The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-09-28
Literary News and Notes.

Christian Science from a Physicians
Point of view is the title of an article by
Or. John B. Huber which will appear in
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for
October. DR.. Huber has made an attic mpt
to investigate this so-called science from
a scientific standpoint, and his paper
brings to light most surprising state of
affairs.
Bishop Potter will contribute an i'm
portant article on the Charity Question to
the October number of Appletons' Popular
Science Monthly. He points out the de-
grading and demoralizing effect of receiv-
ing aims, and emphasizes this dangerous
feature Of charitable work by number of
instances which have occurred in con-
nection with his own church work.
With the Fall Fiction Number of The
Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia,
that journal will be enlarged from a six
teen to twenty four page weekly maya
week. The Fall Fiction Number will
have a handsome colored cover and thirty
two pages of short stories and entertaining
articles by we'll known and popular
writers. 1t will be on all stands
September IS. The price has not been
raised.
President Charles w. Eliot, of Harvard
University, opens the October Atlantic
with a enthusiastically original and for
chile paper on Recent Changes in Second
airy Education. President Eliot rehearses
the recent notable advances Tin which he
has had SO honorable a share) which have
been made in the studies required or al
lowed for admission to colleges and tech
meal schools, and from which he foresees
not only greater future achievements, but
''solid ground for hopefulness about the
Republic, both as a form of government
and as a state of society,"
The current number Of Gunton's Maya
zine has as a frontispiece a fine portrait
of Maitre Labor, the famous lawyer
who defended Dreyfus in the trial which
closed last week This number opens
with an article of much interest en-
titled 1.-The Secret of Cookers Intlu
ence.' An equally interesting and valu-
able paper deals with Women's Clubs and
Social Reforms" The remaining articles
include: Crusade Against Prosperity
1.-The Economic Idea in Education, >"
"When Coal Gives Out'' and "Imperial
Democracy" The usual editorial depart
ments complete valuable issue.
Six weeks ago D. Appleton 4 Company
were printing the 23Oth thousand of''David
Harum,' the first and only book of the
late Edward Noyes Westcott In the
month of March the sales of this book were
20, O60 copies. In July the sales amounted
to 40, COS copies. For five or six months
David Harum' has been the "best sell
ling book in the United States, and its
popularity seems to be steadily increasing.
The circumstances attending the publica-
ton of this book invest it with a peculiar
interest. Now that the fact has been stat
ed in print so many times it is not i'm
proper to say on the best of authority that
the book had been declined by six pub
fishers before it came to Messrs Apple
ton.
The author of the famous ''Mr. Dooley, ~
Finley 2. Dunno, has joined the literary
forces of Tie Ladies' Home Journal, and
will create this fall in that magazine a new
character, called "Molly Donahue: who
lives across the street from Mr.. Dooley, -
Her creator says that Molly is bright
pretty girl Of nineteen, who has ambition
for the great world of woman's clubs,
Browning societies, golf cluhs, woman 5
rights organizations, and the ''high-
toned literary and social life which thrives
on ''the elite side of Chicago" Her
mother and brother sympathize with her,
but her father, who works in the mill, is
hard to deal with in that he will insist on
sitting at table in his shirtsleeves and in
his stocking feet ''Mr. Dooley' is the
family's most intimate friend and is called
upon frequently TO run across and set
matters straight.
In The Century for October announce
ment viii be made Of the names of the
three winners of the prizes offered for tie
best poem, essay, and story submitted
in competition by American college
graduates of 1898. Last year all the prizes
We're Won by alumnH of Eastern women S
colleges; this year S winners are Western
ers, and only one of them is a woman.
The prize poem, entitled "a Hill PRAYER, -
is by Miss Marion Warner Widman of
Norwalk, Ohio, b. A, 1898, of the Col
lege for Women of Western Reserve Uni
versity, at Cleveland, Ohio The prize
essay, entitled 1.-The Poetry of Blake: An
Opinion is by Mr.. Henry Justin Smith
of Chicago, B. A., 1898, of the University
of Chicago. The prize story, entitled
''Ony the Master Shall Praise" is by
Mr.. John NJ. Oskison of Vinita Indian
Territory, 3. A., 1898, of Leland Stanford
Jr. University, at Palo Alto, California
Perhaps the most interesting item in
connection with this years competition is
the fact that the prize story writer is by
birth part Indian. The competition will
occur again next year