The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-11
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

against the Establishments of editors,
but within few weeks he has cOmplet-
ed new series of humorous stories
which show him at his best. Tales of
Old Turley, which will appear in early
numbers of The Saturday Evening Post,
are wonderfully droll stories of the
quaint characters in an old-fashioned
country town before the war. Local
politics, school committee fights, church
squabbles and women's clubs lend them
selves admirably to Max Adeler's HUI
moro us touch, and form the basis Of
some of the clevereSt stories thai have
been written for many a day.
In addition to articles on coasting,
angling, the automobile, camping out,
and poultry keeping Outing for July is
full of summer matter. J. William
White tells of his Summering in Nor
folk: Frank harrington, Bicycling
From Montreal to St. Anne; Horace
Hutchinson, The Most Difficult and
To the Summit of Mt. Rainier; Mary
B. Mullett, Country Walking for Wo-
men: Gene Streatton-Por Bird Ar
chitecture: Henry Chadwick, Old Time
Baseball: Robert Blight, The Amateur
Garden: Aloysius Coll contributes an
other of his Forest Fables, John R.
spears explains why The America S
Cup Is Safe, and W. H. Rowe relates
The Turf Career Of Hon. w. c. Whit
ney.
The Use OF Gro wing Plants for Table
Decoration" is the leading article in the
July number Of Table Talk. 1t is writ
ten by an acknowledged authority on
plants: is a practical article and will be
valued by women who take an interest
in identifying the home table. ''The
Cost of Living in a Professors Family"
by the wife of one of them, will in
terest all housekeepers, as prices and
figures are given to cost of keeping a
well supplied table at small outlay.
when Phyllis Cans Peaches" is an ar
ticle written by Georgia woman. 1t
will interest every housekeeper who
has anything to do with peaches. The
July issue contains number of illus
trations of dishes; they are practical and
such are used in the every day menu of
the home. Copies of recent issues Of
this useful household magazine will be
sent free to our readers on request to
Table Talk Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
Louis Dyer opens the July Atlantic
with a timely article on King Alfred
and his Thousandth Anniversary; A.
P. Winston contributes an instructive
sketch of Sixteenth Century Trusts; H.
D. Sedgwick, Jr. sends brilliant Let
Ter from Italy, largely on Socialistic
topics: Albert Phelps discusses New
Orleans and Reconstruction, denounc-
ing strenuously the national treatment
of that unlucky city. L. ?, Smith and
r. L. Robinson contribute two quaint
and curious sketches of Quakerism in
different generations; Kate Stephens
dissect The New England Woman, and
Caroline Ticknor contrasts amusingly
The Gibson Girl type and her Ladies'
Album predecessors. Miss Jewett's
and Miss Johnston's Serials grow more
exciting and complicated. Eugene R.
White treats the electric display at the
Pan-American Exposition: G. S. Was
son and others furnish Short Stories.
A group of Outdoor Poems by famous
hands and the entertainingContri
Club complete the number.
Notable among the many timely arti-
cles in the July Magazine Number of
The Outlook is Mr.. Hamilton w.
Mabie's article on THE Spirit of the
New World as Interpreted by the Pan
American Exposition profusely Illus
trated: Mr.. Ebert F. Baldwin contrib
utes an appreclatlve paper on Sir Wal
ter Besant, THE Founder of the Peo-
pie S Palace:' the first two chapters of
Ralph Connors new story, ''The Man
from tilengary,' give vivid picture of
the feuds of Canadian lumbermen: Dr.
William Elliot Grittis talks in an exceed
lngly entertaining way about the Per
sonality of Mikado: the history of the
Young Men Christian Association in
this country is traced by Dr. James NJ.
Wilton; and the Autobiography of MI
Riis, The Making of an American"
enters upon its ninth chapter The
articles are fully illustrated and edito-
rails, book reviews, and the usual para
graphic history of the week are included
III this extremely entertaining issue. g
year. The Outlook Company, PSI
Fourth Avenue, New York.
The recently opened Boston Elevated
Railway, a subject of vital interest to
the people of that city and its far reach
ing suburbs, is fully described by its
chef engineer, Mr. George A. kimball,
IN the July number Of the New Eng
land Magazine. He gives a history of
the changes in public street transporta-
ton since the days Of the early omnibus
lines, and shows by specially taken
photographs, superbly reproduced, this
latest effort in the solution of the prob
lem of urban and suburban communi-
cation for one low fare in safety. A
portrait Of that old-time scholar and
stately gentleman, Dr. Manasseh Cut
Ter, who, with General Putnam at
Marietta, was one of the pioneers of
the Western Reserve, and whose name
Is famous as having drafted the Ord-
nance of 17S7, excluding slavery from
the Northwest Territory, forms the
frontispiece of this number, and an
Illustrated article is devoted to his life.
The art editor of the Transcript contri-
butes an appreciate paper on the strong
religious feeling in the painting of that
talented young New York artist, Miss
Elizabeth W. Roberts, whose exhibit
ton of pictures in Boston this winter
created a real sensation. Appearing as
1t does at the time of the 2OOth anniver-
sary OF the quaint old town of Dracut,
Mass, the home of General Joseph
Bradley Varnum, the sketch of the life
and achievements of this New Eng
land Democrat of the Old School, is
most timely. Wiscasset, Dresden and
Whereabouts provide the town article of
the month under the title Of ancient
POWn9 lhOro and How Da,rb TO e.