The Republican journal., 1896-12-31
Literary News and Notes.

story by Paul Leicester Ford, the author
of "The Hon. Peter Sterling" This
novel, 1.-The Story of an Untold Love-
is love story pure and simple, but full of
dramatic interest, and it bids fair tos be
one of the leading novels of the year.
The December Sothoron's appears in
handsome cover, typical of the Christmas
season. The stories and articles include
the following: ga Little Peacemaker,"
"Famous Maestros, ''Was 1t Murder?"
ga Newsboy's Christmas" "'47-An
Ordinary Item,' madonna and Magda-
lene," and Dickens Children
Noah Brooks, man of letters whom
Maine is proud to own, and whose home
is now in Castine, is on the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Brooks has passed a long period
in the arduous labor of completing
the history of this nation begun many
years ago by William Cullen Bryant, a
work which has just been placed before
the public, and he has earned his rest.
John B. McMasters article on ga Cen
fury of Social Retirement" in the Janu-
airy Atlantic, gives many interesting facts.
We learn that the great grandfathers of
many of us were men who never in the
whole course of their lives used match
or postage stamp, or heard steam
whistle, or saw pane of glass six feet
square. Business was done under great
difficulties, and to carry bushel of salt
two hundred miles by land cost 81. 80.
The Art Amateur for December is one
of the notable numbers of the year. The
color and black and white studies are I'M
usually attractive. The leading articles.
which are profusely illustrated, include
the following: ''Mrs. Clara Goodyear
''Flower Analysis GLOVER, Fruit and
Still Life ''Pen Lettering ''Teaching
the Child to Draw ''China Painting"
1.-The Inside of Country House, and
"Wood Carving for Beginners.
new Maine book is Nan at Camp
Chicopee, by Mrs Myra Sawyer Hamlin
of Bangor Camp Chicopee is the sum
mer home of party of young boys, and
Mans father is owner of the camp and
has general oversight over the boys. In
Nan Mrs. Hamlin has pictured that type
of healthy, lively girl who grows to be a
robust and strong minded woman. Mans
influence over the boys is most whole
some. She mingles with them in their
sports on field and water, and in several
instances proves that a girl can be as
ool-headed and courageous as a boy in
time of danger.
Colonel T. W. Higginson in his reminis-
cences in the January Atlantic speaks of
an interesting coincidence. 1t was often
his habit to read late into the night; and
sitting UP till four one morning, he left
his bookmark at an unfinished page, hav-
ing to return the book to the college
library. year later he happened to take
the book from the library again, CHANGED
to get up at four O. clock to read, and be-
gan where he left off. Afterward looking
in his diary he found that he had skipped
a precise year between the two days and
continued reading the same passage.
Outing for January is the holiday num-
Der of this best of sporting magazines. 1t
is beautiful and entertaining, from the
special cover to the last of its seasonable
pages. The fiction includes 'Redcoat
and Continental new story by Sara
Beaumont Kennedy, and 1.-The Passing of
Zaxtia," by Edward II. Wilcox. Both
are excellent. In the sporting depart
ments, Hy. Guy Carleton is very funny in
his description of the ''Game Fishes of
Florida:' Ed. w. Sandys is at home in
"a Tramp on Snowshoes;' and the same
author gives a vivid description of mid
winter trapping in IA Christmas with
Trapper Lewis In Hunting for an
Arctic Larder," Geo, II. Clark, who was
with the Pealy expedition, draws most
interesting picture of the far north.
"Through the Land of The Marseilaise.' -
is an excellent bit OF travel, written and
illustrated by Birge Harrison. Paul Van
Dyke tells W hat befell him while 'After
Caribou on Snowshoes" The other
sketches are up to the usual high stan
dard.
When the Prince of Wales was in Amer
ica in 1860, lie was a young man of nine
teen and unmarried. Naturally, the Amer
lean girls We're deeply interested in him.
and a period of the most romantic excite
ment ensued in all the cities. Every sub
terfuge to dance with the young Prince
was reSorted to, and members of his party
were bribed to arrange a waltz with the
Heir Apparent: the most unusual eXpedi-
dents ere reSorted to by girls. His bag
gage was kissed as it was put aboard the
ears, and when he left hotel room women
would rush in and carry away in bottles
the water in which he had washed his
face. Church people forgot themselves
and stood on the cushion of the pew
in order to see the royal visitor On
every hand it was a season of excite
ment, and balls, dinners, fetes and
receptions ruled. One of the Princes
party was Stephen Fiske, the journalist,
who was delegated by the elder James
Gordon Bennett, of The New York Herald,
to remain with the prince while he was in
America. Naturally, Mr.. Fiske saw all
the incidents of His Royal Highness'
tour. Taking liking to the American
journalist the young Prince saw that he
was present upon all occasions. Now
Mr.. Fiske has written out the whole story
and it will form the January installment
of The Ladies' Home Journals series of
''Great Personal Events.'' Illustrations
of some of the great scenes have been
made, and these will be given with the
article IN the January Journal
The January Forum opens with an ex-
tremely interesting study of "Pope Leo
KIP by the Vicomte f. Melchior de
Vogue, who traces briefly, but with per-
feet freedom, the successive developments
of this lofty genius, and the correspond
ing increase in the prestige and moral
power of the Papacy throughout the
world. The Vicomte de Vogue's frequent
visits to the Vatican, and the high esteem
in which he is held by the Pope, lend
unusual weight to his article. Mr. o. D.
Ashley, President of the Wabash Rail