The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-05-02
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

| LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.
In an article in the May Forum, Mr..
Marion Wilcox discusses "Aguinaldo's
Capture in its bearings upon the larger
problems of national expansion. He
considers that recent successes in the
Philippines are to be attributed in large
measure, to the tact and Cancellation of
the Taft Commission; and urges that,
whenever similar problems may con-
front the Government in future, reli-
ance shall be placed upon civilian no
less than upon military representatives
for their solution.
The recent demand that the Demo-
cratic party shall return to the princi-
pies of Jefferson is the subject of
notable article in the May Forum from
the pen of Mr.. Albert Watkins, who
has no difficulty is showing that many
who make this demand have an made
quate conception of all that it involves
His critical exposition of Jeffersonian
principles will be read with as much in
terest as his estimate of the political
character of MI. Bryan.
The value of physical exercise has
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generation that it is time for something
to be said on the other side. The ten
dency to excessive devotion to athletics
in American colleges has found keen
and vigorous critic in Prof. Arlo Bates,
of the Massachusetts School of Tech
nology, whose article on the subject in
the Max number of the Forum is
timely warning against the displace-
ment OF intellectual ideals by the new
enthusiasm for sport.
Sir Thomas Upton, X. c. V. O., has
written especially for The Saturday
Evening Post, of May II, an article on
The Sports that make the Man. He
places yachting high on the list, and
gives some interesting anecdotes of his
own career as an amateur yachtsman.
Sir Thomas is hopeful, if not confident,
of lifting the Americas Cup next
autumn. He says, however, that if it
were certainty he would not cross
the water; for there is no sporting inter
} est in "sure things This article will
appear exclusively in the Saturday
Evening Post, of Philadelphia.
The May instalment of the ''Road to
Frontenac" in Leslie's Popular Month
ly is an exciting one, and shows the full
dramatic power and charm of the story.
"When Love Was Arbiter," is capital
story of Jacobite days, by William Nc
Leod Raine, and we wish to call
special attention to ''How the Tobacco
Trust was Bled," business story by S.
R. Nelson, that gives very illuminat-
ing idea of modern business methods
Red and White" by w. r. Lighton is
humorous story of frontier adven-
ture, and ''The Invisible House." by
Mrs. Ella W. Peattie, is one of the
prettiest tales of sentiment we have
seen in years. Marginalia appears at
its best, and the sketches, stories and
The April American Boy (Sprague
, Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich.) is brim-
full of good things for boys, as usual.
1t contains 112 pictures. Its leading ar
ticle treats of 'gentlemanliness" The
stories are: 'The Boy Who Rode a
Moose;;" "Go 1t, Tom:'' 1.-The Men of
Might; or, the Lusty Nine;" THE
Great Bicycle Race at Pultney;'' Split
Mountains ''Lazy jack "a Vege-
! table Discussion and 1.-The Cruise of
the Yacht Gazelle." Other items of
interest are: Talks with Boys and
Their Friends; The Charleston Navy
Yard and Visit to an Ocean Liner;
Turning Points in a Boys Life; The
Boys Picture Gallery; The Boys Lii
brary; What Boys are Doing; Boys as
Money Makers and Money Savers;
, April in American History; How to
Make Your Own Tackle and Something
l About Fishing; The Agassiz Associa-
ton; Boys in the Home, Church,
: School, Office, Store Factory and on
the Farm; The Order of the American
Boy; Boys in the Animal Kingdom:
, The Poultry Yard; Boys in Games
and Sport; The Boy Stamp and Com
| Collector, and The Boy Photographer
yet issued by this company. $1.OO a
) year.
Some of the many excellent features
of the May Ladies' Home Journal are
''The Brillia mt Social Reign of Harriet
Lane" ''When John G. Calhoun Went
a-Wooing," "When the Animals Escape
from the Zoo," ''Some Remarkable
Gases of Double Personality" 'My
First Colony of Bees" and Clara Nor
ris' " Frank Sen," the romance of a
little Japanese girl acrobat. To those
, arranging for a summer holiday Ed
ward Box offers some pertinent sugges-
tions, and the methods of preserving
Husband in Summer" and keeping
Summer Boarders with Success" are
dogmatically detailed. The admirable
pictorial features include page draw
ing, president Ljncoln's Call for Vol
unteers," by W.L.Taylor; t'In the Fold, -
the first prize picture of the twenty
! seven thousand photographs submitted
in the Journals recent contest; a page
, of Miss Gertrude kasebier's photo
: graphs-the first of ''The Foremost
Women Photographers of America" Sc
ries-and two pages giving "a Glimpse
of Picturesque Canada" There are
three architectural articles, and season
!: able contributions on gardens, flowers,
lawns, cooking and needlework. There
are also four pages from the Journals
fashion writer's and artists. By The
Curtis Publishing Company, Philadel-
phia. One dollar year; ten cents a
copy
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