The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-05-04
Literary News and Notes.

1.-THE Twentieth Century Homo,
shows no signs of waning popnIaritv
The May issue is replete with matter
of interest to every up-to-date woman
The number is especially devoted +,
out door life. W
An interesting spring number amone
the magazines is the May Cosmopoli
tan. 1t has beautiful double fronts
piece by George I. Tobin, illustrating 2
poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The fiction is more that usually inter
esting, and is contributed by Herbert
| Quick, Morgan Robertson, Ineg
| Haynes Gilmore, H. r. Durant and
Katherine Perry. The whole number
is profusely illustrated and contains
| several articles of timely interest.
Cali this talk about stepping out and
giving the young men chance is an.
,, premest folly" writes Prof. James n
Garfield, of Columbia University. in
The Cosmopolitan for May, in an arti.
Gle, ''The Philosophy of Staying in Har.
ness" in which he takes issue, inferen.
TALLY, with Prof. William Osler in re.
gard to the value or lack of value of
men at certain ages. Professor Can
field holds that we should STAY in har.
ness till the very end of the drive.
Photographs of notable living Ameri-
cans, we'll past the chloroform age vet
still active IN commerce, law, politics
and finance, give illustrative emphasis
to the point which the author seeks to
make.
In the May Atlantic begins a series
OF papers by William Carrot Brown,
the historian, we'll known to readers of
the magazine, upon The Tenth Decade
OF the United States, in which the mo-
mentous happenings of the years be-
tween the close OF the Civil War and
the Centennial Anniversary of the Re-
public will be presented in new light.
Among the other more important tea
lures are New Varieties of Sin by E..
A. Ross, What should College Profess
sors be Paid? by &c. H. NJ" and two
papers dealing with the German poet
Schiller, Schiller's Ideal of Liberty. by
W. R. Thayer, and Schiller's Message
to Modern Life, by kuno Francke.
Comparatively few consumers real
ize TO what extent foods and drugs are
adulterated and misbranded, saws the
May Worlds Work. Most of the spu-
rlOus products are sold in States other
than those in which they are manufac-
tured or produced. strawberry jelly is
most commonly made of glucose and
timothy seed, and colored with aniline
dye. Cigars are frequently sold as Ha-
vana though made from tobacco grown
in Virginia, Kentucky or Missouri.
Furniture made from Wisconsin bass
wood is polished and sold throughout
the country as mahogany. Syrup COM
posed OF glucose and cane syrup is sold
under maple syrup brand, though it
does not bring a maple syrup price.
COtton-seed Oil is sold as olive oil,
though it does not bring the price of
the genuine product.
Full-page portraits of Mayor Dunno
OF Chicago, Senator Carmack of Ten.
nesSee, Theodore ?. Shonts, head of the
Panama Canal Commission, and Presi-
dent Castro of Venezuela are among
the pictorial features of the National
Magazine for May. Special articles by
Char.es Warren Stoddard, Pou.tney
Bigelow, Kate Gannett Wells. Mary
Caroline Crawford, Walter NJ. Pratt
and Frank Putnam; poems by Stanley
Waterloo, AlOyslus Coll, Robertus
Love, Cora A. Matson Dolson and Vir-
ginia Norwood Watkins; stories by
Anna Mcclure Sholl, Ethel Armes.
Christobelle van Asmus Bunting, J.
Gordon Smith and Edith Richmond
Blanchard, with Joe Mitchell Chapples
affairs at Washington" H e en-
Arlhur's Beauties of the American