The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-31
Literary News and Notes.

wide appeal Characteristic every one,
who is awake There is remark
able group of six special articles, and
| for entertainment seven fiction contri-
| buttons of the highest order of excel
| lence. In addition, there are special
! drawings, poems, and the usual depart
ments of book reviewing, humor, and
publishers straight talk"
The Assistant Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, Prof. W. NJ. Hays, suggests that
the twentieth century boy on a farm
need not envy his cousins in the city.
opportunity, and the desile to get back
! augmented by Professor Hays article
on The Coming Boy on the Farm
contributed to The Youths Companion
for January 18th.
Hamilton Busbey, for many years
connected with Turf, Field and Farm,
and author of "The Trotting and Rae
ing Horse in America" and "HiStory of
the Horse in America" has written an
| important new work entitled "Reminis-
cences of Men and Horses" which
Dodd, Mead & Co., will publish this
spring. Mr.. Busbey is one of the lead
ing authorities on the horse in America,
and has been the intimate of all the
great breeders and trainers, including
Robert Bonner, Benjamin F. Tracy,
Senator Bailey, etc. The book will con-
tain many interesting portraits of both
men and horses.
| 1t is quite as true that wisdom is
money as that time is money, and never
so true as when dealing with the butch
er. To know how to buy a piece of beef
that will cost only twenty cents but
when cooked Alright will be as delicious
and as nourishing as one which costs
forty cents means money to the house
wife. Many housewives, however, do
not even know one cut of beef from an
other except as the butcher labels it,.
F! Along these lines a series of articles in
the New Idea Woman's Magazine is
giving information. Miss Elizabeth W.
| Morrison, the well-known writer on
food topics. talks of THE Hind Quarter
of Beef in the February number,
showing by diagrams where each cut
| lies and following the general treatment
of the subject by number of good
| recipes, such as pot roast and beefsteak
| rolls. The future numbers will take up
| veal and lamb in the same way.
The new number of The American
Magazine-the February number - is
easily the best one issued SO far by the
new editors. 1t is full of snap. Miss
Tarbell's Lincoln article is undoubted-
ly one of the great stories of the year.
Josephine Daskam Bacon begins her
new series, eve And Our Servants"
The first article contains enough vital
opinion and lively satire to keep the
average family discussing the servant
problem for month. Frederic G. Howe
reveals some astonishing facts about
Graft in England" DR.. Leonard Keen
Hirshberg tells the truth about Cancer,
the Unconquered Plague" w. G.. Fitz-
Africa, of a diamond three times big
ger than any ever before found-a dia-
mond bigger than a baseball. "The
Interpreter this month talks about
Lincoln-a talk which the critic shrewd-
ly suspects is from the pen of F. P.
Dunno the creator of 'Mr, Dooley,"
although it is unsigned.
Following the example of President
| Roosevelt, who gave publicity to his
views on child labor reform in the Janu-
airy number Of the Woman's Home Com.
panion, Senator Albert Beveridge has
sought the same medium to explain his
national child labor bill to the American
people. Senator Beveridge convincing
ly presents the need of national child
labor law and incidentally gives his view
of the important question of States
rights. In the same number of the
magazine is al editorial by Dr. Edward
Everett Hale, in which the distinguish
ed American gives characteristic
view of club women and what they
should do for their country's bene-
fit. Gertrude Anterior writes of
the club question in an art icl e
entitled ''The Club Man and the
Club Woman and Elizabeth Duer con-
| tributes an article on 'The Millionaire
Women of yesterday and Today" in
which she compares the modern woman
| of wealth with her rich sister of decades
past. This article is the first Of series
| of four on the general theme 'The
! Woman of Millions"
In McClure's for February, the Chris
tian Science serial steadily increases
in interest and power Mrs. Eddy's
relations with P. P. Quimby, the mental
healer of Belfast, are taken upin this
| installment, and thoroughly convinc-
ing and able presentation of the man
who was SO potent an influence in her
career is given. Mrs. Eddy's first visit
to Quimby, her letters and verses in
praise of him, and Mrs. Crosby's account
of Mrs. Eddy's performances as the
medium of her dead brother, Albert
Baker, are presented, together with
some striking facsimiles and portraits.
William Allen White contributes in this
number brilliant analysis of Roosevelt
and his career. The Campaign of 1850
is described in the Carl Schurz Rem
iniscences, and dramatic episodes occur
ring at the time of Lincoln's nomina-
ton are related with much spirit and
humor John La Fargo contributes a
| fine criticalstudy of Sacred Converse
tions in painting. A. w. Rolker writes
of ''The Wild Animal Physician and
His Patients" and recounts many
thrilling illustrations of the courage and
ingenuity that enter into this branch of
medicine, The fiction ia unusuallv fresh