The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-03-11
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning. March H. 1897

appeared in its pages, and among it's con
tributors were Hawthorne, Longfellow.
Whittier, Edward Everett, and all the
| brightest minds of the time. Rev. George
! Willis Cooke contributes thorough and
| interesting article upon this historic pub
LEGATION to the March number of the New
England Magazine. His article is Illus
trated by copies of all the pictures which
appeared in the magazines successive
volumes, and the interesting account will
be read with eagerness by all who like to
dive into our literary antiquities War
rem F. Kellogg, Park Square, Boston.
Mass.
The most intensely interesting people of
the world just at this moment are the
millions of famine and plague stricken
India. But little is known of this region
by the people of the United States. Such
reports as come to us are the things seen
through British glasses. What has been
the effect of British rule in India? Wby
these terrible famines? Why plaques?
Julian Hawthorne has been sent by The
Cosmopolitan Magazine to India to obtain
answers to these questions at first hand
and depict the situation as it appears to
an American. The March Cosmopolitan
contains the first of what is probably the
most important series Of articles ever pre-
sented in this magazine. Nothing has
been published which gives an adequate
idea OF the larger operations of business
at least nothing by the class of men fitted
Tor such work by thorough familiarity
with the subjects of which they write
The article in the March Cosmopolitan on
The Methods Of Banking" by the Presi-
dent of one of the largest banks of New
Y ork-a man of widest business EXPERT
ence-former Postmaster General James
is one which every person, however
humble his clerkship or high his place in
the financial world, will find interesting
and instructive. This series will consti.
tute very complete course of business
training, and every young man Just enter
ing business life and every old man will
alike find it of immense value
The March number of The Arena is the
initial issue of the maya zine under the
new management and editorship. The
company has been reorganized on a solid
financial basis, and the current number Of
the magazine comes in form and sub
stance well calculated to win public favor,
and following it's we'll established policy
OF liberalism and reform. The number
opens with the first of series of import
ant contributions on the development and
reform of city government in the United
States. This first article is by the II II.
Josiah Quincy, Mayor Of Boston, who
therein expresses himself as in favor of
the municipal ownership, though not
necessarily of the municipal operation, of
puollc services, such as gas and electric
lighting and street railways. An excel
lent portrait of Mayor Quincy forms the
trontlsplece to the number. DR.. A. G.
True, Director of the Office Of Experiment
Stations in the United States Department
of Agriculture, in "The Solidarity Of
Town and Farm deals in an interesting
way with the question of the crowding Of
people from the country into the already
overcrowded cities, a process which he
looks upon as natural and inevitable; and
he urges that the town resident and the
dWeller in the country should more fully
| recognize the need of each to the other,
ana should come to better understand
ing. He also makes some excellent sug-
gestlonS as to dealing with the problem of
the city slnms.
The frontispiece of Mcclure Magazine
for March is fine portrait of Mark Twain
painted by Charles Noel Flagg, and never
before reproduced. 1t introduces an ex-
trenely interesting number. There is the
opening lnstalment of new novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson, the last novel we
shall ever have from that most charming
of romancers. There is a brief critical
paper apt and comprehensive in its in
depreciation and full and cordial in its
praise of Rudyard Kipling as poet, by
". d. Howells. There is a paper of per-
sonal impressions on one of the greatest
OF illustrative artists, Daniel Nieroe, by
his intimate friend, August Jaccaci, with
numerous drawings by Verge, most Of
them never before published. And there
is paper flom Conan Doyle relating his
own personal adventures in the Arctic
Seas as young surgeon on board of a
| Greenland whaler. These are features
varied and significant enough, one should
( think, to attract a crowd of readers to
any magazine but there is still much else
worth mentioning in this number of Nc
Clure's. In immediate and striking in
| terest, more noteworthy than any of these,
indeed, is the opening article--an account
| based on conversations with DR.. j. G.
Bose and Signor G. Marconi, of recent
marvellous experiments of theirs in tele-
graphing through thick walls, and even
Hills dutl LuOuuldlHS, over CODSlu
cradle distances, without wires. Rudyard
klpling, in an instalment of 'sCaptains
Courageous" describes as no one but he
could the conveying of a distracted
mother to her long-lost son, by special
train from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
| from Los Angeles to Boston, in the I'M
equaled time of ''eighty- seven hours and
thirty five minutes, or three days, fifteen
hours and a half A paper by Hamin
Garland gives a very life-like and inter
esting picture of General Grant as young
| army officer, fond of game of checkers
and good horse, but faithful in round
of rather dull barrack duties at Detroit
, and Sackett's Harbor, and later remark
ably courageous and resourceful in con-
veylng his regiment across the Isthmus to
California, despite a severe infliction of
cholera and the most serious deficiency Of
supplies and means of transportation.
" Warman relates stirring tale of pic
turesque Rocky Mountain bandit; Clinton
Ross tells a dramatic society story turn
ing on an instance of mistaken identity;
and there are some new portraits of Presi-
dent-eect Mckinley and his mother So,
altogether, it is in it's contents a most va
RED, attractive and distinguished number.
81 Year for The Journal and Tribune.