The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-11-05
Literary News and Notes.

The popularity of fine illustrations
handsomely reproduced on good paper
is becoming more and more evident, as
the makeup OF the leading magazines
is studied. The November Cosmopoli-
tan, for instance, contains 119 repro
auctions of portraits and drawings illus
trating a wide range of interesting sub
jects
''The Life of Captain jeremiah
O'Brien, Machias, Maine,' by the Rev
Andrew NJ. Sherman George W. Sher
man, Morristown, n. j. gives an inter
esting account of a unique character
who, as commander of the first Ameri
can flying squadron of the revolution
airy war, contributed in no inconsider
able measure to the achievement of oul
independence. 1t contains an introduc.
ton by the Hon. John ID. Long.
The art section of The Booklovers
Magazine for November contains repro
auctions of four beautiful modern pict-
ures and of two old favorites. The
modern pictures are by Petite, Somer-
scales, Peacock, and Hopwood. There
are also reproductions of Turner and
Rembrandt. Four colored plates rep
resent the old coaching days, and Dick
ems account of Tom Pinch's ride from
Salisbury to London is an appropriate
accompaniment to these striking old
prints.
A rather out of the ordinary dedica-
ton is the simple one in Miss Frances
Parker's new book, 'Marjie of the
Lower Ranch" 'sTo my best friend,
nv father" it reads. 1t is related that
Miss Parker's father was not aware
that his daughter had written book
and that the first that he knew about
it was when the volume bearing his
daughters name was put into his
hands. The surprise came as an all
greater one because Miss Parker has
never before written for publication.
Love Stories from Real Life are
liable to prove all too real for the COM
fort of the young author, Miss Mildred
Champagne. Her claim that she had
obtained the material for these stories
from incidents about her interested
some curious person to the extent of
investigating as to who the original
characters might be. 1t took only a
short time to recognize in the ruined
merchant of the third story, Legal
Ties and the Other Kind" well known
Bostonian. The suspicion was sub
Stimulated by the fact that the wife of
the story-book merchant bears the same
name as the wife of the real man, an
odd name, too.
In the November number of Every
body's magazine Alfred Holder, who
collaborated with Josiah Flynt in his
series of studies of Graft in American
Cities" describes in Reform that Re
FORMS what has been accomplished for
decency in New York by an honest adj
ministration. There is also an author
itative summing up of the career of
John Alexander Dowie by man with
the analytic capacity for the task-I.
K. Friedman, the distinguished Chica-
20 novelist, and stories and sketches
by such amusing writers as Alfred
Henry Lewis, o. Henry and Eugene
Wood.
There are three or four authors who
have faculty of interesting every class
of readers. Among these is Mr.. H. G.
Wells, whose 'War of the Worlds
proved one of the most popular tales
ever printed in a magazine. The No
vember Cosmopolitan contains the first
instalment of Mr.. Wells new scientific
romance, 'The Food, of the Gods" fas-
cinating in plot, holding the interest of
the reader by it's thrilling situations,
yet having throughout philosophic
vein. characteristic of all the authors
work. The story Is marvellous, yet
plausible, intensely interesting, yet in
structive.