The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-02-06
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES

In the February Atlantic Miss John
ston's Audrey comes to dramatic end.
and lively short stories are supplied by
Eugenia Brooks Frothingham, the bril-
liant author Of ''The Turn of the
Road" and by g. S. WATSON and Mary
Austin. A group of Poems by favorite
hands, and the ever-lively Contributors
Club conclude notable number.
Outing is now and has been for some
time most useful and entertaining
magazine; but elaborate plans are now
being made which will greatly enhance
its attractions and extend its circula-
ton. 1t really has no competitor as an
illustrated magazine of sport, travel,
adventure and country life, and appeals
to all who love outdoor sports and who
enjoy outdoor fiction. Those who send
in their subscriptions before April, 1902.
(S3) will receive Outing for fifteen
months instead of twelve. The Outing
Publishing Company, 239 Fifth Avenue,
New York
The Cosmopolitan is fortunate in it's
fiction for February Stories of love.
adventure and humor from the pens
of famous authors make the mid
winter Fiction Number vitality in
terestlng. IS. Conn & Som by Fang
viii deals with the Adjudication of a
jew and the inevitable tragedy of his
love for an English girl whose race
prejudice triumphs over her nobler
feelings. In The Valley of the Dead
Thomas A. Janvier pictures the
struggle of dashing young engineer
between love and duty. 'Mr. Mac
Glowrie's Widow is the title of a
Western story in Bret Harte's happiest
vein and "The Fish is one of E. W..
kemble's best humorous skits.
1t is now twenty years since Frank
Il. stockton wrote the story Of ''The
Lady or The Tiger which brought
him Immediate fame, and which still
remains one of the finest samples of the
short story ever written. The editor
OF the Ladies' Home Journal recently
wrote Mr.. Stockton. asking if he could
not celebrate 'The Lady or The Tigers"
'china wedding by telling the world
which one really was behind the cur
tain. Mr.. Stockton replied that it
would be impossible for him to do this,
as he himself did not know But he
also said that he had just written "a
Lady or Tigar'' story about balloon,
and that story will appear in the March
Ladies Home Journal.
In the February Ladies' Home Jour
nal are given the first chapters of new
romance of the South entitled CHOSE
Days in Old Virginia" The author of
this story is Miss Laura Spencer Portor,
whose love stories have already attract
ed wide attention, and who, in this in
stance, presents one of the most charm
ing pictures of the love, beauty and
chivalry of the days before the war
which has yet been painted in words.
Not only is it painted in words, for Mr..
W. l.. Taylor, who spent much time in
Virginia collecting material and max
ing sketches for the illustrations, has
finished a series of pictures to &C
company the story which may we'll be
said to be the best of his recent work.
Few persons have any idea of the
enormous amount of mail received dur
ing the buster seasons of the year by so
large house as The Curtis Publishing
Company of Philadelphia, which pub
fishes The Ladies' Home Journal and
The Saturday Evening Post. With
this company the month of December
usually brings the heaviest daily mails,
and on Thursday last December all
previous records were broken. On that
day the actual number Of letters receiv-
ed was $3.50. These contained 1917
subscriptions to the two periodicals
mentioned, and SIS, 1854 in express
and money orders and in cash. To
open, receipt for, tabulate and file these
letters, and acknowledge each one sepa-
rately, requires the work of small
army OF young women, who, needless
to say, have no time to spare.