The Republican journal., 1896-11-26
Literary News and Notes.

Messrs. Estes & Lauriat of Boston have
published in beautiful little volume two
stories by Mrs. Laura f. Richards Some
Say and ''Neighbors i'll Cyrus" There
is fun in the first; pathos in the second:
and human nature in both Mrs. Rich
ards character studies are inimitable,
and her thousands of readers, like Oliver
Twist, are ever calling for more
The journal of Medicine and Science
the official organ of the Maine Academy
OF Medicine and Science, published month
ly at Portland, completed its secord year
with the November number. 1t has
nearly doubled i'll size since its first issues
the second volume making nearly 100
pages and containing over 80 original ar
tlcles. The advertising pages also show
a healthy and encouraging growth. The
subscription price is 81 a year, in advance.
Harper's Bazaar published November
2lst is Thanksgiving issue. 1t contains
stories by Mrs. Spofford, Mrs. Craig, and
Alice Brown; 1.-The Thanksgiving Din
ner,' by Virginia Van de Water: and
''Homeward Bound" by Theron Brown.
number of beautiful illustrations from
the Horse Show are given, with descrip-
tive article showing the part Fashion
plays, and telling about the elegant toll
cites displayed at this annual New York
fete. There is also an anticipation of the
holiday season in paper ON "Simple
Christmas Gifts -
Estes & Lauriat, Boston, are the pub
fishers OF the only genuine Chatterbox,
which contains great variety of original
stories, sketches and poems for the
young. Chatterbox for 1896 is fully up to
md Of
seems to grow better every wear. and is
eagerly looked forward to by tens of thou
sands OF young people as the holiday sea-
son approaches 1t contains over 400
pages, and 200 original illustrations by
great English artists, six handsomely col
ored plates, and is not only a most inter-
esting but very instructive book, and
its healthy moral tone has always been ac-
knowledged. Price in board covers.
81. 25; in cloth, full gilt, etc., S175.
Among the distinctively literary fea-
lures OF the announcements of the Allan
tic Monthly for ,he coming year is series
OF papers on six Masters of American
Literature" Irving, Cooper, Bryant,
Hawt horne, Emerson and Longfellow. in
which the writings of each will be studied
from the point of view of the present by
oUA AAiooo OoPobiC youuSCI CllllCS, WIFI
the effort to inform readers who come to
these authors for the first time what parts
OF their writings are of present interest.
and what relative values should be put
upon each; there will be also reviews of
the work of our younger authors, such
for instance as Mr.. Henry B. Fuller, Mr.
James Lane Allen, Mr. Harold Frederick,
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson and others.
The Christmas Number of Harper's
Magazine will contain part third of ''The
Martian,' with six illustrations from the
authors drawings. An entertaining arti-
Gle ON ''President Kruger will be con-
tributed by Poultney Bigelow, and DR..
William Jacques will describe the process
OF obtaining electricity from coal W. D.
Howells will give personal recollections
of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
in the article entitled 'Oliver Wendell
Holmes" Two we'll illustrated papers
will be those entitled ''Wild Ducks and
Tame Decoys,." by Hamblen Sears, and
'How the Law got into the Chaparral,"
by Frederic Remington. In ga Middle
English Nativity John Carbin will des-
cribe miracle-plays performed by stroll
ling actors, in which the English drama
had its beginning. There will be six
short stories, ''Christmas Carol" etc.
The Number will be bound in an orna-
mental cover especially designed in colors
by Howard Pyle.
Great stress is laid, in the announce
ments of the Atlantic Monthly, on the
articles that will appear interpreting our
great educational movements. Among
the subjects that will be taken up are:
''The Place of the Public Schools in Typ
ical Communities, where the life of the
community centres about the schools
in these communities the public school
has in many respects the ideal attitude to
the life about it; ''The Chautauqua Move
ments and Methods, what they have
contributed to the intellectual develop