The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-10-31
Literary News and Notes.

of McClure's have more than justified
the recent raise in the price OF the
magazine. The articles are varied and
vital, and there is new note OF dis
tinction in the fiction. George Ken
uan's article on criminal government
should arouse the public conscience.
It tells of conditions which every cltl-
zen of this democracy should know
a gang of criminals in municipal con-
troll fostered vice as money-maklng
scheme, debauching the social and
business life of great city, beginning
with prominent and respectable cltl-
zens, from whom brides were exacted,
and ending with the street children
who dropped penny in the slot and
saw indescribable, vicious pictures IL
censed by the ''robber government"
The gifted Kate Douglass Wiggin in
s'The Old Peabody Pew, which she has
Just written, has shown an understand
ing of the hearts of honest countrybred
God fearing folk. 1t is love story
with happy ending in which the auth
or pictures life in New England ham,
let, where plain living, high thinking,
and the gossiping habit struggle tor su-
premacy. No story will more quickly
turn the reader into benevolent and
reminiscent mood and awaken long
ing for the old home and faces. The
pages are replete with tenderness, SEN
timent and quaint humor. The book is
admirably suited as holiday gift.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 4 Co.
The November American Magazine
is rich III Importance and interest. Ida
NJ Tarbell tells another HE knew
Lincoln" story. Lincoln Stetfens begins
new serial THE Mote and the Beam;
Fact Novel," Prof. William james,
the foremost psychologist of his time,
writes of The Powers of Men, He
tells of the KEYS which unlock hidden
energies and stir mento great achieve
ments-such keys as love, anger, war,
duty, the temperance pledge" despair.
crowd contagion, Christian Science,
conversion, prayer, and so on. Woods
Hutchinson begins his new series on
giants and dwarfs. The pictures are
as good as going to circus. Ernest
Poole tells stories of the million new
readers of the news who come to this
country from abroad each year.
Dr. William Henry Winslow,- author
of Southern Buds and Sons OF war,
which the C. M. Clark Publishing Co.,
Boston. are bringing out this fall, is of
New England birth. and entered the
Annapolis Naval Academy in 1858. He
fought through the Civil War, and re-
tired as junior lieutenant in 1865. After
leaving the navy he took up the study
of medicine. and was pIacticing
physician in Philadelphia for over
twenty five years. He is the author of
Cruising and Blockadlng, "The Sea
Letter and medical work. south
ern Buds and Sons of War; is military
novel of the closing years of the war.
1t is historically correct, full OF exciting
adventures founded on facts, and de-
scrbes slave life on the plantations and
social life in the captured cities of the
South at the time of Sherldan's march
to the sea.-Boston Ideas.
Every body's for November opens
with a striking article by William
Ward. on Making Steel aud Killing
Men" which deals fairly with the prob
lem of the safety Of workers in the
dangerous trade of steel-making. The
Newest Land of Promise" by e, W.
Ogden, describes graphically the open
ing up and cultivation of the West, and
the OPPORTUNITIES for wealth offered to
the home-seeker. DR.. William Hanna
Thomson. in 'Plain Labels on Germ
Enemies" gives interesting and valua-
BILE information on the difference be-
tween contagious and infectious diseas-
es. The Ladies Game by Gertrude
Lynch, discusses the question as to
whether or not the American woman is
eXtrayagant i'll dress, and is of interest
not only to all women, but to every
man who ever paid dressmaker's bill.
1t Is illustrated with charming photo
graphs from life. Charles Edward
Russell, in the continuation of Where
Did You Get 1t, Gentlemen" tells of
the bogus loans of thousands of dollars
made ostensibly to office boys, and of
the further illegal transactions Of the
State Trust Company. "The "Play
ers,' to its criticisms of current plays,
adds a notable collection of photo
graphs of Broadway stage-folk.
To check cold quickly, get from your
druggist some little Candy Cold Tablets
called Preventics. Druggists everywhere
are now dispensing Preventcs, for they are
not only safe, but decidedly certain and
prompt. Preventics contain no Quinine, no
laxative, nothing harsh nor sickening
Taken at the ''sneeze stage" Preventics
will prevent Pneumonia, Bronchitis, La
Grippe, etc. Hence the name, Preventics
Good for fpyerSh children. IS PreyenticS