The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

how the incidents in its development
are typical of our national life.
''Upin Maine" Holman F. Days book
OF quaint and homely poems, is now
selling close to the 5000 mark. When
it is remembered that 800 to 1000 cop
les is the average sale of a volume of
poetry it will be seen how great sue
cess this clever Maine writer has attain
ed. Mr.. Day is very busy man these
times. Besides his regular desk work
ON the Lewiston Journal he is contribut-
ing to literary syndicate and to several
newspapers and magazines besides.
Sarah Orne Jewetts American TO-
nance 'The Tory Lover" which has
begun SO brilliantly, continues in the
December number of the Atlantic The
Boston Transcript says the first Install
ment reveals a tasteful, well-ordered
luxury i'll upper circles that we have
not come across any too frequently in
American stories of the last century
-. 1t is undoubtedly authentic, and
most carefully and sympathetically
studied, all of which makes it reason
able to forecast that it will be one Of
the popular serials. not only OF the COM
ing year, but a standard for many years
to come
The Christmas number of the New
England Magazine contains an unusual
number of good stories. One is by
Alice Morse Earle, and another by
Annie Eliot; and perhaps that which
will prove the most entertaining to
most readers is by Henry A. Clapp, the
well known ShakeSpearian scholar, en-
titled From Jerusalem to Jericho in
Ninety Minutes'' The number con.
tiins also half a dozen good poems, one
"A tribute to Charles Dudley Warner by
Newton Marshall Hall. There is
little illustrated sketch by Charles F.
Saunders, entitled THE Soldier That
Never Returned" The man who left
his wife and child for the war did come
back after the years, but came back
such a moral wreck that it is clear that
the husband and father were forever
lost.
The little red schoolhouse has been
notable New England institution. 1t
has been in the district school that
most New England boys and girls have
been educated during the last century.
The Old district system is passing away;
but it is to be hoped that in the better
new things that have come and are COM
ing, the strength of the old will not be
lost. There is good deal of gentle pa
thos, as well as real humor, in the delight
full article upon ''The Passing of the Old
Red Schoolhouse," by Mr. Walter Sar-
gent, in the Christmas number of the
New England Magazine. Not few of
the Old Schoolhouses still stand: and
MI Sargent's article, which is illustrat-
ed 10y graphic pictures from his own
hand. deals chiefly with some Of these in
Berkshire, Warren F. Kellogg, Park
square. Boston, Mass.
The December issue of Table Talk
opens with a pleasant bit OF poetry en-
titled The Turkeys Jubilee" and is
followed by number Of well written
articles Among them of special excel
lence we mention, "1'he Cooking of the
May Flower Women" "A Borrowed
Christmas "Cheertulness at the Ia
bic, The Making of Men, ~ Dainty
Christmas of Ye Olden Days" Christ
mas Facts and Fancies of many Coun-
tries. The Children's Christmas and
Gifts of the World" Illustrated
Cookery is an attractive feature of
Table Talk and several timely and
tempting looking dishes enrich the
pages of this month. Table Talk both
teaches and illustrates the art of good
cooking and of wise and economical
living 1t is a valuable assistant to
househeepers. Our readers can obtain
d free sample copy by addressing The
Table Talk Publishing Co., Philadelphia,
Pa.
The editor of the Colby Stories" an
nOunceS that the volume will be out
cary in December. The delay i'll the
publication of this book is due largely
n he work i11lct
Joseph Chase of New York, the artist,
is a professor in large art school in
New DIRK city, and besides this does
great deal of illustrating and cover de-
signing, doing almost all of the work
for one Of the large publishing houses
i'll that city. J. II. B. Fogg, business
manager of the Colby Stories" has
recently received some of the originals
OF the illustrations for that book The
one illustrating Holman F. Days story
and the one for Editor Hinel's yarn are
specially fine. Another one of his
best pieces is the cover design, which
represents Colby willows. The book
VIII be very attractive and one which
the Colby students will not hesitate to
place besides copy of any volume
published by the colleges of New Eng
land Much credit is due Libby. o.
W. wv SlloIiS ClloI L lIC IldN HuU 1OIlIl W
accomplish his undertaking, and the
college will doubtless give him a gener-
Gus support when the volume is put on
sale
The Christmas number of the great
boys paper, The American Boy Detroit,
Mich, contains forty pages and over
one hundred illustrations. 1t is hard
to conceive of a paper more nearly
meeting the wants of boys than does
this number. Its stories are "a Prairie
Christmas, Little Ching Chung Ling's
Christmas" two more chapters of The
Cruise of the Yacht Gazelle," 'The
Deer Lick Endeavor Society," "Why
the Pickaninnies Made Up" two more
chapters of ''Three Boys in the Mount
AIMS and the following special articles
a Boys Ascent of Mt. Hood;''' The
Paris Exposition being the fifth letter
from a boy reporter "Short Talks to
Boys ''I1ow to Make a Doll House
for the Boys Sister, Glow Boy May
Raise Silk-W Worms" IS illustrationsj
The Flour Mill Puzzle" with an offer
OF ten barrels of flour as prizes; Turn
ing Points i'll a Boys Life being the
second of a series; "a Boys Sister,"
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