The Republican journal., 1902-09-04
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

.Iilality Hall" is the delightfully."-
suggestive title u1 the long story IN the
September St Nicholas and is 10y Caro-
iyn Wells. the author of The story of
Betty" Eight young girls go to the sea-
side and assume control OF d summer
cottage. What With the fun and frolic
and delicious adventures, ii is no Won
der that tins Jolly household was known
as ''Iiilarity Hall" The last two chap
tiers have to do with bit Of masquera-
ding that is as novel as it is enjoyable.
Every gin from ten to sixteen will
tho roughly enjoy this story.
w. T. b. nu Bots opens the Septem-
Der y Atlantic with an impressive article
on the Training of the Black Man;
Talcott Williams, Ii. d., describes
tie New Navy of the United States
II. W. Horwill discusses the advance
of A National Standard in Higher Edu-
cation: Hitler c. Wellman tells What
Public Libraries are doing for Children,
and Vida u. Scudder contributes Dem
ocracy and Society in her able series of
papers upon Democracy. Emily V.
Mason revives some pathetic reminders
of ''the other side of war; during the
Rebellion, III the first instalment of her
Memories of Hospital Matron; f. H.
Russell contributes some highly inter
esting Bits of Unpublished Correspond
ence between Henry Thoreau and Faith
er Hecker; and Charles NJ. Harger, a
brilliant and instructive article on The
Kansas Of To-day.
Outing for September is a capital
number, full Of interest to the sports
men and the general reader. The auto
mobile is overrunning the land Within
five years thousands upon thousands
have come into American life, and thou
sands more are coming every month.
Mr.. William j. hampton has studied
the situation and in ''The Meaning of
the Automobile" tells us how this prom
ises to affect our civilization. This is
the season of yachts and their cruising
No one who loves q yacht and the smell
Of the brine can fail to be stirred by
with the Cruise" in which Hamblen
Sears writes of the daily life and thrill
of a club cruise. An almost, if not quite,
unique feature is a series of photo
graphs of girl athletes in action, run
ming, jumping and vaulting; these We're
taken at girls college in New Jersey
to illustrate wv omen in Athletics" a
paper dealing with girl nature and both
the serious and humorous sides Of her
athletic life in college.
Ralph Connor's new Glengarry stories
two delightful sketches Of hoy life in
a field which he has already made IA
mous-form one of the most attractive
features of the September number of
Leslie's Monthly. The first installment
of the Autobiography of Thief, which
is the personal account of the actual
career of well known thief and at the
same time most business-like and
realistic statement of the development
of a criminal also appears this month.
Then there is an interesting account of
the Humbert Swindle in Paris, perhaps
the most daring and successful fraud of
modern times, an instance where a game
of bluff was carried ON with skill that
has rarely, if ever, been equalled, even
in this country; a suggestive and fully
illust rated article on the historical de-
velopment of the race of American
negroes, and sketch of that most ia
miliar and least understood of natural
phenomena, lightning, with a number
OF remarkable photographs.