The Republican journal., 1898-01-20
Literary News ana Notes.

The two serials, H. B. Marriott Wat
sons "The Adventures and Albert
Lees s'Four for Fortune,'' will be CON
tinued in Harper's Round Table for Feb
ruary, and the number will contain also
short stories by Lamar Beaumont,
Thomas W. Lamont, Harold Martin, and
owen Hall.
Harper's Magazine for February will
contain the first of two notable papers by
the late George du Maurier on s'Social
Pictorial Satire,' in which the writer will
discuss the celebrated caricaturists, John
Leech and Charles Keene, as we'll as his
own experience as an illustrator. Other ar
ticles of special interest will be on "Pro-
jects for an Isthmian Canal" by the Hon.
David Turpie, and on the "Musical De-
velopment of Chicago" by George Fl. Up
ton.
The Youths Companion contains the
most carefully selected instructive and
interesting miscellany printed in any
American periodical The New Year S
number is rich in this department The
principal feature of the number is Mr..
| Giadstone's recollection of Arthur Henry
Hallam-a paper of extraordinary interest
; and charm. The article is illustrated with
fine portraits of Mr.. Gladstone and the sub
ject of his sketch. A number of excellent
short stories, editorial articles touching
on various current topics, and notes on
science and affairs, fill out this most at
tractive number of the great family week
ly.
notable addition to Hawthorne litera-
ture is 'tS0me Memories of HAWTHORNE
by his daughter, Rose Hawthorne Lath-
rop. Her "reminiscences cover the term of
Hawthorne's residence in Liverpool as
United States Consul, from 1858 to 1858;
his years of travel in France and Italy,
lS5s-lS60; and his last years in Concord,
lS6O-lS64. The glimpses we get of Haw-
thorne as a father heighten the admira-
ton one feels for the man; and Mrs. 10th
rop's delightful volume will find many
appreciative readers. Hawthorne's early
association with Maine strengthens the in
terest felt here in him and in the produc-
lions of his genius. Houghton, Miff1in &
Co., publishers, Boston, Price S1.50.
The fourteenth volume in the American
Men of Letters Series is devoted to Bayard
Taylor, and is written by Mr.. Albert H.
Smyth of Philadelphia. We have noticed
the several volumes of this series as they
every one with both pleasure and profit
NO public library should be without this
series These compact volumes contain
all that is essential to know of their sub
Jects, and it is most attractively presented.
Bayard Taylor was long notable figure
in American literature, first as journal
list and then as an author, and there are
few readers who have reached middle life
who do not recall his earlier books or
some phases of his career. In the volume
before us they will find the story of his
life most entertainingly told. The Phil
adelphia Record pronounces it lone of
the most notable books of American biog-
raphy that has appeared in many a year
particularly from Pennsylvania view;'
adding: ''This is the first biography of a
Middle States writer that has appeared in
the American Men of Letters Series
Bayard Taylor is a theme of wide national
interest, one of the most typical Amer-
can men of letters whom this country has
produced, and in this story of his varied
and busy life the biographer has present
ed fairly comprehensive picture of the
American world of letters in the Philadel-
phia and the New York of Taylor's day.
Price SIPS. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
publishers, Boston.