The Republican journal., 1905-06-22
Literary News and Notes.

Kate Douglass Wiggin returned last
week from England to her summer
home in Maine. Her new story, "Rose
o. the River" will be published by
Houghton. Mifflin & Co., early in Sep
TENDER. ssRebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" has just gone into its 10th
thousand.
William Dean Howells, who has been
for some time in New York since his
return from Italy, has now gone for the
summer to his country home at Kit
terry Point, Maine. This month the
Harpers will publish Mr.. HowelPs nov
ell, story of summer episode among
the New England hills. The novel will
bear the title of "Miss Bellard's Inspir-
ation," and it has for heroine an up-to-
date and original woman.
The corporation which for upwards
of half century has been so universal
ly identified with illustrated periodical
literature under the name of Frank
Leslie Publishing House, has changed
its name to Colver Publishing House.
The personnel of the House, which
takes its name from the President, Mr..
Frederic L. Colver, who has been asso-
ciated with the House for score of
years, remains unchanged. The new
name OF the corporation seems appro-
pirate to the character OF the Maya
zine, which during the past four years
has been absolutely revolutioniZed by
the present management. Mr.. Ellery
Sedgwick will continue to be the editor.
Henry Wallace Phillips first move,
"Plain Mary Smith, a romance of Red
Saunders, the second instalment of
which appears in Leslie's Monthly for
July, has proved huge success from
the very start The charm of its rare
humor, and intense Americanism has
already made host of friends; it is a
story to be read aloud. Among the spe-
cial articles of this number Miss Agnes
C. Laut tells the story of Gray, the
discoverer of the Columbia River; Ar
thur Goodrich discusses claw and its
Opportunities, Charles F. Brownell
writes of the "Wild Animal Market"
and DR.. A. c. Seely and Leroy Scott
have capital article on the Miracles
of Surgery Miss Call contributes her
paper on Every Day Living" The
months short stories are by Harvey J.
0. Higgins, Cy Warman, James Weber
Linn, Dorothy Garfield, Lawrence
Perry and others. Marginalia includes
some excellent military verse by Alfred
Damon RunyOn.
Recreation for June is filled with
good things for the out door people.
The leading story, ''The Road" by Wal
ter K. Stone, illustrated by the writer
and Charles Livingston Bull, contains
an urgent appeal to the faded city
sportsman, asking him to turn aside
from the beaten paths and explore the
by-ways and highways through the
fields and in the woods. The simple
story has the tang of unfrequented
spots and the lure of wildness, this
feeling being we'll carried out in the
number of full page pictures. "Joe's
Double Catch,' by Don Cameron, is a
charming short story, with country
boy and girl and a big trout as the
stars. Alvah d. James, the South
American explorer, has short story,
"Mr. Peterson of Paris" describing an
incident on the Pacific. water in
Camp" ''The Camera and the Auto
mobile" My Fairy Ship ''rhe Play
Ground of the East" ''John Daven-
port, Colfax," and "Bnttertiy Farming
for Profit" are some of the remaining
features, which cannot but make read
ers of this splendid out door publica-
ton happy.