The Republican journal., 1898-07-21
Literary News and Notes.

All the articles in The Forum for July
are particularly ''readable;" and there is
not a dull paper in the issue. While so
much biographical matter relative to the
late Mr.. Gladstone is being presented to
the public by the press and magazines,
The Forum has for its leading article
sketch of the deceased statesman by Mr..
Justin Mccarthy, NJ. P, written four
years ago with the stipulation that it
should not be published till after MI
Gladstone death. Mr.. Mccarthy says:
II am not writing biography Of Mr..
Gladstone. . The public life of Glad
stone belongs to history, and is open to
the study of anyone and everyone. | am
rather DESTROYS of telling in cursory sort
of way how that life began, how that
career was directed from its beginning,
how the nature and the genius of the man
asserted themselves, how he came to
slough old beliefs and to cast away old
preiudices, how, as Bright said of him,
he was always struggling toward the
light. My idea is to make study
from personal memory of the man rather
than a chronicle of his career" From
these avowals of the author it will be gath
cred that Mr.. McCarthy's article makes
exceptionally interesting reading. Mr..
Frank F. Hilder's paper on 1.-The Philip
pine islands is valuable from the fact
that it is the result of personal observa-
ton of the country and of intercourse
with its people. MI Hilder's view of
our latest ACQUISITION is evidenced in the
following paragraph: 1.-The world con
tains no fairer nor more fertile lands. no
more promising field for commercial en-
terprise. and no people more worthy to be
elevated to higher place in the scale of
nations. and to be assisted by education
and good government to obtain it
a remarkable group of articles upon
topics OF national interest appears in the
July Atlantic. Two of them discuss our
relations with England in the light of
Secretary Olney's much talked of sugges-
ton for an Anglo American alliance. Rt.
Hon James Bryce, VI. p, speaking from
the English point Of view, calls attention
to the essential unity OF the two nations
in race, history, character, and aims, and
in behalf OF his countIymen welcomes
every advance. official OF private, towards
closer relations and better understand
ing. James X. Hosmer traces the
evolution Of the United States from our
W Sihi NpiOHihi NOPCHttCuCe upon I-liS-
land and our sabseqent independence,
down to what he conceives now to be an
inter dependence of the two nations,
springing from their common race, lam
gLage, institutions, and ideals, in which
they stand alone together as against all
the other great nations of tile world and
from his different point of departure.
he reaches the same conclusion as Secre-
taIv Olney and MI. Bryce. aud believes
that the welfare of the world depends
upon the mutual accord of the two ma
tons. and that the long Sundered kind
red are now slowly gravitatng toward
alliance. Henry c. Lea, whose History
OF the Inqusition is universally accepted
as authoritative, gives valuable insight
into the disorganizaton and weakness of
Spain in her present conflict with us by
depicting the decadent condition Of that
country and tracing the causes, steadily
at work during the last four centuries,
that have produced il. and gradually
dragged the nation down to its present
state of decentralization and weakness.
Prof. j. Laurence Laughlin completes
the group with a timely and we'll con-
sdered article upon The War and Money.
explaining our present finar cial condition
and its dangers as compared with thos