The Republican journal., 1896-10-08
Literary News and Notes.


though dated one or two months ahead.
New Moon Pub. Co., Lowell, Mass.
Albert Lynch the famous French artist,
is said to have given us new and dis
tinctive type of american grip in pic
ture completed after his return from re-
cent extended visit to this country. His
characterization of young American
womanhood is exceedingly interesting
and attractive-the conception of a criti-
cal student, and the creation of skilled
painter Mr.. Lynch was commissioned
by The Ladies' Home Journal to portray
the american girl' as he saw her, and
his picture is reproduced in the October
number of that magazine.
The Forest & Stream Publishing Com
pany, 346 Broadway, New York, have is
sued in neat little pamphlet a paper
contributed to Forest & Stream by Flor
ence A. Merriam, entitled, GLOW Birds
Affect Farm and Garden. A series of
facts determined by Investigation of the
food habits Of our common birds, showing
their character as insect destroyers and
their value as allies of the farmer and
fruit grower The pamphlet will be sup
piled for distribution at cost by the Forest
& Stream Publishing Company. Price,
five cents.
THE Three Strategic Chiefs of the
Presidential Campaign i. e., the chair
men of the National committees of the
three leading parties, are the subjects of
character sketches in the October Review
of Reviews. Murat Halstead writes about
Mr.. Hanna; Willis j.. Abbott describes
Senator Jones of Arkansas the hope of
| the 'Popocrats;'' and Marion Butler, the
energetic and able young leader of the
Populist forces, is portrayed by Carl Sny-
DEL These sketches are terse and vigor-
Gus, the writer in each case being in full
touch with his subject.
Outing for October is a most readable
number and carries many fine illustra-
tions. A strong, complete story of the
old South, by the brilliant pen of Sara
Beaumont Kennedy, will please all read
ers. Other notable features include
Football by Walter Camp; "Trotting
Road Teams and Their Drivers by Z. b.
Abercrombie; "a Day on the Uplands,'
by Ed. w. Sandys; "Racing Schooners,''
by r. B. Burchard; ''Bear Hunting in
British Columbia" by W. E. Coffin, and
''Amercan and English Boats and Oars"
by Chase Mellen.
Many will learn with regret that the
publication Of The Pansy magazine will
be discontinued after the October number
For many years this monthly visitor has
gone into thousands of homes, bearing
messages OF kindness, fraternity, love
and truth, and has, indeed, been the me-
dunn through which the words of Pansy
herselt-dear to so many, many friends
have been spoken directly, heartily and
affectionately. The publishers have ar
ranged with the Golden Rule Company of
Boston for the transfer of all subscrip-
lions to The Pansy that do not expire
with the October number, sending to all
such the regular numbers of The Junior
Golden Rule until the subscriptions paid
for The Pansy shall have been filled by
| current numbers of The Junior Golden
| Rule
Minots Ledge Lighthouse is one of the
most famous lighthouses in the world, the
Eddystone Light alone, perhaps vying
with it in general public interest. 1t is
deservedly famous, for its building was
remarkable undertaking. The story of it is
/ told by Mr.. 9. A. Lawrence in the Octo-
| Der number OF the New England Maya
zine, and his article will be read with
eager interest by all who ''go down to
the sea in ships, as most of us at some
time or other are apt to do, The article
| is enriched by score Of Illustrations
showing the lighthouse as it appears to-
| day, and taking us back to the busy and
Venturesome days Of its building War
rem F. Kellogg, Park Square, Boston,
Mass.
The October Century contains "A
Study of Mental Epidemics," by Mr.
Boris Sidis, which has a close bearing on
American affairs past and contemporaries
Gus. He gives an analysis of the social
disorders of the period of the Crusades
and the nervous epidemcs of Europe,
and explains the theory of mental sug-
gestion or hypnotism, by which the sus-
ceptible portion of a tribe or a people or
group of peoples, give themselves up to
popular delusion. In the same number
the veteran Free Soiler, the Hon. George
W. Julian, writes on John 2. Hale, ga
Presidential Candidate of 1S52;' and
''Topics of the Time contains editorials
on Government by Hystera," 1.-The
Workingman' Interest in the Gold Stan
dard, ''Silver's Worst Victims" and
IAN American Statesman the late ex-
Gov w. E. Russell.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the
October Ladies' Home Journal, names the
best one hundred books (by American au-
years. The first ten of the list, after
naming Bulinchs age of Fable" he
selects in these words: cot the classic
authors, Aldrichs Story Of a Bad Boy is
already child's classic as well, and SO
are Danas Two Years Before the Mast
and Hawthorne's Grandfather Chair.
Longfelow's 'Hiawatha' is easy reading
and full of life. Parkman's Oregon
Trail is the journal of young mans
trip across the continent fifty years ago,
when everything was wild. Thoreau's
Maine Woods has the real flavor of the
forest. Cooper's Spy is a tale of the
American Revolution, in which Washing
ton appears as hero. Irvings Brace
bridge HalP is a delightful picture of
country life, which l remember to have
read with delight at twelve. Lowelrs
'Biglow Papers is full of humor, and
though many of its illusions will pass
over boys head, yet there are plenty
which he will understand"
Fifty years ago, in 1916, the American
Missionary Association was founded, and
in October of the present year the semi
centennial is to be celebrated by a great
series of jubilee meetings in Boston. The
work of these fifty years has certainly
been remarkable. The negroes and poor
whites of the South, the Indians and the