The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-03
Literary News and Notes.

him are associated Mrs. John A. LOGAN
and Henry Austin. The first issue is The
October number.
The leading article in Appletons' Popu.
lar Science Monthly for Novembe,
Will be discussion of the origin of the
peoples which originally settled middle
America. Prof. E. S. Morse, the author
is well known as a scientist and traveller
and his views on such a subject are If
great value and interest
1.-THE Preference is the title of an
amusing story by Caroline Leslie Field
which will soon be published seriallv in
Harper Bazaar. Other features of early
forthcoming numbers are college DAYS
and their Sequels,' a series of papers Nv
Alkaline W. Sterling and the resumption
OF the column on "Music," by Miss
Purdy
Ralph Waldo Emersons son, Dr. Ed.
ward Emerson, himself a bow when
Louisa Alcott was girl in Concord. has
written an article on ''When Louisa
Alcott was Girl,' which The Ladies'
Home Journal is about to publish
Doctor Emerson gives a new view of the
author of "Little Men'-as a mimic and
as the centeral figure of every dance and
| III Ola concord,
| The Thanksgiving Ladies' Home Jonr-
nal marks the fifteenth anniversary of that
| widely read magazine, which now sells
| ooU,OOO copies each month, and its editor
| reviews its past under the unique heading.
Fifteen Years of Mistakes,' revealing
his plans for its Improvement and for it
| greater usefulness in the future.
page OF illustrations admirably typi6es
Thanksgiving in the Country" and an
other of photographs is filled with sug-
gestons for decorations, etc, for
'Thanhsgiving in the Church
Mrs. Darlington Booth, of "The Ameri
can Nolunteers,' is writing out her ex-
periences in American prisons, and in the
slums of New York, for The Ladies' Home
journal Mrs. Booth has perhaps come
closer to the lives and condolences of the
men and women in prisons. and to know
the poor better than any woman living.
She will not only tell what she has seen.
but she Will point out what her experience
has shown her to be the most effective
way in dealing with the people OF the
prisons and the Sums.
The current number of the American
Kitchen Magazine contains long hist of
interesting and helpful articles, among
which are noted the following: Home
Life in India" Cooking and What Can
be Done With 1t, - "Household Fuels and
Their Economic Uses, - .'Good Teeth for
Our Children "Honey,N and ''Menus
for October" Mrs. Lncolns depart
ment, as usual, furnishes many timely re-
ceipts and much helpful information, aud
with the several editorial departments
rounds out valuable issue of this always
helpful magazine.
Guntons Magazine for October opens
with an able paper on "Growing Political
Sense, in which the political conditions
existing in New ork at present are touch
ed upon. An interesting paper is con-
trbuted under the caption, Sound Money
Misrepresentation" One of the most
valuable papers in this number deals with
an important subject, Education and
the State ''lrigation as Civlizer''
is carefully considered. The various edi-
toral departments ably discuss the lead
ing topics of the day and form note
worthy feature of this valuable number.
The leading features of Harper's Mag
azine for November are "Torpedo- boat
Service by Lieutenant j. C. Fremont,
commanding the Porter, illustrated by II.
Whitman, with an engraving by E. Sch
ladtz, of hitherto unpublished portrait
with the Fifth Corps,' by Frederic
remington, illustrated by the author;
"Our Seaboard Islands on the Pacific
by John E. Bennett, richly illustrated by
drawings by Orson Lowell, Henry Nc
Carter, and Harry Fem; Social Life in
the British Army" Third Paper, by A
British Officer, illustrated by K. Cation
Woodville; Eastward Expansion of the
United States,' by Archibald g. Colqu-
noun; and ''Some recent Explorations p"
by j. Scott Kettle, Ii. D., Sec. 4. G. 5.
During the closing year the Atlantic has
! been specially rich in that most enter
| tanning Of all departments of literature,
biography and re miuscence. offering ma
terial of unsurpassed freshness and value.
One OF the important announcements for
1899 is the publication of Mrs Julia Ward
Howe's "reminiscences. Mrs Howes
long and useful life has had much of in
terest in if, and it has touched It. some
point almost every movement of import
ance for sixty years. The reminisc ences,
as they are to appear in the Atlantic, ex-
tend from 1929 to 1898, and will include
recolectlons of most of the important
persons and events of that period. There
will be three instalments under the head
ings, LIST, Recolections Of Childhood I'd,
New York in the Forties; Sd, Boston in
Abolition Days.
The Art Amateur for November has for
its Color Plate gorgeous mass of Chrys-
anthemums in white and yellow. The
articles and illustrations throughout the
number are excellent. ''The London
Letter." by Montague Marks, tells US
about the Painter Watts scheme for pei
petuating the brave deeds of the humble
classes the alleged finding of the portrait
of the Duchess of Devonshire," by
Gainsborough, and the Counterfeiting of
Old English Silver. Roger Riordan writes
on Winslow Homer, "the most American
of all American Painters This is illus
trated with sixsuperb examples of Homer's
work. The newest additions cat the
Art Dealers are discussed, and there is
bright article on 1.-THE Study of Negro
Character,' with sketches by Miss Dee
Beebe. The Art Student will be especially
interested in the article on Crayon Draw
ing, which is illustrated with a fine, full
length figure, by Emile Adam; Drawing
for Reproduction also illustrated Flower
Painting, Tapestry Painting and China
Painting. The latter includes articles and