The Republican journal., 1897-10-07
Literary News and Notes.

control of such members OF the herd as
are required for the royal elephant stables.
1t is spectacle the like of which is to be
seen nowhere else in the world, and it at
tracts great crowds of people from all
parts of the kingdom. The article is
very interestingly illustrated from photo
graphs taken by the author.
The American Monthly Review of Re-
views for October has several articles of
unusual interest to women readers. Miss
Frances E. Willard tells the story of the
Worlds W. C. T. U. movement; Mrs.
Ellen M. Henrotin, president of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, out
lines the benefits of those organizations
Mrs. Sheldon Amos of England writes of
a London Women's Club, and Miss Mary
Taylor Blanvelt contributes an enlighten-
ing article on the opportunities for wo-
men at the English universities.
1.-The American Kitchen Magazine for
September is nicely illustrated, showing
some interiors of cooking laboratories in
the west The magazine contains the fol-
lowing list of interesting articles: DO
mestic Science in the Agricultural Col
leges, THE Place of Science in Woman s
Education, 'Child Diaries, - The House
Mother" Experiments with Meat and
Fish, 'From Kitchen to Parlor," ''Wipe
the Dishes dry "Dietary Studies in New
Mexico" From Day to Day." Home
Science Pub. Co., 49, fremont ST., Bos-
ton, Mass.
A new volume of poems by Timothy
Otis Paine, a native of Winslow, Me. e,
and graduate of Waterville college, who
was for forty years pastor of the Sweden
hoe
been issued since the writer's death.
Following is an extract:
"Our souls, like planets, know not where
to 60,
But follow on in floating, curving lines,
Now up, now down, to left, to right, but on !;
Our safety certain only as we yield.
But as We yield the Great Astronomer
OF souls, with joyous calculation, sees
The peaceful path through which he can MS
lead
When a six foot something Maine farmer
named Virgil Eaton takes his pen in hand,
it is because he has seen something inter-
esting and has something to say about it.
The easy vigor of his style and keenness
of his observation render important his
Tale of the Tarratines' in current
magazine. The Tarratine Indians occupy
reservation of Penobscot river islands.
Admirers of Mr.. Eaton work thought it
4 pity when he left Boston newspaper
work 10 isolate himself down East, but
the publication of a succession of bril-
liant articles in various periodicals gives
his retirement a different phase. Boston
Evening Record.
Estes 4 Lauliat, Boston, have just pub
lished two new books by James Otis, the
first being The Boys of Fort Schuyler"
which is an intensely interesting and his
torical story, dealing with the siege of
Fort Schuyler in the Mohawk Valley in
Hi by the British troops and Indians,
under Colonel St. Leger and Joseph
Brant. The volume contains handsome
full-page drawings, and is embellished
with an especially attractive and pleasing
cover design. The volume is a square
12mo. listed at S1.25. The second vol
ume is 1.-The Signal Boys of 49, being
the sixth volume of James Otis ''Stories
of America History Series - 1t is a tale
of the siege of Boston, and is admirably
illustrated with II drawings by Bridgman.
Small l2mo., - cents.
The Photographic art number of the
Metropolitan Magazine is indeed an arts
tic gem I he handsome appearance Of
the magazine is greatly enhanced 10y Il
beautiful cover design in colors. The
articles in this number, all fully illustra-
ted, include: ''Helen Could and 'Lynden-
hurst, summer Idlers," ''Coney
Island in Gala Dress" ''IIon. Lemuel E.
Quigg, characteristic New York
Types" "Spiritual Charantry," IA
skyscraper from Cellar to Cornice,"
Theatrical Architecture, - ''Bicycle Rae
ing. Past and Present, - Art in Photo
glaphy," 1.-The Opening Theatrical Sea-
son, and Greater New York" In adj
dition there are many full page illustra-
tions showing artistic posing.
\ great deal has appeared in the news
papers at different times about aluminium,
its properties and its uses. 1t was re
Gently announced that contracts had been
sgred fol the delivery in England of
1000 tons of the crude metal of Ameri-
can manufacture. General interest in the
subject has led the American Monthly
Review OF Reviews to publish the first
complete account of the discovery of the
American process for the reduction of
aluminium by electrolySis. The story of
this discovery (Which resulted in bringing
down the price Of the metal from SIG to
30 cents a pound) and its subsequent
application in manufacturing on a com
merclaI scale is one of the most interest
ing chapters in the recent annals of Ameri-
can industrial progress. 1t is another in
stance Of the triumph of Yankee in
genuity and energy. America now makes
as much aluminium in a year as all the
Others countries of Europe together
The october number of The Forum may
well be described as an international one.
OF its twelve interesting articles, no
fewer than seven-' England, Turkey and
India, The Impending Deficiency of
Bread stutfs, international Bimetal-
ism' doth for and against statistics
versus Socialism," universities and the
Higher Education of Women,' and
Naval Warfare: Present and Future -
concern the other great nations of the
earth besides ourselves; while ''Our Need
of Merchant Vessels and 1.-THE Protec-
tive Features of Section 22'' treat of sub
jects of immense importance to the United
States. Though not the leading article in
the table of contents, Mr.. G. Wood Davis
paper on ''The Impending Deficiency OF
Bread stuffs'' readily claims the first at
tention of the reader by reason of its uni
versal interest. DR.. Davis has devoted
many years to the investigation of his
subject, and he asserts that, relatively tC
the consuming population, the acreage
under the bread making grains-wheat
rye, buckwheat, etc, is now two million
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