The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-11-06
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

Ambassador to Spain after notable
career as minister successfully to
Persia, Greece, and Switzerland, will
publish serially in the Atlantic Month
ly for the coming year new novel
which exhibits to the full his fine mar
rative genius. The plot turns upon
complications in the money market in
New York and love entanglements in a
New Hampshire house party. Those
who have read the manuscript know
that Mr. Hardy has never created more
attractive and perfectly vitalized char
J acters, or presented truer picture of
certain aspects of contemporary life
Park Street Boston, Mass.
President William Dewitt HYDE, of
Bowdoin College, opens the November
Atlantic with an Impressive discussion
of The New Ethics-the moral laws and
safeguards OF our race, the spirit of
which all laws are hut the symbolic
impression. The Atlantic contains
other valuable Sociologic and economic
essays, notably a Quarter Century of
Labor Strikes, the first of an interest
ing and timely series of papers on
trades unions, by Ambrose P Winston;
a labor paper entitled The Australasian
Cures for Coal Wars, by H. D. Lloyd
The End of an Economic Cycle, a
thoughtful treatise on current CON
ditions, by Frederic c. Howe: an in
structive paper On the Care of the
Eyes, by Dr. A. B. Norton; ard study
of Modern Artistic Handicr&ft, by Prof
Charles H. Moore.
The National is publishing some re
markedly fine, strong stories of late
The November number contains The
Story of Cappie. one of Frank H.
Spearmau's best tales, with illustra-
lions by Cyrus Fosmire; Adopted by
Edward W. WooIey of Chicago; Pa and
the Department, a Thanksgiving story
by Willard Dillman of South Dakota:
the concluding chapters of In the Lone
some, Silent South, Eva Hampton
Prathers thrilling story of murder and
mystery in the old SOUTH Ou Holidays
and Thanksgivings, tribute to woman
in lier role of ''miuistering angel" by
Ieavenworth MacNab of san Fran
cisco: The Dickson Hospitality, an
amusing social sketch by Frances WI
son of Kansas City, and Her "Diser
bodied Sperrit" one of the funniest
stories ever printed, by Lyle O. Harris
of Louisiana.
Lovers of good short-story writing
will find much to please them in the
October number of the Atlantic Month
ly, wherein are printed three stories OF
exceptional quality and distinction and
of widely varying interest. :. Carrie
ton, the author of that remarkable
story. THE Lame Priest, which was
published in the Atlantic some month,
ago, has contributed another tale of
the Canadian forest entitled The
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peculiar gift Of infusing Vein of
effective experimentation into a story
dealing with the actual life of the
woods has never been better exhibited
than here. Diametrlcally opposite to
this in tone and setting, but no less in
teresting are Adachi kinnosuke' 5
stories of two japanese painters and
MI E. G.. Taylors idyllic sketch,
"Elaine' Not the least notable fiction
of the number is the Just and dramatic
conclusion of "Our Lady of the
Beeches.'
The Battle For Pure Food is the
subject of the leading editorial in the
November What TO Eat. The poster
cover is one of the strongest and most
striking the magazine has yet had a
knight in armor fighting a Shiny octo-
pus, representing What TO Eat waging
warfare against impure food which is
poisoning millions of people Thanks
giving is the subject of several inter
esting and timely articles. Amelia
Sulzbacher has practical article on
''The Thanksgiving Family Dinner
Menu" and Mis-. l.. W. Mitchell writes
THANKSGIVING Suggestions for the
Woman Without Maid" Laura A.
Smith contributes an interesting short
story cone Thanksgiving Day. The
price of the magazine for one year is
sl.00: only surely a small sum for so eX-
cellent a publication, and if you sub
scribe through this newspaper your sub
cmption will include, without any furth-
ercharge whatever the privileges of the
''What TO Eat Household Club and
the booklet six Dinners" The Pierce
Publishing Co., Chicago, III,
One Of the recent publications i'll the
historical line is the "History of San
| ford, Maine,' large volume of 531
pages, containing % full-page portraits
of prominent citizens and geneaiogies
of many noted families of this enter
prising York county town. The work
is written by Edwin Emery, late of New
Bedford and edited and prepared for
publication by his son, William NJ En-
cry, now FAN River journalist. Both
Mr.. Emery and his son are graduates of
| Bowdoin College and they come of the
best YORK county stock. Mr.. Emery
devoted nearly twenty years to the az
| rangement of the facts which make up
| the history of his native town, which
tells of its life from the time of it's
purchase from the Indians in 1861 up to
the present time. The book is a volua-
BILE addition to the historical literature
of Maine, and deserves the perusal of
everyone who is interested in the rec
ords of the noted families of that sec
ton of the State.-k ennebec Journal
The strenuous life is the key of the
November "Everybody's The maya
zine is brimmiug with movement, Incl
dent and doing. 1t represents the most
diverse phases of living and working
and has not dull page. The fronts
piece is portrait of the Presidents
mother The number begins with the
first installment of ,Justus Miles For
mans novelette,, Journeys End, which
will be found charming, readable and
: entertaining Mrs. Bessie Van Worst
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