The Republican journal., 1905-08-31
Literary News and Notes.

Holman F. Days latest story is
Brothers" a strong tale of the woods,
in the September number of the Amer
lean, formerly Leslie's magazine.
Parsons Magazine for September
opens with an Interesting article des-
cribing the work of the Bandit Hunters
of the Union Pacific Railroad. Ely
ers of the Seas" an extremely timely
article, tells all about the construction,
hulls and machinery, of the automobile
boats that have been smashing records
this summer. New Hope for the Con-
sumptive is an account of consump-
ton cure devised at the n. Y. Post
Graduate Hospital. Three other inter
esting articles are there. Of fiction in
stalments there are eleven, including
the rejuvenated Don @.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge is dead.
Her place in literature is that of a
minor poet and a writer of children's
stories. The children will remember
her to the third and fourth and even
for many generations. Her fame will
last longer than that of the great writ
ers of her time. She made the children
happy. The long service of Mrs. Dodge,
who had been editor of the St. Nicho-
las ever since it was established in 1873,
is compared with that of Mrs. Sarah J.
Hale, who was editor of the Ladies
Magazine, afterward merged in Godey's
Lady's Book, for 40 years, and of Mary
L. Booth, who conducted Harper's Ba-
Ear from its founding in 1867 until her
death in 1889. 1t is worthy of note,
also, that Henry Mills Alden, now edi-
tor of Harper's Magazine, has occupied
the editorial chair since 1869.
Mr.. Frank Carlos Griffith, well
known in the theatrical profession, and
a writer of note, is about to bring out
through the house of the c. NJ. Clark
Publishing Company his first novel,
''Ihe Man from Name a story of the
Pine Tree State, where he was born.
Mr.. Griffith was for many years mana
ger of several of the great melodrama-
tic productions in town, of Mrs. Lang
try in England and America (the only
American acting manager ever taken
to England by an English actor, of
Margaret Mather, and for several years
past of Mrs. Fiske. He has been for
many seasons editor of "The Hill Top"
published at Poland Spring, the largest
hotel paper in the world, and librarian
of the Poland Spring Library for II
years. Mr.. Griffith is known as YER
satile writer and loyal son of Maine,
to which State he pays tribute in his
forthcoming novel.
The September number of the Ameri-
can Illustrated Magazine, for 80 years
Leslie's Monthly, sets standard which
for many sided interest it would be
hard to beat. The leading article is
the first of Charles H. Ca1fin's series,
1.-The Story of American Painting"
and is beautifully illustrated with por-
traits Robert Mayhem has a capital
personality sketch of George Westing-
house, and Henry X. Webster has two
articles, one on Lords of On: Streets,
and the other on the Carnegie hero
fund. James T. Williams, Jr., writes
on Conscience Money" and Annie
Payson Call contributes Ter usual
paper on Every Day Living" \ very
interesting page is furnished 10y Ores
we'll Mclaughlin under the caption,
Sentiments of the School Master"
The fiction of the month is excellent
Among the contributors are Holman
F. Day, Ellis Parker Butler, Wilbur
d. Nesbit, Mrs. L. II. Harris, Jennet
johnson. The Henry Wallace Phillips
serial, plain Mary Smith, grows in
interest as it proceeds.
McClure's has always something that
compeis attention, something imme-
date and significant that is important
to all Americans. The September num-
Der adds to an unbroken series of "Mc-
Clure Articles" an Illuminating study
of commercial piracy, the first half of
Miss Tarbell's study of the Kansas Oil
War, and an excursion into the marvels
of modern biology, "Prolonging the
Prime of Life" which is an authorita-
tive account of the discoveries of a
group OF scientists who have determin-
ed that old age is disease. Color
printing has never achieved more per-
feet results than in the eight full-page
reproductions of Lungren's paintings
of the Grand Canon of the Colorado,
which accompany William Allen
Whites description of the wonders ''On
Bright Angel Trail" bit of descrip-
tive writing which may well take place
with the classics of our language
Eugene Wood, George Randolph
Chester, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Jean
Webster, Arthur Train, and Norvell
Harrison supply round of short stories
stirring, humorous, light or serious to
fit every mood.
The c. NJ. Clark Publishing Company
of Boston are about to publish "Jay
Gould Harmon" a new story by George
Selwyn kimball. The life of Mr.. Kim
ball is certainly one of interest. Born
and brought up in a little Maine village
he has had the rare training in wood
craft that only country boys are able to
get. Most of his business life was
spent as travelling salesman, and be-
ing very successful in all his ventures
he was able to retire from active bust
ness comparatively early. Always a
student his ability to write came very
naturally. His stories are creations of
the heart as we'll as the mind, and one
feels the soul of the man in all he
writes. AS ever an ardent lover of
nature he spends the summer months
at his log cabin in the heart of the
Maine woods. "Jay Gould Harmon"
abounds in descriptions of forest and
stream; the reader becomes so intense
ly interested that he hears the rustic
of the leaves, the babbling of the
brooks and the signing of the wind in
the pines. The publishers feel that in
"Jay Gould Harmon they have
another story that will outrival
Quincy Adams Sawyer which book
has had such large sale.