The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-12-22
Literary News and Notes.

Attention is called to the prospectus of
The Atlantic Monthly for 1898, a magazine
which for many years has stood in the
front rank and was never better than now
Houghton, Mitflin Il Co., publishers, Bos-
ton.
The first of the unpublished material by
Henry Ward Beecher, recently purchased
by The Ladies' Home journal. will appear
in the January issue of that magazine, and
presents, among other things, the great
preachers hitherto imprinted opinion on
Wine Drinking on New Y ear Day."
Two famous preachers have written
striking articles soon to be printed in The
Ladies' Home journal: one by Rev. Nor
Insincere?" and the other 10y Rev. John
Il. Paxton, ID. d., on Are Women More
Religious than Menu
What would YOU do if you were a stran-
ger in London, with nc none, except a
million pound bank note in your pocket,
and some good reasons why you We're
afraid to 90 the Bank of England and get
it changed? This is the theme of Mark
Twain story. ''The 81. 600 600 Bank
Note, which will be printed in the Jan
uary Century
No % of the Good Company Series,
published by Lee u Shepard, Boston, is
Her Friend S Lover by Sophie May.
This book was originally published under
the title of ''Drones' Honey" but in the
new form will reach a new class of readers.
Miss May is Maine woman, a favorlte
writer of Juvenile stories. and this we be-
lieve is her first grown novel.
With the December number The Arena
entered upon its seventh volume. 1t long
since passed the experimental stage, and
indeed has been successful from the start.
1t has a strong list of contributors. includ-
ing literary celebrities on both sides of the
Atlantic, and its topics are mainly those
of live interest. Mr.. Mclaughlin S start
ling paper on Evictions in New York, in
the December number, is the first of a
series of discussions on ''Social Conditions
OF To-day"
Roses and pears with branches growing
through them, and other strange growths,
are described and figured in the article on
Some Vegetable Malformations which
Prof. Byron d. Halsted of the New Jer-
sey Agricultural College, will contribute
TO The Popular Science Monthly for Jan
uary. 1t is through study OF such freaks
of Nature us these that the thoughtful
student of plant nature gets glimpses of
truth not otherwise vouchsafed to him.
''Sweet Bells Out of Tune" Mrs Bur
ton Harrison novel Of New York socie-
ty, which has lust begun in The Century,
has made great hit. The publishers
have reprinted the opening chapters from
the November Century, and will send the
pamphlet containing them to any one who
asks for it. Write to The Century Co.. s.,
East 18th Street New York, and GET it,
The novel is the greatest society story that
has appeared in many years. 1t is illus
tratcd by Charles Dana Gibson
Colonel A. b. Ellis is to have paper on
Marriage and kinship among the Ancient
lsraelites, in The Popular Science Month
lN for January. He maintains that this
people once practiced marriage by cap
tuIe, and at one time were polyandrous.
The scarcity Of women which led to the
latter practice was caused. he nferS bv
female infanticide. The tracing Of kin
ship by the female line, which goes with
polyandry and marriage by capture among
other peoples, he finds also among the
Israelites.
sam w aiter oSS, the New England hui
morous poet, is well known to every read
er of newspapers in America. Mr.. Foss'
poems are as popular as James Whitcomb
Riley $. OF Will Carleton 5, and they are
indeed more extensively copied, going in
to print wherever the English language is
spoken and written. In the December
New England Magazine Walter Blackburn
Harte deals at length with the purpose
and character OF Foss' work, laying par
ticular insistence upon his humanitarian
spirit and aims.