The Republican journal., 1903-02-12
LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES.

again. 1t was not at home in New
York, and the dress it wore while there
was not becoming. Now, at home in
Boston and in the familiar yellow COW
ers, it is welcomed as an old friend to
firesides and libraries of all down east.
A useful compendium of sporting
statistics is the "Police Gazette Sport
ing Annual for 1908. 1t contains the
records of all the prominent pugilists,
athletic, bicycle and rowing records, in
Guiding all the principal features in the
trotting and racing world, and history
of the yacht races for the Americas
cup. 1t is veritable encyclopedia OF
sporting information, profusely Illus
trated, and sells for 10 cents.
Seven important men are discussed
in the February number of The COsmO-
politan: ''The Young Napoleon" by
Field marshal Viscount Wolseley; LEO
Tolstoy: "An Interpretation Done in
Little" by Elbert Hubbard; August
Belmont, by R. H. Graves; Henry M.
Whitney, by A. E. McFarlane; 'The
Triumphal Tour of Adolf Lorenz. by
John Brisben Walker; William An
drews Clark, by H. r. Knapp; and
president McKinley's Tours by W..
w. Price.
The February number of the Ameri-
can Boy is rich in illustration, story and
anecdote and full of practical and help
full hints for American boys. The friends
of this unique periodical will be pleased
to know that it has passed the 100000
mark in circulation - truly great
achievement. A full page illustration
of an ice boat going at full speed adons
the front cover. 1t is an inspiring pic
ture The seventh installment of the
life Of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by
the editor of The American Boy, for
! boys, appears in this issue.
The February number of What To
Eat is loaded down with good things,
from the bright attractive cover to the
| last page. In his interesting series on
''Dietetic Health Hints,' Felix l.. Os-
wald, M. D., treats of Food Preju-
dices, and tells amusing incidents con
| nected with the forcing of horse flesh,
| frogs legs, rats and other unusual artl-
! cles of diet upon the unsuspecting. DR..
| Oswald says: "The perslans will not eat
| oysters, their Hindoo neighbOrs object
| to animal food altogether; the Jap'S re-
| ject cows milk. All in all it is perhaps
no over-estimate to say that prejudice
reduces the worlds available food sup
ply one half"
Whoever is interested in educational
matters will find considerable food for
reflection in some criticisms of modern
pedagogic methods that are advanced
by H. G. Wells in the February Cosmo-
politan. 1.-THE tendency of the present
time" he says, sis enormously to ex'
aggerate the Importance OF school III
development, to ascribe to it powers
quite beyond its utmost possibilities
and to blame it for evils in which it has
no share And in the prepoSterous in
vasions of the duty of parent, clergy
man, statesman, author, Journalist. o1
things which are in truth scarcely more
within the province of a schoolmaste
than they are within the province of
butcher, the real and necessary work o1
the school is too often marred, crippled
and lost sight of altogether
Perhaps the article of most genera
interest in the February number OF th'
New England Magazine is the descrlp
ton of the Wadswurth longfellov
House in Portland, by Ella Matthew:
Bangs, who has been the guide to thi
historic mansion and who is so eminent
ly fitted to describe the birthplace o
our best loved poet. The house itself
quaint and old-f fashioned. With the furn
ishings and atmosphere of bygone day
would be we'll worth inspection, bu
when added to its material attraction
are tie associations of LongfelioW'
life and work, it is little wonder tha
during the two seasons it has been opel
to the public, it has been visited by owe
nine thousand persons. The photo
graphs of the rooms which accompan.
the article are unusually good. ant
show, as no printed words could, the
environment of the poets early life an(
its effect upon his work.
The leading article in the February
| Atlantic, George W. Ayers THE Sen
sational Journalism and the Law, Is al
admirable discussion of certain lnsid
ous tendencies in the effect of mucl
contemporary journalism upon the pop
ular mind. After noting some of the
means of legal restraint upon the ''yel
low" excesses OF papers, Mr. Algel
| passes to consider the deeper and more
vital question of the undermining OF
the sense of justice of the people anc
the actual perverting of the procedure
of the courts which often results from
newspaper stories of important civil
and criminal trials. AS Mr. Alger pun
| gently concludes: ''To thoughtful mer
/ the severest charge yet to be made
! against this new journalism is not mere
| ly the influence it attempts to exert
and perhaps does exert, in particular
cases, but that wantonly and without
| just cause it endeavors to destroy in the
| hearts and minds of thousands of news
paper readers a deserved confidence in
the integrity of the courts and patient
faith in the ultimate triumph of justice
by law
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