The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-29
Literary News and Notes.

Rowland E. Robinson has written many
graphic stories, but one of the most dra-
matte which has come from his pen for a
long time appears in the August Atlantic.
He calls it Out Of Bondage, and it is the
story of fugitive slave.
Vechton Waring, $50 Nassau street,
New York has bought the well known
juvenile magazines, Babyland and Little
Men and Women. and will continue their
publication, beginning with the July
number. Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt will
continue her editorial work, and there
will be no break in the serials.
In AppletOns' Popular Science Monthly
for August DR.. T. D. Crothers will con-
slider New Questions in Medical Jurispru-
dence, concerning the moral and legal ac-
countability of inebriates, especially for
their crimes and their contracts, and. in
regard to the extent to which their test-
mony and their confessions can be relied
upon.
John Muir, the author of mountains
of California" and our greatest author
ity upon American forestry, contributes
to the August Atlantic paper on The
| American Forests. 1t is an appreciative
description of the beauty and wealth of
our great forests and plea for their pres
ervation by the national government.
A new element has been introduced into
the problem of the origin of our cats by
the discovery in Brazil of tortoise shell
wild cat, of which the late Professor Cope
had the only known museum specimen.
This animal will be described from Pro-
fessor Cope's specimen, in Appletons'
/ PnnuI1r Saipnnn INV fo, A Nv
William II. Ballou
| Following the Emerson and Sterling let
tiers, which appeared in the July Atlantic,
| Dr. George Birkbeck Hill. the eminent Eng
| bsh critic and man of letters, has edited
and prints in the August Atlantic the first
| group of Some Unpublished Letters of
Dean Swift Swift is recognized as per-
haps the greatest of English letter writer's,
and with the editor pleasant and instruc-
tive explanation these letters form series
OF great literary value and charm.
We have received from the Werner
| School Book Company of Chicago a copy
of Training for Citizenship, by Dr.. s.
A. Hainsdale of the University of Mich-
gan. This is the first of series of Peda-
| gogiCal Booklets and is designed to show
the teacher how to teach and the student
how to study the interesting but perplex-
ing subject of civics. The subjects dis
cussed are; lst Why Teach Civics in the
Schools? I'd, Party Political Machinery: Sd,
Some Difficulties that Appear in Teach
| ing Civics. III addition there is most
valuable photography on the pedagogical
aspects of Civcs.
One of the curious and interesting Incl
- Loo j
was the profound impression made by a
single editorial published in a Western pa
per. This editorial was printed under the
caption ''What the Matter with kansas?''
and the author, William Allen White,
sprang into immediate fame. He has also
published volume of stories of Kansas
life, and he now contributes to the August
Atlantic an article on A Typical Kansas
Community. He describes the life of
typical Kansas town, tells who the people
are, their amusements and their social life ;
the significance of all this he studies from
the sociological and economic standpoint.
McClure's Magazine for August will be
a Midsummer fiction number, with stories
by the greatest living writer's in that kind.
But it will not ignore graver interests.
Mr., H. j, ". Dam will describe the daily
life and work in the greatest dynamite
factory in the world; Anthony Hope, the
author of 1.-THE Prisoner of Zenda' will
! give his Impressions of c. ID. Gibson, the
| American artist who, in his drawings has
lately shown the people of London what
| they are like; Madam Blanc, of the staff
of the ''Revue DIES DeuX Mondes,' y will de-
scribe the Paris gamin as she has herself
seen him in his native haunts; and Hamlin
Garland, drawing upon unpublished orig-
nal documents and testimony, will tell the
story of the first meeting of Lincoln and
| Grant-a meeting as picturesque and dra-
I matte as it was important.
Miss Jean Ingelov, tic distinguished
poet and novelist, died in London, July
10th. She was in her 18th year. Jean
Ingelow was an English poet of renown.
| She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in
/ 1880. Her father was banker and a
man of superior intellectual culture. Her
mother was of Scotch descent. AS /,
child Jean Ingelow was exceedingly shy
and reserved and led a quiet, uneventful
life, till November, 1868, when the pub
LEGATION of her Poems secured for her
immediate recognition as poet of high
rank. Several of her poems, especially
'Divided," High Tide on the Coast of
Lincolnshire, . and Songs of Seven" be-
came very popular. In America her
works, both poetic and prose, have had
large sale, the former to the extent of
100, 600, and the latter to more than so, 900.
Here are some Of her most popular works:
ga Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and
Feeling" 1850; ''Alerton and Dreux; or
the War of Opinion" a novel, 1851;
"Tales of Orris,'' 1861 "Poems," 1868;
''Studes for Stories,' 1864; "Home
Thoughts and Home Scenes and ''Sto-
ries Told to a Child,' 1865; Poems With
Illustrations, ga Story of Doom and
Other Poems,' s'Deborah's Book and the
Rosebuds,'' "Can and Could,'' 1.-The
Grandmother Shoe, "The Suspicious
Jackdaw," 1.-The Life of John Smith"
"The Minnows with Silver Tails" 1.-TWO
Ways of Telling Story "The Moorish
Gold and the One Eyed Servant "The
Golden Opportunity and THE Wild
Duck Shooter and | Have Right 1867;
ga Sisters Bye Hours 1868; "Mopsa,
the Fairy" 1869; "The Little Wander
Horn and ''Otf the Skellings,' novel,
1872; "Fated to Be Free, " 1875; ''Sarah de
Berenger," a novel, 1879; ''Poems, re-
printed with additional matter, 1880; and
"Don john" 1881, tale which first APP
peared in the "Day of Rest" Miss Inge-
low lived in London 1t was her custom