The Republican journal., 1892-11-24
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News and Notes.
The eighty sixth volume of Harper $
Magazine begins with the number for De
cember.
c. NJ. 5. Mcclellan, a native of Bath,
who wrote the libretto of Puritania. is at
work upon the libretto OF another comic
opera soon to be produced.
Harper's Magazine for December is a
superb Christmas number, richly illustrate
ed, and containing an attractive variety
of stories, poems, and descriptive articles
especially adapted to the demands and
tastes of holiday readers.
The we'll known Maine historian, Hon.
r. X. Sewall, of Wiscasset, author of the
Ancient Dominions of Maine thinks
that it has been demonstrated beyond a
doubt that the foundation of the famous
Damariscotta shell heaps was made by
Mortimer, as similar deposits are found
by recent Investigations to exist in the
"kiokken middens'' Of Norway MI
Sewall has prepared a paper on this sub
ject whic'. he will read during the coming
winter before the Maine Historical So
ciety
December makes the opening number of
The New Peterson, an illustrated magazine
devoted solely to literature and art. The
names of the editors are host in them
selves; they comprise Frank Lee Benedict
Howard Seely, Octave Thanet, and NJ. g.
McClelland. Among the contributors are
such names as E. E. Hale, T. W. Higgin-
son. Hamln Garland, Joseph Kirkland
John Vance Cheney, William Archer
NorTara Pahanon Hor1i,,n
Gertrude Anterior, Ruth McEnery Stuart,
Charles W. Coleman-in short, the cream
of the essayists story writers, and poets
in the entire length and breadth of the
country.
Somebody Neighbors. Il book of capt.
tai short stories by Rose Terry Cooke. is
published by Houghton, Mitflin 4 Co..
Boston, in the Riverside Paper Series, price
80 cents, This book contains Freedom
Wheeler Controversy with Providence.
which has been pronounced the best short
story ever written in America. 1t also
contains: Eben Jackson, Dely's Cow.
Squire Paine ) Conversion. Miss Beulal $
Bonnet, Cal Culver and the Devil.
Amandar, Uncle Josh Poll Jennings S
Hair, and Mrs. Flint's Married Expe-
rience. One OF the best of American critics
declared the whole a work OF rare liter
airy excellence with "delcctable de
scriptions OF quaint old fashioned gardens.
pretty girls. odd old maids and odder old
men.
john G. Whittier long ago wrote If st.
Nicholas: 1T is little to say OF this mag
azile fhat it is the best children + periodi-
cal IN ti.a world Edward Eggleston,
u. :
ter. says OF it. "There is not one Of the
numbers that does not stir the curiosity,
inform the memory, stimulate thought,
and enlarge the range Of the Imagination.
Founded in 1873, and from the first num-
Der edited by Mary Mapes Dodge, st.
Nicholas is now entering upon its
twentieth year. The most famous writers
have contributed to its papes in the past.
but never has its editor been able to offer
a better program OF a more distinguished
list of contributors than for 1898. There
is to be series Of illustrated papers on
The Leading Cities OF the United
States. the story of each city told by a
prominent resident. Edmund Clarence
Stedman will write OF New York: Thomas
W. Higginson, of Boston; New Orleans
will be described by George W. Cable,
anu DdIlllllplN w lCSlNltIll NTllIlldH. Ol
the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ly-
and other cities will be treated by other
the Worlds Fair. and a number of pages
of funny pictures and humorous verses.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggn. the we'll
known author Of 1.-The Birds Christmas
Carol. etc, Will contribute the leading
Sa,i11 fnr Nirhn1lS 11,,.i,,ff tba
year. The November number opens with
a three page poem by John G. Whittier,
which has in it some of the most beautiful
lines the good Quaker poet has ever writ
ten, describing the visit of party of
young girls to his home The School
Journal says, ''Place st. Nicholas in your
household, and you need have no fears
for the lessons taught your children.
The magazine is the greatest aid that the
teacher and the conscientious parent can
possibly have. 1t entertains, and at the
same time educates and instructs. The
subscription price is S5 a year. Remit
tances may be made directly to the pub
fishers, The Century Co.. b, East 9TH ST..
New \ ork
1t would be hard for person who cares
for good reading to make Il better invest
ment than a year S subscription to The
Century Magazine. No region is too re-
mote, no expense too great, if it will only
produce what the Century 5 readers want.
This is the policy that has made it, as the
Pail Mall Budget, of London, says: ''By
far the best of the magazines. English or
American. The November number he
gins a new volume and contains the first
chapters of powerful novel of New York
society, called ''Sweet Bells Out of
Tune. - written by Mrs Burton Harrison.
the author OF ''Anglomaniacs. - In this
story the fashionable wedding the occu-
pants of the boxes in the metropolitan
Opera House, the ''smart set in the
country house are faithfully reflected and
the illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson,
Life S we'll known cartoonist, are as bril-
liant the novel. In this number be
gins also great series of papers on ''The
Bible and Science, opening with ''Does
the Bible contain Scientific ErrorSo" by
Prof. Shields, of Princeton, who takes
decided ground that the Bible does not
contain scientific errors of any moment,
and who most interestingly states the case
from his point OF view. Other articles in
this series will include one in the Deem
Der (Christmas) number, "The Effect Of
Scientific Study upon Religious Beliefs.
An important series of letters that passed
between General Sherman and his brother
Senator John Sherman is also printed in
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