The Republican journal., 1895-12-19
Literary News and Notes.

The holiday number of Town Topics
contains reviews Of the year under its
regular departments and variety Of
lively stories, sketches and poems. all
dressed in holiday garb.
The writer of a comprehensive and al
together excellent article on 'sLewston
and Bates College, which appears i'll 4
current magazine of good standing, is the
His duties at the shop occupy his entire
time during the day, and his literary work
is done by piecemeal evenings.
The Gil istmas number Of Harper S
Weekly dated December l4th) contains
thiltytwo pages, including an oInamen-
tai cover There are articles and stories
by William Dean lIowells. Owen Wister,
Richard Harding Davis. and John Ken
driek Bangs, and illustrations by Howard
Pyle, Frederic Remington, Peter Newell
and others,
In Babyhood for December DR.. A. X.
Bond explains the meaning of Catching
Cold, and gives practical directions as
to how children should be treated to avoid
the liability to catarrhal troubles. DR..
Vim. +. Leonard furnishes ''Some Prac-
teal Hints Concerning Scarlet Fever, y
and the medical editor answers questions
concerning cod liver oil, winter dress,
styes, feeding, and many other topics
which perplex young mothers.
Gen. Charles Hamlin and his son, Mr..
Charles E. Hamlin, who has arrived in
Bangor to pass the winter, are collecting
data and arranging the extensive mass Of
valuable matter already in Gen. Hamlin' S
possession for an extended biography of
the late eX- Vice President Hannibal Ham
lin, which will be written by them. The
history will be correct in every detail and
it will be a valuable addition to the polit-
ical history of the stirring times in which
the late distinguished Bangorean lived
and which he helped to make.
The December number of the Green
Bag, the lawyers magazine, which con
taips interesting articles prepared for it
by Gen. Charles Hamlin, will appear this
week. 1t Will contain sketches Of the
lives of Judges Chas W. Walton, Enoch
Foster and Lucilius A. Emery, of the
Maine supreme bench, all from Gen. Ham
Inns pen. This excellent history OF the
Maine supreme Court will be completed
in the Green Bag probably in the Janu-
AIRY number with sketches of the lives Of
tie late Justices Cutting, Kent, Danfolth,
Virgin and Libbey.
The Funk 4 Wasnalls Company cele-
brated on November 9TH. the first mi
versary of tile completion of the stand
ard Dictionary, by putting to press the
seth Thousand Of this great work. This
is very large number of dictionaries to
print in a single year. The publishers
mathematician has figured ont that, if
these 90. 600 sets were piled fiat one upon
another, they would reach nearly seven
miles in height; and the printed pages. il
laid end to end, would extend over 10. 900
miles. one and three tifths tines around
the globe
The peril to which our missionaries in
China were recently exposed, and the
present insecurity of their stations in the
Turkish Empire, lend a special value to
the book entitled Modern Missions in
the East - LII that work the late Edward
A. Lawrence, D. d.. gives an account of
missionary journey around the world,
undertaken with the express purpose Of
studying the work of the several denomi-
nations. Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.
D.. leader in the World Parliament of
Religions, writes: ~ regard Modern Mis-
sions in the East as one of the most i'm
portant books ever issued in relation to
the methods and achievements and limi-
tations of missionary work. l shall keep
it very close to me when | visit India next
year