The Republican journal., 1903-06-04
Literary News and Notes.

The fiction in the June Century in
cludes an illustrated story OF a BOY and
his dog, entitled "Chums.. Dy Edwin
Z. Sabin, a sketch that will appeal to
any man who. in boyhood, ever owned
a dog. Other stories are ~ AOlga1l IL.
Fitch, Elizabeth Cherry Waltz ana the
Baroness Won Hutton, author OF Our
Lady of the Beeches."
! The June What To Eat offers an at
tractive miscellany. The list starts
with Dame Natures Delicatessen,"
by Felix L. Oswald, M. d., gossipy
article advising food fanciers to follow
Natures methods in the raising OF
game, rabbits, chickens, etc. The edi-
tOrials deal with ''The influence of
Food on Disposition "The Science of
Prolonging Life" 'sWhy Won't Wild
Animals Eat White Flour Bread?" etc.
The beautiful girl graduate, whose
likeness adorns the cover OF the June
National, reflects the lightness and
charm of the first summer number of
the popular Boston monthly. Follow
ing Junetime, a picture-and-poem from
tispiece by Louise Levin Matthews,
the number opens with Mr.. Chapple's
| Affairs at Washington. fifteen pages of
snapshot sketches and pictures OF life
at the nations capital Many inter-
eStlng articles, stories and poems fol
low, and the number is lavlshly Illus
trated.
The much regretted passing of the
Boston Museum is made the occasion
of an admirably illustrated article by
the dramatic critic, Howard M. lick
nor, which opens the June number OF
the New England Magazine. Old time
footlight favorites are shown III pic
lures taken, approximately, at the
time of their first appearance at this
historic house. Particularly interest
ing is the picture of Edwin Booth and
his father, taken in the year OF the for
mers's first and the latter's last appear
ance on the stage.
Away back in 1887 a meeting was
held in the Boston Museum to further
the Longfellow Memorial Fund. Noted
authors of the day sat on the platform
and in turn gave readings from their
own writings. The whole affair was
comically described by a young man
who CHANGED to be present, IN private
letter to his fancee, and on the mar
gins of his letter he drew some very
amusing caricatures of Holmes, Lowell
and Hale, of Mark Twain, Higginson,
Howells and Aldrich as they appeared
to him on the stage. The letter, with
its pictures, is now published for the
first time-the authors name being
withheld-in The Booklover's Maya
zine for June.
There was always something fascinat-
ing in Bill Nye's personality as well as
in his humor. Now, seven years after
his death, The Booklovers Magazine has
| the good sense, in the June number, to
renew public interest in him by a FULL
page portrait and a series OF illustrated
articles, in which some OF the famous
cartoons of Walt McDougall and F. Op-
per, with which they illustrated Nye's
writings, are reproduced from the orlgl-
nal drawings. One of Nye's best stories
is printed side by side with critical
estimate by Professor Hancock OF Hav-
erford College, and glowing tributes
follow from Nye's intimate friends,
James Whitcomb Riley and Walt Nc
Dougall, and from Nye's publisher, j..
B. Lippincott.
AS the school term usually ends with
June throughout the country, one looks
naturally in st. Nicholas for some
story or sketch suggestive OF school
I life. The opening story of the June
number is entitled ''The School Room
Dog" by Mary E. Fitzgerald, and is
Illustrated by Miss Ellen B. Thompson,
a clever young Philadelphia artist The
schoolroom dog is a canine waif which
| has been surreptitously brought into
| the room by the worst boy in the class.
| To the boys surprise, the dog is allow
| ed to remain in the room and provision.
| in which the whole class has hand, is
made for his keep. This unexpected
| forbearance and sympathy on the part
| of the teacher makes deep impression
on the boy. and his regeneration dates
from that day. The story is whole
some, interesting and distinctively
novel in plot.
! There are eight short stories in the
June Leslie, ranging from most origi-
nal baby story, the ''Gymkhana at Milk
VILE" which is illuminated by Miss
Cory's drawings, to dreamy tale OF an
old bishop in a peaceful little town in
Spain, by S. r. Crockett. The, best story
of a college boat race that has appeared
| for long time one thoroughly Ameri-
| can in its quality, and the account of
the business stratagem of a real estate
man, possessed Of a sense of humor and
love of dogs, together with true
yarn of noted band of Western des-
peradoes, make up a variety of choice
in the fiction. The article called Life
Ashore is the second paper on the life
of the modern sailor, and takes up the
most unknown, but one of the most in
teresting sides of sailors life, and
that on Our Farmer Presidents tells
much about those of our Chiefs of State
who were farmers as we'll as statesmen,
though not always SO successfully. A
dramatic sketch of E. S. Willard, agood
deal of verse, and the usual light stories
and rhymes in Marginalla and Men.
Women and Books" round out the
number.
Among the most important papers in
the May Atlantic is an authoritative
account of the proposed St. Louis Con-
gress of Arts and Science by Professor
Hugo Munsterberg. Professor Nuns
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