The Republican journal., 1901-01-10
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

The January issue of Gunton's Mag
agine has the following table of con-
tents: The Australian Commonwealth:
A New Nation, William Francis Schey;
Has Jamaica Solved the Color Problem?
Julius Moritzen; Municipal Politics,
The Editor; Review of the Month;
New Orleans and Negro Education; A
New Republic, The Editor; Growth of
| the Nation. Progress in Wage Condi-
lions. The Presidents Message. Mica
ragua Canal Treaty. War Tax Reduc-
| ton. Increasing the Regular Army.
Details of the November election. Flu
ture of the Democratic Party. Odell,
not Platt, is Governor. The Anti-Tam-
many Campaign. The Pursuit of De-
Wet British Policy Outlined. Paris
Exposition.
As soon, almost, as the world began
to make memorials at all, it began to
make memorials to its women. On an
Gent monuments and coins and tombs
we find them; aud from the dawn of
history to the present, they have come
in various forms, even if far less album
dainty than the memorials to the stern
er sex. The article upon Public Me-
MORALS to Women" in the January
number of the New England Magazine
is, however, we think, the first distinct
survey of this interesting subject. A
great wealth of material is here brought
together, and the account is reinforced
by representative and most valuable
collection OF pictures. Joan of Arc and
Queen Victoria seem to have been the
favoriteS thus far among women the
number of memorials to them being
very great. The range is broad, how
ever, covering gOddesses and expresses
and women as humble as Hannah DuS-
ton of Haverhill. This painstaking and
enthusiastic study performs a new and
grateful service. Warren F. Kellogg, 5
Park Square, Boston, Mass.
Human interest is the keynote of
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Its
stories and its articles follow as closely
as may be the lines of genuine human
experience Its editors do not reject
romance; indeed, they seize upon good
story whenever they find it: but they
try to give the magazine as a whole the
flavor of reality. The reader feels iu-
stinctively that most of the stories are
transcripts from life; not the common
place existence too familiar to most of
us. but the life of energy and expert
ence. Take, for example, the January
number 1t opens with a singular dra-
matte article, 1.-The Reign of Soapy
Smith" the notorious boss of Skagway
The article is descriptive of occurren-
ces incredible almost, yet actual, writ
ten by man who took prominent
part in the long fight against Smith and
his ring. The story is more than the
extraordinary history of bad man. 1t
perfectly illustrates the development of
city bOsSism, reduced to its simplest
terms in the primitive civilization of a
mushroom town.
One hears a good deal now about
Quincy Adams Sawyer" recent
story of New England life which was
published six weeks ago and which has
already gone into second edition, says
the Boston Transcript. Peculiarly
enough, the author Charles FELTON, Pid-
gin, is occupied officially in a capacity
that would seem to give no promise of
book. Mr.. Pidgin is the chief clerk of
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Massachusetts State House, and has
filled that office since 1876. He was
born in Roxbury on Nov. II, 1914, and
had his education in the Boston schools.
Mr.. Pidgin was responsible for an opera
produced in Boston in 1882 in which
was character whose entrance song
had the following Introductory stanza:
'From Boston l came here direct;
My profession is that of a lawyer;
My family is so very select,
And my name is @. Adams Sawyer"
So it may be seen that Quincy
Adams Sawyer" instead of being writ
ten as New England David Harum"
or 'Eben Holden" as many reviewers
have inferred, was in the authors mind
years before either of those books were
dreamed of.