The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-03-05
Literary News and Notes.

CFaLeO Dy numUeF VI lldlI-COne repro
auctions of photographs of Bangor and
vicinity.
The Maine Woods has issued a spec
ial edition, prOfusely illustrated, in
honor of the New York Sportsmen's
show which opened last week. Such
paper, widely distributed there, will
draw many summer visitors and hun
tiers to Maine.
Conkey's Home Journal for March
contains, in addition to it's usual quota
of interesting departments for women,
! several special articles and good short
stories. Among the latter is one by
Eben f. Rexford. "a Belated Ro-
nance is the title of a new serial by
Helen Clark Balmer. A splendid arti-
Gle for women with excellent iilustra-
tions is on beautiful Window Gar
dens," by Ethel NJ. Colson. A charming
two-step for the piano is by Frances
Robertson.
"What crimes our revolution has
been responsible for" said the keeper
of the Literary Graveyard. sLookv'
he pointed out small valley filled with
thousands of gravestOnes. Cali his
torical novels based on the American
revolution" he said, land Washington
is in every one of them. But come.
l will show you the longest-lived of
| them" The stone he pointed out bore
this epitaph:-
Here Richard Carvel rests from Strife
After ii much-editioned life;
| A Crisis checked his long career
! And death soon laid him on his bier;
| The malady that quenched his light is
h-hlStOrlc-nove-ltiS.
Leading features of the March Ma
ational Magazine are: How Ran for the
| Presidency, by Mrs. Belva A. Lock
] wood the only woman who ever made
that race; The Great Republic of the
Future, by Archbishop John Ireland;
Give the Boy Fair Chance, by Secre-
tary Leslie NJ. Shaw; Personal Recol-
lections of Lincoln and Statesmen of
His Time, by Colonel James Matlock
Scovel; and The One Thousand Dozen,
great klondike story by Jack London.
There are scores of other fresh and
readable articles, stories, poems and
departments, including special illus
trated articles on four of the best cities
in America-Bangor in the East, Toledo
and Milwaukee in the central West,
and Los Angeles on the Pacific.
The G. NJ. Clark company has in
preparation novel of life on a Mon
tana ranch by Frances Parker, a real
ranch girl. She is daughter of DE- Day
ton Parker of Detroit % years of age,
! and lived on her fathers ranch among
the Bear Paws mountains all of her life
except when with her uncle, an Indian
agent, on the Indian reservation in the
southern part of Montana She rides
| broncho, throwes a lariat that might be
| the envy of any COW boy, and can
round up a herd with the best of them.
Her writing is said to have the western
dash that might be expected of such
girl. She has not written of ranch life
from a distance; she does not write the
impression of a visit. She has written
! a romance of the ranch life of which
she has been part.
"Denis Dent" novel of thrilling adj
venture in the Australian gold fields,
by E. W. Hornung, who wrote the
Amateur Craftsman stories, begins in
the March number of Leslie's Monthly
which also contains the first account of
the Z. S. Expedition to explore the
depths on the Pacific Ocean, clearly and
wildly told in photograph and story,
and the history of the rise and present
power of one of the newest and greatest
of trusts, the tobacco combine. There
| is story of graceful sentiment by Roy
Rolfe Gibson, with drawings by Jessie
Wilcox Smith, and an animal sketch by
C. G. D. Roberts, with drawings by
Charles l.. Bull. The other stories of
sentiment and humor; a biting tale by
/ Maarten Martens, and an article on
Theatrical First Nights, richly illustrat-
ed and one on the Dismal Swamp. a
clever satire, called ''The Literary
Graveyard" and an article on LINER
icks'' enliven the end of the magazine.
) The Century Co. is about to issue
book of fiction dealing with the lighter
phase of life at girls college. by Jean
Webster, a recent recruit to the ranks
of story-writers; and the distinctive
quality of her work is its spontaneity
and humor. Each chapter presents an
episode in the college career of Miss
| Patty" most fascinating young
woman with penchant for getting into
scrapes. as when she played the part of
] "a Crash Without in the senior play;
] and a weakness for perpetrating practi-
cal Jokes, as when she introduced 'The
, Impressionable Mr.. Todhunter'' to the
doll show. Miss Patty was hardly what
one would call grind; and she gave
more time to the studying of her pro-
fessors, and the devising of ''sure
system" for making brilliant recita-
+ ton on a thimbleful of knowledge, than
, to any earnest consideration of the pre-
scribed courses. Men, women. and
freshmen succumb TO Patty's charm
of manner. when Patty Went to
College, will appear in March.
OF course the closing chapters ''Lovey
Mary" which will soon appear now in
/ book form, will claim first attention in
| the March Century's generous store of
, fiction. Mrs Wiggs, Lovey Mary and
all the res: have had some richly
! humorous experiences, but the Cabbage
/ Patch's valiant graphing with ''Faust'
is the best of all. Happily as the story
ends, there is touch of tragedy be-
! tween the fun of the Christmas night
entertainment and the promise of
| the last chapter. Another PA Glad
DEM story, 1.-The Passing of Elkanah
Ritter" more chapters of Richard
Whiteiug's THE Yellow Van," Onoto
/ Watann's The Love of Sakura Jiro,"
and Stuart Whites clever Santa Maria
Maggiore," which is not at all what one
expects from then anne, offer fiction
! feast for every taste. The verse is nota-
blv varied: Madison Cawein's "There
q ~ Eo;r;oo T onjSp }mOpan Gujnav'S