The Republican journal., 1902-08-28
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

\ publishing house in China is to be
established Jointly by the NJ, T. church
North and South.
Its said the successor to Dickens has
at last appeared i'll England. Hell is W.
w. Jacobs, whose story AT SunWich
Port has delighted thousands of read
ers. 1t is the merriest. Wittiest, clean
est. and most human bit of fiction that
has appeared IL many years. says an
admirer of this new writer. His knoWl-
edge of saiormen has been picked up
around the docks and he has made adj
mirable use of it. His next story is en-
titled The Lady Of the Barge"
"A Forgotten seaport is the title
Pauline Darlington Bouve gives to the
touriShing summer resort at DIRK,
Maine, in an article that appears IN the
New England Magazine for August.
That there is much that has been for
gotten about "old York every reader
of the article Will agree. for the tale is
crammed with bits of interesting rem
iniscence and scraps Of local history, in
terspersed with pleasant description
which, with the aid Of coplous illustra-
tons, give us a vivid picture of rare
old town.
The leading article i'll the New Eng
land Magazine for August is a pleasant
~ written account OF the Charles River
Valley by Mrs. augusta W. Kellogg.
Tracing the serpentine Windings OF the
river from its source, the author deity
carries the readers interest from one
historic site to another, informing with
out weaving him. and keeping lis eye
and mind ever alert for the vista of en-
chantment just beyond the bend. With
its WelI-chosen illustrations the article
is a notable contribution to the litera-
ture of Massachusetts river scenery
and a credit to the magazine
The stories and poetry in the Septem-
Der National are exceedingly good. The
story telers of the number are Louis Y.
jefferson OF Kentucky Gilmore Elliott
Peake of Illinois, Z. Crayton McCants
of South Carolina, Willard Dilman of
South Dakota, William W. Fink of Iowa
and Eva Hampton Prather of Georgia
As usual. the illustrations are protuse
and OF keen present interest. The y a.
tlQnai improves from month to month.
and the September number OF this mag
aZine is probably the strongest and best
its makers have ever sent out.
Rev. j. E. c. Sawyer writes to The
Journal from Williamstown, Mass, as
follows: The author of the poem The
Closing Scene" which appeared in YOU
issue OF August 18th, was Thomas
Buchanan Read, who was born i'll
Pennsylvania, March l., 1922, and died
May II. 1872. a Well-known artist as we'll
as gifted poet His ''Sheridan's Ride"
and "Drifting,' are perhaps his most
familiar short poems: but The Clos
ing Scene is his masterpiece, and is
worthy of the high praise it has receiv-
ed from English critics. He was the
author of several volumes of verse, a
prose romance entitled "The Pilgrims
of the Great st. Bernard and an ac-
count of The Female Poets of Amer
lea"
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
SachuSettS and Senator Paris Gibson of
Montana contribute to the September
National strong articles on two public
problems of the first class. Senator
Lodge takes occasion in his National
article to interpret for the general
understanding the terms of the Philip
pine civil government bill which he
chiefly shaped, and to forecast the f1l-
ture of the Filipinos under the flag of
the United States. Senator Gibson
urges the duty of congress to save all
remaining public lands for actual home
seekers, and warns this country that
tens Of thousands of our farmers are
settling in northwestern Canada be-
cause of our failure to adopt this pol
icy.