The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-03-17
Literary News and Notes.

Rev. William Henry Harrison Muir
ray, known as adirondack" Murray.
and at one time pastor of Park street
church in Boston, is dead at Guilford,
Conn, aged 81.
The history of Augusta by the late
Captain Charles E. Nash is to be pub
lished in few months. The work, as
far as the compilation goes, is COM
pleted, and the two volumes which it
makes will be ready for distribution
during the summer The two volumes
will contain about 1900 pages, and the
completion of the second volume was
the last work done by the author.
George Perry Morris. who writes of
The Old Guard of New England in the
March number Of The Booklovers Mag
aZine, is one of the associate editors of
The CongregatiOnalist, Boston. He is
Journalist OF large experience and a
contributor to MANY of the leading
monthlies. Mr.. Morris has written
books on economics and history, sub
jertS IN which he is especially interested.
.io--plD NJ. Rogers, who contributes
an aItlc.t oA Hateful Presidential Con
yentlons to the March number of The
DUNN -hdS hLlIt. 10 an ttllOlldl
writer on the staff of The Philadelphia
Inquirer and was former editor of
McClure's Magazine. Mr. Rogers has
a wide and intimate knowledge of men
and events in the political past and
present, and is master of telling and
interesting style.
Pearson's Magazine for March is it's
fifth anniversary number. There has
been, unq uestionab mark ed improve
ment during this time. In the current
number are four timely and interesting
special articles-1he Tragedy of Fort
kearney, the first paper of DR.. Cyrus
Townsend Brady's series of Indian
Fights and Fighters: the third article
by Henry George on Modern Methods
of ''Finance''-The Asphalt Trust Ca
tastrophy; Bird Babies, by Jerral Grant
Allen and Leonard Buttress, and a new
Way of Measuring the Diameter of the
Earth, by 7. c. Porter. There are a
number of clever short stories
The ever-discussed question of labor
unions is presented in a new phase in
the March Atlantic, where Professor
William Z. Ripley of Harvard Univer-
sity writes of "Race Factors in Labor
Unions" Professor Ripley, who is the
author of the well-known work on
The Races of Europe" has been max
ing al exhaustive study of the racial
composition of the labor unions of this
country, and of the part played by the
various race factors in the organization.
His account of the results of his study
is both entertaining and instructive.
His conclusion, that the hope for the
greatest efficiency of labor unions in
ln f,,t ic TO no h,
supremacy of the American workm
ment of the actual obligations of the
American born craftsman will prove
stimulating.
There is a notable article on Senator
German in the March LeSlie's Monthly
and striking portrait of him as FRONTS
piece to the magazine. There are few
more interesting personalities in the
United States today, and it is of vita
Importance to the public to know more
about Senator German. There are
two other able articles in this number,
one about what women have done in
the way of organizing trades unions in
Chicago, which makes story as anus
ing as it is surprising, and the other
the second part of the Flight for Cop
per'-the account of the industrial wal
now going on between F. A. Heinze
and the Standard Oil interests Frank
T. Bullen, who wrote the Cruise OF
the Cachelot," contributes delightful
story of 'The Turtle" which is illus
Charles Livingston Bull. There is an
other installment of Imported Ameri
cans and an article on "The Supers, -
that important but little known branch
of the theatrical profession. There
are eight bright, short stories in this
number