The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-07-12
Literary News and Notes.

Hal Ddy opens the July HuHloet
| OF The Outing Magazine with Il story
Long Corvallis Crick, which is given
four full page plates
The July McClures is a good, hearty
| and satisfying literary meal-some good
| articles on new things the world is do
| ing, some important ones on vital topics
OF the day, and a good share of brisk
and entertaining stories; the whole we'll
served with attractive illustrations,
many in colors.
| The Outing Publishing Company,
| New York, have on the press for early
issue book entitled Fishing and Shoot
ing Sketches, by ex-Presdent Grover
! Cleveland, which tells of the distn-
| guished authors experiences on the
| lakes and streams after the tnny tribe
! and his outings over the fields ard
| plains in pursuit of feathered game.
The July number of the New England
Magazine is especially dedicated to that
unique. vigorous and rapidly growing
organization, The National Society of
| New England Women, and aside from
| its features of general interest contains
| many that are peculiarly appropriate
| to this organization. Among these are,
/ beautiful fullpage reproduction in
colors of the banner Of the society,
| seven full-page portraits of prominent
officers, and many articles from the
pens of its members.
There is touch of Edgar Allan Poe
in the strong weird story The Hat
and the Man." 10y Henry Irving Dodge,
in the Woman'S Home Companiun for
July, that is heightened by Dan Rea!d's
effective illustrations. Among other
original tales ard sketches are CLARA
Morris Renaissance, My Pirate;" a
Nice Little Thing i'll Blue" 10y Miriam
Michelson; ''Flom the Van Cleeve
Jewel Box by Anne O'IIagan; The
Adopted DOLL Tie Studio Baby"
and a touching little japanese picture,
THE Honorable Guest OF the Mother
Heart
History is making faster i'll Russia
than anywhere else III the W0rld-aud
it is vital, deep-reaching history, too.
Vance Thompson, III the July Every
body's, brings before you with wonder
full ait the scene and incidents OF that
great national drama. Mr.. Thompson
was ia st. Petersburg for Everybody's
when the Tsar coded to the Duma its
memorable privileges; he was an eye
witness of the death of autocracy; he
uCSSliDCo ChCtI StuSO VI tilC lItlllt
Fathers visit to his capital. His story
of a pageant and a revolution is dis
tinctly the article OF the month.
The variety of pleasurable and profit
able reading in the July number of
Recreation" that always breezy mag
! azine, is such as to amply bear out its
claim Of being devoted to everything
| the name implies" In "One of the
! Crowd" by Roscoe Brumbaugh the
reader is shown how many New York
ers spend their Sundays on the fishing
banks. Another handsomely illustrat-
ed article, far removed in theme from
the foregoing yet equally as interest
! ing, is Camping i'll the High Sierra
by Madeline Z. Ioty; it has to do with
| Club of California. yachting in the
Northwest" by f. NJ. Kelly, is a SUI
perbly illustrated article which will APP
peal to all lovers of boating, and for the
men and women who like to take long
| hunting and fishing trips in the wilder
ness James Leddy Pequignot's Guides,
| White and BroWn,' will have much in
! terest; the photographs are of typical
wilderness guides. Two other stories
of interest to sportsmen with expert
ence in Wilderness life are can Outing
! in Acadia" OF Nova Scotia from a
| Canoe, by Allen j. Henry, and The
| Wilderness Virgin,"' by Sid Howard,
! narrating the authors experiences on
a out-tshiIg expedition to ali undis-
covered forest lake.
Six articles of first rate interest, six
stories of exceptional quality, make up
' the bulk of -he American Magazine for
July. In The Tanning of Rogers, . !
Sherman Morse recounts, i'll its full
significance Attorney General Had !
ley's successful attempt to make Stand |
ard Oil obey the law. Hadley differs
from many public prosecutors III that
he obtained his results by the simple /
| enforcement Of existing laws. Reap /
ing Where We Have Not SoWn,' by !
Julian Willard Helburn, is an illumi- /
mating article on practical forestry as
distinguished from sentimental preser- |
walton or stupid destruction. 1t is (
splendidly illustrated. The same writ
er, in The Quickening Spirit" has as
sembled a number of incidents Illus
trating the sand" and resourcefulness |
of the San FranciscanS i'll their hour OF !
disaster. "The Confessions of a Life
Insurance SOLICITOR by W Iii a N
MacMahon, is bona hde aarrative
written with an Ade-like humor. An
other article of strong personal inter
est is THE Single Woman's Problem"
which tells of an educated woman's
struggle to support herself and those
dependent on her The Slave of Cot
tom is the second article by Henry X.
Webster on the South's great problem.
The Mystery" by Stewart Edward
White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, is
continued, and among the fiction writ
ers are Mrs l.. H. Harris. Gilbert T.
Colman, W. H. Cline and John Flem-
ing Wilson.