The Republican journal., 1895-09-19
Literary News ana Notes.

Literary News and Notes.
Harper & Brothers have in preparation
uniform edition of Mark Twain works.
The first volume, entitled Life on the Mis-.
sissippi, will be issued before the end of
the year.
Mrs. Burton Harrison has written a
new novelette,, dealing in the main with
the ''fashionables' of New York at the
Horse Show, which The Ladies' Home
Journal is about to begin. MI. w. T..
Smedley has illustrated the story.
The September number (monthly part)
of Golden Days, the famous magazine for
boys and girls, has been received from the
publisher James Elverson, Philadelphia.
1t maintains its usual high standard, and
is looked forward to with eagerness by
thousands Of readers all over the country.
The earliest indications of the autumn
fashions will be found, fully described
and illustrated, in the September issues of
Harper's Bazaar. Eben Z. Rexford and
Frances E. Fayalt will respectively write
practical papers for amateurs on the gar
den and the poultry yard, and one of sew
eral bright stories will be unique tale by
Dutfield Osborne, entitled The Persian
Rug.
Mr.. E. V. Smalley discusses the prob
lem of deep water communication be-
tween the Great Lakes and the Atlantic
in the September Review of Reviews.
Mr.. Smalleys article has especial timeli-
ness in view Of the approaching Deep
Waterways Convention at Cleveland. Its
points receive added emphasis and illus
tration from the operations now in prog
ress for the moving of this year S crops
from the interior to the seaboard
Edward Box, the editor Of The Ladies'
Home journal, has written book for
young men called s'Successward: A
Young Mans Book for Young Men.
which the Revells will publish in fort
night. The book aims to cover all the
important phases Of young mans life:
his business life, social life, his amuse-
ments, religious life, dress, his attitude
toward women and the question of his
marriage. This is Mr.. Bok's first book.
The New England Kitchen Magazine
has become the American Kitchen Maya
zine, change necessitated by the growth
and ever widening scope and aims of the
publication. There is no change in the
ownership and management, though the
change of the name necessitates also a
change in the title of the publishing firm.
This will be hereafter the Home Science
Publishing Company, which will publish
not only the American Kitchen Magazine
out books and pamphlets pertaining to
the subject OF science in the home. The
members OF this firm remain as before,
Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, Mrs. Estelle Nj, II.
Merrill and Miss Anna Barrows.
A series Of articles on the Public Schools
OF the United States will be contributed
to Harpers Weekly by F. NJ. Hewes.
they are to be statistical and comparative,
giving the data in regard to attendance,
pupils, teachers, salaries, curricula, ex-
pendltures. city schools and high schools.
they Will deal with the entire subject of
public school education in the United
States, and the facts in regard to the
various sections will be carefully coi!ated
and compared with each other, and studied
IN their relation to the general status of
public education in this country. They
will be graphically illustrated and
elncidated BY means Of ingenious and ac-
curate diagrams, charts and figures.
There are seven papers in all, which will
begin in September and continue through
the autumn
The Review OF Reviews for September
calls attention to the change in European
sentiment on the liquor question, as
shown especially in the establishment of
the French monopoly of the manufacture
and wholesale supply of strong liquors, in
the work of the Belgian commission. and
in the still more important action taken
10y Russia in setting up a government
monopoly of the entire Wholesale and re-
tail traffic in liquors throughout the en-
plre everywhere in Europe saws the
editor Of the Review, ''the fact is becom
lng recognized that liquor selling is not
only an unbecoming business, but one
that is socially and politically dangerous
requiring new and rigid regulation or
else total SUPPRESSION
Apropos Of the great enthusiasm reused
by the recent Mortified Conferences for
Bible Study, under Mr.. Moody's leader
ship, the editor of the Review of Reviews
comments suggestively on the ssNew
Puritan revival in this country. and GER
tain marked results in our politics that
have already come from this revival. as
shown most notably in movements for
reform. ''Whatever it NAV
mean in detail, - say the Review. sit must
mean in general that the worst period of
political and municipal profigacy in the
United States has been left behind MS.
and that the moral and religious elements
Of the country are going into questions of
local and general government on the con-
viction that righteousness exalteth ma
tion.' The politicians will do well to
reckon with these awakened elements of
good citizenship