The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-03-15
Literary News and Notes.

Everybody ought to know by this
time that The Atlantic Monthly is a
good magazine to subscribe for-none
better in fact the world over. See the
prospectus of the publishers in another
column.
"Four Girls is the title of very
charming little story which the C. M.
Clark Publishing Company of Boston
will bring out during the early spring
months. 1t is story written in much
the same style as the books OF Louisa
Alcott. Indeed, many have pronounced
| it to be second "Old Fashioned Girl
The C. M. Clark Publishing Company
of Boston report that the sale OF Jay
Gould Harmon had reached twenty
five thousand copies on the third week
of it's existence. The book promises to
excel the record established by
Quincy Adams Sawyer" which was
the most famous success published by
this house.
"The Man from Maine" by Frank
| Carlos Griffith, is the second book of
humorous STYLE ever brought out by the
| C. M. Clark Publishing Company, Bos
ton, Mass. The advance orders prac-
! tically exhausted the first edition, and
the book promises to be one of the
greatest laughing successes OF the year.
Recreation, edited by Dan Beard and
published by William E. AnniS, % West
oath street, New York city, is a coming
magazine, showing steady Improvement
| in its text and illustrations and appeal
ing strongly to all lovers OF outdoor
, sports. The March number is very
interesting one, and the April number
will no douht he even better,
| There have been a good many stories
recently about newspaper men; NEST
of them are interesting; but they pail
somewhat on ones appetite when they
follow the tried and trusty models.
Ralph d. Paine has in the March Nc
Clure's, newspaper story, blessed
with originality His sea story, ''The
Praying Skipper" which appeared last
month, was well liked for the same
, quality. ''rhe Last Pilot Schooner is
combination of printers ink and the
sea-full of action, pathos and sus-
pense.
The March number of McClures is
unusually strong in good fiction, with
"The Exiles'' by Harvey J. O'Higgins;
"a Matter of Principle by Samuel
Hopkins Adams; The third story of the
"Arizona Nights" series, "The Cattle
mans Yarn: The Remittance Man
Story" by Stewart Edward White;
''The Last Pilot Schooner" by Ralph
ID. Paine; "a Grief Deferred" by Alice
Brown; "a Small Person" by Mary
Talbot Campbell; and "a Retributive
Trip" by Jeanette Cooper The'
poems, which balance the number, are:
''The Crocus" by Herbert Trench;
Beyond the Spectrum" by Florence
10 hu Wit
ter Bynner; 'In the Night" by Paul
Kester; and ga Song" 10y A. f. Hous-
man.
A series of articles on carts and
Crafts Industries is begun i'll the
March New Idea Woman's Magazine
with an account of the making of jew
elry and designing i'll metal, in which
work it appears many women are now
not only engaged but successful. Some
charming pieces are shown as the work
of Miss Jane Carson of Cleveland and
others, including brooches, watch fobs,
lamps, jewel boxes, tongs, etc. The
writer, Miss Della Austrian, is very
optimistic concerning the outlook for
women IN this craft. ''There are other
women" she says, Gin the East and
West who are doing artistic work In
metals and in the fashioning of jeWelry.
/ They are one in the opinion that TINS
work gives delight and worthy remun-
GRAFTON to Suc! as possess talent ana
perseverance. They say that there was
a time when strong prejudice was felt
against women craft-Workers, and that
Americans preferred to buy their Jew
elry in Paris instead of patronizing the
artists of their own country, but that
this is no longer the case. American
women want artistic and able work,
and because these workers possess the
talent and perseverance needed, they
have won recognition and are enjoying
the fruits of their efforts.