The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-01-11
Literary News and Notes.

Literary News and Notes.
If, as some think, Mr.. Rudyard Kiplng
has been the subject of too much lauda-
ton, wholesome corrective is afforded in
the keen and biting treatment which he
| receives at the hands of Mr.. Robert Buch-
''The Hooligan " which the Living Age
for Jan. 6 reprints from The Contempor-
airy Review. The true estimate of kiping
lies somewhere b tween the extreme of
| laudation and such unsparing criticism as
| this.
| The subject of the 'Review of Reviews"
character sketch for January is Secretary
| John Hay, who by reason of the death of
, Vice President Hobart becomes the sue
cessor apparent to the Presidency. The
| writer of the sketch is Mr. Henry Mac
farland, the well-known Washington cor
! respondent, who makes it clear that few
men in public life to- day have had so good
training for the Presidency as Mr.. Hay
has received in the thirty nine years that
| have passed since he became Lincoln's
private secretary.
SIN the Matter OF One Compass is the
rather formal title of a none too formal
poem by Rudyard kipling which, with APP
propriate decorations, occupies three pages
of the Century for January. We quote
the first two of the five stanzas, written in
1892:
When, foot to wheel and back to wind
The helmsman dare not look Behind,
But Lears, beyond his compass light,
The blind bow thunder through the night,
And, as harpstring ere it snaps,
The rigging sings beneath the caps;
Above the shrek of storm in sail
Or rattle of tie blocks blown free,
Set for the peace beyond the gale,
This song the Needle sings the Sea:
Oh, drunken Wave! GA, driving Cloud,
Rage of the Deep and Sterile Rain.
By Love Upheld, by God allowed
We go, but We return again!
The New Year Cosmopolitan is an at
tractive number. There are four short
stories, ''Motorman Cupid,' story of
the trolly car, by Melville Cleater; Dizzy
Dave, by John Luther Long; ''The Lady
of the Ship by A. I. CUTLER Couch,
which is not one of SOS best stories,
and ''Pathrick's Proxy by Seumas Nc
Manus, whose Irish tales are all the rage,
just now. Edgar Saltus writes an article
on ''The delights of trying to be some
body else,' and not less interesting are
the accompanying pictures of successful
masqueraders which it carries; Howard
w. Bell describes ''Fossil Hunting in
Wyoming;" Alexander Harvey writes of
''Some Types of Egyptian Women" Zen
aide A. Ragozin, the we'll known transla-
tor, deals with "Pushkin and his Work.
Charles De Kay, formerly our consul gen
eral to Berlin, gives his impression of the
German capital; kirke La Shelle tells
some entertaining stories of "The The
atrical Advance Agent A. V. Williams
jackson, professor in Columbia Universi
ty, contributes a popular article on ''Zor-
caster, the Magician -Priest;" and M. V.
O'Shea, president of the National Child
Study Association, writes on ''Encourag-
| ing the Mental Powers of Young Chill
dren." Poems are furnished by Martha
Gilbert Dickinson, Clinton Scotland and
Arthur Ketchum.
! The January number of Gunton' Maya
zine opens with the customary strong
historical review of the month with edi-
to1ial discussion, and contains as its lead
ing article vigorous statement of ''Our
Duty in the Philippines" by President }.
G. Schurman of Cornell University, Chair
man of the Philippine Commission. II.
M. Chance, the we'll known mining and en-
cheering expert, contributes an interest
ting article on 'sThe Cost Of Raw Mate
RAILS" showing the reason for the present
high prices of iron and various staple raw
materials. MI. George l.. Bolen, in an
article on ''Hawaii and Porto Rico as:Col-
! onies," urges that these islands be not
annexed as territories, but governed as
separate dependencies. w. f. Edwards,
former president of Washington Univer-
sity, outlines some important reforms in
our system of higher education, especially
with reference to the learned professions.
There are editorial articles on the new
currency bill, Social Education Congress
at Paris, Editorial Crucble, numerous
book reviews, including one specially in
teresting on 1.-THE Meaning of Education"
by DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum-
bia University; besides Letters from Cor
respondents, Question Box, Civic and
Educational Notes, etc. Altogether, a
strong number; 20 cents a copy; 50. 90 per
year. The Gunton Company, Union
Square, New York.
In Boston's Faneuil Hall as recently
renovated there is little remaining of the
| original structure, though it is still the
New England forum, recalling memories
of that series of patriotic meetings just
previous to the Revolution which made
the building famous throughout the
world as the 'sCradle of LIBERTY Its
walls have at different times in it's history
echoed the words of many great orators,
and because of it's Interesting historical
associations public sentiment has been
aroused for it's preservation when its DIES.
truction has several times been threaten