The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-02
Literary News and Notes.

Mrs Julia Ward Howe will contribute
to early numbers of The Atlantic her rem
iniscences and recollections of notable men
and women.
In an early number of The Atlantic
Monthly will appear an article by Mrs.
Alice Freeman Palmer on 1.-The Ideal Re-
lations of Community to its Public
Schools based on the study of fortu
nate New England town.
Colonel 7. w. Higginson several chap
tiers of whose "reminiscences have already
appeared in The Atlantic, contributes the
first of another series to the December
issue, this one telling of Literary London
Twenty Years Ago. 1t is written in the
authors happiest vein and is full of
human sympathy and quiet humor.
The short stories of the Christmas Har-
per's are DESTINY at Drybone,' a Lin
Mclean story, by Owen Wister, illustrat-
ed by Frederic Remington: 'Marianson, -
a Mackinac story, by Mary Hartwell Cath
erwood, illustrated by W. I. Smedley:
MY Fifth in Nanny" a story of the
South, by W. L. Sheppard, illustrated by
the author; and Mr.. Willie's Wedding
Veil" Louisiana romance, by Mary
Tracy Earle, illustrated by A. &. Wenzell.
The leading features of the Christmas
Harper are THE Wooing of Malkatoon, -
Il narrative poem by General Lew Wallace,
illustrated by F. Y. Du Mond; 1.-The
Queens Jubilee" by Richard Harding
Davis, illustrated by Il. Cation Woodville
Destiny at Drybone,'' a story by Owen
Wister illustrated by Frederic Reming-
ton: IAN Act OF Charity" by Charles
Dudley Warner; George William Curtis
at Concord, by George Willis Cooke,
illustrated; "a Birds Egg by Ernest
Ingersoll, illustrated by fac SMILES in
color of the eggs of the most familiar
American birds, anu ''Puppets, Ancient
and Modern" by f. J. Ziegler, illustrated
About the last story published from the
pen OF the master kipling appeared in the
August number of McClure's Magazine,
and his next story is announced for pub
LEGATION in the Christmas number of the
same periodical. 1t is long story-prac-
tically novelette-but it will be publish
ed complete in one humber. In it kipling
returns to 1ndia-the ground, undoubted-
ly, on which he is most at his ease and
most engaging to his readers. The story
is described as the narrative OF the ex-
PSiiCiieO VI q SOuilS OIlCcl WIloSC
family had done their duty in India with
ont noise or brag, but with great efficiency
and bravery, through number of gener-
ations, and who on taking up the family
work found himself compelled to live up
to very high family tradition in the
matter of shooting tigers AID laying down
the law to the native tribe of Bills.
Especially exacting on him was the final
ri of Ctni Stnln
entailipg series of great adventures. A
novel experiment has been tried in illus
trating the story for McClure's. Two
well known artists have collaborated-one
chosen for his personal familiarity with
India and the other for his general skill
IN bodying forth imaginative peIsonages,
actions and scenes.
Eight important leaflets relating to the
Anti slavery Struggle have just been added
to the valuable series of Old South leaf
lets, constituting Nos. 1885 of the series,
which has now grown to such large dimen-
sions. The new Anti slavery leaflets are
as follows: a Reprint of the First Number
of ''The Liberator'': Wendell Phillips
Eulogy Of Garrison; Theodore Parker S
Address on the Dangers from Slavery
Whittier's Account of the Anti slavery
Convention of 1883; Mrs. Stoves Stony
OF % U ncle Toms Cabin Sumner $
Speech on the Crime against Kansas:
Words of John Brown: and the First Lin
coin and Douglas Debate. These leaflets
are prepared in connection with the Old
South lectures the present season. which
Were devoted to the Anti slavery Struggle,
the several subjects being as follows: Viii
liam Lloyd Garrison, OF Anti slavery in
the Newspaper; Wendell Phillips, or Anti
slavery on the Platform: Theodore Park
Ell, OF Anti-slayery in the Pulpit; John G.
Whittier, OF Anti slavery in the Poem;
Harriet Beecher Stowe, or Anti slavery in
the story; Charles Sumner, or Anti slav-
cry IN the Senate; John Brown, or Anti
Slavery on the Scatfold, Abraham Lincoln,
or Anti slavery Triumphant. The eight
leaflets are bound together in neat vol
ume IN paper covers, with an Introduction
giving com plete lists of all the Old South
leaflets and lectures since 1888, and sold
tor thlrty-flve cents. Accompanied as all
the leaflets are with careful references to
the best books, nothing could be better
guide tor clubs and classes making study
OF the Anti slavery Struggle than this lit
tie volume. Many Of our towns and cities
would do well to make the Old South lee
ture program serve their own people, cir
culating the leaflets in connection. The
Old South leaflets, furnishing the schools
and the people with great numbers OF
original documents otherwise hard to get
at, tor the mere cost, five cents copy,
are doing great work for the promotion
OF hrst-hand knowledge of our rational
history. These new Anti slavery leaflets
Will be warmly welcomed.