The Republican journal., 1901-02-07
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

forces in battle of the PeninSular
campaign and brought to Fort Warren
in Boston Harbor His story of his
Boston experience is interesting read
ing. There are stories by Allen French,
Mrs. Soaring, Kate Gannett Wells and
others; and poems by William Ordway
Partridge and Frank Roe Batchelder.
Mr.. Mead devotes his Editors Table to
I4ongfellow's poetry of America-the
use which the poet makes of American
subjects and the nature of his services
for American history and life.
w. O.'Fuller, Jr., OF Rockland, has
been in Boston during the past week,
the guest of T. B. Aldrich. Mark Twain
was guest of Mr.. Aldrich during pOr-
ton of this time. Mr.. Fuller attended
the dinner given the eminent ,humorlSt
bv the Tavern Club, and also met and
dined with Winston Churchill, the au-
thor of Richard Carvel. While in the
city MI. Fuller contracted with the en-
terprising firm of Henry A. Dickerman
& Son to publish volume of his humO-
rous sketches. The book will be issued
in the spring in handsome form, coplous-
ly illustrated. and will bear the title,
What happened to Wigglesworth.
A striking portrait of Roger Wolcott,
the lamented ex-governor of MaSSachu-
sets. for msthe frontispiece of the Feb
ruary number of the New England
Magazine. InGovernor Wolcott's death
Massachusetts, and the country not
only lost conspicuous representative
Of the best type of public man, but there
came personal sorrow to thousands
such as is rare in the death of public
men. The tender personal regard as
we'll as the public honor shared by so
many in the Commonwealth are strong
ly and tenderly expressed in the article
upon Governor WolcOtt, by Francis
Hurtubis of the state executive depart
ment, which accompanies this fine por-
trait.
The February Atlantic contains a
brilliant group of papers on political and
social subjects, opened with Ex-Secre-
tary Herbert's mastery paper on The
Conditions of the Reconstruction Prob
lem Brooks Adams treats of the world
wide New Industrial Revolution; J. X.
Paulding makes A Plea for New York;
Gerald Stanley Lee discusses Making
the Crowd Beautiful, and Charles John
son analyses The Essence OF Ameri-
can Humor. Among literary topics,
JOHll lSh SlNoo lllo leCIill4lloC0hCSo VI
Huxley. and Goodwin Smith reviews
Lord Rosebery's Napoleon. The Con
fessions of a Minister'S Wife are lively
and suggestive; Miss Jewett's and Mrs.
Virgins serials continue; bright short
stories, fresh book reviews, good poet
~. and a brilliant Contributors Club
complete the number
Among the best and most practical
features of all the household magazines
Of the day, is the one carried out by
Talk Talk which in giving menus for
each day in the year, adds full directions
for carrying out of the same. 1t is
help not furnished by any other period
ical Table Talk has another attrac-
tive feature that must commend this
practical little magazine to bright
housekeepers-that of illustrated dishes
using practical every day dishes, show
ing how to garnish them to appear at
tractive on the table. The dishes are
made, photographed and reproduced in
fine half-tone cuts. Table Talk is a
magazine needed by housekeepers every
day, for it teaches the art of good cook
ing and of wise and economical living
The February issue contains several eX-
cellent articles, among them 'Winter
Luncheons' The Art of Living Well,
pandora Box" The Boquet Garni''
and others. The regular departments
Of 'Housekeepers' Inquiries and "All
Through the Year are filled with use
full information. Recent issues of this
magazine will be sent free to any of our
readers on application to the Table
Talk Publishing Company, Philadelphia
Pa.
The charming ''Cranford'' folks have
been written into play, and make their
appearance in the February Ladies
Home Journal Even more dramatic is
the Beautiful Daughter Of Aaron
Burr" with her romance, her supreme
happiness and crushing sorrows all
crowded into a few years. ''The Clock
by Which We Set All Our Watches"
''The Butfaloes of Goodnight Ranch,
ga Woman to Whom Fame Came After
Death, ''The Life Of the English Girl,
are features of interest. The last OF ''The
Blue River Bear Stories is published
i'll the February Journal, and ''The Story
of a Young Man" is nearing its conclu-
sion, while ''The Successors of Mary the
First" increases in humorous interest.
rs the Newspaper Office the Place for
a Grip" is the theme of Edward Box S
editorial symposium, which is made pc
culiarly convincing by the opinions of
editors and newspaper women. Caro-
line Leslie Field writes of ''The Problem
of the Boy; Helen Watterson Moody,of
THE Trying Time Between Mother and
Daughter, and "An American Mother"
''Why One Man Succeeds and His Broth
er Fails" GA Home in Prairie Town
and "Brick and Single Farmhouse"
give architectural plans and details. The
usual attention is devoted to fashions
the household arts, and economies and
home making. By The Curtis Publish
ing Company, Philadelphia. One dollar
a year; ten cents copy.
Cleveland Moffett's account of the
life of the diver is eclipsed in interest
by the second of his st. Nicholas papers
on Careers of Danger and Daring"
His subject this month is ''Hhe Steeple-
Climber" and it is based chiefly on an
interview with "Steeple Bob young
man who thinks no more of getting to
the opof Trinity or ST. Paul's steeple
in New York than boy does of climb
ing fence or mounting a bicycle
though on at least two occasions only
the presence Of his wife has saved him
from fatal fall. 1t makes one shudder
merely to read of adventures which are
everyday occurrences with Bob and his
like. Another article in the same mag
ayinp that apDealS to the general love of