The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
Literary News and Notes.
The estate of Gail Hamilton, according
to an inventory filed, amounts to s31 O29.

The estate of Gail Hamilton, according
! to an inventory filed, amounts to S31 O29.
The fullest presentation of the subject
of teachers pensions ever made is by
! Miss Elizabeth A. Allen, in the June Re-
vi w of Reviews Miss Allen was active
! in the New Jersey movement for teachers
pensions, and has informed herself as to
what has been done in other States and
countries. Her article treats the subject
I in it's practical as we'll as it's argumenta-
! tive bearings.
Much has been said of late about the
prevalence of eye disorders among Amer
lean children, but very little has been
| done in the direction of practical reform.
! One of the few hopeful movements on this
line is that recently organized in the Min
neapols public schools under the direc-
| ton of DR.. Frank Airport, who contrib
utes to the June Review of Reviews a
valuable and suggestive account of what
has been accomplished there.
Hardly had the report of Mark Twain S
serious illness reached these shores when
it was followed by a contradiction that
brought cheer TO the hearts OF the multi
tude OF his admirers. so far from being a
physical wreck, Mr.. Clemens seems to be
alert, vigorous and hopeful, despite the
trials and troubles which have come with
his later years. Let us hope that the
author of "Huckleberry Finn may live
to earn and enjoy comfortable royalties
for many year to come. He is man
whom the world can i'll spare He is
more than an entertainer-he is a skilful
deineator of life and character, and his
Il apYaa1c in ,,,It In 10, all and
ditions of men.
In it's current number of Tales (June,) }
Town Topics presents to its readers per-
laps the most ambitious story that has
appeared in its quarterly series. Its au-
thor, Mr.. Clinton Ross, whose other works
have earned him no little distinction in
the later school of writer's, has produced
in "Princess Enigma a charming TO-
nance, healthy in tone, virile in effect,
and of a style sufficiently fascinating to
enchain the readers attention from the
beginning to the end. The usual array of
bright stories, sketches, poems and wit
ticisms familiar to readers of this breezy
quarterly make up the rest of the June
number of Tales from Town Topics 1t
is an attractive collection of light summer
reading. Town Topics Publishing Com
pany, POS Fifth avenue, New York;
In entering its fifty fourth year The
Living Age seems to have entered a new
career of prosperity and popularity.
Among the evidences of this is the open
ing of new departments which enable it to
cover much wider field than ever before
Its translations bring its readers into close
| touch with the leaders in thought and
action of Continental Europe, while, in
the Monthly Supplement selected readings
| are given from leading American periodi-
Gals and from new books, as we'll as a list
! of the ''Books of the Month" The gain
in quantity is shown by the addition of IS
pages IL the first quarterly volume of this
year. This alone, continued through the
year, would make good sized volume OF
| it is enough to say that it we'll maintains
its former high standard. 1t could not do
more.
Elhu Burritt, 1.-THE Learned Black
smith, - was in many respects one of the
most noteworthy characters that New
England has produced during the century.
| The extent of his linguistic attachments,
| self trained as he was without the priv
| leges of the schools, was something re-
malkable and almost incredible. But he
was not simply a machine for learning
| languages; he was a man of most virile
mind, of great public spirit and of world
wide sympatbes. His labors i'll behalf OF
cheap postage and of international arbi-
tration We're more fruitful than the labors
of almost anybody else in his generation,
and in this time when the cause OF
international arbitration is peculiarly al
the front, it is worth while TO study Bur
,.i++ % ira El1a,, - ut
lett S article upon him in the June num-
| Der of the New England Magazine is most
opportune, and will be widely read. We
do not know of any better popular ac-
count, and it is rendered the more valu-
! able by the fine portraits of MI, Burritt
which accompany it, the views of his vari-
Gus homes and haunts, and the curious fac
SMILES of many OF his productions. War
rem F. Kellogg, ) Park Square, Boston
| Mass.
A good deal has been said of late witt
regard TO the alleged preference among
publishers in this country for fiction by
foreign rather than by American writer's.
SO the long list of American stories an
nounced by Harper 4 Brothers this spring
is peculiarly interesting. 1t includes
works by unknown authors, by those who
any bSeotii'HS hdoNI anu Ny lhoSC " III
have been long and favorably known
among others, "a Loyal Traitor" by
James Barnes; ''Leonora of the Yaw-
mish," by Francis Dana; 1.-The Descend
ant by an anonymous writer; "The
Landlord at Lions Head" by W. D.
Howells; "The Mistress of the Ranch,
by Frederick Thickstun Clark 1.-THE Mis-
sionary Sheriff. by Octave Thanet
1.-The Pursuit of the House boat" by
John Kendrick Bangs; 1.-The Great Stone
of Sardis," by Frank r. Stockton
Bound in Shadows" by Eva Wilder
Brodhead; "Sweet Revenge" by F. A.
Mitchell; "Jerome; a Poor Man," b.
Mary E. Wilkins; ''Outlines in Loca
Color by Professor Brander Matthews
SIN Simpkinsville, by Mrs. Ruth Nc
Emery Stuart; Hell fer Sartain, ant
Other Stories,'' by John Fox, Jr.; 'Bob
DO, and Other Fancies," by Thoma
Wharton; and ''Susan's Escort ant
Others by Edward Everett Hale.