The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-10-18
Literary News and Notes.

Wehave just received from the pub
fishers, J. S. Ogilvie Company,.5 81 Rose
street, New York, a book of 100 pages
Plans" which contains over $50 new,
practical up-to-date, 1906 plans of
houses costing from $500 to s15, 600 An
interesting and practical feature of the
book is a list of working plans and
specifications from which any one can
get an estimate. Sent by mail, post
paid, for 81.
The leading article in the New Eng
land Magazine for October, "The 10y
atty of the Senate" by David S. Barry,
| is an authoritative statement in answer
to the recent sensational TRADES against
the Senate. In "Women Humorists"
of New England, Kate Sanborn with
| characteristic force takes up a much
disputed theme and deals SOME vigor-
Gus rapier thrusts at those who have
said that New England women lack
| humOr.
Sprightly in every sense of the word
is the October number of The American
Boy. Perhaps its most distinguishing
feature is the opening chapters of the
illustrated serial "Plupy in Peace and
| War, or Chapters From the Lives of
| Plupy, Beany, Pewt, and Others" by
Judge Henry A. Shute, the author of
"a Real Diary of Real Boy" and
! other Plupy stories. The story is we'll
illustrated by one who evidently under
stands boys.
| The October number of Recreation,
this most charming of outdoor mag
aZineS, is fairly bursting its handsome
cover with seasonable articles and sto-
ries, mostly of wildfowl shooting.
Easily the best of all articles ever pub
lished on the subject is Understanding
with Gun and Camera" by G. S. Cum
mings, showing some remarkable pic
lures of the author shooting ducks.
| The camera caught the dead ducks drop
ping through the air, and the man is
clearly shown simultaneously firing the
gun and operating the camera.
| Every American business man has
/ reason to be interested in the leading
article in the Atlantic for October.
Commercial Pancs, Past and Future"
| is the title, and the author is A. d.
Noyes, Financial Editor of theE venlng
| Post. Just at present, when we are
riding OH the top wave of prosperity, 1T
| is we'll worth while to take look ahead.
Another panic year will be due before
long: Mr.. Noyes believes that II we can
| find out the causes that bring about
a disaster, we can control them,-at
| least to some extent.
| One of the notable features Of the
| October Every body's is the opening
instalment of Jack London's new serial
Before Adam This promises to be
| the literary sensation of the year. All
of the authors daring and virility of
style are there. and yet neither Mr..
London nor any one else has ever before
attempted such a venture into the
realms of fiction. In addition to the
Jack London serial, there are stories by
| O. Henry Sarah n. Cleghorn, iona
Gale, Macmillan Foster, Joseph G.
Sartwell Mason. All of the regular de-
| partments are represented in this num-
Der.
That highly successful venture in
literary housekeeping conducted by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archl-
bal Smith in their beautiful old
colonial summer home, Quillcote-on-
Saco, in Hollis, Maine, was recently
marked by a quaint festival celebrat-
ing the setting of the weather-vane on
| QullISOUO Uct1I II q AlVSiJ oA CASiS Ah
the Woman's Home Companion for
October the two distinguished chate-
LANES of Quillcote give full account
of the songs and ceremonies that mark
ed their unique festival, showing that
the setting of the vane" may be just
as appropriately celebrated as 'the
hanging of the crane and other house
warnings of the past.
1t was recently announced that HON.
er Davenport the cartoonist, had re-
turned from abroad with the largest
and finest collection of Arabian horses
ever shipped to America. There are
| twenty-seven splendid steeds in the
above collection and they represent a
little side issue to Davenport's trip to
Turkey and Arabia, where he went to
write ard illustrate series OF articles
for the Woman's Home Companion.
Davenports great admiration for horses
! is not generally known, nor the fact
that he owns regular zoo of wild fowl
and animals near Morris Plains, New
Jersey. The cartoonist's tirst-hand i'm
pressions of the Sultan and his people
should make interesting reading.
AS the scrappy, scatterbrain maya
zine has appeared on the scene to sup
plement the scrappy, scatterbrain news
paper, so the yellow weekly and the vel
low magazine have appeared on the
scene to supplement the yellow news
paper. Several weeklies and monthlies
flying with a.vast display Of superior
virtue, the audacious flags of "the new
journalism" and "the fighting journal
ism," are taking it upon themselves to
do the work of the courts and tie police.
The first duty of their editors and con-
tributors is to provide senations,-sen-
sations at any cost. If they can write
also, well and good. But if only they
are expert detectives-one is tempted
or say ''spotters," it matters very little
whether they can write or not,. since
they have at their beck and call plenty
of penny -a-liners who can be counted
upon to lick their material into print
able shape.-A. F. sanborn, in the
October Atlantic.
| McClnre'S for October is full of keen