The Republican journal., 1906-05-10
Literary News and Notes.

novel which he will write during the
summer, and more orders for short
stories than he can fill.
The C. NJ. Clark Publishing Co. OF
Boston announces for early issue new
novel entitled .sThe Belle of the Blue
grass Country" and written by Mrs. H.
ID. Pittman. 1t is a story-a wonder
fully descriptive study in black and
white-of life in Kentucky immediate
ly after the Civil War.
The G.. Nj. Clark Publishing Co. of
Boston has just published new book
by Frederick Chamberlain, the Boston
lawyer-author, an The Shoe String
Country story of the present polltl-
cal situation in the black belt OF Ala
bama. Every statement in this novel
is based on fact and the book is bound
to be sensation. A second book by
the same author, soon to be published,
is story of travel entitled "Around
the World in Ninety Days." and con-
tains vast amount of original lnfor-
nation on foreign ways and manners.
McClure's Magazine for May in addi-
ton to its sterling text, headed by the
first of the kipling stories and the Life
Insurance articles, is one of the best H.
| luOlldUCu VI tshy PSAAouASeeA
that has been on the stands in a long
time. The following well known artists
appear in its pages: Andre Castaigne,
Glackens, Fem, Dtzler, Lowell,
Wyeth, Taylor, and Sloan. In addition
Prof Woodberry's valuable essay on
Milton is illustrated with good repro
ductions of rare portraits OF the great
poet.
Another great coal strike threatens,
and that fact adds interest to "A Les,
son in Labor" a strong story by Richard
Washburn Child in the May McClures;
The plot involves newly organized
union, a boss, and a walking delegate
from the city, and the combination
ends in drama and disaster, and then a
final solution of all the difficulties.
The foreman who tells the story is one
of Mr. Child's best characters. He is
quite irresistible, and even when he
comes to the most serious portions OF
his narrative, he can't quite keep away
from you his appreciation OF the humor
in everything.
Certainly the publishers are sparlng
neither effort nor money in placing be-
fore American boys the brightest, pest,
and most inspiring kind OF literature;
The May American boy is simply hlled
with what boys want. Mr.. Strate-
meyer's new serial. "In Defense Of His
Flag" a splendid story of two boys
fighting on opposite sides in the Civil
War begins in this number. Then
there are three more chapters OF MI.
Hawkes. fine animal story, Shaggy
: coat:' the concluding chapters of The
Adventures of Joe and DAM" -Four
Boys in Camp" by j. j., Harbour, and
lots of stories, pictures and the usual
departments.
The Kentuckian," by James Ball
Clark Publishing Co. of Boston, is
stirring tale of Ohio life i'll the early
sixties, told in the forcetul, graphic,
dashing style which has Won for Mr..
Navlor such high renown. Vance
Chatham, the hero of this tale, who Is
the Kentuckian, stands out on the
pages of this book a figure of heroic
uroportions. There Is Il plentiful
sprinklng of fighting, of horse dealing
and horse stealing, of the travel vi
runaway slaves by the underground
railway" all told in the dialect char
acterlstc of the time and place One
or Two of the horse stories are equal to
anything in David Harum.'
Signal Lights is the attractive
title OF new book by Louise NJ. Hop
kins. which The G. NJ. Clark Publish
ing Co. will bring out i'll the early
spring. 1t is frontier story of the
good old-fashioned kind-the kind
that opens with rush and continues
without pause until the last word III
the last chapter While essentially a
boys book it will appeal to readers OF
advanced years. The story is historl-
cally correct and quite few we'll
known army and Indian characters are
introduced in the course OF story
which revolveS around the adventure
of boy named Newton Bolt, who is
spending his vacation with his uncle at
frontier army post. The boy rides
out with the soldiers, takes part in
skirmsh, is captured by the redskins
and held for three months.
He will be difficult reader to please
who does not find much to interest him
in the May number OF the Atlantic. 1t
opens with leading article, Man and
the Actor, by Richard Mansfield, in
which the foremost American actor
writes with sincerity and eloquence ON
the meaning of an actors life and OF
the present conditions upon the Amerl-
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able paper by John Burroughs in his
best vein entitled Camping with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, containing full and
breezy account of President Roose-
velt's camping trip in the Yellowstone
country two years ago, and incidentally
presenting one of the most intimate
pen portraits of the President that has
ever been written. Charles J. Bullock's
paper on Life Insurance and Specua-
ton is comprehensive, thoroughly in
formed and lucid presentation OF the
whole subject.
The pungent odor of the sea invigor-
ates us these spring days; yet it we
cannot have our summer outing on the
coast right now, we can catch Whit
of it from the May number of the New
England Magazine. This sea number
begins with an article on "The Whale
and the Whaleman" by William S:
Birge. Did you think the grand old
whaling industry was dead? There
are already twenty-three New Bedford
vessels on the whaling grounds and
of the further outlook the article tells.
Virginia will celebrate her jamestown
in 1907, but New England also has
1907 settlement at Pemaquid, Maine,
described by II. o. McCrillis. Thomas