The Republican journal., 1900-09-06
L1rERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr.. Balfours recent address on s'The
Nineteenth Century" delivered before
the University Extension classes at
Cambridge, is given in full in The Liv
ing Age for September Sth.
joaquin Miller, the California poet.
announces that in the complete edition
of his works. which he is preparing for
publication only after his death, his
j real name, Cincinnatus Helne Miller,
will be used.
The posters entitled "Uncle Sans
Balance Sheet and ''That Terrible
Eclipse" published by the American
Protective Tariff League, are perhaps
the most striking illustrations of the
difference in conditions between 1896
and 1900, which have been issued thus
far in the campaign. These posters can
be seen in the rooms of any local Re
publican Committee, or will be sent to
any address for eight cents. Ask for
Posters &c" and III" Address, Amer
lean Protective Tariff League, l35 West
23rd Street, New York.
The Worcester Music Festival is one
of the great annual events in New Eng
land musical life. These Worcester
Festivals have been held year by year
from time we'll back in the century,
and they have done great work for
the musical culture of Massachusetts.
The story of it all is told by Walter
Moody Lancaster in the opening article
in the September number of the New
England Magazine. His enthusiastic
article is illustrated by portraits of the
Worcester men who have guided this
institution from the beginning until
now, by portraits of musical leaders,
and by other pictures.
knowledge of the Bible will refine,
enlarge and elevate the vocabulary of
any one. and the girl who studies her
Bible daily and reads Shakespeare, Scott,
Macaulay and Ruskin will be better
talker than she who limits her reading
to the daily newspaper or the latest
agreeable book. Dickens, Thackeray.
William Black, Blackmore, Barrie,
Crockett, Mrs. Oliphant and George
Eliot are all helpful to those who would
be good, bright, varied and entertain
ing takers, because in all these au-
thors you continually find wholesome
thoughts expressed in forceful and
strenuous English, and bit by bit you
receive of the wealth these masters Of
English have so carefully bestowed
upon their work. september Ladies'
Home journal
Jacob IIeminway. the First Yale
Student" is the subject of an article
of much interest by Burton J. Hend-
rick in the September number of the
New England Magazine. 1t is now al
most two centuries since the first Yale
student began his studieS,-not in New
Haven halls, but in the parsonage in the
the old Connecticut town of kenil-
worth The Yale student of to-day will
be glad to turn to the story of his earli-
est predecessor and reflect upon the
contrasting circumstances of Jacob
IIeminway's time and of his own. 1t is
a quaint story which Mr. Iendrick
tells, and made more vivid by various
! illustrations. We could wish that the
portrait of Jacob Heminway were
among them. but it is not. and we
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chusetts.
Judge Francis Lowell opens the Sep
TENDER Atlantic with The American
Boss,-his rise and sources Of power
Brooks Adams follows with Russia S
Interest in China,-a very present ques-
ton ably discussed. Mrs. Candee pic
lures the wonders of Oklahoma, and
Canon Rawnsley sketches Ober-Am-
mergau. Mrs. Foote begins The Prod
| igal,-a brilliant short serial A nota-
bic group of great general interest COM
prises Paul More's Ancient Feud ~
apropos of Tolstoi: Marguerite Muller's
Gerhart Hauptmann,-on the recent
German Renaissance: Canon Everett's
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and Foreign News.-in praise Of old
methods: Trent's Old Southern News
| papers, with appetiZing extracts: and
Fernald's dissection of a modern kin
dergarten child. Reviews of Art Edu-
cation for Men. Recent American Fic-
ton, and Books on Japan: attractive
short stories: brilliant poems and a
lively Contributors Club also appear.
The Boer is mighty hunter, as Mr..
A. 5. Jenning's story of a Uand-to- Hand
Conflict with a Lioness in Outing for
September attests. Mr.. G. W. Orion,
one OF the contestants, compares the
forms and systems of the various coun-
tries represented i'll his article on
American Athletics at the Paris Games.
The Sporting Spirit, Ancient and Mod
ern, by Mr.. George Hubbard, is clear
statement of the principles that should
underlie such victories In these days,
when fanaticism is playing so large a
part in determining native action in the
Far East, Mr.. Fitzherbert Leather's
story, The Quin Ahtsk's Quits, has
special significance So has Caspar
Whitney's contribution, The Boats of
the Far East; the Chinese river life
which he portrays enables one to esti-
mate the isolation of mind of many of
the people of that country. Rollin E..
Smiths article on The Delusions about
Hydrophobia will bring welcome relief
to many. Can Moving Bicycle Fall?
is an ingeniously worked-out paradox.
Frederic Remington tells in humor-
ously graphic way How a Trout Broke
a Friendship and Carrie Foote Weeks
gives the details of My First Land
locked Salmon.
Among the thirteen articles which
make up the September issue of The
Forum are many which from the point
of view of timeliness and interest can
hardly be beaten. Indeed, The Forum,
though laboring under the disadvant-
ages which attend every monthly maya
Zine manages to retain great deal of
that up-to-date-liveness which is the
happy endowment of a live daily. With
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