The Republican journal., 1903-07-02
Literary News and Notes.

The great gathering of teachers ir
Boston this month is the occasion of al
article in the July New England Mag
azine by one in authority, Prescott F
Hall, giving the history of the 'Nation
al Educational Association" 1t is
very fully illustrated.
The curiously petrified forests of
''Chalcedony Park" are Interestingly
pictured and described by Randolph l.
Geare, of the National Museum, in this
months number of the New England
Magazine, while Clifton Johnson, shows
how our forefathers learned geography
from the text book of .Jedidiah Morse.
"a Few Real Boys" record which
is just what its name implies, is the
feature of Leslie's Monthly for July.
This is the first of series of reminis-
cent stories of boys, by Judge Henry A.
Shute, and the best thing of its kind
since Aldrich's bad Boy" Plupy,
Puzzy, Whacker and the other young
sters are the kind of boy that other
boys and grown ups delight in equally.
There are seven other stories-of love,
of strikes, of horses and of humor-in
this number, besideAa particularly in
teresting installment of E. w. Hor-
nung's serial.
To the discussion of the greatest
question before the American people
the race problem-The Booklovers'
Magazine for July makes unique and
valuable contribution. 1t is strong
and sweeping article by Professor w.
E. B. Dubois of Atlanta University,
pointing to the high position and re-
markab BILE achievements of a number of
representative living Americans of
negro blood in the fields of invention,
commerce and industry, politics, the
learned professions, art and literature.
Professor Dubois might well have
been included in his own article on the
Possibilities of the Negro, as notable
instance of such achievement. This
careful study by an eminent sociologist,
with its calm, dispassionate appeal to
facts, and with its ten striking por-
traits, will surely command attention
far and wide.
Ever since the Atlantic OWNED the
rising genius of Bret Harte, and secured
his contributions, many OF its most
famous and brilliant articles have been
Californian In topic, or written by
Californians. The current July issue
of the Atlantic is largely California
number, and contains a brilliant group
of articles which will engage the atten-
ton of all readers Herbert Bashford,
editoa Of THE Literary West" opens
the Atlantic with a thoughtful paper
on The Literary Development of the
Pacific Coast: President David Starr
Jordan of Stanford University writes
upon The Voice of the Scholar: Presi-
,f Vol
fornia University treats \ National
Type of Culture; and Prof. Gayley
furnishes an important paper entitled
What is Comparative Literature?
Ethel j. IIuSSey, in Life at a Mountain
astronomical settlement, its wonders
and uses.
The July Century is distnctively q
fiction number: and the list of stories is
long and varied enough to please the
most omnivorous appetite for fiction.
Easily first III interest is Homer b. HUI
bert's ''The Sign of the Jumna," telling
the thrilling details of a British subal-
terms search among the Himalayas for
literary treasure-trove. How he found
a remarkable book, now in the British
Museum, but at the cost of twenty
three years imprisonment in a
mountain monastery, makes an unusual
and engrossing tale. John Luther
Longs ''The Siren is far from being a
conventional romance, and it has the
flavor of the sea; the coast is just the
place to read the story of savage Brassid
and the laughing Sea Lady. "Mahmoud
Pasha OF the D. F. W." is the title of an
Egyptian and English story by Frederic
CORTLAND Penfeld, former United
States Diplomatic Agent to Egypt,
which tells of a clever Indian device
which located disastrous break in the
great dam. Other fiction of the issue
includes: "a Lost Story" posthumous
work by the lamented Frank Norris,
author of "The Octopus; Margaret
Sutton Brisco's RED Tassels,' David
Gray's ''The Braybrook Baby's God
mother" another "Gallop' story, Will
n. Harben's ga Question of Valor,"
Philip Berrill Mighels' "A Forty
Horse Power Stratagem, and more
chapters of Richard Whiteing's ''The
Yellow Van" Edwin l.. Sabin con-
tinues his charming series on the life of
the American village boy, this month
sketching "a Boys Loves