
during the year. 1t is attractively illus
lrated by w. L. Smedley.
4 notable Maine publication for the hol-
iday season Of the present year is The
Observatory. a book of poems relating
10 Portland by James II. Baxter. Esq
The poems are a series of stories told by
an old gentleman who takes his son to the
Observatory and points out to him the
scenes. The engravings are very fine
specimens OF art and represent some IA
miliar and historic scenes. such as the
burning of the town by Mowatt: the Indi-
an fight in Brackett' 5 orchard: the old
Deering mansion: the tomb> OF the two
captains in the Eastern cemetery: toote
Moody crossing Market square: and the
fight between the Boxer and Enterprise.
Outing fol January is enlarged to a hol-
iday number of ninety-tive pages of min
gled fiction. sport and travel. Wisely chos-
en- articles and wealth of superb illus
tratons mark the best number ever print
ed of deservedly popular magazine. The
contents are as follows: "a Comedy OF
Counterplots, 10y Edgar Fawcett: ''Ice
Hockey" by Beverly Bogart; Some Fa-
nous Alpine Accents, by Arthur Monte
fore, F. r. g. s.; That Dog NV Eek Sim
rons,'' by J. }. Williams, j., AT st.
Margaret s. BY Clara Sprague Ross;
The Deserted Kingdom by Frank F.
Brumback; 'Lenz's World Tour A
Wheel;'' IA Moraing Ride in California
Highlands, by Elizabeth A. Wore
Snow shoeing in the White Mountains,
by Gordon Hooker Taylor; ''Ice Yachting
in the Gulf Of Finland" by Gerard An
derson; IA Glance at Big Game, by Ed
W. Sandys; 1.-THE Sword Fish of the In
dian Ocean, by Nicolas Pike; SIN Searcl
of Paradise with Camera and Palette by
Birge L. Harrison; ION the Wrong Side
of Snow Ridge" by j. Macdonald Oxley
Through Darkest America Continued,
by Trumbull White; ''Harry's Career a
Yale" (continued,) by John Seymou
Wood; ''The Militia and National Guar'
of Ohio" by Lieut.. W. II. c. Bowen, U
S. A., and the usual editorials, poems
records, &C.