The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-02-28
Literary News and Notes.

The February number of The Pine
Tree Magazine, which as usual is beau
tifully illustrated, is a Longfellow num-
! Der, and in that direction will interest
| and instruct admirers of the poet There
are other articles of interest, including
one on ''Sea Water Cold" one of the
greatest swindles of the age, and a pref
| ty poem, "The st. Croix River" Sale
Publishing Co., Portland, Me.
The American Magazine for March
contains piece of fiction in which a
pair of lions in circus are presented
as remembering and saving the life of
an old trainer of theirs whom they had
not seen for many years. This is COM
monty believed to be inconsistent with
the experience of wild animal trainers.
On that account the editor of the maya
zine states in a note that the story is
founded on fact.
No more interesting woman's story
mas been seen for some time than that
of Miss Margaret R. Middleton, special
advertising representative, which is told
in The New Idea Woman's Magazine
for March. This gently bred woman
of coffee girl for a local daily, and
worked her way steadilyupward to post
requiring the highest business capacity
and yielding adequate returns. The
story itself should be an inspiration and
encouragement to every woman who
reads it.
The National Child Labor Commit
tee, in its department officially con-
Quoted in the Woman's Home Com
panion, announces the receipt of let
ter from William Jennings Bryan, in
which the latter expresses his approval
of the Beveridge Bill and his plan to
favor it editorially in the Commoner.
Mr. Bryan adds: ''The plan which Bev-
eridge adopts for the prevention of child
labor is Identical with the plan which l
have urged for the suppression of the
trusts. l believe the control which
Congress has over interstate commerce
enables it to apply very simple aud
effective remedy"
The American Magazine for March
includes a new little play, ''The Goal -
by Henry Arthur Jones. Throughout
the play, made joyful by his presence,
there walks great man of the world,
Seventy-fve years old, who, on the day
he died, preserved love of life, high re.
spect for himself, and enthusiasm for
larger achievement. When he died he
died standing. Miss Tarbell, whose his.
tory Of the tariff is one of the features
of this notable periodical, relates in the
present number the story OF the tariff
under Grant. Blaine, "Sunset" Cox
Horace Greeley, "Pig-iron" Kelley and
Garfield are among the men introduced
The March Everybody's preserves its
customary fair balance between inform.
alton and entertainment. The Inform
ing articles are of unusual significance
; and timeineSS. In accordance with
J cabled instructions, Vance Thompson
undertook to interview Cardinal Merry
, del Val, Papal Secretary of State, or
3 the church question i'll France, anC
succeeded far beyond his expectations
"War Against Christ" is the title OF
T.. his remarkable resultant article. "The
Needless Slaughter by Street Cars" by
5 John 2. Fox, is an expert consideration
7 of American street-railWay conditions
r Its conclusions are eyeopening
"The Shadow in High Finance" by
[ David Ferguson, is an account of the
entrance of detectives into present-day
| financial operations. Olivia Howard
. Dunbar whites of the Woman's rights
: movements of the world in an article
| entitled "The Worlds Half Citizens"
In the March number of McClure's
; the Christian Science Serial easily holds
first place. 1t deals in detail with the
,, Quimby controversy that has waged fol
, twenty five years between Christian
Scientists, and the followers of the New
Thought movement-also called Menta
Heaters. A mass of documentary evi
dence of the arguments of both sides is
presented in the shape of fac-simile let
tiers, affidavits and the like. The in
augulation of Lincoln, the epidemic Of
compromise that infected the country
and the breaking out Of the Civil Wa
are dramatically described in the Car
Schurz "reminiscences. Waldo mal
. Kaempffert tells "What We Know
|. About Mars" in a lucid article that de
scribes the marvels without recourse te
the technical verbiage of science. ''The
. Diary of an Amateur Waitress" by
Maud Younger, gives us the workers
, point of view on an industrial problem
The fiction of this March Mcclure il
especially fine.
, The fact that Lengfellow's centenary
! falls upon the 9th of this month has
given occasion in number of the mag
} azines for new accounts of the poets
. life and work. Doubly interesting, be
cause of the unfamiliar material il
/ makes use of, is an article in the Feb
/ ruary Atlantic on "Evangeline and the
Real Acadians. Evangeline appears te
be the most popular ''long- breathed'
poem in our literature; it is read every
year by hundreds of thousands Of
American and Canadian schools chill
dren; enterprising steamship companies
use it for advertising purposes; Crane
Pre-, ION the shore of the Basin of Min
, as" is visited every season by throngs
of eager tourists. And yet, according
to the writer of the articleiin question
who, by the way, is Prof. Archibald
MacMechan of Dollhouse University
the story of the Expulsion, as Long
fellow recounts it, is far from being
, borne out by the historical facts. The
Acadians we're not harshly used; mil
itary necessity actually compelled theil
removal, for they were menace to the
very existence Of England's authority
in Canada; it was New England rather
than the mother country that was di
rectly responsible for the act, ani
Boston ships conveyed the Acadian.
over the seas. Thanks to Evangeline
the Expulsion will never be understood
Surely this is an interesting role for {
i. | single poan to nlav m tho ctauo ~