The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-01-14

The New Moon shines each month with
undiminished radiance. The short stories
and miscellany are of the best. Lowell
Mass.
Was not the author of "The Light of
ASIA correct in saying that so many per
sons write and write well that the only
thing left now to distinguish man is
style, and few writers have that?"
The opening article of the February
Popular Science Monthly will be ON Per-
sonal Liberty by Edward Atkinson and
Edward T. Cabot. 1t bears chiefly ON the
labor question, giving the results of an
exhaustive examination of the decisions
of the courts concerning restrictions on
hours and modes of labor, regulation of
the method of payment, etc.
The Longer of the Critic has seen the
returned checks paid to Gen. and Mrs.
Grant by Charles L. Webster Il Co. on ac-
count of the Grant memoirs. They are
eleven i'll number, and amount in all to
s414 80 Is probably the largest sum
ever realized by an author Tor his family
from the sale of a single book; very GER
tainly the largest sum ever realized by any
author within SO short a time Some
81. 600 more will be paid shortly.
\ unique experiment will be tried in the
February issue of The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. The entire number has been con-
tributed in prose, fiction and verse by the
daughters of famous parentage, as a proof
that genius is often hereditary. The work
Of 80 OF these ''daughters will be repre-
sented. These will comprise the daugh-
ters of Thackeray. Hawthorne, Dickens,
James Fenimore Cooper. Horace Greeley,
MI Gladstone, President Harrison, Will
liam Dean Howells, senator Ingalls,, Dean
Bradley, OF Westminster Julia Ward
Howe. Gen. Sherman. Jefferson Davis and
nearly a score of others.
Lippincotts Magazine begins its 18th
year with a novel feature. This is a
Journalists series to consist of a num-
Der of contributions by prominent news
paper men, who will tell their personal
experiences and give glimpses OF the in
ner workings of various leading newspa-
pels throughout the country. The first
installment in the January number is
the Editor-in- Chief $ story by 4. h
Mcclure, editor OF the Philadelphia
Times The same number also contains
a novel dealing with newspaper life. en-
titled The Passing Of Major kilgore"
10y Young T. Allen. late managing editor
of the Louisville Courier Journal. Other
features Of interest are promised. The
magazine is published by j. b. Lippincott
Co., Philadelphia, at B a year.
The january New England Magazine
might he called a Phillips Brooks number
\ portrait OF the new bishop forms the
| frontiSpiec,. and the leading article is a
fully illustrated biographical paper by
Julius II. Ward. \ sermon preached by
| Brooks on Abraham Lincoln. in April.
i'ti5. is reproduced. Prof. {. VI. Wood
ware, has a copiously illustrated Article on
TIE city OF st. Louis. George NJ. Young
| gives some account of the life of Samuel
WoodWorIh. author OF the Old Oaken
Bucket and the circumstances Of writ
ing the poem. ''StorieS of Salem Witch
craft are continued and there are poems
by Agnes Hauie Machar, Zitella Cooke,
| Philip Boulke Marston, Arthur l.. Sal
mon and others, beside several short
stories.
| The Review of Reviews for January con-
tains the portraits of some fifty or sixty of
the notabilities OF the day. General John
son and Governor Nichols, of Louisiana,
Secretary Foster, Assistant Secretary
Wharton, the late Dom Pedro, Fonseca,
of Brazil, Mr.. jackson, the new Irish Sec
rotary. Mr.. Redmond, the Parnellite lead
Ell, MI. Flavin. of Cork. Archbishop
Walsh, of Dublin, Prince George, OF
Wales, five Governors of Australian States,
the late Lord Lytton, the late Rev. Oscar
McCulloch, the late William B. Florence,
Governor Alvin p. Hoyey, Senator Plumb,
Hon. 5. b. Elkins. MI. Gillian of Judge.
the Gar and Czarina OF Russia, WITH vari-
Gus other Russian portraits: MI. Elbl idge
Gerry. of New York. Mr.. Benjamin
Waugh, OF London. Mark Twain, Frederic
Harrison, Thomas Nelson Page. tie late
Mir. Velhagcn, the distinguished German
editor and Lord Roseberry. the rising lib
eral statesman of England, are among the
| people whose faces are presented in thi:
| number.