The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-10-06
Literary News and Notes.

Besides F. T. Bullen's tale of ''The
Shark" and particularly good Install
ment of Ralph Corners excellent
novel, ''The Prospector," there are nine
stories in the October Frank Leslie's,
and one or two particularly good ones.
The Heiress' Love Story" by George
Hubbard, and 'The Career of Jean Ran
dolpb." by Harriet Gaylord, are two of
the best.
'The last shall be first in the Octo-
Der Atlantic, which vindicates its his
toric leadership in political affairs by
two important articles for which it re-
serves its closing pages: The Demo-
cratic Appeal written by Edward NJ
Shepard, and The Republican Point of
View, stated by Representative S. w.
Mccall, in which the writers explain
and defend the principles of their re-
spective parties.
The absorbing topic of the honr is, of
course, the presidential election. How
is national campaign managed? In
an entertaining paper in the October
number of The Booklovers Magazine,
entitled Running a National Cam
paign," Joseph M. Rogers answers the
question, and gives the reader sort of
moving-picture view the organization
and progress of a political contest. The
article is fully illustrated.
Readers of Julian Hawthorne's story,
>"The Oubliette Cryptogram.' which
appears in the October number of The
Booklovers Magazine, will find it a
charming blending of romance and love.
An air of elusive mystery envelops the
heroine, and the deciphering of a curl
Gus cryptogram leads to a fortunate So
luton of the mystery and brings the
story to happy conclusion.
The six men who control the amuse-
ments OF the American public are
Daniel Frohman, Al. Hayman, Mare
Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, Samuel
F. Nixon and T. Zimmerman, Jr. They
are the men, according to an article in
Leslie's Monthly Magazine for Octo-
Der, who make and mar stars, play
wrights, theatre managers and pro-
ducers, and who determine what the
public shall laugh at or weep over.
Two notable campaign articles are
announced for the November McC lure's,
which is published two weeks before the
election. The last word concerning the
candidates is to be written by high au-
thorities; Parker by ex-President Cleve-
land; Roosevelt by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts. What the two candi-
dates and their parties represent will
be set forth clearly by two men well
qualified to speak and should give two
vivid pictures of these men OF the hour.
"a Square Deal for Every Man" .
twenty pages of epigrams culled from
President Roosevelt's state papers and
public addresses-is the unique feature
of the National Magazine for October.
Acquired at the last moment, too late
for inclusion in the body of the maya
zine, it was tucked away in the adver-
Using section, with full-page portrait
of Robert J. Thompson, the con piler,
and another of the president and his
four sons. Nowhere else has Roose-
veltism been SO boiled down to its es-
sences. The result is truly, what Mr..
Thompson calls it, "a self-delineation
of his character and ideals"
The October instalmert of ''FrenZied
Finance in Everybody's Magazine is
devoted to John Edward O'Sullivan
Addicks, through whom Mr.. Lawson
first encountered Standard Oil and H.
Fl. Rogers. There is nothing mild OF
conventional about his description of
the Delaware statesman. 1t is a ter
rife and ruthless Indictment of the man
and his methods, supported 10y specific
details and incidents, and set forth with
the same vivid art which characterized
the study of H. H. Rogers in an earlier
n nf A iaIy Sc.
capture of Boston and its gas com
morOus and entertaining pictures Mr.
Lawson has yet given.
Stewart Edward White writes from
the remotest fastness Of the Sierras
that he and his bride are enjoying their
honeymoon in the wilds immensely.
Though gently bred and fresh from the
highly civilized life of Newport, Mrs.
White according to her husbands re-
port, sleeps on the ground, eats camp
fare with relish and is simply lost in
wonder at this most magnificent coun-
try in the world" "We've come over
some trails" he adds, ''but you can't
scare her out Mr.. Whites latest
story, "The Rawhide," which begins
serially in the November number Of
McCiure's, it is announced, has its
scene laid in the deserts of Arizona, a
very different but quite as wild and
beautiful bit of nature.
The October number of Pearson's
Magazine presents as its leading arti-
Gle, Samantha at the st. Louis Expo
sition," by Josiah Aliens Wife. Writ
ten in Samantha's well-known quaint
upstate dialect, the story of her ex-
periences at the Fair with Josiah, her
old, close-isted spouse, are rollickingly
funny. Besides the Exposition article,
which has been illustrated by Grun-
valid, there are three other special arti-
Giles. One, Albert Begelow Paine's
Thomas Mast article, with ten repro
auctions made from the originals of the
famous cartoons; another, Charcoal
Burning" and still another, timely
paper, ''How the American is Changing
His Food" In view of the recent dis
turbaEces in the great meat packing in
dustry, the article will be read with
more than customary interest.
Those who give thought to questions
of political economy and sociology