The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-08
Literary News and Notes.

Holman F. Day has poems in four
magazines in the same month, the De-
cember numbers of PearSon's. Every
body's, LeSlie's and AinSlie's.
The front cover of the Christmas
number of the Ladies' Home Journal
is the work of F. S. Guild, brother of
General Secretary William A. GUILD, of
the Bath Young Mems Christian asSo-
citation. He is art editor of the Journ-
al and has been on the staff for num-
Der of years.
The endeavors of various contempor-
airy innovators to improve the style
of the Bible are made the subject of a
very striking paper by J. H. Gardiner
in the November Atlantic. The inepti-
tude in which such attempts invariably
result has never been more tellingly
shown than by Mr.. Gardiner. His pa
per will afford infinite satisfaction to
every one who cares for the eloquent,
homely English of the King James YER
sion.
A hitherto unpublished poem by John
Greenleaf Whittier will attract univer-
sal attention to the December Atlantic.
The number opens appropriately with A
SeaSonable sem-humorOus appeal for
peace and goodwill and federation to all
men. Samuel p Orth follows with Our
State Legislatures, vigorous and
searching analysis of the characters and
powers of these bodies whose annual
sessions begin so soon in all the capitals
of the country, and of the real dangers
to be apprehended from them.
One striking feature of the table of
contents of the December Twentieth
Century Home is the number of people
of high authority in various spheres of
work who write on their special subjects
for the magazine This month we note
Havelock Ellis, Spanish Dancing";
Garrett P. Serviss, "The Fairyland of
Science; Harry Thurston Peck, For
the Woman Who Reads; DIR. Watson
l.. Savage, ''H ONE Exercise for Grow
ing Children DIR. James H. Garfield Lii
brarian of Columbia University, ''The
Worlds Five Hundred Best Books;
Mrs. n. M. Slater, 'Studies in Home
Dressmaking"; Rafford Pyke, "Women
as Economists
The December Christmas number of
''The Cosmopolitan" comes to us in
beautiful and appropriate cover which
is but the index of an especially attrac-
tive contents. Besides five complete
and one continued story, we turn to
one illustrated article after another to
note that each discusses matter of
real timely and vital Importance to
both the men and women of America.
The fiction is contributed by Eliza
Calvert Hall, A. NJ. Williamson-co-
author of ''The Lightning Conductor
Herbert Shipman, Homer Bassford,
Jeanne Olive Loizeaux and John Bris-
ben Walker. James Whitcomb Riley
has a two-page Christmas poem. The
whole number is superbly illustrated.
Charles Clark Munn's stories find
many readers in Maine as their scenes
are laid in this State. 'Rockhaven,"
for example, is Vinalhaven, where the
author spent one summer. The scene
OF pocket Island" just published by
Lee & Shepard, Boston, is the vicinity
of Isle au Haut. The story opens in
Nova Scotia, where the reader is in
troduced to smuggler and his crew,
which consists of an Indian and dog,
and told of their hiding place on Pocket
Island. Then we are taken to Maine
town and the story of the hero and he
roine is narrated from boyhood and
girlhood, their school days, their play
days, etc. The hero goes to the front
in the civil war, is wounded unto death
but RECEIVERS and in the closing chapters |
the mystery of Pocket Island is solved,
the hero discovers the smugglers hoard,
and happy wedding follows.