The Republican journal., 1905-11-02
Literary News and Notes.

John W. Luce & Company announce
that the Foolish Almanack' for 1906
by Nixon Waterman, George Barr
McCutcheon, W. d. Nesbit and others,
which was issuedNovember 1st, hadbeen
ordered so heavily in advance that a
second printing was required, making
the first edition 10000. 1t bids fair to
rival 'The Foolish Dictionary" in pop
ularity.
Chatterbox is more than mere book
1t is almost an institution. How the
juvenile world could exist without it
would be difficult to say. 1t is rightly
pronounced "a favorite on both sides
of the ocean, This years Chatterbox
is fully up to its usua, standard eff ex-
cellence. In addition to an interesting
miscellany of stories and sketches, it
contains over two hundred full page
illustrations, including six handsome
color plates. Small 4to, Illuminated
board covers. Price, SIPS, Dana
Estes 4 Co., publishers, Boston.
Every school-teacher is confronted
with the dual problem of teaching those
who are willing and reshaplng the
characters of the rebelious so that
they shall be willing. How this diff
Guilty is to be overcome is suggested in
a little book entitled ''The Teachers
Problem" issued by the publishers of
The Youths Companion. The book is
largely made up of letters from teachers
i'll various parts of the country, who
have wrestled with the most adverse
conditions in the schoolroom and have
overcome them by tact, patience, and
strength OF character. A sample copy
of the book will be sent to any address
for nine cents in stamps sent to The
Educational Department, Youths Com
panion, Boston, Mass.
Distinctly holiday novelty will be
volume announced by John W. Luce
s. Company for publication the first
week in November, CAN By Wire" de-
scribed as "a Geographic explanation
of telepathic union of hearts, In
other words it is volume of 100 tele
grams which pass principally between
young man and woman, who are en-
tirely unknown to each other, but have
been obliged to resort to wire as
means OF recovering their luggage, each
having taken the others by mistake in
leaving the sleeping car. They are in
troduced by the kilograms of happily
discovered mutual friend, carry on an
odd courtship, become engaged, re-
ceive her fathers blessing-and all by
wire, not meeting until the last tele
gram is exchanged. The kilograms are
fac-similes of Postal Telegraph and
Western Union messages, both day and
night, done in the four colors required
for correct reproduction.
Frederick Chamberlin, the well
known lawyer and author of Boston,
has written light racy book of a trip
around the world in three months,
which he recently took at an hours
notice while engaged in a secret mis-
sion to the Philippines. The work will
be called "Around the World in Ninety
Days." and the C. NJ. Clark Publishing
Company of Boston announces its pub
LEGATION date as some time in Novem-
Der. The work will have more than
three hundred half-tone plates. Sub
stantially all of these views are repro
auctions of snapshots taken by MIR.
Chamberlin of native life in Hawaii,
the Philippines, China, the Midway
Islands, Guam, Ceylon, Africa, Arabia
and Italy. They are such views as can
only be made once, and no other book
of travel that has been issued since Mr..
Stanley's African books is SO rich as
this new work in valuable and unique
pictures,