The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-04-04
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.


The Chinese question is treated
briefly, from the Chinese point of view,
by Taw Sein Ko, in the leading article
in The Living Age for March 80.
The leading feature of The Living
Age for April 6-the day before Easter
will be a striking and touching Easter
story. Zone of These Little Ones" by
Princess Volkonski, translated from the
Russian.
EAST" does not mean to the Washing
tonian what it means to the New Eng
lander, says w. D. Lyman in the April
Atlantic. Anything the other side of
the Missouri is East to us. A new
arrival from Massachusetts, was once
greeted very cordially, in my hearing, by
a lady who had been here some time,
and who said, Il came from the East
myself" 'Ah!'' said the New England
er, From what placer" From Iowa, y
was the unexpected answer.
In the Easter Number of The Sat
urday Evening Post Forrest Crissey tells
of the wonderful work of the Interna-
tional Sunday school Lesson Series.
The Central editorial staff is the Aneri-
can Lesson Committee, and it will hold
its next meeting in New York on April
II, 1901. Twenty million teachers and
pupils simultaneously study the same
lesson, which is prepared by this syndi-
cate. 1t has auxiliary associates in
other countries. The syndicate is COM
posed of men of the highest scholarship,
specially gifted in research in the Old
and New Testaments. The success of
this work was never greater than at
present.
The life of Col. Dan Rice, the world
famous clown and Snowman, has at last
reached completion. In making this
announcement the biographer, Marie
Ward Brown, feels that she is about to
place before the public a volume re-
plete with such startling and varied
series of personal adventures and incl
dents of historical as we'll as histrion-
ic character as to furnish additional
evidence that Truth is stranger than
fiction" 1t is a remarkable record Of 2
half century OF a sensational career: III
the development of which the subject
eSsayed roles on the stage of life deS-
tined to be enacted by but few men of
his generation, and never paralleled by
the followers of his profession. The
biography will contain upwards of six
hundred pages, and will be handsomely
bound and profusely illustrated.
The solemn rites which marked the
end of the wonderful reign of Queen
Victoria have made deep impression
upon Americans as we'll as Englishmen,
but innumerable descriptions of them
have crowded out of our newspapers
and magazines any satisfactory account
of the no less historic ceremonies which
marked the accession Of Edward VII.
The day when Long Live the King
was shouted in London for the first
time in sixty years was day that will
live in history. In the April number of
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly ap-
pears most interesting account of
the Inauguration of the new king, writ
ten by its special correspondent, Mr..
Curtis Brown, and illustrated with
sketches drawn on the spot by clever
artist, especially to accompany the ar
ticle, as well as by number of unusual
photographs. The paper is one to keep
and to remember.
G. w. Anderson of the Boston School
with fearless exposure OF Politics and
the Public Schools; DR.. Talcott Will
liams discusses The Anthracite Coal
Crisis and the coming wage adjustment
in the mining industry; John Muir
describes the Fountains and Streams
of the Yosemite; w. d. Lyman exploits
the State of Washington; c. A. Dins-
more treats Dante's Quest of Liberty;
Martha A. Harris, The Renaissance of
the Tragic Stage, and Edwin Burritt
Smith, The Step in Municipal Reform
Penelope's Irish Experiences end, but
Miss Jewett's Tory Lover goes on with
increasing interest. F. j. Stimson,
Jeanette Lee, Roswell Field and Miss
Dunba contribute striking short sto-
ries or sketches. In addition to an
April Symposium of poetry Henry van
Dyke, John Burroughs, and NJ. A. De W.
Howe furnish single poems, and the
Contributors Club is bright as always
The April number of Table Talk has
much in it that relates to Easter and its
customs. Its illustrated dishes are
timely y, tempting and practical, with
full instructions about their prepare
lions. Table Talk is the exponent of
good living and it is valuable assistant
to the housewife in that it helps her to
solve the perplexing problems of house
keeping Its Housekeepers' Inquiry
Department is always filled with re-
cipes and information asked for by its
readers. 1.-The Much Misunderstood
Biscuit of the South is valuable con-
tribution by Leonora Beck Ellis, an
able Southern writer 1t will interest
housekeepers of the North and South.
Concerning the Delicatessen," ga
Little Chapter on Mushrooms" and
For the Gardens are but brief men,
ton of the several practical articles in
this number The reader can obtain
recent number free, or the present issue
for ten cents, on application to the
Table Talk Publishing Co., Phila.
Increased in size to 1913 pages, and
with a table of contents excelling in
interest and variety, the April issue of
Everybody's Magazine sets high stand
ard and indicates the characteristics
which may in future be expected of this
publication. In directing the policy of
monthly, some time must elapse ere
the plans of its editors can be properly
consummated, but in the current
issue there is realized high ideal of in
dividual excellence, together with that
distinctness of individuality new ven
ture in magaZlnedom must have for sue
cess. The leading features may be sum-
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