The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-02-02
Literary News and Notes.

The Twentieth Century Home has
made decided hit with its practical
articles on cooking. Now that Flor
midas Dinners is finished, new series
entitled "Orental Cooking" is begun.
The first article tells how to make cur.
ries and how they may be used.
One of the most interesting of towns
over which floats the stars and stripes
is Nome, Alaska. Its development has
been wonderful, and the tale of its
progress is told by Alfred H. Durham,
Chief Game Warden of Alaska, in the
February Cosmopolitan. Some inter-
esting pictures of the mushroom city
tell the story almost as we'll as does the
text
Every woman who is proud of her
home wants to know all that she can
about proper and correct methods of
furnishing. she will find most useful
article on this score by Esther Single
ton Oh Furniture of Noted Periods"
in The Twentieth Century Home. Such
subtle distinctions as those between the
Louis XVI, Directoire and Empire
styles are carefully explained.
That there may be some advantage to
an American girl in marrying foreign
er of high social position, is shown in an
article in the February Cosmopolitan,
''The American Wife in Europe" The
authOr-who is woman, and knows
something of the great world and the
choicest things it has to offer-hides
behind the veil of anonymity that she
may be bolder of utterance. 1t is safe
to say that no article on social topics in
the magazines for this month will create
SO much discussion as this.
The stories in the February National
are in the main OF humorous turn.
Holman F. Days Gas the Human Cat
lightenment of Silas Barker" Charles
W. Mears' 'The Sale of the Safety
Valve" and J. F. Conrad's "The Course
in Crime at County College, are all
very jolly reading. The poetry of the
number is excellent even better than
the Nationals usually high standard.
Ben Franklin Bonnell of California,
new name, appears for the first time
among the Nationals poets.
The desperate increase in the cost of
living is staring us in the face today.
The reasons for it are asked by all. In
February Everybody's, Charles E. Rus
sell, commissioned by the magazine to
investigate the subject, begins a series
of articles on '"The Greatest Trust in
the World" In the first instalment he
reveals monster monopoly, greater
than the STANDARD OIL" holding in its
grasp all the meat, fruit, and dairy
products of the United States. He
shows the rapacity of this Beef Trust,
its defiance of the law, its Unsuitable
ambition to control all the fCod-supplies
of this country. He shows it's grasping
hand closing surely over wheat and
corn and oats. Mr.. Russelrs revelations
are full of CHASTITY menace to the people
over whom this terrible trust is gain
ing power greater than the Govern
ment's.
The Booklovers Magazine is emphati-
cally a magazine of the hour, with this
advantage: its articles do not only re-
fleet the passing vogue, but they are, in
ton to the literature of the subjects
with which they deal. The scope of the
articles as usual embraces features of
genuine interest to humanity the world
over. 1t extends from England to Aus
tralia, from the fields of Japan to the
valleys of Switzerland, with a wide
sweep of things American. There is
something to suit all tastes-political,
dramatic, literary, artistic-and full
measure of interesting reading for the
half-hour before retiring. The numer-
GUS illustrations, in color and in black
and white, are not only interesting in
themselves, but have, in addition, been
selected with the object of Illuminating
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