The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-04
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

W. l.. 1aylOr to see "A Busy Boston
Street at High Noon, next try Coin
Fishin' with Joe Jefferson" in Florida;
then travel out West with Ernest Seton
Thompson to see ''rhe Mother Teal and
the Overland Route: next go along the
Atlantic Coast to find out how the
places Where Our Country Began
look to-day; then seek Northern Michi-
gan to hear ''Ihe Story of Maple
Tree" by William Davenport Hubert;
next visit an Eastern magazine editV' S
office and enjoy the good-humored rail-
lery of ''rhe Case Against the Editor
by Edward Box: and finally see what
The Country of Sheridan's Ride" looks
like nowadays. There are many other
articles of equal interest on various sub
jects. By The Curtis Publishing Com
pany, Philadelphia. One dollar year;
ten cents a copy.
The youthfulness Of this country
shows III nothing more plainly than in
business houses. Even i'll SO conserva-
tive a trade as publishing, there are to-
day hardly any magazines which have
been familiar to the public half cen
fury Before the war, the Atlantic had
its limited circle of readers, while the
names of Ilarpers' and Frank Leslie'S
We're household words. How many
other magazines have such antecedents?
IN those days the genus and unlimited
energy of Frank Leslie made nearly a
score of pedrirdicals valuable invest
ments, but with his death most of them
disappeared, and i'll subsequent years
only one, Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly. has shown that it possesses
the vital element of continuous seccess.
The last step III the history of this ia
nous publication was taken recently,
when the controlling shares of stock
passed into the hands of Mr.. Frederick
l.. Colver, who has been identified with
tife best interests of the house for up
wards of a decade, and who for several
years past has been its president and
guiding spirit.
The midsummer fiction number of the
July Cosmopolitan contains the best
story Bret Harte has written in a long
time The well-known Jack Hamlin is
the hero, and he will be eagerly wei
coined back by the public, Desperate
and gambler that he is, theoretically
we ought not to like him, but he has
that fine courage too rarely met with in
real life or III fiction, and those who
read 4 Mercury OF the Foothills" will
probably lose site of his faults in fol
lowing the events which take place up
on that heaven-kissing hill" Katrina
Trask's story IN the same number should
be read by women. 1t is one of those
homely tragedies constantly going on in
modern society 1t is probably the
cleverest piece of work Mrs. Trask has
ever done. R. X. Munkittrick' quaint
New England coast yarn has breeZi-
ness about it that makes it really re-
freshing The July installment of
Egerton Castles story begins to raise
the curtain on the Inevitable ruin which
the Duke of Cluny's weakness must
bring OH those who love him.
Everybody's Magazine for July con-
talns series Of capital articles and
stories. Its most important contribu-
ton is The Real Abdul Hamid,' an
astonishing and powerful sketch Of the
sultan of Turkey, founded on material
gathered from members of the Young
Turkish party, now living in Paris. 1t
is the first time this depraved and cruel
potentate has been pictured in his true
coIorS. III second essay on 'Christian
Science DIT. Thomson !. Hudson pres
ents anew and most ingenious theory to
explain the alleged miracles of the sect,
and W. ID. Nice rackan replies to his
structures. y fascinating sketch of the
Marquis de Mores is contributed by G.
W. Ogden; Oscar King Davis, of the y.
Y. sun. writes i'll "Sabe Hike of the
life of our soldiers in the Philippines.
Much that is interesting will be
found in Franklin Fyles' article, rs
There a Dramatic Profession?" Legs. ;"
the story Of a coyote, is one of tile best
OF Macmillan Fosters attractive ami
NAL stories. In the way of popular
science there is a sensible article by Dr..
H. w. Wiley. head of the Chemistry
Department of the |. 5. Agricultural
Bureau, What TO Eat to Live Long"
Ludlow Brownell describes Professor
Mines Earthquake Laboratory on the
Isle OF Wight, and F. F Coleman in
"Uninvented Inventions" tells of the
opportunities still open to the inventor.
In Photography as Fine Art
Charles II. Cattin writes of methods of
individual expression as illustrated by
the work of the brilliant photographers
Frank Eugene and Joseph T. Kelly
In the matter of fiction there are
stories by Booth Harrington, Mrs w.
A. Leland, Adachi kinnosuke, and
William Mcleod Raine, Lloyd Miffiin
contributes noble sonnet AN Even
ing Near Athens
The July Forum is opened by impor-
tant articles on political problems of the
day. The first, by Mr. w. c. Jameson
Reid, is "A Plea for the Integrity of
China" as against the attempts of
European powers to secure its partition
for their own advantage. Congressman
H. ). Boutell shows the bearing of ''The
Sale of Texas to SPAIN upon the ques-
ton whether all territory acquired by
the government becomes ipso facto
IAN integral part of the United Stat es.
Other political articles are contributed
by Congressman Oscar w. L Underwood
who protests against "The Corrupt1ng
Power of Public Patronage" and by Mr.
Walter Macarthur, who gives an ac-
count Of The Movement for Shorter
Working Day Five articles deal,
more or less, with educational subjects
President Thwing, of Western Reserve
University, brings together the opinions
he has gathered from graduate CORE
spondents respecting ''The Shortened
College Course Mr.. Jacob Schoenhof
quotes the example of European and
English enterprise to stimulate this
country to pay greater attention to
Higher Technical Training" Mr.
John COrbin puts the question els the