The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-21
Literary News and Notes.

The New Years Sothoron's appears in
cover of unique design and color. The
| stories, articles and poems are of much
| merit, and include "a Vision-to Eugene
Field" ''The Ancestral Ghost sJohn
Jacob Aston and Madam Bonaparte, ""The
Old Milk Pail Stub,'' ''The Ghost of the
Cat,' ''The Statue of Pere Marquette"
"a Story Told by Three" ''Out of His
Own Mouth" ''The Studio" and 'The
Maiden and the Maniac
The American Kitchen Magazine begins
the year with an unusually attractive and
interesting number. The number opens
with vigorous article by Edward Atkin-
son, entitled ''Home Life, Why Not?'
Elizabeth Orr Williams writes Of cold
World Scotland.'' Mrs. Sarah Sumner
Teall discusses the question, care EN-
ployers Entitled to a Fair Return for
Wages Paid?" Mrs. Lincoln's department
is full of gastronomic good things
The current number of Gunton's Mag
azine contains nine papers on economic
and political subjects, and the usual de-
partments. The subjects discussed are
"Cleveland's Last Message" "The Elec-
ton and Republican Institutions" 'Sun-
Light on Southern Politics. Evolution
of English Trade Unonism,' s:Spain's
Extortions from Cuba,'' ''Failure of the
Nail Combine, " ga Zollverein,' s'Int1u-
ence of Issues on Parties, and ''Natural
Causes of Agricultural Depression
The attractive cover of the New Years
number of The Youths Companion in
vites close inspection of the issue. Fol
lowing the usual number of the very best
stories, illustrated by the most popular
artists of the day, we find an unusually
readable paper by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, entitled "The Life of a
Senator In the next issue of The
Companion an instructive paper on "The
Life OF Congressman" by Hon. Thomas
y. Reed, was published. A group of
Clergymen's Stories also begins in the
same issue. The publishers offer to send
free beautiful prospectus for this years
volume, printed in several colors. Ad-
dress The Youths Companion, 2O9 Col
umbus Avenue, Boston, Mass.
Harper's Round Table is to publish
during the year 1897 at least fifty-two
short stories, one in each number of the
paper, by authors whose names are known
all over the world as being the best in the
field of fiction to- day. A few of these are :
In America, William Dean Howells,
Bret Harte, Margaret Deland, Kate Doug
las Wiggin, Owen Wister, Joel Chandler
Harris, John Kendrick Bangs, Frank R.
Stockton, Octave Thanet, Charles Dudley
Warner, Molly Elliot Seawell, Ruth Nc
Emery Stuart, Howard Pyle and Charles
F. Lummis; in England, Laurence Alma
Tadema, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy,
H. Rider Haggard, Jerome K. Jerome, S.
R. Crockett, Austin Dobson, Edmund
Gosse, William Black, Stanley J. Wey-
man, Marquis of Lorne, Sir Walter Be-
SAINT, W. Clark Russell, Ian Maclaren, and
Andrew Lang; in France, Francois Cop
pee, Camille Flammarion, and Jules
| Verne.
The February number of Harper S
Magazine will open brilliantly with an
article on 1.-THE Coronation written by
Richard Harding Davis, and illustrated
by r. Cation Woodville. Both writer and
artist witnessed the splendid ceremonies
at Moscow from the standpoint of official
visitors-Mr. Woodville With a royal COM
mission from Queen Victoria, and Mr..
Davis as the representative of Harper S
Magazine. Both are at their best in re-
producing the gorgeous spectacle, and the
result will stand as the final account of
the most imposing state ceremony of
modern times. To the same number
Charles F. Lummis will contribute the
first of series of timely articles on Mex
leo, the spirit of which is characterized
in the title. "The Awakening of Ma
ton These papers are the result of a
three months journey undertaken for
Harper's Magazine by Nj. Lummis, the
best American authority on the subject
They will be profusely illustrated from
photographs taken expressly for this
series by the author.
Modern Fairyland, by Elcy Burnham of
Saco, just issued 10y the Arena Publishing
Co, Boston, is a fairy story which will
delight boys and girls, especially the lat
ter. 1t relates the life and adventures OF
Princess Ferutta, daughter of the King
and Queen Of Fairyland and of her lover,
Prince Puck. AT the christening of the
baby princess a wicked fairy named
Grumble- growl wishes that Fernitta, on
a certain one of her birthdays NAV be
changed into mortal. The wish comes
true the dreaded change to mortality
takes place, and for time Fernitta is lost
to tairyland. Ultimately, however. she
returns and on being entrusted with the
government of her native realm, intro
uuces number of reforms borrowed from
the world of miracles, and thereby creates
"Modern Fairyand.' The story is
charmingly told, and is full of incident
and humor. The book is beautifully got
ten up, being printed on fine paper, and
illustrated with fine full page frontis-
piece and more than eighty extremely
clever marginal cuts; and altogether
would make an ideal present for young
girl or boy. Bound in handsome cloth,
ST. so.
DR.. Nicoll, who came to this country
with MI Barrie, read the American news
papers while he was here, and audacious-
ly admits that he liked them. He has
confessed to the Westminster Budget that
in his opinion no American institution is
more misunderstood abroad than the
press. He thinks our newspapers less
sensational than they seem to be, and
says, very truly, that you may look in
vain in them for such matter as the d.
vorce reports which the most proper Eng
fish papers publish Undoubtedly we
Americans like the newspapers we have
better, on the whole, than any others in
the market; but we are so continually adj
vised that our passion for them is guilty,
that while we satisfy it with prodgality,
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