The Republican journal., 1899-04-06
Literary News and Notes.

issue. 1t is the best romantic story that
the famous novelist has written since ''The
Prisoner of Zenda.' ''' hek Countess
Emilia is not unlike its .edecessor in
style and treatment and in its action. Its
motif is that of the marriage relation. 1t
will be illustrated by Alice Barber Ste
phens and will run in the Journal through
out the summer
''Brght and welcome as the spring it
symbolizes is Outing for April, laden With
the seasons pleasure from 1.-The First
Strike on its trontispiece, TO its conclud-
ing poem, "When the Brook Trout Leap"
The new life OF the year, the glory OF the
budding woods, the trill of the songster,
the purr of the Snowf fed streams, the
whirr of the liberated cycle are all reflect
ed in its pages. The more serious contri-
buttons OF the author of 'Four Months on
Board OF the Yankee" and the late John
Heards, Jr.'s charming fiction of the
'Maid OF TirUf' ensure its appreciation
Authors, artists, a d publishers have aim
ed high and have succeeded in producing
a tribute 10 spring worthy of Outings es
tablished reputation.
Ian Maclaren, the author OF ''Beside the
Bonnie Brer Bush, who is now lecturing
in this country, has engaged to write
journal. and the first will appear in the
May issue of that magazine. The general
topic upon which he has agreed to write
is OF the pastor and the congregation. He
will emphasize the relation that should
exist between minister and his congrega
ion, how one can aid the other, and other
similar phases of church work. Being,
as is ell known, pastor of large church
in Liverpool, and one OF the most popular
ministers in England, DR.. Watson is in
position to speak by the light of success
tul experience, and his articles will be
read with keen interest.
The Art Amateur for April is an exceed
ingly interesting number. The color plate
is charming study of Violets by Fr:eda
Voelter Redmond. The connoisse'.r will
find in The Note Book" and ''ColIector'
much of Importance and value. For the
student this number furnishes a fund of
information about Elementary Drawing
and Drawing for Reproduction" by En-
nest knautft; "Plaster Casting,'' by L.
Bush; 'Designng from Nature,h by
Arthur Blackmore; "Flower Painting by
Rhoda Holmes Nichols; 'Notes on Land
scape;' Wood Carving" by Karl Won
RydIngsvald; Embroidery" by E. Day
MCPHERSON; "Oriental Designs by
Arthur W. Dawson; articles and designs
for china painting by Charles Nolkmar,
+. Rowell Priestman and E. c. Darby.
For the interior decorator are shown views
of Country Hall and a City Hall, with
suggestions for their treatment. The
supplement designs are for Wood Carving,
China Painting, Embroidery and Pyro-
graphy Price 30 cents Johu W. Van
COST, publisher, 23 Union Square, New
York.
That New England aided her country SO
efficiently during the War of the Rebellion
was due III great measure to the stalwart
worth Of the men who stood at the head
OF her state governments at that critical
period in the nation history. To the New
England Magazine tor A pri Mrs. Elizabeth
Ballister Bates, a sister Of the late G ~
ernol Russell, contributes valuable ac-
count OF The New England Governors
IN tile Civil War, Any estimate OF the
character If these wan governors must
necessarily begin with a eulogy of their
leadel, Governor Andrew OF Massachu-
setta. TO the war itself, says this
author, "G5velnor Andrew was perhaps
indebted more than the others for bring
ing cut his greatness. He was not a man
Tor all tlln =. but FIR Just those times =
These loyal govern is were often obliged
TO act moon their uWn responsibility, yet
the people trusted their wise Judgment,
and ia no case without reason. The
article is a fitting tribute to their worth,
and has an added value because Of tile ex-
ceilunJ portraits which accompany it,
Warren f. Kellogg, Park Square, Boston
Mss
The most striking feature in the book
sol IN, En- I, r
moment, according to Literature, publish
ed by Harper d Brothers, is not the dis.
cuvely Of new poet, not the appearance
OF novel for which the world has been
waiting twenty years, OF of the sensation
al record of travel real or fictitious, but
the unprecedented sale of a religious tract
written by the pastor Of church at
Topeka, Kansas. There are one OF two
very curious things about the publication
and the success of I'm His Steps; or
What Would Jesus DO?' Que is its ex-
traodinary origin, which supplies rather an
alarming precedent. Instead of complet-
ing it and then publishing it in the ordi-
nary way, Mr.. Sheldon, the writer, tried
it on his congregation first, and read it
out to Them on successive Sunday even
ings- presumably in place of sermon
Another fact which will, we fancy, have
SS-AA~
ternational copyright is that the ook,
having been published and circulated
somewhat in America, has been caught up
IN England and sold out to the public in an
immense number Of editions--seventeen
we believe, of which eleven appeared in
one week-religious and secular publishers
competing keenly with each other in the
enter rise.
1.-The death of Archibald Lampman,'
says William Dean Howells in Literature,
published by Harper & Brothers, ''silences
the sweetest and clearest voice among
those Canadian poets who, by their num-
Der hardly less than by their quality, have
given their country literary eminence of
late. Not all their names will occur to
all readers either in England or the United
States; but if one mentions the names of
Mr.. Bliss Carman, Mr.. Wilfrid Campbell,
Mr.. G. D. G. Roberts, Mr.. Henry Drum
mond, Mrs. S. Frances Harrison, Miss
Pauline johnson, Mr.. Gilbert Parker,
Mr.. Duncan Scott with that of Lampman,
one sufficiently suggests the group which
ought not to be altogether strange to any
reader. 1t is not going too far to say
that as group it could hardly be matched
amOnU ourselves for the fresh and dis