The Republican journal., 1899-11-09
Literary News and Notes.


hear so much and we still know so
little, is fully described and ex-
planned by Prof. John Trowbridge, of
Harvard University, in Appletons' Popular
Science Monthly for November. A num-
Der of illustrations help very much in
simplifying the text.
The coming volume of the combined
Little Men and Women and Babyland will
have many new and interesting features
in addition to those which have won
favor in the past. There will be four new
serials, many short stories by well known
writers, and many pictures. Little Men &
Women Co., Troy, N. Y.
The important subject of Food Poison
ing in it's relation to health is dis
cussed by Prof. Victor c. Vaughan in APP
petons' Popular Science Monthly for
November. He calls attention to the
danger from poorly canned foods, espec-
tally meats, and the desirability of buying
only from reputable makers who have
reputation to sustain,
The New England Magazine for Novem-
| Der contains among its important illus
trated articles graphic account of 1.-THE
Great Boston Fire of 1872" written by
Mr.. Robert G. Fitch of the Boston Trans
illustrated as it is with excellent repro.
auctions from photographs, made in many
cases during the progress of the contla-
grafton, and containing interesting remi-
niscences of many who then witnessed
| the destruction of So large a portion of
Boston business district.
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review
| Lakeside Publishing Co., Park Row
/ p,,Il, nit
ed organ of the trained nursing profession
and is now in it's thirteenth year. Its
pages are devoted to the theory and prac-
! tice OF nursing and news items concerning
nurses and hospitals. The leading article
in the November number, headed "Some
I Views on the Nursing Service Bll''
should be read by all who are interested
in this measure; or, rather in what the
bill is intended to bring about In this
article tie defects of the bill are clearly
set forth, and it is evident that it should
be radically amended before it is put in
its passage.
Brilliant as the autumn tints of the
woods and fields it loves so yell are the
| pages of Outing for November. The buck
! of the northern hills, the bear of the
Rockies, the moose of Maine, the grouse
OF Michigan, duck on Lake Champlain,
sport in Tennessee, and the wild yak in
far away Tibet, all yield their tributes
of enthusiasts writing for their kind.
Football has It's prophet in Walter Camp,
lawn tennis its historian in James P. Paret,
golfits chronicler in Charles Turner; and
Travel in China" "a Race ROM the
Horn" and yachting on White Bear
Lake. are described by we'll known pens
The illustrations are remarkable even for
hirrl, cto ,,l ,,f
lures, and the Editorial Review of the
month pastimes is by the foremost
sportsmen in their respective lines.
There has just been issued from the
press of the kenebec journal, Augusta,
Maine, a neatly printed and bound volume
of As pages, with the title ''Carleton's Di-
gest of the Fish and Game Laws of
Maine. completely Chairman Carleton of
The fish and game commission. The edition
of the laws ordered printed by the Legis-
lature is entirely exhausted, and the call
for copies of these laws is SO great, Mr.
Carleton has written this book, which con-
tains all the laws and rules and regulations
of the commissioners to date, with explain
ations as to what the law is, what it
means, with quotation of all the decis-
ions of the courts relating to fish and
game, and many forms for making COM
plants, forms for petitions, etc. 1t is sold
at a price to barely co YER the cost, 12c in
paper and zoe. in flexible cloth, and will
be sent on receipt of price. This book is
copyrighted.
| The Forum for November contains a
number of articles of world wide interest.
Puerto Rico, Spain, Finland, France,
China, and America are touched upon
by articles representing each country.
Among the thirteen articles of vital inter
est may be found GLOW Shall Puerto Rico
be Governed" by Hon. H. K. Carroll,
Special U. S. Commissioner to Puerto
Rico. Hon. j. l.. NJ. Curry, former u
S. Minister to Spain, gives many pungent
points on ''Spain, Living or Dying?"
''The Finnish Question: is discussed in a
mastery way by Prof. Rudolf Eucken, of
the University of Jena, the leading spirit
of the Finnish movement in Germany.
Jacob Schoenhof shows, by historical fact,
''What the World Owes to France.''
''Civil Service by Special Training by
Hoffman Atkinson, sheds new light upon
an important subject. Prof. William P.
Trent of the University of the South, writes
in his most entertaining style an article
on 'Mr. McCarthy's "reminiscences.
uC IcudIhdUlC SIOWtu VI lHo CuIlS-
tian Science movement is leading to a gen.
eral inquiry into its origin and develop
ment. A sketch of it's founder, Mrs Mary
Baker Eddy, contributed by Mrs. Henriet-
ia H. Williams to the November New
England Magazine, will therefore have
special value at this time. 'Such an
achievement as hers" says Mrs. Williams,
"the founding of great religious move
ment by a woman, is fact historically
without precedent. 1t proves her quail
fication as a born leader of advancing
thought The movement of which she is
the origin and head is certainly one of the
most noteworthy and interesting move
ments in New England or in America, at
the present time, and her life and person
ality command attention." The article is
fully and we'll illustrated with views of
Mrs. Eddy's home and it's surroundings at
Concord, New Hampshire, with portraits