The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-06-27
Literary News and Notes.

AttUl III l\UVO uitu lNUlUo.
Congressman Littlefield contributes
a most interesting article to the cur
rent issue of The Christian Endeavor
World in answer to some unfavorable
remarks of Ex-Governor Garvin of
Rhode Island regarding the State pro-
hibitory law of Maine, and has decided
ly the best of the argument.
The Woman's Home Companion for
July contains the opening instalment
of a new serial by Anthony Hope, en-
titled "Helena's Path" 1t is most
interesting and thoroughly wholesome
story, embodying all the delightful TO-
nance OF the Zenda stories, though
somewhat more realistic. Its publica-
ton implies rich literary treat for the
numerous admirers of the author who
gave us the Dolly Dialogues"
The July number of the New Eng
land Magazine is even more vigorous,
persuasive and entertaining than the
issue of the previous month. 1t starts
off with a new series by Frank Putnam
on the general topic: whats the
Matter With New England?" The first
instalment is ''Maine, Study in Land
Grabbing, Tax-dodging and Isolation"
Mr.. Putnam gives Maine what New
Highlander would call "a good going
over" as to its political and industrial
conditions. He finds many things to
praise in the State as well, and the
whole article is one which is eminently
calculated to make Maine men sit up
and take notice.
The July Lippincott's contains the la
test automobile novel by c. N. and A.
NJ. Williamson. Its title is, "He Who
Stole and Rode Away" and it appears
complete in one number of the Maya
zine. This means that the plot is packed
full of meat-not padded out to make
so many pages Of print. Like Brown"
in the Williamsons' early success, "The
Lightning CONDUCTOR this new hero is
a gentle chauffeur, and the girl is
a winner" The characters are real
flesh and blood people, and the reader is
thoroughly in sympathy with pluckv
Larry O'Hagan' in all his exploits,
which sometimes threaten to land him
in jail but eventually bring him to a
state nearer Paradise
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page of
Washington will spend the summer at
York Harbor, where they have cot
tage. Another distinguished author
who will spend the summer at the same
resort will be Finley Peter Dunno, the
creator of Mr.. Dooley. Bar Harbor
and adjacent resorts will have quite a
galaxy of literary lights. Among them
will be DR.. S. Weir Mitchell of Phila-
delphia, the noted author of Hugh
Wynne, and many other novels; DR..
Henry Van Dyke of Princeton; Arthur
Train of New York, assistant district
attorney, and we'll known writer of
current fiction; President Charles W.
Eliot of Harvard and Ex-Mayor Seth
Low of New York, both of whom are
well known in the literary world; Mrs.
Burton Harrison, the well known
novelist, and James Ford Rhoades, a
historian of national reputation.
No more vitality interesting article
has appeared in a long time than
Brain and Body" in the July Every
body's. The author, DR.. William Hanna
sents what to most of us will be an en-
tirely new conception of the brain, facts
of the greatest practical Importance in
mental training, and he puts it in a
simple, easily comprehended form un
usual in scientific writer. 1t is a no.
table contribution. Fiction occupies
suitably prominent place in the july
number with such writers as Mary r.
S. Andrews, Stewart Edward White, O.
Henry, and Lloyd Osbourne, but the
editor finds space besides for number
of interesting articles. One of the most
entertaining of these is '"The Aristoc-
racy of the Circus" by Hartley Davis,
an historical account Of certain famous
circus families. 1t is illustrated with a
number of unusual circus photographs.
The Pine Tree Magazine for June is
an apple blossom number, this being
the cover design. The set of six pic
lures this month is of ''The Vanishing
Clipper Ships" and includes some crafts
familiar down this way. picturesque
'Pocasset' - by Jennie Thorne John
son is the chief descriptive article this
month. 'Pocasset" is none other than
the village of Wayne, and the writer
provides an alluring picture of this
'Interlachen, for, from its resemblance
to that fair hamlet over the sea, travel
ers have called it by this name A pref
ty sketch is that by Abbe Hall Fair
child called "Grandmother's Garden"
"a Down East Sketch" by Herbert L.
Luques has as it's setting the noted
summer resort Kennebunkport. The
sudden change when the quaint old
village blossomed into watering place,
when the shipyards were made into
lawns, when gay equipages with ser
wants in livery ratified along the streets,
when costly cottages were erected, ali
are noted by the writer.
'sMr. Dooley" tells about the Presi-
Dental candidates in the July Ameri-
can Magazine. The cartoons are by
McCutcheon. Roosevelt, Taft, Fair
banks, Foraker, Root, Beveridge and
others are mentioned" "a fine lot
iv men f'r amy republican to choose
firm an an akelly fine list FIR him to re-
ject firm. Ray Stannard Baker, now
one Of the editors of The American
Magazine, tells the story of the 'Black
Belt" in the current American. Walter
-Prichard Eaton describes Manhattan:
an Island Outgrown'-the story of how
''old'' New York, confined by wide riv-
ers, is bursting into New Jersey and
Long Island through tunnels costing
more than the Panama Canal. Grandon
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