The Republican journal., 1906-03-29
Literary News and Notes.

Holman Dav has the ability to put
more real plot in short story than
any other writer IN America to-uay.
His short stories are conuehseu uoveis.
"Jill-Poke jack i'll the American Mag
azine for April is an example OF the
way in which he crowds an immense
volume of stirring well-constfucted
plot into few pages.
Professor Charles e. ID. ROBERTS Is
engaged upon romance concernihg
the fisher,folk on the shores of Fnndy,
which will be entitled "By the Waters
of Fundv." 1t will be in sense com
panion Volume to "The Heart OF the
Ancient Wood" and has for its main
theme the snbiect of ''fatherhood.'
Professor Roberts Red Fox" the lat
est of his animal books, stands third at
.he Manhattan libraries on the mlscel-
aneous list of books most in request.
Most people do not know that the
most powerful trust III the "oIlu 10 ',io
Coal Trust, dominated at present ny
that remarkable personality' Heo'se
Franklin Baer. The whole STORY VI
this alarming monopoly, its origin, his
tory, and present power, Is lolu ~ 'l'o
first time in two notable articles by
Hartley Davis on ''The Coal Trust, the
Labor Trust. and the People who Pay.
Read the first of these articles IN the
April Everybody's and see what you
think about the probable future OF THIS
omnipotent commercial monster.
MANY men and women OF the oldef
growth, and not few OF the younger
Generation. must have felt regret at the
news of the death of Mrs. A. u. l.
Whitney. Among the ]nVenlie ntela-
ture of the past forty years none mas
been more charming ana healliilul lla Ia
hers. She wrote for boys, ana espeeial-
" for girls, and there nave peei leM
more sympathetic Interpreters OF eiii,
hood than she. Boys at ChequaSset,
Faith Gartneys Girlhood, Lesli !,
Gotdthwaite,' "Ascutney 81 &c l.
1--WE Girls" and ''Other Girls, are
among her best books.
1t is the privilege of critics TO DIS
agree, but they seem to nave loregohe
this right entirely in the case or joel
Chandler Harris new book, rod by
Uncle Remus." of the hundreds OF
reviews that have been published IN
the press of the United States not one
has been lukewarm or contained even
line of adverse criticism. LAS good
or better than the first Uncle Remus
tales that we loved in our childhood is
the unanimous verdict: with a word IN
addition always of admiration and ar
lection for the modest and gentle Geor-
eian.
Do YOU remember how gaily the
spring came in? If you don t, or 90,
recall it by reading a New England
Longing by Abram Wyman in the
April number of the New England
Magazine. For the New England HE
read, too, the story by Eiroy 1homp-
son of Brockton, the type OF the ener-
getlc New England city (who stands IN
her own shoes and her mammoth man
ufactories; how a city has grown from
a little town and what bigger ventures
she has yet. April is book numbeI-
the literary side of New England. The
usual with interest and wit, noticeable
among them humorous article on
on Teachers Conventions Down East
by Mary c. Robinson.
In the April American Magazine,
Julian Willard Heburn has an article
of unusual significance on Light: the
Great Civiilzer." In telling of the
revolution which has been wrought i'll
history by the steady light, Mr. Hell
burn makes point which has never
been touched upon by anyone-not
even by college professors in their
courses on the history of economies.
There are a number of other extremely
interesting articles. Henry X. Webster
tells the story of the Chicago Traction
Tangle under the caption, From
Yerkes to Dunno" and John McAuley
Palmer writes satirically on the Block
System, in, ga Speculation in Man
slaughter" This month the American
Magazine retains its lead in things
Photographic by splendid series of
portraits of the Justices of the Supreme
Court Of the United States. Among
the fiction writer's are Mary Cholmon
deley, Holman F. Day, Grief Dalzell,
Mrs. L. H. Harris, Frank n. Craigie,
Una Hudson and Ellis Parker Butler