The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-15
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

A standard Juvenile is The Chatter
box. With its wealth of illustrations, in
Guiding many in colors, its rich store of
fact and fiction, it is most acceptable
Christmas gift for the little ones; and
many will be glad to know that the
ChatterboX for this year is fully up to
the high standard of its predecessors.
Dana Estes Il Co., publishers, Boston.
The Lothrop Publishing Company is
preparing to print the one hundred and
twenty-tifth thousand of "Eben Hold
en-" This remarkable North Country
romance of Mr.. Irving Bachelor is
now entering on a great wave of popu-
larity in the West, while its sales in
New England and New York are as
large as ever.
The b profusely illustrated pages Of
the November American Boy are full
of stories. history, science, and sport,
for boys. AS usual the matter is clean,
inspiring and helpful to the growing
and ambitious boy. The stories are:
We-all's Deer; Three Boys in the Noun
tains: Jack Holliday-The Boy Who
Told Tall Stories: Cruise of the Yacht
Gazelle; The Derrick Christian En-
deavor Society. Other titles of interest
are: Joining a College Fraternity;
Wendell Phillips; Boy Singers; No
vember in History; Hints About Foot
ball; How Western Boy Got His Start
in Life; The First Thanksgiving Din
ner; Something About the Postotlice;
Squirrels and Squirrel Hunt: Hints
on the Study of Insects; the Beginners
Guide to Stamp Collecting; where to
find stamps; How Boys Make Money
out of Binding Books: Boys as Photo
graphers and Printers: Boys as Collec-
tors of Stamps, Coins and Indian Curios;
Boys Exchange; Puzzles, etc. sl.OO
per annum. Sprague Publishing Com
pany, Detroit, Mich.
The Boston Journal publishes the fol-
lowing notice of Memory Street: a
Story of a Life new book by Mrs.
Martha Baker Dunn of Waterville:
If, as Mr.. Howells says, women make
or mar the success of novels, the future
of "Memory Street" by Martha Baker
Dunn, should be assured. 1t is story
which will touch the heart of every
woman, especially of those who will
confess to being in that most fortunate
of all periods, "middle life the
uncertainties of youth behind them
and the trials of old age not yet upon
them. 1t is a simple straightforward
tale of life during the last half century,
in an easily recognized Maine city. 1t
is told in the first person, and has, for
the most part, the atmosphere of per-
feet verisimilitllde. Such reminiscent
ces of the experiences of childhood, the
"good times" of girlhood, and the
later love affairs of young womanhood,
might mother unfold for her daugh
ter's benefit, as the two sat together
with fingers busy over some feminine
employment and tongues free for the
intimate talks which belong to such
happy hours.
The earlier chapters, in which the
quaint childhood is lived over again, are
especially entertaining, while the social
gayeties, the parties and dances and
picnics of girlhood days are described
with such evident enjoyment that one
feels they are Greatly true" as the chill
dren say; and most of us are still chill
dren enough to feel that this fact heigh-
tens our pleasure therein. Some of the
characters are very life-like, including
'Lucy Mary" the rather inadequate
playmate, Mis- Day, Mis- Cap'n Aber-
crombie and her daughter, the aristo-
cratic Madam Saville, and the body
guard of sea captains; but Murray
Churchill, the hero, though charming
fellow, strikes one as having been elab-
grated or made up somewhat to fill
the mart