The Republican journal., 1904-04-28
Literary News and Notes.

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off, New England village life, entitled
Howard Fielding. 1t tells how com
mittee of relatives undertook to man
age Young girls matrimonial pros
poets, and of their inglOrious defeat.
James E. Dunning, editor of the
Portland Press and Advertiser, has re-
Gently sold to the Harpers story
which will be given serial publication
in Harper's magazine. 1t is the most
pretentious literary work which Mr..
Dunning has done and its appearance
will be awaited with interest by his
many friends in Maine.
There are, as usual, in the May num-
Der of the Booklover's Magazine a
profusion of pictures, in color and
half-tone, illustrating the best and
newest things in the realm of con-
temporary art: four striking pictures
by modern European artists; four of
Louis Rhead's delightful flower pic
lures; four pages of remarkable jap
anese cartoons; and an illustrated ar
tlcle on the work of Karl Bitter, the
director of the Department of Sculp-
ture at the st. Louis Fair.
The approaching centenary of Haw-
thorne makes appropriate the Notes
on the Scarlet Letter" contributed to
the April Atlantic by Theodore I.
analysis of Hawthorne's most famous
story rare combination of theological
learning, mature knowledge of men,
and clear and beautiful English style.
His discussion of the moral problems
involved in the story is profoundly
suggestive, alike to students of our
greatest romancer and to all persons
who like to speculate about the human
heart.
Under the title of "The Beloved
Teacher" Mrs. Bertram L. Bryant of
Bangor has contributed to the National
Magazine for April story founded
upon the characteristics and personali-
ty of her father, the late DR.. Nathaniel
True of Bethel. An excellent likeness
OF Dr. True accompanies the article.
By a curious coincidence, the photo
graph from which the cut was made
and of which there are but two in exist
ence, has twice escaped being destroy
ed by fire. First, with the destruction
OF the beautiful old homestead at Beth
Ell. and again at the office of the Nation
al which was wrecked some weeks ago,
thereby making the publication of the
present number of the magazine mat
ter of some difficulty
The American Boy for April presents
a front cover that will attract boys, it
being a striking picture of young In
dian. And who has a better right to
represent young America, after all,
than the Indian boy. The stories in
this number are The Silver Mine. by
Harriet Prescott Spofford; The Blue
Dragon, by Kirk Munroe: Three Yam
kee Boys in Ireland, by the Editor, and
Arty's Guardian, by Geo. H. Coomer.
The editor in his ''Just Between Our
selves page talks of various things
boys are asking about; some serious,
some playful-but always interesting.
John Dicks Howe writes of Three
Months with an Indian Show. w. J.
Roe's Camps and Campaigns of Wash
ington appears with new chapters.
James E. Sullivan, head of the Depart
ment of Physical Culture for the
Worlds Fair, writes on Athletics at
the Worlds Fair, and there are many
other articles of interest, with the al
ways instructive departments. Sprague
Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich.
The May Pearson's contains another
paper by Mr.. Henry George, Jr., in his
series of Modern Methods of Finance"
The Shipbuilding Trust; an account
of Thomas Nast's first trip abroad in
the interests of his paper by Mr.. Albert
Blgelow Paine, in the Mast memoirs; a
timely article on Japan and Korea, by
Mr: Colgate Baker; the story of For
syth and the Rough Riders of '6S, by
DIR. Townsend Brady; and The Birth of
Great Trees, by G. Clarke Nuttall, b.
5. The short stories are-The Super
and the Signs, by E. F. Stearns; The
Bitter Bit, by d. F. Seton Carruthers;
Breast of Light, by Edward Stratton
Holloway; The Fight in Ghostly Hol-
low, in the King and Queen of Snug
glers series, by Halliwell Sutcliffe, and
Times Blunder, by Chris Sewell-all
well illustrated. Pearson's Talks with
Players this month give chats with
Grace George, Jessie Busley, Eleanor
Robson and Ethel Barrymore. The
article is illustrated with sketches from
life. Home Notes has a page on Basket
making, the usual fashion articles and
puzzle columns.
Maine readers will be interested to
learn that Small, Maynard & Co. of
Boston announce among their spring
publications kin O. Ktaadn" by our
popular writer, Holman F. Day. AL
though called "Verse Stories" Mr..
Days new volume is not merely book
Of poetry. The half-hundred new
poems, grouped in appropriate Sec
lions, are woven into consistent anu
harmonious unity by thread of prose
comment and chat, thus giving such
picture of the lights and shadows of
homely Yankee life as has never before
been printed. The poetry includes all
OF Mr.. Days best recent work, and the
prose possesses a charm not inferior
to that of the verse. The book is in
reality what the New York Sun called
Mr.. Days first book, maine in the
Fhonograph," and it shows evidence of
marked growth in the power of its au-
thor. An idea of the popularity of
Mr.. Days verses may be gained from
the fact that his first book, Cup in
Maine" is in its 18th thousand, while
"Pine Tree Ballads has reached the
18th thousand mark.
There is striking article in the May
Leslie's Monthly on the men who do
the real work in Congress, the Senators
and Representatives who do most of
the work of governing this nation, al
though their names seldom appear in
the DanerS Another interesting sketch