The Republican journal., 1902-03-13
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

his eagerly -awaited new serial, Bylow
Hill.
In "a Century of Choral Singing in
New England contained in the March |
number of the Jew England Magazine,
Mr.. Henry c. Lahee ably traces the
evolution OF our present well-trained |
choruses from the Old fashioned sing |
ing schools of the early days.
Holman +. Days second book of |
poems has gone to press and will be is
sued in April. The name under which |
the new volume will appear is "The
Pine Tree Ballads" This volume is
larger and contains more poems than
Mr., Days first famous book, "Up in
Maine"
The publishers, c. NJ. Clark & Co.,
Boston, report very heavy advance
orders for Chester Blair" which was
brought out Feb. 18th. Hester is re
markable sort of a girl. and her love
story and subsequent married life is
one of the strangest and sweetest in
modern fiction.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, who has
given to the world so freely of her rich
personality through her poems and lee
NNtlNHf tellt hiipoC nanny ID lutlttlllCu
with the leading movements for the
advancement of her sex, is the subject
OF an admirable illustrated article i'll
the New England Magazine for March.
UnGnr the title of "Amercan
Shrines the New England Magazine is
presenting series of frontispieceS.
All attractive view is given in the
March number OF Independence Hall,
accompanied by the following appro-
pirate quotations: I'VE hold these
truths to be selt-evident: that all men
are created equal; that they are endow-
ed by their Creator with certain un-
alienabe rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness.
The March St Nicholas comprises
most varied table of contents "a long
story of a boys military company I'M
der the command of shrewd and hui
morouS one-legged veteran of the Mex
lean war, short stories about the chill
dren of James IL. of England, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, top-spinning life at
by cub-reporter, and the usual bril-
liant filling i'll of verse, jingles, pictures
and scraps of information.
The Atlantic for March contains a
remarkable symposium upon the vitality
important question which is now
absorbing national attention, and upon
which hangs our own future, as well as
that of those most Immediately con-
cerned-the Philippine Problem. Fred
W Atkinson, the Government Superin-
tendent of Schools, discusses the Educa-
tional Problem in the Philippines. He
explains the educational condition and
necessities of the Filipinos, what the
Government has done and is doing
about their schooling, and what are
their educational qualifications and
prospects. Mr. Charles A. COnant
who has just returned from the islands,
discusses the Economic Future of the
FihpinOs: their character of mind; the
labor problems involved among them
the responsibilities assumed, and the
task involved sin seeking to raise such
a people from their present economic
condition up to the level Of Western
civilization" Both articles have come
at first hand from the centre of action,
and are contributed by the most quail
lied of Observers, each i'll his own line
\ very curious bi-literal cipher, which
has been discovered by Mrs. Gallup
RAINING through the first editions of
Bacon's works has excited wide inter
est IN the literary world. This cipher
consists of the use OF two wrong font
letters at intervals, combinations Of
these two letters in groups of five CON
shutting an alphabet. These repeti-
tons of a Wrong-font letter cannot
have been matters OF chance. Whether
placed there by Lord Bacon or by the
printer, remains i'll doubt. If by the
printer, they relate wonderful 70
mance-the story of Queen Elizabeths
marriage to the Earl of Leicester when
both We're confined in the Tower prior
to the Queens accession; the birth of
two sons. of whom Lord Bacon was the
elder, the Earl of Essex the other
Lord Bacon considered himself the heir
to the throne of England. The bitter
al cipher further tells that Queen EiiZ-
abeth condemned her own son, the Earl
of Essex. to death. The Cosmopolitan
for March contains an article by Prof.
Garrett 2. Serviss fully reviewing this
remarkable lomance-if 1t is concluded
to have been inserted by the printer
or tragedy if inserted by Lord Bacon.
Table Talk, Philadelphia, brings with
1t each month so many new and attrac-
tive ideas about preparing dainty and
nOurishing dishes, that with its helpful
suggestions the work of preparing the
family meal becomes pleasure instead
of burden. Among number of eX-
celent articles in the March number is
one entitled THE Housewives Day"
every line of which is helpful to the
busy housekeeper. Another article
entitled what to Serve the Unexpect-
ed Guests" is full of just the kind of
helpful suggestions and directions that
every woman will appreciate when com
pany comes unlocked for ''Hints on
Modifying the Arduousness of Sick
Nursing" by trained nurse, is an
other article worth the yearly cost of
the magazine CA Chapter on Gro
quettes,' and then the ''Housekeepers'
Inquiry" department, is a school of in
formation and instruction on cooking
and serving. Its menus for each meal
in the month, with instructions ''IIow
to Follow" them, make Table Talk the
most helpful of all the domestic maya
zines, and it stands everywhere as the
authority iii its line. Our readers can
have free sample copies of recent is
sues, or the March number for ten
cents.
The March number of the Forum
opens with statement, by Walker ID.
Hines, of the objections brought by the