The Republican journal., 1905-01-12

the Black Cat magazine was Miss
Grace $. Shepherd of Bruins wick, who
won prize of 500.
In an article, entitled "The Educa-
tional Outlook" in the January March
Forum Ossian H. Lang rejoices in the
| spread of the conviction that it is pos
sible for community to determine
whether the results obtained from its
expenditure on public education are
satisfactory or not.
The significance of ''The Quantita-
tive Study of Education is set forth
by Prof. Edward L. Thorndike in an ar
ticle in the January March Forum. He
suggests that the expenditure of S2O,-
900 annually on the scientific study of
school work in New York City would
be an economical investment in the
long run.
In the course of his article on
american Politics" in the January
March Forum Henry Litchfield West
considers probable developments in the
Democratic party in the light of the
Presidential election. He anticipates
that the result of the present situation
will be the permanent separation of
one element of the party from the
other and regards it as possible that
the campaign of 1908 will be repeti-
ton of that of 1896 upon a much more
anxious scale.
Poems by the Eaton Family" is the
title of a handsome volume bound in
green cloth for copy of which we are
indebted to the compiler, Mrs. Charlotte
A. E. Greene of Concord junction,
Mass, who will be recalled as a quite
frequent contributor to The Journal u
few years ago. The frontispiece is a
fine portrait of Mrs. Greene, and there
are portraits of other members of the
family, many of whom have contributed
to the 173 pages of verses which cover
wide range of topics, from grave to
gay, from lively to severe"
The need of reminding has called at
tention to one of the most interesting
and valuable books in the public library
at Eastport, Maine, says a writer in
The Youths Companion, complete
record, compiled from official docu-
ments, of all sons of Eastport who serv-
ed in either the army or navy during
the Civil War. The book is not print
ed, but written. Itcontains three hun
dred and eighty-one pages, twelve by
| eighteen inches in size, with not blot
or erasure to mar its legibility and
beauty. An Eastport man employed in
one of the departments at Washington
gave his leisure for three years to com
presented3the book to his native town
"a soldiers monument that counts
for more than bronze or granite.
The unpublished journal of Henry d.
Thoreau, selections from which are to
appear in the Atlantic Monthly for
1905, is seen in the January number to
be a literary treasure-trove of ex-
traordinary interest. The January in
stallment is accompanied by paper up
on Thoreau as a Diarist by Bradford
Torrey, who is acting as editor. Mr..
Torrey makes it the basis for an
appreciation of Thoreaus character and
! literary quality, full of new light and
readjustment, and the Journal itself
makes good all that Mr.. Torrey claims
for it. 1t is, indeed, full of matter of
the very first interest. Notes on the
natural history of Concord and curious
bucolic stories are side by side with
flights of Transcendental philosophy,
and there is an extraordinary range of
apothegm,-fromt the ideality of ''Truth
strikes us from behind and in the dark,
as well as from before and in broad
daylight" to the practically of "When
dog runs at you, whistle for him."
In the February number of The New
Idea Woman's Magazine, Esperance
Goodlove, who writes in bracing way
of business women's interests, discusses
the aims of business women, which are
apparently beginning to assume tangi-
bic form. She speaks of women who
build houses, amuse themselves in the
stock market and indulge in the ex-
pensive luxury of travelling as hobby.
Any ambition she regards as safer than
none. and even material aims she con-
siders as legitimate and right 81 heard
most inspiring sermon the other day."
she says, Gin which the preacher refer
ring to things worthy of seeking, put
material prosperity high up in a list
with health, cultivation and spiritual
gifts. He recognized that without
certain degree of material prosperity
there is no such thing possible as the
qualification of ambition" This state
ment is probably, in reality, of less
material nature than it looks, but very
different meanings will be read into it
by people of varying temperaments.
A CARD