The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-08-25
Literary News and Notes.
General Lew Wallace is said to be al
work upon another novel.

General Lew Wallace is said to be at
work upon another novel.
Miss Alice Farwell Brown is sum-
mering at Isle au Haul. A third edi-
ton has just been called for of her re-
cent book, '1n the Days of Giants. -
Another author who is visiting Maine
is Clara Louise Burnham, who is at
Bailey island as usual. She has just
finished a sequel to Jewel" entitled
Jewels Story Book" which is to ap-
pear this fall.
"Wall Street and Wild Speculation
by Henry Clews is feature of the
Cosmopolitan for August. In conclu-
sion the author, after referring to our
progress as nation, says: "Wall
street is always sure to reflect this
progress, and our growth in material
prosperity, as well as any periods of
depression we may encounter, for it is
the great barometer not only of the
country and times but very largely of
the world"
Col. Prentiss Ingraham of Chicago
said to be the author of more 1000
novels, is dead at Beauvoir, Miss, aged
| Ga years. He was born in Tennessee
and was the son of Rev. Joseph II. In
graham, author of A Prince of the
House of David. The young man serv-
| ed in the Confederate army as colonel
and after the war began writing stor.
| les, which were published in various
weekly papers and in book form. For
years he turned out a novel every few
weeks.
The Youths Companion of August
18th shows no sign of midsummer dull
! ness. Prof W. Fl. Holmes, chief of
the Bureau of American Ethnology,
contributes an article packed with in
teresting information on "'The Earliest
Americans" and there are four first
rate short stories, several character
sketches, and nalf dozen of those
brief humorous paragraphs for which
The Companion is famous, and are SO
we'll worth remembering and telling
cover the teacups.''
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's new book,
''The Penobscot Man." now i'll its sec
Ond printing, has received the hearty
Endorsement of the leading Maine river
men. 1t seems, however, that one man
in Bangor who liked the stories thought
they should be taken with a grain of
salt. A riverman who heard this re-
mark, loudly protested, saying that he
had lived for many years in Old Town,
and knew almost every man spoken of
in the book; be could declare on oath
that if anything the facts were under
stated. In the end the skeptic went up
to see the drive" himself, and came
back converted to childlike belief in
all that the book asserted, and with his
copy full of blue prints extra-illus-
trating the stories.
The patriotic note is struck in the
National Magazine for August, in
recognition of the August encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie in Boston, the Nationals home
Captain S. H. Beckwith, known in the
Union army as Grants Shadow"
writes score or more of fascinating
brief character studies OF the famous
Union generals whom he knew during
his four years with Grant as chief
cipher operator. Mary c. Crawford
tells the stories of the seven famous
American composers of patriotic songs
whose names were recently commence
Library, and William G Kirschbaum
of the Union Bands
An article on "The Modern Nursery"
by Mildred X. Smith, and the fourth
number of ''Perdita's Problems" by
Alice Chittenden, are to be features of
special interest in the September num-
Der of the New Idea Woman's Maya
zine. These two papers are of instant
value to all home-makers in their prac-
teal suggestions and helpfulness. Both
are photographically illustrated. Miss
Cory's articles on physical Culture
are letters written out of the sound
knowledge of long experience in her
special line of work, and may be de-
pended upon as absolutely reliable in
every detail. These articles are illus
trated in such way as to illuminate
the specific directions given in the text.
Fashions in Shirt-waists' and Novel
ties in Mems Wear" are feature ar
ticles in the fashion department, which
is to be enlarged henceforward by the
addition of another color plate.
The August American Boy, published
by the Sprague Publishing Company,
Detroit, Michigan, is noteworthy espec-
tally for its account of American Boy
Day at the St. Louis Exposition, July
5th, which was planned and carried out
by the publishers of that periodical.
Nearly five thousand people partici-
pated in parts of a five hour program
on that day under the craftsmanship of
the editor of The American Boy. The
participants in the program were main
~ talented boys from various sections
Of the country. Half dozen pages of
The American Boy are given to de-
tailed account of the proceedings, splen-
didly illustrated. No boy, and indeed
no adult, can read this account without
feeling something of the inspiration of
the occasion. The publishers of The
American Boy also announce in this
number that they propose to try to
make American Boy Day permanent
American institution in every city and
country town in the country.