The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-07-07
Literary News and Notes.

Five complete stories and one serial
provide the reader of the July Cosmo-
politan with an unusual monthly al
lowance of magazine fiction, and the
stories all have marked heart interest.
They are the work of Virginia Yeaman
Remnitz, Clara Morris, Gen. Charles
King, Maravene Kennedy, T. w. Han
sheW and H. G. Wells.
One of the leading features in the
July Cosmopolitan is found in its Sc
ries, ''The Great Industries of the Unit
ed States this article treating OF cot
ton from it's plant-life all the way
through the mills to the finished pro-
deliberately illustrated with twen-
ty-eight photo-engravings. This series
in The Cosmopolitan should be read
by every schoolboy. 1t is an easy
means of getting a thorough knowledge
eff the great industries of the country
for both young and old.
There is delightful summer reading
in the July number of The Twentieth
Century Home. Such light and timely
topics as salads, summer drinks and
Women's farming are treated in enter
tanning fashion, and even the fiction
has. most of ii, distinctly summer set
ting. A charming example of the lat
ter is short story by Zona Gale, EMIT
led ''The Mission at Greenbrlar, OF the
attempt of a family in the country to
save city visitor and of some very
opposite consequences.
The July Atlantic in its handsome
new dress opens with an article on
Washington in Wartime, drawn from
In
visit to that city in 1862, recording pen
with Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Chase,
and others. Robert Herrick's strong
story, The Common Lot, approaches
dramatic climax. Complete short sto-
ries are Mahala Joe, a touching Indian
story by Mary Austin; A Dissatisfied
Soul, a psychological romance by Annie
Trumbull Slosson, and AIRS Amorls, a
whimsical character-sketch by Arthur
Cotton. Literary articles and reviews
contain some very striking papers.
The frontispiece of The Booklovers
Magazine for July is a silver-point
drawing from life, of President Roose-
welt: by Carl j. Becker of Philadelphia.
1t is an excellent likeness of the Presi-
dent in characteristic pose. Adventure
and recreation are prominent notes OF
the exceedingly timely articles which
appear in this number. As to tlmell-
ness, the articles by DIR. William Pow
ell Wilson on The Philippines at St.
LOUIS" by w. G. Jameson Reid on
Harrison Morris on ga Great German
Portrait Painter Lenbach); and by H.
D. Jones on Goods, Gems, and Mas
cots'-descriptiv of the life-work of
the late Maxwell Sommerville-are
typical.
7. Adam Bede, the humorist of the
House of Representatives, has written
a genial comparison of Speaker Cannon
and John Sharp Williams, the Demo-
cratic leader for the July number of
Leslie's Monthly Magazine. 1t is not
only the wisdom and keenness OF what
MI. Bede says, but the delightful way
in which he says it that makes this
sketch valuable. There is also an in
teresting article on The Men Who Will
Control the Next National Political
Conventions, and study of Senator
Fairbanks, and one OF Mons Monnsen,
the hero of the Missouri. The last in
stallment of the personal story of the
immigrants is in this number, as well
as a thrilling article on icebergs, and
the true history of Radisson, the real
discoverer of the great Northwest.
There are eight stories, and number
of short articles and poems make up
the twenty-slx contributions of this
number
A new volume of The Forum opens
with the July-September issue. The
first article, by H. L. West, describes
the present outlook in American Pol
itics," with special attention to the
probabilities of the Presidential cam
paien. The course of the war in the
East and the changes in the European
situation supply material for the great
Ell part of y. Maurice Lows paper on
Foreign Affairs A. ID. Noyes writes
on the movements of the last quarter
in the department of Finance" and
applied Science" II. w. Horwilrs
article on 'I.iterature' is occupied with
new books illustrating ''The Art of
Letter Writing" The report of the
Mosely Commission is the main topic
of Ossian H. Iapg's contribution on
THE Educational Outlook" which is
followed by DR.. ]. M. Rice's discussion
OF the question why our Educational
Machinery does not yield Better Pro
duct" The two sides of the Panama
controversy are presented in papers
entitled 'The Ethics of the Panama
Case by Prof. J. p Gordy, and Jus
tice and Equity in Panama. by Willis
T. johnson. The remaining special ar
ticles are Civil Government in the
Moro Province" by H. S. Townsend,
and "The Affairs of the Congo State.''
by S. P. Werner.
The most sensational feature any
American magazine has captured in
years is Thomas w. Lawson's "Frenzied
Finance, the Story of Amalgamated
Copper" which begins in the July issue
of Everybody's Magazine. Mr.. Lawson
was one of the organizers of that gi-
gantic corporation, and he knows exact
ly what happened to the millions that
were lost through it's manipulation.
His first article is an announcement of
distinctly dramatic interest and promis-
es revelations of the highest Importance
to everyone in the country. He frank
ly states that his purpose in telling the
story is to set himself right with the
thousands of who, through his instru-
mentality, put their money into Anal
gamated and have been plundered; also,
hona1,co bic &c a.. ~