The Republican journal., 1904-12-22
lL1rrpARY NEWS AND NOTES.

kLITfRARY NEWS AND MITES.
FEE. C. Robbins of Portland contrib
utes to The Youths Companion for
December % stOry-The Last Case of
Corporal Punishment-ln which figures
teacher who feared that he had out
lived his usefulness, and was agreeably
surprised to find that he was an idol in
the community.
The Youths Companion points out
that the Inauguration of President
Roosevelt will be unique in two particu-
lars. It will be the first time that a
President in the White House has gone
to the Capitol for his first Inauguration:
and it has never before happened twice
in succession that there was no retiring
President to accompany the President
elect to the Capitol to take oath of
office.
The first story in the special Christ
mas number of Harper's Weekly is ''The
Kings Jewell by James E. Dunning,
the well known Portland newspaper
man whose short stories have been ap-
pearing for the past year or two in the
best magazines. This story has three
full page illustrations in colors by
Howard Pyle and is a strong and am
bilious piece of work. When it is seen
that the following stories in this issue
are by Mark Twain, John Kendrick
Bangs, Robert w. Chambers and Ham,
lin Garland, the honor paid our young
Maine author becomes all the more
marked.
docs fiendish necrOmancer," i'm
quires S. P. Orth, in his article upon
Our State Legislatures in the December
Atlantic, transform a John into a
Judas when he enters the halls of legisla-
ton, or is it impossible to elect able
and honorable men to make our laws?"
Mr.. Ortiz then proceeds to give the re-
suits of an elaborate study of the con-
stitution and action of our State legis-
latures in very informing if somewhat
caustic manner. His conclusion affords
he says, feed upon the Indifference of
the people. Popular demand is the
ultimate source of good law; popular in
difference is the immediate source of
bad law.
A new detective story, by Anna
Oatharine Green, which opens with a
ball, a murder, and lost diamond, be-
gins in Leslie's Monthly Magazine for
January, and from these first chapters
it looks as if Mrs. Green's latest story
was her best. An article on Grand
Opera in America by Heinrich Conreid,
director of the Metropolitan Opera
House, tells of some of the trials of an
impresario in this country and an essay
on ''Does 1t Pay to Be Teacher?"
gives an excellent idea of the work.
opportunities and rewards of that most
important career. The last of the
articles on the Theatrical Syndicate is
a summing up of the conditions and
prospects of the Theatrical business
and an account of some of the results
of Syndicate methods. There are a
number of personality sketches of men
like Hedley, General Manager of the
New York Subway, the new Governor
General of Canada and H. w. Savage,
an American theatrical director; and
eight short stories, among which one
called ''In the Honest Woods" is par
ticularly noticeable. There is also an
excellent story in which Joseph Cham
berlain and an Irish M. P. have good
natured contest. There are a number
of other stories Of love and humor and
the usual short verses in Marginalia.
Pearson's Magazine for January
presents remarkable collection of in
teresting special articles and clever
short stories, numbering in all eighteen.
The leading article is clear, concise,
exhaustive narrative, handsomely illus
trated and describing in popular way
the dangers, the difficulties and the
magnitude of that most recent marvel
of engineering, the New York "Sub-
way" ''Skin Sculpture, the Modern
Taxidermy," and ga Seventy-fve-
Thousand Pound Meteorite" are ar icles
that will please those of a scientific turn
of mind. "rhe Making of Incandescent
Lamps 1.-The Life Story of Wild
Boar" and "Pneumonia, an Unsolved
Problem" are articles that will appeal
to those interested respectively lii in
dustry, in animals and in problems of
health; while Scoring the Beat is a
stirring, striking article consisting of
adventures of those daring, resourceful
ifvi,,cws, the New York newspaper re-
porters. Still other special articles are
Kate V. Saint Maur's serial, "The Self
Supporting Home and Robert Sioss'
interview with Julia Marlowe. In fc-
ton, Pearson's has taken the daring
step of printing ga Limb of the Law"
a story by that latter-day apostle of
'low-life realism" Owen Kildare.
Three delicate love stories, stirring
stories of adventure, one Western
story, and an exciting detective story
complete the list of the contents page.