The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-03-28
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

Review" contains a paper by the Rev.
! j. E. c. Sawyer, d. d., of Syracuse, n.
Y. on ''The Spiritual Significance of the
Divine Comedy"
1t is sad to learn that the writer who
gave us 1.-The Light of Asia is himself
! i'll darkness. Regarding his blindness
Sir Edwin Arnold says: "My condition
would be sad one without patience and
resignation. l never despair, and go on
with my work, thanking heaven for my
unimpaired mental pow ers." These are
| the words that come from brave heart.
The book of Bowdoin stories, which
is soon to be published, will be a most
interesting volume, rot only to Bowdoin
men, but to others as we'll. Among the
distinguished alumni who will contrib
ute will be the Hon. Thomas B. Reed.
He has written story which will attract
attention. 1t was at first thought that
| Mr.. Reed would write the introduction
to the book, but that task has been given
! to another
The March number of the Rudder is
a beauty, with its cOlored frontiSpiece
and numerous other illustrations, and
| it has plans for yachts, reports of cruls-
/ es and lots of other interesting matter.
! The illustrated list of steam, naphtha
and sailing yachts for sale includes
] racers and cruisers, and among them
! are bargains for almost everybody. This
! one number is really worth a years sub
scription. Send 81 to the Rudder Pub
fishing Co., 9 Murray street, New York,
and have The Rudder sent to your adj
dress for one year.
Every boy in the land, and many who
are no longer boys, will feel a sense of
personal loss III the death of the Rev.
Elijah Kellogg. 1t was his good fortune
to possess a gift of writing stories that
appealed strongly to the youthful mind,
and his books are as wholesome as they
are entertaining. But though he shall
no longer move among us, his influence
will live on so long as his printed vol
truth that
Books are the voices of the dumb,
The tongues Of brush and pen;
The ever living kernels from
| The passing huSkS of men.
Mr. w, A. Fraser, author of Mooswa
and Others, has just written for early
publication in The Saturday Evening
Post a short, stirring serial, entitled
The Outcasts. The Outcasts are an old
| buffalo and wolf-dog, and the greater
part of the story is about the strange
comradeship and striking adventures of
these companions, and their pilgrimage,
in company, to the distant plains of
deep grass, of which the wolf dog knew
There are action, and strength of word
and phrase in the story, and the touch
of the soil and the music and charm and
sombreness of the forest. The rush of
the frenzied buffalo herd to death is told
with splendid dramatic power. The
plan of the book is unique conception,
and it is worked out on novel and enter
tanning lines
The fiction announced by Messrs.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. for the spring
has a surprisingly wide range of inter
est. Boston appears in a humorous
story of the servant-girl problem, The
Successors of Mary the First" by Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps: Chicago in a Toll
stoian novel by VIII Payne called THE
Story of Eva;" and Paris in Eugenia
Brooks rockingham ''The Turn of the
Road" Kate Douglass Wiggin's "Pen-
elOpe's Irish Experiences" survey Ire
land: Colonial Virginia appears in Bur
ton E. Stevenson's romantic Soldier of
Virginia. and Europe in Clara Louise
! Burnham's ''Miss Pritchard's Wedding
Trip" Alice Brown paints part of
New Hampshire in Kings End" and
| for the sea there is Dog W atches at
Sea" by Stanton King.
The American Boy for March con-
! tains eighty eight illustrations. 1t is
hardly possible to think of a subject of
interest to boys that is not treated in
its pages. 1t starts off with timely
editorial entitled, Learn to Create, y
i'll which boys are urged to be Origina-
tors and not lmitatorS. The stories in
this number are: In a Forest Prison.
Roly-Poiy's Recitation, Daring Deeds
of Young Federal. The Brake, the
twelfth and thirteenth chapters of
Three Boys i'll the Mountains, and til e
Kid. The paper announces prize for
boys subscribing during the month of
March, the plize consisting of COM
plete printing outfit, the conditions be-
ing set forth in full in this number.
! Monthly, 800 a year. The Sprague
Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich.
The April numb er of The Smart Set
is crowded with articles and stories that
command public interest. The leading
I novelette, is entitled The Tanning of SyI
VIA and is by Elizabeth Duer, who is
perhaps better known to knickerbocker
society as Mrs. James G. King Duer.
Julien Gordon MRS. Van Rensselaer,
Cruger) contributes to the number a
long short story, In Palace Gardens,
that was awarded $3.50 in the recent
prize contest in this magazine. Mrs.
NJ. E. W. Sherwood has an interesting
article, entitled Certain Patriotic Ex-
lies, on the American colony in Paris,
and another brilliant article in the num-
Der in The Lovers of the World, by Ed
gar Saltus. There are stories by Mr..
7 Poultney Bigelow, Clinton Ross, Doug
las St. George Huntington, Guy Somer-
vile, Francis NJ. Livingston, Kate Jor-
an, Katherine de Wolf, Marvin Dana
and H. A. Keay.
In the April number, the text of the
Atlantic Monthly is increased to 100
pages. George W. Anderson, who has
recently completed term of service on
the Boston School Board, contributes
candid and fearless discussion of 'Poli-
tics and the Public Schools" A study
of 1.-THE Anthracite Coal Crisis by DR..
Talcott Williams is made specially
timely by the termination, on April /,
of the present adjustment of wages in
the ant racite and hituminouc m;Doc