The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-11-07
Literary News and Notes.

The Pine Tree Magazine, Sale Pub
fishing Co., Portland, has discontinued
publication and its subscription list
has been taken over by the Portland
Transcript. The Pine Tree was an ex-
cellent magazine, but evidently the
field was not large enough to give it
adequate support. The Transcript, for
fifty years the leading family weekly of
Maine is now issued monthly, is in
new hands, and is being rapidly restored
to its original position. 1t is published
by the Westbrook Publishing Co.,
Westbrook, Maine. Subscription 81 a
year.
The departure of Hiawatha is the
central figure of the two-color cover of
the November American Boy, forming
the fourth Of the series of Hiawatha
pictures running in this favorite boys
monthly. In excellence of matter, both
for the boys and adults, this number is
surely winner. The second chapter of
the fine sea story, Jimmy Jones-Pirate,
occupies the first pages, followed by the
opening chapters of That Dillingham;
Boy, by Oliver Optic. Off the Reserva-
ton is continued three chapters, as is
John T.. Trowbridge's serial, The Boy
and The Beast, and A Boy of the Revo-
luton is concluded. There are many
fine articles, short stories, and 60 illus
trations. The Sprague Publishing Co.,
Detroit, Mich.
The most attractive and unique cover
design on the news-stands for Novem-
Der Is RecreatiOn's three jolly hunts
men. Their natty red coats catch the
eye at distance, and on approaching
the stand the possible purchaser finds
himself pleased and wondering what
the joke is. Not less remarkable is the
frontispiece, a cowgirl riding her
pony at a gallop and swinging low to
pick up a handkerchief on the ground
Especially good articles of most general
appeal are: Frontier Days" by Sol
Metzger a vivid pen picture of Chey-
enne's (Wyo.) last busting, steer
roping cowboy festival: Motoring
Along the Dykes of Holland" by II.
Wellington Wack, and "Observations
of a Professional Aeronaut," by Will
liam A. Baldwin, telling what has been
done to perfect the airship, its basic
idea and its operation. Glow to
Understand Football" by George H.
Brooke, gives an elementary explana-
ton Of the gridiron game, so that it
can be easily understood and followed
by an inexperienced spectator. There
are many other good things and the
editorials are exceptionally good
The Semi Centennial Atlantic is a
special issue containing a remarkable
number of important articles, written
in most cases by writer's of world fame.
The number leads off with some hither-
to unpublished verses by James Russell
Lowell, composed in 1857 and supposed,
pIayfully, to be "wrote by Sir Henry
Knatchbull, Bart, 1860" As a litera-
ry curiosity these lines are highly inter
esting. ''The Launching of the Maya
zine,'' by Charles Eliot Norton, is a
short essay on the initial steps and
final assured success of the new enter
prise. The Unknown teller of boys
stories, John Townsend Trowbridge,
writes charming paper, 'An Early
Contributors Recollections This is
followed by "Recollections of an Allan
tic Edltorship," by William Dean How
ellis, the third editor of the magazine.
Four important articles review the his
tory and progress of the fifty years
1S57-1907, in Literature, Science, Art,
and Politics. The first is brilliantly
treated by Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, the second by Henry S. Pritchett.
art" is written by Hamilton Wright
Mabie, and politics" by Woodrow
Wilson, President of Princeton alto
gether an unusually telling and emf
nently fitting series. In Atlantic
Dinners and Diners" Arthur Gilman
recounts stories of the days when edi-
tors, publishers, and contributors in
one combination or another met over
the festive board. '"The Editor who
was never the Editor" by Bliss Perry,
does justice to F. H. Underwood, the
foremost moving spirit in the early his
tory of the paper. Ida f. Bald
win contributes delightful sketch
called Unbound Old Atlantic" and
the final text of Walter H. Pages Chi
cago address, 'The Writer and the Uni
versity' appears in print for the first
time. Besides the purely semi-centen-
NAL matter, the second instalment of
Alice Browns new serial, Rose Mac
Leod," occupies an important place in
the number. The Contributors Club
of the November Atlantic contains a
Letter from DR.. Holmes" to MI Ar
thur Gilman, and two short pieces,
''Ticknor and Fields and the Old South
Clock" and ''The Atlantic's Pleasant
Days on fremont Street." both histor-
ical matter of unusual interest.
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