The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-10-31
Literary News and Notes.

ioSteu pN llle late NOl. "A. Is. Ellis, are tt
appear in the November Popular Scienc
Monthly as illustrating Evolution in folk
lore.
he story of General Miles. who ha
probably had the longest fighting caree
OF any American, and who rose from til,
lowest to the highest position in the Unit
ed states Army, without the aid of IVES
Point. IS told fully and from the most au
thentic sources in McClure's Magazine fo1
November. The article is fully illustrated
The past and future of gold will be ex-
amned 10y Charles 5. Ashley ia The Pop
mar Science Monthly for November. Mr..
Ashley denies that gold has appreciated.
OF That producers get smaller returns fol
their products than twenty five years ago,
and supports his position with statistical
and other evidence.
Miss Frances NJ. Abbott has contributed
to the November number of The Forum a
paper entitled IA Generation of College
Women,' showing what the subsequent
career, after graduation, has been, of
more than a thousand women who have
graduated from Nassar College since its
opening thirty years ago-an uncommonly
interesting and suggestive paper.
An article in Harper's Bazaar for Octo-
Der 10Th is entitled ssSmal Dinners. y
The invitations, the menu, the decora-
tons, the service-everything that the
hostess requires to know in order to plan
and Trlumphantly carry out her entertain
ment, is there set forth with all the fulness
OF practical experience by successful
hostess.
There are forty pictures in the opening
chapters of the New Life of Lincoln in
Mcclure Magazine fQr November. There
are 1lve very interesting and little known
portraits of Lincoln, including the early
portrait, now first published and showing
Lincoln before his face lost its youthful
aspect. These chapters deal very fully
with the fourteen years Lincoln lived in
Southern lndiana-from his seventh till
his twenty first year-and contain recol
lecticns of people now living there. There
are many pictures of the scenes of Lin
coins early life published here for the
first time.
Honghton Mitfin 4 Co., Boston. have
pubished a volume Of poems by Emma
Huntington Mason Of Augusta, The
Tower, with Legends and Lyrcs.H The
publishers say: ''Some of the poems in
this tasteful volume have appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly, and many in other pc
nodlcals. Readers who have enioyed these
Will be glad 10 have them in attractive
and permanent tolm. together with poems
not befole printed. They are varied in
subject and measure: they are flowing and
musical: and they have thought to steady
them, and imagination to give them
wings. The book il carefully printed
and attractively bound.
'rOil that mine adversary had written
book, said the smitten patriarch job.
That is What Senator Sherman has done,
and some things that he has set down
therein are OF nature to raise up more
advelsaries than he had before. The un-
favorable references in his lately publish
ed memoirs to Garfield, Harrison. Grant
Arthur and Conkling, however true thev
may be, will naturally irritate the friends
OF these men and stir up considerable con
trovelsy; indeed that effect has been pro-
duced already. All this might make it
bad for Mr.. Sherman were he a candidate
for further political honors But it is
understood that he is not. Having miss
ed the Presidency and having no hope
of ever reaching that goal he has put
aside ambition and probably intends to
return to private life at the end Of his
term in 1899. He is thus in a position to
free his mind, and he has done it very
frankly. Portland Advertiser.
The leading article in the November
number of The Forum will be a discus
sion of the third-term question bv Pro-
fessor John Bach McMaster, the histo-
rian, entitled 'sThe Third Term Tradi-
ton Mr.. McMaster cites the well
known historical presidents against
PRESIDENTIAL third term, and thinks there
is no reason to believe that the old time
to third term is one whit less
strong than it ever was. Mr.. McMaster
says that while our practice of choosing
Presidents, not because of their fitness.
but because OF their availability is in
theory all wrong, in practice no harm
comes OF it; for under our form of govern
ment we do not need President of ex-
traordinary ability; thef average man is
good enough, and for him two terms is
ample. What we want, in Mr.. McMas-
ters opinion, is strong government of
the people by the people, not govern
ment of the people by strong man, and
we ought not to tolerate anything which
has even the semblance of heredity, Mr..
McMaster counsels the advocates Of
third term for Mr.. Cleveland to remem-
Der the doctrine of the illustrious founder
Of their party, that s'in no office can ro-
tatiOn be more expedient.
1t is announced that ex-President Benia
min Harrison is engaged in writing Sc
ries of magazine articles for The Ladies'
Home Journal, in which periodical they
will begin in the December number I
series will be called 'sThis Country of
Ours" and will consist of ten articles
and probably more. The papers are being
written by General Harrison especially
for women, to meet a growing, wide
spread desire on their part to intelligently
understand the workings of our Govern
ment and the great National questions. 1t
will be the aim of the articles to explain
in the clear and concise style for which
the ex-President is famous, Just what the
United States Government means; the
origin and meaning of the Constitution;
how laws are enacted and enforced; what
the powers of the President and other Of
ficials are; what the judiciary system
means; how our foreign relations are
brought about and their meaning; how
Congress and the Senate legislate,-in
fact, complete explanation Of the Gov
eminent told in popular way. General
Harrison writes the articles from the
standpoint of a citizen who understands
his subject They have no bearing on
politics whatever. While directly intend
cd for vnyoou tho ort;o1oc mill r,t,nolIxx