The Republican journal., 1903-02-26
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

The New Hampshire Publishing Cor
poration, publishers of George Frank
| lvn Willey's interesting SOLITAIRE" an
nounce the book in its second edition.
| The first edition was entirely exhaust
ed Que week after publication.
! The February number of the Maine
Sportsman is special edition for the
New y ork Sportsman's show and is one
of the most handsome and interesting
magazines that ever came from Maine
press. Hebert W. Rowe, the able and
energetic editor and publisher, has cer-
tainly well earned the congratulations
of his fellow craftsmen.
Attila, the man who developed San
dow. and who is recognized as the mast
er of modern athletics, has been en-
gagged to write series of articles on
physical culture for the Police Gazette,
New York City, which will appear every
week. His lessons will be illustrated
with poses by John Beiling, the recent
winner of the physical culture champ
ionship and holder of the $500 diamond
medal.
Mr.. Charles FELTON, Pidgin, author of
Quincy Adams Sawyer, "Blenner-
hassett'' and ''The Climax, has been
appointed by Governor Bates to be
Chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of
Statistics of Labor, to succeed Mr..
Horace G. Wadlin who resigned to &C
cept the office of Librarian OF the Bos-
ton Public Library. MI. Wadlin was
the successor of Mr.. Carroll d. Wright
as chief of this bureau. The appoint
ment of MI. Pidgin is most deserved
one, he having served in the bureau for
the past 80 years, the most OF that time
as chief clerk, and on frequent occa-
sions as acting chief. He will soon bring
out his latest and greatest mechanical
device, an invention for practical use III
statistical tabulation. 1t is promised
as an absolute novelty in mechanical
computation and is expected to revolu-
tionize the handling of figures.
March tenth has been settled upon
as the publication day of "Tito,' the
novel by William Henry Carson. A
very interesting incident is promised
the reader of the book when the Italian
youth, Tito, finally discovers in New
y ork his aristocratic American father
whom he had been sent over here sworn
to kill. He has been searching for his
father without knowing his nalne or ad-
dress. The discovery that the man who
has befriended him is his father occurs
in sick room. The thought of taking
the revenge for his fancled wrongs UNI
der such conditions is repugnant to him.
He has sworn to kill him, however.
Not daring to trust himself he fled from
the room. He wandered into the coun-
try and spent the night i'll the woods III
a storm. MI Carson's word picture OF
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ing Of the sick father, is said to be
/ vividly realistic and intensely pathetic.
TO the February Atlantic. Mr.. Paul
| Elmer More, whose earlier essays IN
| that magazine upon Byron and upon
/ ''The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne
/ have been so siuguiarly illuminating,
contributes remarkable study OF "Laf-
cadio Hearn, or the The Meeting OF
Three Ways. - Mr.. Undergraduates
with clear insight to the very spirit OF
Japanese art as it is reproduced in the
writings of Mr.. Hearn, and points out
with great suggestivenesS the relation
! between the mysticism of the East,
with its dreams of earlier incarnatlons
and the effect upon the imagination of
the Darwinism of the West. "How
shall it be with us, he says, ''if we are
| to live over again in memory the pas
sions, the wallowing desires, the enor-
nous battles of our far-away human
ancestors and of the bestial creation
which preceded them? Some such tenor
of discovery has, it seems to me, haunt
ed the human race dimly through all
the vicissitudes of its history; and now
in these essays and tales, whose sub
stance is so strangely mingled together
out of the austere dreams of India and
! the subtle beauty of Japan and the re-
+ lentless science of Europe, | read vague
! ly the Interpretation of many things
, which hitherto were quite dark