The Republican journal., 1905-08-03
Literary News and Notes.

AsSVu III lNO'so ~s>' 'Vs~o'
Holman F. Day is busy at his sum-
mer home at Long Pond near the Ka-
tahdin iron works upon his new novel,
which is to be published soon by one of
the leading American publishers. The
novel wilt have Maine local coloring.
and deal with Maine types and sugges-
I-tions.
With the September issue, Leslie's
Monthly will change its name to Amer
lean Illustrated Magazine. This peri
odical was established in 1875 as Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly. But in re-
cent years. under the present manage
ment, it has developed character and
policy entirely out of keeping with the
ideas of popular journalism associated
with the name of Leslie. Its sane and
hopeful Americanism makes the new
name peculiarly fitting.
The encouraging news comes from
South Berwick that Miss Sarah Orne
Jewett, who is now at her beautiful old
homestead in that town, is fully re-
covered from the effects OF her accident
while driving over year ago. For a
long time Miss Jewett has been an in
valid from the result of this accident
so greatly deplored at the time. Her
condition has been the cause of long
lapse in her literary work, but her
many admirers will be glad to learn
that her recovery to health is such as
to bear promise OF further production.
Booth Harrington, Myra Kelly, Mary
Raymond Shipman Andrews, 0. Henry,
James Hopper, and many other authors
that magazine readers eagerly watch
for are in McClure's August Fiction
Number. Every sort of story is includ-
ed: the solemn, the funny, the signif-
cant, the dainty, the exciting. All have
certain qualities in common-interest,
truth, beauty. All these picked stories
from picked writers are as good as, and
in some cases better, than any stories
their authors ever wrote. This fiction
number is also McClure's picture num-
Der and there are wonderful pictures in
color, and in black and white.
Mr.. Charles Clark Mum, author of
Uncle Terry, ETC., has nearly complet-
ed his next novel, which will be en-
titled Chip, Wait of the Wilderness.
Its publication will be deferred, how
ever, until next season, in order that it
may be carefully illustrated in keeping
with scenes Of the narrative, which are
the deep Maine woods, far from the
beaten track, and which Mr.. Mum
and two small villages near the coast.
It deals with many of the characters
introduced in his last book, The Her
NIT, and is regarded by Mr.. Mum and
his most intimate critics as his strong
est and ablest work. 1t will be issued
by the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., of
Boston.
The New England Magazine for July
holds its own well among current pub
locations. The number opens with some
illustrated material on the quaint and
historically interesting town of Kings
ton, Mass, by Ethel Hobart. The &c
ton includes "The Flower of Hun
dred Years." a romantic tale OF Revo-
lutionary days, by Leonora Beck Ellis;
Armenia, Belenta and Cementa," by
B. F. Hitchcock James, a story of, but
not for, children, illustrating the ter
rors engendered by an old fashioned
New England conscience; Like the
Rush OF Mighty Wings" by Dora An
mis- Chase, an incident of the lend of
the world excitement of 1913; and
| can Heroic Tale of Today" by Will
matte Porter Cockerell, a spirited TO-
nance of beautiful American girl and
young Danish sailor.
The Old School Master or Forty Five
Years with the Girls and Boys, from
the pen of Rev. William Smith knowl-
ton, book OF 279 pages, has just been
issued from the press of Burleigh &
Flynt, Augusta. The frontispiece con-
tans picture OF the author, also illus
tratiOnS of the house where he was
born and the old saw mill which has
been in the knowlton family for many
years. The contents are as follows:
Childhood; Schooldays; Visit to Dover;
FoXcroft Academy; First School; Fox
croft Affairs; College; Atkinson; Milo;
Monson: Fishing; Monson Academy;
Exeter and Dexter; Foxcroft Academy
| Teacher; Brimfeld; Marriage; Home;
| Monson; Supervisor; Going to Houlton;
Houlton Academy; Presque Isle; Carl
bou; Monson Academy; Shirley; Bill
Nye; Funny People; School Officers;
College Requirements; Personal; Ser
mon; Bridgewater. The subjects are
all treated most Interestingly and many
of them written in vein of humor.
This year Everybody's has had I'M
| precedented success in making its Au-
gust issue Special Fiction Number"
Its most conspicuous feature is Robert
| w. Chambers admirable love story,
''The Ghost of Chance" perhaps the
best story of the season. In the second
of his series OF powerful New Zealand
stories, "In the Farthest Sea-" G.. B.
Lancaster well sustains his reputation
as ''the new Kipling." In their differ
ent excellent fashions Mary Stewart
Cutting and Harvey J. O'Higgins con-
tribute stories of profoundly moving
sentiment-stories of real people of to-
day: ''The Heritage" and 'The Honey
moon Flat" Joseph c. Lincoln, the
popular writer of sea-stories, has
characteristic tale, "The Simplicity of
It," ''The Captain" is an excellent
story by Macmillan Foster; and Kath-
ryn Jarboe has an entertaining story,