The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-20
Literary News and Notes.


tbe September number of the National,
and colored photography receives rec
ignition of its wonderful progress
through the reproduction IN three col
ors of a magnificent landscape scene ov
Iamson of Portland. Maine, as the oe-
sign for what proves to be the hanu-
soonest magazine cover OF the mohth.
The September National is strong one,
but the publishers promise even better
things for October.
Every number of The Pine Tree
Magazine contains something OF local
as we'll as general interest. In the sep
TENDER number. for example, we ma
railroad article in which mention is
made of legislation enacted when Eb-
enezer knowlton of Montvllle was
speaker of the Maine house, and a
sketch of A. J. Blethen, native OF
Knox. Waldo county, who has won
success as a journalist i'll Kansas city,
MINNEAPOLIS and Seattle. He Is now
located in the latter city. An lllustrat-
ed article on Maclias appealed strong
" to the writer, and the series OF Pho
tographs by Frederick II. Thompson
should delight every one. sale Fupllsh-
ing Co., Portland.
III DdIlltuldl lIllNlCob w Spoi
VIII be found the article by Edwin
Sandvs in the september number OF
"Recreation' on ''Some Aquatic Quail,
describing al ingenious method by
which the author bagged lot OF the
elusive Bob White. Other articles OF
interest to sportsmeu are sport IN
SQUIRREL shooting" by Ernest Cave;
.fIigl Hook at Avalon" by + L. Hard
mo. a Hit and a Miss by Harry L.
Means: " Bradley, from BaSg, oy
Edward Cave: The Vanishing Pralrle
Hen" by CIate Tinan; The First-rate
Quail bog" by J. y. Rutherford: The
Art OF Camping" by Charles y. Bran
BE. and 'Hunting California Blue
Quail" by W. l.. Burke.
The September number of the Pine
Tree Magazine is handsome issue.
MI. F. H. Thompson's photographs, "A
Dav on the Marshes" make timely
and artistic series While the local
color of the contributions will appeal
especially to the sons and daughters OF
Maine the contributions i'll themselves
compare favorably with those of older
MAGAZINES. and the mechanical excel
lence of the issue is unexcelled by much
more pretentious publications. The
table Of contents shows, story by
Florence Percy Mcintyre, "a Steam
boat Monologue," by Geo. c. Orr,
"Tenting and Touring in the Tall lin
hers" BY r. II. Johnson, "A Gentle IN
Jatfa." by Phillip Q. Loring, poems by
sarah Alice Burleigh, E. X. stevens
and Francis J. Goodwin. "A Story OF
the Beginning Of the Grand Trunk
system and various other good things.
The handsome football cover III colors
that adorns the September number OF
The American Boy marks further
step in the very successful effort OF the
publishers OF this magazine to produce
what they claim to be the best boys
paper in the world" The text and Illus
trati0nS of this number are OF the most
interesting character. The continued
stories by Tomlinson, Stratemeyer,
and Alger are the chief features around
which the BOYS interest will center this
month. The efforts of the publishers
10 organize boys into bands tor literary
and athletic pursuits, their efforts to
get the paper into the hands OF Shut-ln
BOYS. and their scheme tor reWardlng
boy heroes and boy prize winners IN
school as set forth i'll this paper VIII
not We overlooked by It's many readers.
72Ilalstratious. subscription price. 81 00
Il year-IHe Sprague Publishing Co.,
Detroit. Mich.
There has been 50 much said both Ill
eIlt'cism,dnd defense of the American
missionary in the Far East that an
article by Chester Holcome in the sep
TENDER Atlantic-"The Missionary En-
terpIise in Chlna''-is sure to attract
attention. As the results of d diplo-
matte career of over thirty years, the
authors views lave an unusual authoN-
ty. He does not deny that American
missionaries have often acted unWlseIy
and untactfully: but it is not this aspect
of the movement that most lmpresseS
him In all my years, he says, of iii
innate official and friendly intercourse
with all classes of Chinese III every part
OF the Empire, | have never heard even
one complaint of or objection to the
presence or work OF American MISSION !
aries in China" He makes the state |
ment that incidentally the missionary
enterprise is Ian agency unequaled by
any other for the development of our
commerce with that vast population
Every missionary, whether he will or no,
is an advertising agent for American
goods OF every conceivable sort
Jack I.ondon's pen and Homer Dav-
exports pencil have been enlisted III |
the crusade against child labor con-
Quoted by the Anti Child Slavery |
League through the Woman's Home |
Companion 10 the September number |
u this magazine the brilliant young
author contributes The ApoState,' a
story of child labor, the exceptional
force of which is in part due to the
writer's personal acquaintance with the
conditions he so wildly portrays: while
the great cartoonist furnishes can In
dustrial Success full-page line
drawings, which in their rugged strength
are almost too near the grim literal
truth TO be classed as satire. Further
i'll this connection, Samuel McCune
Lindsay discusses the question why a
National Crusade Against Child La
bor:" Owen r. Lovejoy describes child
slavery in Pennsylvania '1n the Shadow
of the Coal Breaker" while series of
photographs of children released from
bondage illustrates the ''Practical Work
of the Anti Child Slavery League"
But lighter matter is by no means
crowded out. Pete SanderSon Inter
venes." one of William Macleod
Ralne'S rollicking cowboy tales, is typi
cal of the fiction i'll the number The
advantages to the household of Free
Alcohol are set forth; there are timely
articles on the preparation of pickles