The Republican journal., 1892-12-01
Literary News and Notes.

Julian Hawthorne, who is the father of
seven children, calls his home at Sag Har-
Dor THE House of Seven Gabblers.''
Gen. Butler must pay the G. F. Jewett
Publishing Co. 81, 800, with two years in
terest added, for breach of his contract to
let the Jewett Publishing Co. publish his
book. Judge Holmes SO decides in an
opinion just filed in the office of the clerk
OF the Suffolk county, Mass, Supreme
Judicial Court.
The American Journa, of Politics is only
six months old, but has already taken
rank with the first class magazines. The
Boston Herald says of it: 1.-The articles
are excellent, and any one who is study
ing carefully the signs of the times cannot
afford to be without it, 1t is published
at ia Nassau street, New CORK; ~ a year.
''TXleama'' is the title of a new book
just from the press, and is an adaptation
OF the play of that name. The author of
the play and book is }. A. knowlton. of
Boston, Il former Rockland boy. The book
deals in ancient Aztec history. is exciting
and interesting, with a startling and tragic
denouement 1t is attractively bound
\. d. Worthington 4 Co.. Hartford.
Conn, announce the commencement OF
new magazine to be called "Worthington's
Illustrated Magazine and Literary Treas
uly, the first number of which will APP
pear Jan. l. 1893. 1t will have contribu-
tions by >ir Edwin Arnold, Mrs. Liver
more, Helen Campbell, Julius Henri
Brown. Lillian Whiting, and other we'll
known writer's. 500 per year.
The Prospectus OF Littell Living Age
ton 1888 presents some special attractions
aNd is well worth attention in selecting
one $ reading matter for the new year.
ieduced clubbing rates with other period
calls are given, and to new subscribers for
he year 1893 will be sent gratis the two
october issues. containing a powerful
story by Frank Harris, editor of the Fort
nightly Review, and also the numbers of
1892 published after the receipt of their
subscriptions Littell 4 Co., Boston
The Belfast free library has issued the
fifth number of its bulletin and finding
list, pamphlet, of 10 pages, containing
The reports of trustees and librarian for
The past year, with list of accessories from
october, 1891. to November, 1891. The
total number of books in the library is
o,233; total receipts of the year, 81, 10. IS;
paid for new books purchased, 1852. SO:
number OF volumes added the past year.
~. The trustees hope to soon place upon
the walls OF the building portrait of MI
Nathaniel Wilson. "a magnificent bene-
factor OF the library.''
Personal Recollections of the War
Time by Gen. T. w, Hyde, series of
wal sketches running in the Bath indie
pendent, have readers all over the State
Gen. Hyde's style is clear and concise and
his subject matter very entertaining. In
"a recent paper he refers to eN- Governor Ro-
bic as follows: Ex-Governor Robbie was
our paymaster all through the war. and
when he came to camp, the fatted calf OF our
simple hospitality was killed, fresh pine
boughs We're strewn for his repose. and
we received the welcome greenbacks at
his hands, thinking little about their mar
ket value as long as they betrayed mess OF
>utler bill.
While Mr.. Howells will not during
1893, contine his literary work to any
single periodical, it may be authoritative
y announced that he has entered into a
contract with The Ladies' Home Journal
whereby his most important work will,
Tor some time to come. first see print in
the pages of that magazine. His new
in the Christmas issue OF the journal. and
immediately upon its close MI, Howells
will begin in the magazine series of ed-
rolial autobioeraphical papers, in which
ne Will trace the influences which led him
t" literary life, his course Of reading
and his tavorite authors and books
Outing for December is a beautifully
illustrated and thoroughly readable mum
ben The contents are as follows "A
Rogue Elephant, by F. Fitz Roy Dixon;
Goose Shooting in the South Platte Val
ley by j. y. Hall, NJ. D.. athletics
in Japan, by John \. MacPhail: 'tCana-
dian Winter Pastimes. 10y Ed. W. San
dys: Hunting the Moose" by S. Il.
Clarke; "Through Darkest America
Continued by Trumbull White '.Around
the World with Wheel and Camera (con-
tinued) by Frank G. LEM: 'Har,y's Ca
reer at Yale. tcontinue(D by John sey-
mour Wood; "A SportSwoman in Squirrel
Land, by Jennie Taylor Wandle; "A
Very Strange Case by William TIincl-
ley; 'Pacu Fishing on the Upper Para
quay, by II. II. Smith: ''Acolita. (con-
Vl"ded) by John Heard, .Jr. The Ma
nonal t4Nard of New Jersey" (concluded)
by Lieut.. W. II. G. Bowen. L. s. A., and
the usual editorials. poems, records, etc.