The Republican journal., 1900-08-02
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

1llEkAkY NEW . AMI NOxES.
Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Wards
new novel has been bought by The
Ladies Home Journal. in which period
ical it is about to be published serially.
1t it called THE Successors to Mary the
First and is one Of the most humorous
and vet real pieces of fiction, touching
the servant-girl question, ever written.
One of the department heads at
Washington recently wrote an article
for The ladies' Home Journal which
required the Presidents approval for
publication. The President asked that
the article be given to him. At the end
of week the manuscript came back
edited in a way which completely won
editorial admiration. The President
was apparently thoroughly conversant
with all the marks which editors use
in making corrections. Every erasure
and interineation had its proper sign
and each was i'll the Presidents own
handwriting.
The August Atlantic contains several
articles that will attract criticism and
discussion: President Hadley's pratical
and much-needed paper on Political Edu-
cation: Talcott Willlams's The Price of
Order,-how to rule colonies: Mark B.
Dunnell's Our Rights in China-most
timely and appropriate i'll the present
crisis: and sylvester Bakers Subma-
rine Signaling.-a new and little-knoWn
method of saving life on the sea. The
Miss Jewett'S The Foreigner: Alice
Browns \ sea Change: Caroline
Browns Angels and Men: Fanny
Johnson's The Pathway Round; Eos
tiers The Dungarvan Whooper: and
Wetherbee's The Circle of Death, with
the conclusion of Howellss brilliant
tale comprise a remarkable gathering
of remarkable stories.
In the August issue of EverybodyS
Magazine the delightful autobiography
OF >turat Robson grows in fascination.
The lights and shades of a great actors
career stand out wildly. 1t is a human
document.-a confidence and the reader
shakes hands, as it were, with many
famous figures of that day. The title
for the month, in the series of Great
American Industries. is ''Where We
Get our Salt and How and the simple
EXPLANATION is of Tides, Trade Winds
and Tornadoes.' Elementary? Very
likely, but everybody cannot explain
offhand-as Everybody's does--tle the
DRY of the tides. for instance The short
stories are all complete and peculiarly
well chosen. The articles on "Britains
Fighting Elephants. What Bicycle
Can Carry" How Italy Robs her
Poor" Deaf and Dumb Soldiers, and
A Town Slipping into the Sea- are well
worth reading, in fact there is entertain.
ment on every page of this issue and
something more-lntense interest.
Four short stories, the beginning of
one serial. and the concluding chapters
of another give the August Ladies'
Home Journal claim to the title of Mid
summer Story Number There are
besides upward Of thirty other features:
College Girls Larks and Franks.
The Haunted Houses OF New Eng
iand, My summer with Some Chip
mmks, ~ Missionary in the Great
West" by Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
How Girl Can Work Her Way Through
college conversation and Good
Fem III Puzzle Places, ETC Pictorially
the August journal is made unusually
sumptuous by the work OF nine illustra-
tors and 10y illnumerabe photographs
'Tlrough Picturesque America Will
command particular attention. and
Howard Chandler Christy's american
Girl in Society is another notable artist
ic feature. y waltz. Golden l'oppies.
is attuned to the sIumberous summer
days and is exceedingly pretty. From
cover to cover the August journal is
entertaining and attractive BY The
Curtis Publishing Company Philadel-
phia One dollar year: ten cents a copy.
There are some remarkable articles
in The Forum for August primus inter
pares being The Present Status of
At@hanistan,' by no less a dignitarv
than sultan Mohammad Khan. Chief
Secretary of that buffer country be
tween Russia and England. The Hon
Charles DENLY. late minister to China.
relates How Peace Was Made Between
China and Japan" and F. F. IIider
writes OF The Present and Future OF
the Philippines. The well-known Eng
ish labor leader James Kerr Hardie who
has done as much as amy one living to
advance the interests of organized labor
analyZes the present status of Labor
and Politics in Great Britain Anarti-
Gle OF interest to educators is ''Child
study and its Relation to Education,
by Prof. G.. Stanley Hall, whose classy on
college Philosophy attracted so much
attention some months ago. The late
Secretary OF Legation at Rome. Mr..
Remsen Whitehouse, writes instruct
lively Of Some italian Problems" and
'IolStoy's Russia. Canada and 1mpe-
rialism." Texas. Past and Present."
THE Negro Problem in the south are
titles which will attract by the timeliness
and interest Of the subjects they repre-