The Republican journal., 1905-11-30

A new Maine story is ''The Girl from
/ Tins Place." by Charles Clark Mum.
author of Pocket Island. The scene is
laid in the woods of Northern Maine
and the characters and happenings are
largely drawn from lite.
1t is far cry from Maine to Austria
antipodes with his new novel, Squire
Phin, just published by A. S. Barnes &
Co., New York, who have arranged for
a large edition in Australia of this tril-
liantly successful novel of way down
east" The work is now in its fourth
edition.
Where the Sportsman Loves to Linger
is the title of an attractively illustrated
book describing canoe trips in Maine
The author is Mr.. G. Smith Stanton of
Great Neck, Long Island, \. V. who is
son of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The
book is published by the J. S. Oglivie
Publishing Company, New York.
The successful story. "The Rainy
Day Railrvad War;" which Holman f.
Day wrote for the Youths Companion,
will be issued in book form by we'll
known publishing house Mr.. Day
writing in several additional chapters
and bringing it up to $4,000 words 1t
is now 35, 900 words. Mr.. Day has re-
Gently sold to the Youths Companion
another serial, The Skokums of the
Allegash"- somewhat | niger than
"The RainyDay Railroad War, and said
to be even more lively and with more
adventure and human interest than the
former.
For colorwork, presswork and general
beauty and usefulness, the December
Delineator is conspicuous among the
Christmas magazines. Eight paintings
by J. c. LeyeEdecker, illustrating and
Interpreting the Twenty-Third Psalm,
is the most extensive color feature OF
the number, but painting by Alphonse
Mucha, accompanying a poem, ''The
Mother of Bartimeus," by Theodosia
Garrison, is fully as notable as an art
work. The short fiction of the number
comprises stories by Hamlin Garland,
John Luther Long, Gilbert Parker and
Alice Brown. The opening chapters of
new serial-a woman's club story
''The President of Quex," are given; it
is said to be in the nature of a reply to
''The Evolution of Club Woman"
which created great interest in the
magazine last year.
Effort has been made to make the
ceptionally strong in ficlion. The first
instalment of Rex E. 3each's powerful
romance of the Alaskan gold-6elds,
''The Spoilers" indicates that this is
a pretty close approximation of the
long -SOught-fOr american novel," 1t
is stirring story; and it is not, as GER
tain intriguing politicians will observe,
entirely the product of Mr.. Beach's
imagination. Supplementing the novel
are a enthusiastically spirited story
by 0. Henry, perhaps the most popular
of American short-stOry writer's; Booth
Tarkingtons Lord birmingham" one
of the best lOve-stories of the year; and
Grace S. Richmond's "On Christmas
Day in the Morning." a thoroughly
fresh and charming "home story"
''The Capitulation of Suzanne" is
love-story of Christmas in the Adiron-
dacks, by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. Hugh
Pendexter has a brilliantly humorous
skit, "An Arctic Circle Touch Down."
and there are admirable Little Stories
by Grace Lathrop Collin and G. w. Og-
den. Hartley Davis continues his dra-
matte department, ''The Players"
The Bangor Commercial gives this
list of the writings of DR.. Augustus
Choate Hamlin whose death occurred
November 18th at his home in Bangof
He wrote notable medical articles on
TRANSMISSION, Tetanus, Authorization
and Transmission of Disease. A work
of Andersonville Prison in 1866 brought
him into national prominence, and his
description of the horrors of the famous
pen where so many Union soldiers were
martyred, was vivid and faithful, the
book being received with great favor
by the leading critics of the day. He
followed this with Martyria, another
work on the same subject. His book.
The Tourmalines, in 1873, was accepted
as the highest authority on these gems
both in this country and in Europe.
and in 1884 he wrote Leisure Hours
With the Gems, which won him further
distinction. Mt. Mica, in 1895, was q
description of the wonderful mineral