The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-07-05
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

Maine Club at Chicago and its reproduce
ton has a special interest in view of Old
Home Week.
J. d. Whelpley, having recently given
affairs in Cuba thorough and careful
investigation, describes in the July
Atlantic Cuba of To-Day and To-Mor-
row. showing what the spanish rule
was what the Americans have been and
are doing since taking possession, and
how difficult and delicate is the task
before Us to regenerate and educate the
Cuban people and tit them for ultimate
Self government
As an eX-school-c Ommittee woman,
Martha Baker Dunn, in the July Allan
tie tells many wholesome and some un-
palatahle truths as to the general mis-
manmanagement of educational plob-
lens, the often diShealtening treatment
of public school teachers. and the CON
seienceless demands generally, if not
universally. made upon them. The
slightly humorous tone which pervades
the article makes it easy and attractive
reading, While it is none the less out
SPOKEN and emphatic as to the need of
reform tCl many CRYING evils.
Among many articles of timely inter-
est i'll the New England Magazine for
July appears one on The Rangeley
Lakes. 10y MI Arthur L. Colder. This
beautiful region, Astounding i'll fish and
game. is becoming a close rival of
Moosehead Lake as Il popular resort for
sportsmen Nh Colder describes its
attractions with all the enthusiasm of
one who writes from intimate knowledge
of the locality, and his paper is fully
illustrated with picturesque bits here
and there among the Rangeleys. Many
WHO read his account will doubtless be
led thither i'll their vacation days.
Warren F. kellogg Park Square, Bos-
ton, Mass.
Boston is Justly proud of the beauti-
tul tracts of wooded land within its
limits and its immediate vicinity. Prob
ably no other city can boast of so
many historic old trees still serving as
land marks. Their number is fast d.
minishing however and BoStonians
will be glad to have their memory pre-
served, and will read with just appre-
citation Miss Abbie Farwell Browns
excellent paper entitled Notable Trees
a bout Boston, in the New England
Magazine for July. Miss Brown mem
tions MANY famous trees TO he found
within a radius of fifteen miles from the
city. and calls to mind many which mo
longer exist. but whose memory is still
cherished. The illustrations which ac-
company her article are finely executed
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