The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-24
Literary News and Notes.

There is promise of two new books by
Miss Jewett, 1.-The Queens Twin, and
Other Stories," and betty Leicester's
English Christmas.
The Life of Admiral Dewey, by Hon.
John Barrett, late United States Minister
to Siam, will be published by Harper &
Brothers in the autumn.
Perhaps the strongest proof of the in
terest the American people take in the
Dreyfus affair is the fact that the transla-
ton of Captain Dreyfus' letters from
prison to his wife is selling at the rate
of six hundred copies a day, making an
almost unprec edented sale for book of
that character.
Appleton Morgan concludes his exami-
nation of the last five years of legislation
against drunkenness in the September
number of Appletons Popular Science
Monthly. He shows that, despite the
various laws which have been tried in
nearly every State of the Union, drunken
ness still persists, and if not increasing is
at any rate not diminishing. He believes
that the most satisfactory arrangement
yet devised is that of a high license. with
local option.
The current number of Guntons Maya
zine presents many thoughtful papers
bearing upon the important questions of
the hour. They include: 1.-The Tariff and
Trusts, " ''Recent Street Railroad Strikes
Education and Politics." The Future
of Inferior Races "Model Lodging
Houses, "The Great Siberian Railroad, y
and Municipal Monopolies." The several
depart ments give large amount of inter
eSting reading matter, and add much to
the value of this excellent issue.
The August number Of the American
Kitchen Magazine presents an excellent
variety of helpful and seasonable articles.
Chief among them is noted a thoughtful
paper by Dipah sturgis, a we'll known
writer on household economics, on 1.-THE
Organization of a Home" The article is
replete with helpful suggestions. Allan
Eric writes interestingly of Curious West
Indian Eatabes." Elizabeth Orr Williams
describes Culinary Customs of the
Ancients. The contribution of Sea
sonable Dishes for August will be heart
lily appreciated by the housewife.
Mr. Walter H. Page has resigned the
eGitorship of The Atlantic Monthly and
has accepted an invitation to take prom
inent post in the direction of the literary
work of the allied houses of Harper &
Brothers and the Doubleday d Mcclure
Co. His successor in the editorshp of
the Atlantic is Mr.. Bliss Perry, known in
literature as the author Of two novels and
number of essays and stories. Since
his graduation from Williams College in
1881, Mr.. Perry has been in the depart
ment of English, first at Williams, and
afterwards at Princeton University, where
ha latalv III Ill
Professorship of English Literature.
The Importance Of pure milk supply
for large cities, the great difficulties in the
way OF an adequate official control of such
an industry, and the means by which
these difficulties have been overcome in
several large European cities, are discuss
ed by Prof. H. w. Conn, of Wesleyan
University, in Appletons' Popular Science
Monthly for September. The large amount
Of study which Professor Conn has de-
voted to the questions of public hygiene
and sanitation gives his views on such a
subject as this great practical value, and
even more weight than would alone his
high reputation as a technical biologist.
President Charles Kendall Adams opens
the September Atlantic with a review of
The Irresistible Tendencies, the spirit of
the ages, the great movements of centuries
OF generations, which change the face of
the word instancing chiefly the spirit of
lndividuaGsm, to which he attributes the
wonderful advances in liberty and progress
OF the last four hundred years. He claims
that the fundamental tact is that the whole
OF TINS vast movement is the advance of
civilization upon barbarism He main
tainS that it is the ever irresistible en-
croachment Of the modern spirit upon the
! spirit of antiquity; electricity driving out
the rush light; the white man ever civiliz-
ing the red man or pushing him out of the
way And his great movement is in the
| interests of larger and a richer and a
higher humanity.
The most striking feature of The Cen
tury for September, which will be a Salt
Water Number, is the first installment of
| Captain Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone
Around the World" This is the nara
tive of daring voyage Of circumnaviga-
ton, undertaken by the author in 1895, in
a fortyfoot sloop built by himself in Buzz
cards Bay, and taken back and forth
across the Atlantic and thence around
Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope,
without assistance or companionship. The
the accuracy of the navigators landfalls
throughout was thing to marvel at, his
chronometer for most of the time being a
little tin clock of the cheapest kind.
Captain Slocum was thoroughly sea-
soned sailor when he started on his adj
venturous single handed cruise, but his
unique achievement was not without
difficulties and perils that taxed to the
utmost his strength endurance and inge-
nuity. Other contents of this number of
The Century are 1.-The Way of a Ship"
by Frenk 7. Bullen, author of 1.-The
Cruise of the Cachalot;' "The Atlantic
Speedway" by H. Phelps Whitmarsh,
author of 1.-The Worlds Rough Hand;"
and Salvage" by Morgan Robertson,
author of the forthcoming volume of sea
tales "Where Angels Fear to Tread"
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