The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-02-18
Literary News and Notes.

| Never has there been issued by any pub
| LEGATION, SO beautiful and altogether
charming an illustration of Names grand
| old Mt. katahdin, as the full page cut of
| this famous mountain in the February is
sue of the Maine Sportsman, Just out.
| Not much less in interest is the snap shot
OF land locked salmon jumping the falls of
| Ship Pond stream, while several other
beautiful illustrations, and articles upon
vital sportsmen topics of the time, help
| to make up one of the most attractive and
| interesting issues ever published by this
| magazine. One dollar year, ten cents a
copy. Herbert W. Rowe, publisher, Ban
gor, Me.
The weekly issue of The Living Age,
| bearing date Feb. -, is the Monthly Sup
| plement number, and including the sup
plement, contains So pages. Among its
| most striking features are "All Souls Eve
| in Lower Brittany" delightful sketch
of the customs and folklore of the Breton
peasants, translated for The Living Age
from the French of Anatole lie Braz: the
first part of ''The Land of Suspense
Mrs. ELEPHANTS latest story of the seen
and unseen; passage from Mrs. Steel's
stirring story of the great mutiny. son
the Face of the Waters; Herbert Spencer
on 1.-The Falacies of Socialism, dis
eussion of "Political Ideals and Realities
in SPAIN" by Emilio CASTELAR,, translated
for The Living Age; and paper by W.
Holman Hunt on 'Religion and Art.
Among the several works left by Robert
| Louis Stevenson unpublished at his death,
undoubtedly the one of completest and
widest interest is a romance entitled 'St.
| Ives. " Unlike "Weir of Hermiston,r
the only other novel left by Stevenson I'M
| published est. Ives was left all but
complete; and it is those say who have
read it, straight-away, honest tale of
/ adventure, related in Stevenson's most
spirited and charming vein. 1t is love
story, and records, in particular, the ex-
| plots of very cool, audacious attrac-
tive French soldier who becomes pris-
oner of war in Edinburgh Castle. The
exclusive right of serial publication of
st Ives" for America, was purchased
soon after Stevenson death by McClure's
Magazine, and the publication will begin
in the March number of that periodical
The February Ladies' Home journal
opens with striking artcle-''When
Kossuth Rode Up Broadway fourth
of its ''Great Personal Events series. In
it Parke Goodwin recalls the unprecedent-
! GU ueIIoHSlIdllOu anu enthusiasm WIN
which the Hungarian exile was welcomed
to New York; also his patriotic but vain
mission to this country. Charles Dana
Gibson's second drawing of Dickens
portraying Dick Swiveller and
The MISUNDERSTANDING occupies a
prominent place in this excellent maya
zine. The splendor and sumptuousness
which marked the festivities incident to
double Royal wedding in the Imperial
Palace of the German capital is glowingly
reflected in "a Page at the Berlin Court
In delightful vein Edward Page Gas
ton writes of the winsome bellies of Mex
leo, and the restraining barriers that So
cial customs of that land interpose between
lovers during courtship. An article that
will appeal to women is Mrs. Talcott
Williams sketch of 1.-THE Most Famous
Cook in America" The February Jour
nal presents the first of Mrs. l.. T. Rorer S
Cooking Lessons. "Ideal Cooking and
elbow to Make Soups" These are the
initial contributions to the department
she will hereafter conduct in the journal
the only publication for which She
| writes.