The Republican journal., 1899-07-27
Literary News and Note.

Applet0nS HOpular Science monthly
for August Will contain an article by
Appleton Morgan on the result of the
last five years of legislation against drunk
enness. Two very surprising conclusions
may be drawn from the author statistics:
first. that the fewer the places where
liquor is sold the larger the consumption
consumption of liquor the less the drunk
enness.
The August Atlantic is unusually at
tractive as a fiction number. Miss Johns
toms To Have and to Hold easily takes
the lead among current serial fiction,
while MI Hopkinson Smiths lively and
patriotic story, The Man with the Empty
Sleeve, Mrs Phelps Wards thrilling
LONELINESS; Mrs. Princes pathetic picture
of French rural life, The Flail of Time;
and Miss Dupuy's humorous and pathetic
In Mutton Ham Boat, furnish an inter-
esting variety, both in style and subject.
Miss Phelps pathetic and touching
story of little Adah and her silver York
shire" in the August Atlantic will att ract
wide notice and comment from its out
spoken attack (keen as their own scalpels)
upon vivisection and the vivisectors. Miss
Phelps has always the courage of her con-
shares Lord Tennyson S adherence for
the yiviseotor who would
"Mangle the living dog that had loved him
and fawned at his knee"
Horato Alger, writer of boys stories,
died at the residence of his sister, Mrs.
Amos p. Cheney, IN Natick, Mass, July
18th. He has been i'll about a year, but
not steadily confined to his home until the
last few weeks. Horatio Alger was born
i'll Revere, Mass, in 1884, and was gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1852. He spent three
years in journalism and teaching, and for
| another three years attended the Cam
bridge Theological School, supporting
himself meanwhile by writing for news
papers. After spending nearly year in
European travel and three years as a pri-
vate tutor MI. Alger was ordained in 1864
as pastor Of the Unitarian church in
| Brewster, Mass. Mr.. Alger went to New
York in 1865 He made the acquaintance
of a bootblack, and put him into story
entitled Ragged Dick. The hootblack
made Mr.. Alger' fortune. The book made
a hit among Juvenile readers and revealed
to Mr.. Alger in what direction his talents
We're strongest. lie wrote more than fifty
| books for boys, and he aimed in every
one of them to inculcate some wholesome
moral lesson.
Fiction is the leading feature of the
August number of Harper's Magazine
Among the short stories which it contains
are allie Cannon First and Last Duel, -
by Seumas MacM anus; "The Lady of the
Garden, 10y Alice Duer; "The Tree of
knowledge" by Mary T. Wilkins; THE
Angel Child" by stephen Crane; "The
sorrows of Don Tomas Pidal Beconceu-
trado," by Frederic Remington. "A Du-
luth Tragedy" by Thomas A. Janvier,
and "When Mrs. Van Worcester Dimes, -
by Anna Wentworth Sears. The main
story in THE Drawer is "A Compound
ed Felony" by James Barnes. There are
further installments Of ''Their Silver
Wedding Journey" by ", D. Howells,
and THE Princess Nenia," by II. B.
Marriott Watson The more serious
features are Mr.. Sandham's article on
''Haiti the Unknown,' another chapter
Of DR. Wyeth's Life Of General Forrest, "
Admiral Beardslee's paper on Episodes
of the TAPPING Rebellion,' and Lieuten-
ant Calkins study of "The Filipino In
surrection of 1885, Bliss Carman and
Thomas Dunn English are the verse
writers of the number. The illustrations
are throughout uncommonly attractive,