The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-10-14
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News ana NOtcS.
Estes & Lauriat will soon publish the
fifth volume in the well-knowr ''Hilde-
garde Series,'' by Laura E. Richards,
author of ''Captain January entitled
''Hildegardes Harvest" This will be
illustrated with eight full page cuts by
Etheldred B. Barry.
The Living Age, which has appeared
with never failing regularity for nearly
two generations, reflects as faithfully as
ever the age in which we live. 1t is COM
posed of the best articles of the best
periodicals, reproduced without abridg
ment, and is as much superior to any of
them as the master piece of the Grecian
artist was to any of the beautiful women
who furnished each some particular charm
for the representation of perfect beauty.
Each number as it is received is delight.
Outing for October is seasonable and
beautifully illustrated number. The prom
Use of the richly tinted cover is more than
fulfilled by charming assortment of ele-
giant illustrations and seasonable sketches
of autumn sports Notable features in
clude: ''Football,' by Walter Camp, GAIL
Round Athletic Championships" by NAL
colin W. Ford; -Four Days on tie Prai-
rie," by Ed. W. Sandys; international
Tennis of '97," by J. Parmly Paret; THE
Beginnings of Fox Hunting in America,
by Hanson Hiss. The editorial depart
ments are ably handled.
Harper & Bros. will be the American
publishers of the new venture of the Lon
don Times, viz, weekly journal called
Literature. This periodical, of which Mr.
H. D. Trail will be the editor, aims to be
at once an authoritative critical review of
books and a Comprehensive and trust
worthy medium of literary intelligence"
1t will invite correspondence on, and will
itself deal with, any subject within the
broad scope of it's title, and will at fire.
quent intervals publish photographers of
timely TOPICS 1t will neglect worthless
books, and seek to be prompt with the
best. Most of the reviewing will be
| anonymous.
Israel Putnam was certainly one of the
most remarkabl characters in the Ameri-
can Revolution. His robustness and cour-
age and singular competence in every try
ing situation, made him one whom every
boy and every man always like to read
about. All will be delighted to read the
capital article upon his homes and haunts
by Rev. William Farrand Livingstone,
which appears in the October number of
the New England Magazine. MI. Living
ston treats the subject lovingly and faith
fully, his article showing everywhere most
careful study. He follows the life of his
hero from the cradle to the grave, and
brings before us wildly all the places
Chiefly Connecticut places associated
with his life and deeds His story is re-
inforced by great mass of striking pic
lures, and is an article of unusual interest
and value. Warren F. Kellogg, . Park
Square, Boston, Mass.
The directors of the Old South Work
some time ago published in their valuable
series of Old South Leaflets the memoir
of Elder Brewster, from Bradford's His
tory of Plymouth Plantation, and also
Bradford's First Dialogue, which has SO
high historical value on account of its
notices of John Robinson, Clifton, Bar
row, and other fathers of the Pilgrim
Fathers. They have now responded farther
to the warm interest in the old Plymouth
governor which has been awakened by the
return of his famous history from England
to America by issuing a leatlet containing
Cotton Mather's Life of Bradford from
the Magnolia, together with the companion
me OF governor w lntnfOp. IL is Happg
idea thus to unite Mather's quaint old
biographies, the first ever written, of the
two great governors Of the two Massachu-
sets colonies. Each was not only, as
Mather well calls each, the Moses of his
colony; each was also its historian. 1t is
fortunate and remarkable coincidence
that we should have such admirable his
tories of the two colonies by the two great
governors, the men who knew the most
and did the most about their establish
ment, and that both histories, after lying
long together in the Old South steeple
chamber and after the strange vicissitudes
which followed, should now be in our
hands. The lives of the two men are
doubly interesting at this time. The Old
South Leaflets, furnishing multitudes of
rare papers for the mere cost OF printing,
five cents a copy, are real boon to our
students of history and to the people.
There have been few leaflets in the series
which have been more welcome than this
containing Cotton Mather's Lives of Brad
ford and Winthrop.
Harper's Weekly, in an article reviewing