The Republican journal., 1902-08-14
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

Baker Dunn of Waterville, daughter
of the late Henry Knox Baker of
Hallowell, contributes The Browning
Tonic: and Mrs. Annie Hamilton
Donnell of Kent's Hill writes a pretty
fairy story for children, The Princess
of Make Believe, which is much out of
the general line of its articles.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine an
nounces that it has obtained for the
year 1902 the exclusive American rights
to H. G. Wells work and an option on
a like privilege in 1908. By way of pre-
face to the publication Of Mi. Wells
Mankind in the Making" a series of
papers that is sure to excite even
wider comment than did 'Anticipa-
tons from the same pen, the August
Cosmopolitan publishes an interesting
biographical sketch and character study
of Mr.. Wells.
Margaret Deland is now at her sum-
mer home i'll Kennebunkport, where
she mas been writing a series of Given
tieth- Century Talk to Women" for
Harper's Bazaar, the last one appearing
in the Bazaar for August under the title
The passing of Dora" In this paper
Mrs. Deland writes of the charm of
woman of the Dora Spenlow type,
and how they captivate just as Dora
captivated David Copperteld and every
body else. She contrasts her with the
more vigorous type of girl now prey
alent.
With due regard for the SUNNI Ell
mood of magazine readers, the August
Atlantic has been made primarily a tic-
ton number.-notable for many excel
lent stories. Norman Duncan, Arthur
Cotton, Jack London, and Alice Brown
have contributed each of their BEST
a group of stories with a slngularly
wide range of setting and interest. No
less readable is the editors seasonable
paper on The Short Story, wherein are
set forth those traits of good narrative
writing which make us ''look out with
new eyes upon the many Featured, hab-
liable world"
"Old Abe" the War Eagle OF the
Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the
Civil War. holds the place Of honor in
the August number of The American
Boy. 1t makes a stirring theme. This
number is full of patriotic interest to
American boys, treating of Lafayette
at BrandyWine, Relics of Early Ameri-
can Days, T.. Plurihus num-Its Ori-
gin and Meaning, and New National
Song. An important announcement is
made by the publishers of history Of
Napoleon Bonaparte, written for boys
by the Editor of The American Boy, to
begin in the September number and
run through some ten consecutive num-
beers, the same to be profusely illustrat-
ed. S1.00 year. The Sprague Pub
fishing Co., Detroit, Mich.
Everyone almost has seen circus as
it appears from a seat in the tent, but
there are few who have Travelled with
the company day and night, studied the
inner life of the circus folk and the
thousand details that make up the OF
ganiZation of modern circus. The
August cosmopolitan article The
Organization of a Modern Circus"
deliberately illustrated with photos
specially taken by the Cosmopolitan S
staff photographers, reads to the lay
man like a chapter from the Arabian
Nights. Much has been written about
how Americas millionaires accumulate
wealth in their business hours. but
little has been said about how these in
teresting individuals spend their mil
lions il their hours of leisure. The
August Cosmopolitan illustrated arti-
Gle on ''Diversions of Some Million
aires gives an interesting view of this
side of the millionaire's life.
When Aaron Burr was President
General of the United States, and was
bringing about great and much-need I'd
reforms i'll Washington laW-making, ac-
cordirg TO Charles FELTON, Pdgin' forth
coming great romance of the Utopian
ID Nj of
W hat Night Have Been he called his
cabinet together one day and said:
''Since the days when the sons of
ness to care for themselves, the white
man and the black man have never
been able to live together on terms Of
social equality We have, to certain
extent, ameliorated the condition of
affairs, by transplanting the negro from
the main land of the continent to Mex
ico Central America and the islands of
the West Indies But we still govern
them because we are white and they
are black
1--WE accord them territorial represen-
tatiVes: those representatives may
speak, but they do not vote Let us
make a practical exempification of that
love of liberty and justice which was
voiced in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and which is the underlying
spirit of our Constitution, similar in
import, but suited to the special wants
of the black race. Let us give them
Mexico, Central America, and the is
lands of the West Indies for their own,
in perpetuity In other words let us
form an African United States of
Anne RIGA"
The c. NJ. Clark Publishing Company.
issuing this novel the 10th of next
month, announce that they are receiv-
ing heavy advance orders at a rate
which will necessitate a very large first
edition.
In an appreciative review of Holman
F. Days new book, pine Tree Ballads"
in the Westbrook Gazette, Ray Thomp-
son says: "While the book is rich in
that keen Yankee humor which spark
les-and sometimes bites-like frost,
there is not wanting an occasional
touch of pathos and an honest recogni-
ton and appreciation of everyday CON
ditions as they exist in our rugged
farming communities. Nowhere has
the singer struck a higher or truer note
than in the poem entitled ''The Sun
Drowned Dads of Name After de
scribing, in verse that smacks of the
soil, their lives of toll and selt-sacri-
flee he DaVS them manly tribute as fol