The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-07-07
Literary News and Notes.

through as delightful number as the ba
bies could wish. ''Baby's Bedtime will
prove charming help for mamma, as the
pretty jingle said at the bedtime hour
will show. This dainty little magazine
always has the babies interests at heart,
and stands without rival in its especial
field of labor. Price so cents year;
cents a number. d. Lothrop Co., Pub
fishers, Boston.
Our Little Men and Women for July has
a very suggestive Fourth of July story and
poem, pretty and suggestive story for
vacations for poor children, bright little
sketch OF "a Little Girl Ruler -Wilhel-
mena, the youngest sovereign in the world
and charming bit of travel in India,
with rhymes and iingles that boys and
girls delight to read. Its serials this
month are especially good, its pictures al
together pretty and instructive. With so
much to attract amllse and interest, this
magazine is deservedly popular, maintain
ing its own as the best boys and girls
publication issued Price 81, 90 a year;
10 cents anumber. d. Lothrop Co., Pub
fishers, Boston.
Pansy for July is an exceptionally good
number. The paper on American history
concerns itself with the town OF Buffalo,
y. y, and its English Literary Paper IS
taken up with the life and works OF Charles
Dickens. There are short stories appro-
pirate to the month, and articles descrip-
tive OF foreign manners and customs. with
the usual number of Sketches poems and
the like. Pansy and Margaret Sidney fur
nish each an especially bright and telling
chapter in their regular serial stories. The
p. :. and All Along The Line will be eager
w
deavorers. for their interests are well con-
sidered. Price el.00 a year: 10 cents a
number. d, Lothrop Co., Publishers
Boston.
With their usual appreciation of the de
mands of their patrons, Messrs. A. Nc
Dowell 4 Co. are still working hard to
further improve their fashion journals and
to bring them closer. if possible, in touch
with Paris and its latest styles. With
this end in view Mr.. 4. Mcdowell has
just left for Europe intending fully to
spare neither time nor money in adding
new features to the firms publications,
"Paris Album of Fashion and La Mode
de Paris with these two a premium is
given to all subscribers for one year pay
ing $3.50 in advance, i'll the form of a
highly useful work, called ''Dressmaking
Simplitied.' These journals in conjunc-
ton with their others, LA Couturiere and
LA Mode, make list of publications
that are beyond competition, because their
styles are not reproductions, but originals
made up in Paris and come out one month
earlier than other fashion journals.
Messrs. \. Mcdowell X Co., 4 West 14th
Street, New y ork. beg to call attention to
the new and artistic covers they have had
designed for their journals: these are the
best work OF their best artists, and we
have no hesitation in saying that the con-
tents of these Journals, being Of such a very
high class, make the exceptionally fine
covers very appropriate.
Outing for july fully sustains the great
reputation of that excellent magazine of
healthful sport and pastime. Text as re-
freshing as woodland shades, and Illus
trations as bright as sparkling waters, oc-
cupy ninety-slN pages, and make the
special Summer number particularly at
tractive one. The contents are: "A Plea
for the House boat" by C. l.. Norton
illustrated: ''From the German Ocean to
to the Black Sea- continued by Thos.
Stevens; SADDLE and Sentiment ICON
1inued) by Weuona Gilman, Illustrated
by Stull and Watson: July Rides" by
Jessie +. O Donncll; .'Tronting with il
Camera" by 'FMultiplier;' ''Cynthys
Joe, by Clara :. Ross; '.Shot- putting, -
by Malcolm W. Ford illustrated; THE
Ballast Fin," 10y \. }. Kenealy, illustrat-
ed; Notwithstanding on the Upper
Mississippi" by I. S. Van Dyke; I'VE
Girls Awheel Through Germany" by
''Martha,'' illustrated: ''Pickerel- fishing
in South Jersey,' by John Clifford, Illus
trated THE Oar in the Northwest" by
H. W. Wack, illustrated; ''Harry's Ca
reer at Yale" (continued,) by Jno. Sey-
mour Wood: 1.-The st. Lawrence >kiH,n
by {. b. Naux, illustrated; THE Militia
ny schools of the United States,'' 10y
Lieut.. W. X. Hamilton, u. 5. A., illustrat-
ed: and the usual editorials, poems, re-
Cords etc.
''In japanese Garden is the title of
a really delightful paper by Lafcadio
Hearn, which appears in the Atlantic
Monthly for July. Mr.. Hearn gives a
curious account of the methods of the Jap
anese landscape gardener of the old re-
gime, and his picture of the gardens in
which sand and stones play perhaps a
more important part than flowers and turf
will be new to most readers. The first
paper i'll the magazine, by Eben Green
ough Scott. is devoted to General Nc
Clellan, and is an impartial account of
the part which he played during the war,
and Il summing up of his personal charac-
teristics and the reasons for his successes
and his failures. Mr. Edward G. Mason,
who is to write the history of illinois in
the American commemorative series, con-
tributes a very interesting paper on Chi
cago, in which he gives the reason for the
push and energy which we associate with
that city Mr.. Crawford Don Orsino'
is continued, and Mr.. Merwin, whose
horse papers have been for some time past
an occasional feature of The Atlantic has
an article on Arabian Horses, which CON
tains much that is novel and interesting
to the lover of the turf He says that the
intense love that the arabian has for his
horse is not merely a matter of romance,
or poetry, but actually exists: and that in
his horse he glories i'll precisely one thing,
namely, pedigree. Among other bright
contributions to this issue may be men
toned Mr.. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem
''Unguarded Gates. an eloquent warning
against the opening OF our land to the
wild motley tllrong' Of men alien to the
spirit of our Institutions, Houghton
Mit11in X Co.. Boston.