The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-27
Literary News and Notes.

snort stories by Kipling and Robert
| Barr, and poems by Robert Louis Steven
son and Eugene Field, are promised in
McClure's Magazine for March.
A new feature in the Atlantic is a series
OF polltlcal studies. The Presidency and
secretary Morton, in the March issue, is
t1e second paper In the series, the first of
which, upon the Presidency and Mr. Reed.
appeared in the February issue.
"A scientific examination of the prob
lens OF Acclimatization, by Prof. William
Il. Ripley, of the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology, is to appear in Appletons'
Popular Science Monthly for March. Prof
ripley considers the disease to which the
chlef colonizing races are liable, the effects
OF humidity in the tropics, mixture with
indigenous races, etc.
1t will surprise many to learn that alkali
lands, besides their plant killing sal soda.
contain IN large measure the salts most
valuable as plant-food. Prof. E. W. Hill
gard is to have an article in the March
Popular Science Monthly giving the re-
suits OF certain examinations of the soils
OF such regions, and telling what has been
learned about the means required to make
them productive.
The publishers of the Atlantic Monthly
announce under the general heading, The
Case of the Public Schools, a series of
articles to discuss the payment and stand
ing OF teachers in our public schools
throughout the country. Over ten thou.
sand teachers have been requested to con-
tribute information as the basis of these
papers. The first, appearing in the March
Inv IIol1 i e
Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
Mr.. Fenton T. Newbery contributes a
study of ''Our Foreign Trade to the
March number of The Century. Mr.. New
bery's figures, which are all drawn from
the latest official sources, show that in
1894 our imports from the West Indies.
Central and South America, amounted to
more than twice as much as our exports
to these countries. The gratifying fact is
brought out that our foreign trade ex-
ceeds in volume that of any other country
excepting Great Britain
McClure's Magazine for March will con-
tam interesting passages from a speech
made by Abraham Lincoln, in the Illinois
Legislature in January, Extraordinarily
the earliest speech of Lincon's of which
any record remains, and one hitherto I'M
noticed by any of his biographers 1t is
in his most attractive vein--that mingling
of genial candor with perfectly clnching
argument for which he afterwards became
50 noted. Along with these passages will
be presented some entirely new anecdotes
and "reminiscences of Lincoln S service in
the legislature and of his humble begin
ming as lawyer at Springfield And
there will be a full quota of Lincoln
pictures; among them four portraits of
Lincoln, two of which have never before
been published, and a view of his first
law office.
F. Hopkinson Smith has a word to say
on behalf of the ''unspeakable Turk in
the course of an article he has wri tten for
the March Century, entitled IA Personal
ly Conducted Arrest in Constantinople."
Mr.. Smith says: IF some highly civil
LIKED Caucasian should lose his temper
when one of these hungry, homeless ours
looked up into his face, and use his boot
or his cane in reply, it would have been
Mahmoud's duty promptly to convey the
highly civilized person to the nearest
station, from which the chief would have
instantly sent him to jail for year. When
child stumbles and falls in the street
the nearest man springs forward to save
1t. When a father enters a SOM presence,
though he be as ragged as Lazarus and as
dirty as a scavenger, the son remains
standing until he has permission to be
seated. And yet in my own land we
build ten-story buildings side by side
to children, and a third to provide against
the neglect of the aged
We have received from the publisher,
F. Tennyson Nicely, ia Fifth Avenue,
New York, the second part of Ethan AL
lens Drama of the Revolution.'' The
first part was issued some time ago. The
price of each part in paper is so cents;
cloth, S1.50 Each part contains five acts,
and the two dramatize the entire story of
the Revolution. One eminent historian
wrote of the first part, which has gone
through four editions: ''The diapason of
expression, from the highest to the lowest
key, is broad enough to satisfy the ear at
tuned to Shakespeare; and further, that,
sit is the best work of its kind that has
appeared in American letters.' The rec
ognized historian of Saratoga, William L.
Stone, says, "The style is perspicuous,
the characters naturally drawn, the his
toric details absolutely correct. 1t is
classic, and the time is near when not to
nave fedu III Will De mark OF ignorance.
Every school should have it as a reader
The Rev. Dr. r. Heber Newton says,
characters live in it, and move like hui
man beings, and not like the manikins of
history" Another critic, VIM. o. NJ Dow
ell, says, "When the bronze monument of
Nathan Hale, in the City Hall Park, New
York, shall have surrendered to the forces
of time, the Nathan Hale of this book will
continue to be an inspiring influence touch
ing every heart.''
General Greely's article in the March
Ladies' Home Journal upon ''The Per-
sonal Side of Washington will show that
Washington was largely influenced by his
environments, but also that he steadily
tended toward the higher standards of the
present age, especially as regards his
habits and ideals. Of the first election in
which he actively participated General
Greedy writes: 'In his younger days
Washington extended at his first election
the usual post election hospitality, which,
in those days, consisted in the minimum
amount of food with the maximum
amount of spirits. We find him paying
an account for such an entertainment for
some four hundred voters, where the &C
count was three shillings for food and
thirty-seven for liquors. The capacity of