The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-10-09
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

In the Atlantic Monthly for October,
"a month when college football large
ly engages the attention of the public,
Professor Ira n. Hollis of Harvard
writes upon intercollegiate Athletics. :"
His timely and authoritative paper is
notable for the singular union of firm
ness and sympathy which he brings to
bear in treating the troublous questions
of professionalism, scholarship versus
athletics and college spirit" and is
especially interesting in view of the re-
cent utterances of Pres. Faunce of
Brown University, upon the same sub
ject.
The leading article in the October
New England Magazine is one in the
series about educational institutions
which have been recently appearing in
its pages and presents a complete, illus
trated, up-to-date history of "The
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy," by James Phinney Munroe, one
of its more than two thousand living
graduates. The illustrations and arti-
Gle show in an interesting manner how
far ahead of the times the founder,
Rogers, was. and the successful growth
from the smallest of the beginnings
through the most trying times, is liv-
ing monument to him and the splendid
men who followed him AS president,
Runkle, Walker, Crafts and Pritchett.
The history of the Industrial changes
which have of late been occurring with
such rapidity is to be found in its most
interesting form in the careers of the
'Captains Of Industry ROW before the
public in connection with the larger in
terests of production, transportation
and finance. y knowledge of these
men, their derivation, their leading
characteristics, weaknesses and abili-
ties, throws much light upon the news
of the day in which their names CON
Stantly recur. In making the effort to
present fairly complete series of stud
les of these men The COSMOPOLITAN
Magazine las furnished the public with
one of the most interesting serials ever
published. In the October number II
c. Prick cyrus II. X. Curtis, David II
Moftat, Woodrow Wilson and H. H.
Vreeland furnished interesting studies.
Infinite variety characterizes the CON
tents of the October Everybodys. The
number is full of spirited tales and en-
PERTAINING articles. Rudyard kipling' S
last story, The Comprehension OF Pri-
vate Copper follows a picturesque ac-
count of "Od Steamboat Days on the
Mississippi" by G.. ". ogden. In
Monastery, Soldier of Fortune" II. S.
Garfield tells of a Chicago fencing
master whose career was as adventur-
Gus as D'Artagnan's. What is I.uck?''
by Paul LatZke, attributes fortune S
favors to character rather than chance.
"a Crnsus of South Africa" by
Chalmers Roberts, records the person
atty of the immensely wealthy Alfred
Belt, who was Cecil Rhodes partner.
Z. \. Hamilton sums up the careers of
The Big Bonanza Four who made
so many millions out of the Comstock.
Miss Marie Van Worst i'll THE Woman
That Tolls" describes her experiences
as a working girl in shoe factory at
Lynn. G. Bryson Taylor writes of
'Nassili Nerestchagin. "A Woman's
Victory for Schools tells of Miss
Margaret IIaley's successful fight to
make the corporations of Chicago pay
their taxes in order to furnish money
for school teachers salaries