The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-08-04
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News and Notes.
Gen. O. o. Howard, of Maine, has accept
ed the commission Of writing :, popular
life of Queen Isabella for the World Fair
commission.
The August number of Food presents a
noticeable change in its makeup "a
change in the direction of Improvement
the larger part of the magazine being di
vided up into departments, with attrac-
tive headings characteristic of the feat
ures discussed. This departure renders
Food more entertaining than ever, giving
as it does greater variety to the contents.
The contents are appetizing. Glover Pub
fishing Co., - Park Place, New y DIRK
Aroostook county is the scene of an
other book, which has just been published,
entitled "Aroostook Woods.' 1t is from
the pen OF Charles G. West, of Houlton,
and dedicated to Walter Mansur. presi-
dent of the Houlton National Bank, as
the former ''worthy commodore of the
birch bark fleet The book treats of
camp life in the wilds of Aroostook, fish
ing, canoeing, camping, shooting and
trapping, being true stories of actual life
in camp, and makes Il volume of :545
pages
The Story Teller for August contains a
complete romance of adventure and en-
terprise, in which plucky Young John
North seeks for the lost gold mines Of the
Aztecs. 'Montezuma' Gold Mines is
the title of the tale and Fred A. ODER is
It's author. Young readers who are ia
miliar with Mr.. Ober's other story, The
Silver City, - need not he told that Mon
tezuma' Gold Mines is alike an absorb
my and stirring romance Price Is cents
Il number. y. Lothrop Company, Pub
fishers, Boston.
Rev Francis Z. Clarke, ID. D., former
y Of Portland. president OF the Society
tor Christian Endeavor, will leave early in
August for a tour around the world. sail
ing from san Francisco to Japan. and
thence to China, Siam. Syria, Egypt and
other interesting countries. Dr. Clarke
will embody his experiences in book,
with anecclote and incident, and will take
photographs of scenes never before re
produced, besides collecting those of i'm
portant and interesting people and places
10 serve as illustrations
Mr. Box has succeeded in unearthing
quantity of unpublished material 10y Hen
ry Ward Beecher, which will shortly be
published as a series OF articles in The
Ladies Home journal. The material is
especially valuable since it deals with
range of topics both varied and timely,
and will advance. for the first time in
print, the great preachers views on a
number of such interesting questions as
marriage, home government, woman in
public and private life, politics, ETC., etc.
MI. Box has secured the cooperation of
Mrs. Beecher and Professor Ellingwood,
Mr.. Beecher's private reporter, in the ed
itln@ of the material.
We again feel called upon to do the fe-
male portion of our readers the favor of
drawing their attention to the publications
of Messrs A. Mcdowell Il Co.. 4 and 6 West
18th Street, New York. This firm import
and publish the American Editions of the
Partisan Fashion Journals. La Mode de
Paris, Doc. paris Album of Fashion,
53c.: La Courturiere" 30c.: and LA
Mode 15c. These books have been IA
vorably commented upon by us in previous
writings, but in consideration of the many
improvements we have noticed We do not
hesitate to speak of them as the first Jour
mails of their kind to be found on the
bookstands. Their September number
VIII toHtdlH dll the idleSl rail- Styles at
least a month earlier than any other fash
ion paper. The plates in McDowells
Journals are not reproductions but are
the work OF French artists, done in Paris.
Send for sample copy.
Outing for August is filled with pleas
ant, breezy matter of a seasonable nature,
and, AS usual, sparkles with many beauti-
ful illustrations. The contents are as fol-
lows: ''Around the World with Wheel
and Camera, by Frank &. LEM, illus
trated; august Rides" by Jessie F.
O Donnell: "Aunt Abe's Fishing Party,''
by Jennie Taylor Wandle, illustrated;
saddle and Sentiment {continuedD, by
Wenona Gilman, illustrated by >tull and
Watson; From the German Ocean to the
Black Sea- (continued, 10y Thomas
Stevens, llustrated: 1.-The City in the
Valley" by Matthew Lester "The
shawow Of Revenge by Louise Dupree
MITCHELL; 'Off to the Moors of Bonnie
Scotland, by Claud Prescott; ''To the
Crest of Mount Manstield,' by w. c.
Gaynor; 1.-The Military Schools of the
United States,'' by Lieut.. W. r. Hamil-
ton, L. S. A., illustrated; ''Saddleton's
Illusion" by President Bates; A Three
Mile Rum by Welland Hendrick; ''With
the Iowa Chirkens,' by Ed. W. Sandys,
illustrated; ''Hary's Career at Yale,''
(continued), by John Seymour Wood. IL
Illustrated; and the usual editorials, poems,
records etc, etc.