The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-10
Literary News and Notes.

|
New England blossom with sweet flowers
of romance as richly as any meadow of
| Old World fame,' says Samuel A. Eliot,
in the New England Magazine for August,
in the Introductory lines of his interesting
paper on seThe Romance of Mt. Desert"
| His article dwels particularly on the
| period of Champlain's exploration and
| the settlement of the Jesuits on Mt.
| Desert, and summer visitors to the island
will be glad that it's history is here so at
| tractively set forth and so beautifully il
Illustrated. Warren F. Kellogg, Park Sq.,
| Boston, Mass.
| The August Cosmopolitan is strong
attraction. Two important articles deal
with society, one j. W. Benefits 'sYour
| True Relation to Society,"" the other,
Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer's ''The
Basis of New York Society" This latter
| article is handsomely illustrated with
portraits of the well-known women who
move in the famous Four Hundred.
Gustav Kobbe writes on "Augustine DAILY
and His Life work." which is another
profusely illustrated article, and John
Brisben Walker continues his interesting
history of the times of Mohammed and
Omar. The fiction is very entertaining.
Judging by the statement of the editor
the Cosmopolitan was quite justified in
its discontinuance of Count Tolstoj's
novel.
Outing tor August is an exceedingly in
teres ting and seasonable number, with the
usual fine illustrations. The contents in
clude: Golf in Gotham" by Charles
Turner, the literary father of golf in
America; big Game in the Rockies" by
j. n. Ostrom; LAWN Tennis on the Eu-
ropean Continent" by }. P. Paret, can
August Outing" by Ed. w. Sandys;
Canoeing Down the West Branch of the
Peno bscot,' by W. A. Brooks; ''The Best
out of Three by NJ. Gertrude Cundill;
Camp Crisine," by IL. c. Daniels; "a
Stroll in the Black Forest" by Mary E.
Blake; Holiday Work with the Camera"
by DR.. John Nicol; 1.-The August Cruise
OF the New York Club" by A. J. Kenea-
ly and the usual poems, editorials and re-
cords, which include full and expert ao-
count of the Golf Championship contest at
Chicago by William Tucker, of St.
Andrews.
In the March number of The Forum,
DR.. Felix L. Oswald under the captio q
"a Lost Eden, gave most pessimstic
forecast OF our occupation in Cuba, hint
ing that the large swarm of irrepressibe
outlaws with which the island is infested
could never be subjugated and suggesting
that perhaps it had been better for Amer.
lean interests if Cuba like the lost At
lantis, had disappeared beneath the ocean
waves In the August issue of the same
magazine, Mr.. George Reno takes Dr. Os-
valid to task and challenges most of his
statements Mr.. Reno, it will be remem-
bered, was for long time special envoy
between the Provincial Government Of
Cuba and the Administration at Washing
ton, and he claims to have ridden over
most OF the island. So far from accept
ing Dr.. Oswald's gloomy forecast. Mr..
Reno is of opinion that Cuba's delightful
climate, wonderful fertile soil, vast forests
and valuable woods will deservedly at
tract an unlimited amount of American
capital, and that a large emigration from
the United States is sure to follow. Mr..
Reno is confident that in few years we
shall be able to apply to Cuba the title of
his article, ga Paradise Regained.'
Dr.. Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston,
S secretary of the American Peace Confer
ence, was present at The Hague during
the session of the International Peace
Conference, and he contributes to the
New England Magazine for August a val
liable and interesting account of his per
sonal observations of tile distinguished
men composing this notable assembly and
| of the information he there gathered
relative to the proceedings of the confer
ence. The mere fact that such body of
men, representing the highest culture of
their several nations should have met to-
gether and worked SO faithfully aud in
irit " \
| harmony, is more deeply significant. SAYS
| Dr.. Trueblood than any direct results
| which may have been attained. That
war as a means of settling difficult
ties between nations has been struck a
severe blow, and that the feeling in favor
of disarmament has been greatly strength
ened by this international exchange of
ideas can now be asserted. His article is
eXcellently illustrated with many por-
| traits and with several views of the
| House in they GODS where the confer
ence was held, while the frontispiece of
the magazine is group picture Of the
six American delegates. Warren F. Kel-
logg, Park Square, Boston, Mass.
A popular feature of Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps writings is the happy blending
of lively humor and tender pathos which
hI"dy . CudidCleIlZeS anu III u1nl0dCeS them.
These qualities were perhaps never more
in evidence than in her latest and most
touching story, 'Loveliness," which APP
pears in the August Atlantic. But the
element which will attract the widest
attention to the story and call forth the
iiveliest discussion over it, is it's out
spoken and trenchant attack upon the
practice of vivisection and the methods of
| the vivisectors. ''Loveliness'' is ''silver
Yorkshire terrier" stolen from delicate
little girl, whose life is actually waver-
ing in the balance through her grief over
the loss of her beloved pet, when her
father, college professor, discovers the
missing favorite in the operating room of
the medical school of his own university,
and under the very scalpel of the operator,
kissing his vivisector's hand.' The
authors indignation that such things
should be tolerated in these days is
expressed in no uncertain terms. The
defenders of those who practise what she
denominates 1.-THE worst torture of all,
that reserved by wisdom and power of the
dumb, the undefended and the SMALL"
will need to use their best weapons to
meet the thrilling indictment drawn by
her in her brilliant assault upon what she
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