The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-11-12
Literary Otes.

President Eliot of Harvard University
opens the November Atlantic with an
important article on The School, its
characteristics, what its aims should be,
and into what it should develop. Brooks
Adams discusses The Economic Condi-
tons of Future Defense, maintaining
that force IS the only law among nations
and that only the httest survives; Will
liam CARROT Brown treats The Problem,
of the American Historian; and Burton
j. Hendrick, A Great Municipal Reform,
the new tenement law in New York,-a
group of notable aud valuable papers
upon as many different topics, all OF
which are of national Importance. In
Fiction. the numbei contains The Story
Of the Queen, the opening OF novelette,
by Harriet Prescott spotford; We
mans Fancy, an attractive story, by
Alice Maude Ewell, and The Boy who
Lived at the Bottom Of Well, by Ed
win Biorkman. The number is full.
and brilliant one.
The Review of Reviews is keeping up
its reputation as one Of the best inter
prefers of the news of the daY am ons
our monthly journals. The November
number deals with the postal invesiiga-
tion, the fall elections, the recent ex-
posures of thigh finance" in trust organ
ization, the Panama Canal situation, the
award OF the Alaska boundary tribunal
the protectionist movement in England,
and the issue in the far East between
Russia and Japan. Contributed articles
describe "Men and Issues OF the New
York City Campaign just closing
"The Nations Print Shop and Its Meth
DDS, "-including review OF the famous
"Miler case" and its outcome and the
whole question of the status OF labor
unions in the Government Printing Oh
flee; "The Fort Riley Maneuvers,
which began on October 10; "The New
Springfield Rife and the Improvement
in Small Arms :" "Galveston's Great Sea
Wall" and "The Rebrth of the Japan
ese Language and Literature "a his
tory OF the movement for the adoption
of the Roman character in writing and
printing, in place of the Chinese systems
of picture writing. DR.. George f. kunZ
writes an authoritative account OF thu
discovery of radium, and the uses and
properties of that wonderful element
In this number also appears the defense
of Russia's policy In Finland, which was
addressed last month by Minister de
Plehve to Mr.. W. T. Stead. Altogether
typically "live" number.
Readers of the New England Magazine
for November will fluid vertahle feast
of good things. Ia literary quality this
number fully sustains the New Eng
lands old reputation; while the variety
and scope of its contents show the mag
azine To be in line with the best modern
progress The leading feature is a Ii =
erary treat OF no small Importance. |
il hitherto unpublished poem by job
&. Whittier, COMMUNICATING the fifty =
fifth anniversary of the marriage of H.
two dear friends, Edward and Elizabeth
Cove Lovers of art will be keenly ill.,
terested in the beautifully illustrated
article regarding Miss Macomber's paint
ings, by William Howe Downes. The
Old Corner Book Store, that famous
literary landmark OF Boston, forms the
subject OF a brilliant, comprehensive,
and delightfully."- reminiscent paper
which is profusely Illustrated. The tic-
ton of the month is of the usual high
! standard; it includes stories bv Emilia
Elliott, Ages Louise Provost, Frank Il.
Spearman AID Sarah Endicott Ober.
There are poems by Agnes Lee, John
Elliott Bowman, Edwin Carlile Litsey,
and Charles Hanson Towne, while the
"Men and Events" department contains
features Of timely interest.