The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-24
Literary News and Notes.

A correspondent of Literature has an
swered the Question which has been in so
, many minds since the publication of Kip
ling's 1.-THE Truce of the Bear as to the
meaningspf Adam zad. ''Zad' is Persian
! for born, and ssAdam- zad'' means Adam
born; just as Shah zada means king born,
Sahib zada, lord born, and the familiar
Scheherazade, in the original ''Chaher-
Fad, - city born.
Last year Charles Dana Gibson illus
trated "The People Of Dickens for The
Ladies' Home Journal. The pictures
were so successful that this year, and dur
ing next year, W. L. Taylor, the New
England artist who has made such rapid
strides in his art, will illustrate ''The
People of Longfellow also for The
Ladies' Home Journal The poems Sc
lected are 'The Psalm of Life, "Hia-
watha," ''Evangeline," "The Courtship
OF Miles Standish, 1.-The Children S
Hour" ''The Village Blacksmith" and
others.
The first catalogue of books published
in the United States appeared at Boston
III 1904. 1t runs to seventy nine small
octave pages, and is supremacy inditfer-
ent to dates, not one 50 far as we can see,
being given from the first page to the
last. OF this catalogue only two or three
copies are known. one OF which is, we be-
lieve, in the British Museum. The British
Museum, by the way, has the finest col
lection OF Americana in the world, due,
says Literature, to the fact that England,
with sharp eye to the future, employed
a most accomplished photographer, Henry
Stevens of Vermont, in spite OF the fact
that his proffered services had been re-
fused by the United States.
How general the use of photography is
coming to be adopted by the modern mag
azine as means Of illustration is shown
in the announcement of The Ladies' Home
journal that it is about to publish six
new, distinct series Of articles which will
include not less than 400 photographs.
The idea of the magazine is to present one
hundred OF the prettieSt country homes in
America, to encourage artistic architect
ure; one hundred Of the prettiest gardens,
to encourage taste in Horticulture; seventy
| churches decorated for testal occasions Of
| all kinds, such as weddings, Christmas
! and Easter services etc. some forty of
the prettiest girls rooms in this country !;
twenty-five floral porches and vine clad
houses; and the story of the native wild
flowers in America, told in seventy five
photographs. Over 5, 900 photographers,
| in every part of the country, were en-
plcyed by thn magazine to get these pic
lures, and several thousands of dollars
We're paid in prize awards for the best
photographs. The choice was made out
of over 10000 photographs received by
the magazine.
''More Rhymes is the title of a dainty
little volume, mpanion to ''Rymes,
published year Or more ago both from
the press of Damrell & Upham, Boston.
The author is Miss Edith Leverett Dalton
of Portland, and we copy from the Sun
day Times of that city the following APP
preciative notice of the recent volume:
There is much delicate sentiment in
these verses, which is particularly shown
in the dedication, ITO My Mother and
''St. Stephen $. In he last, occur the
lines:
I'VE feel the thrill Of common prayer,
And thy gray walls no longer stand
Around u.s. but on every hand
The worship Of the world We share"
There is real breadth in that thought
of the kinships Of worship; while in the
words to Friend Whittier is an express
Sion of appreciation which shows an
other sort of sentiment
Dear Poet, Thou hast read Alright
The meaning of the Spring,
For what We're aim to other Sight
Thou seest by the inner light
That gladdenS every thing.
Among the other verses Which, to my
fancy, deserve special mention are ''Lau-
rel, THE Plant Cd the Window Seat
and Indian summer" which gives an
other opportunity for a quotation;
so when W. think of joy az gone,
And grief as the next conner,
Let Us believe We need not grlev+-
There ,ometh Indian Summer"