The Republican journal., 1907-12-05
Literary News and Notes.

Holman Day. the we'll known Maine
author, is getting out new book en-
titled king Spruce" which is to BE-
published by Harper Bros. The story,
which is appearing serially in the New
England Magazine, is most interest
ing one and deals with life and doings
in the Maine woods, and in the opinion
of the writer is the best sustained and
the highest in literary quality of any
of Mr.. DAYS novels.
The December issue of the Atlantic
is peculiarly interesting magaZln e
There are seven important articles,
each very brilliant of its kind. The
leader is entitled 'The Future of our
Navigable Waters" and is written by
John T.. Mathews, who has been max
ing special study of the subject.
IAN Art Museum for the People by
Frank Jewett Mather, treats of the
best practical arrangement of eXhibi-
tons for public use. Agnes Deans
Cameron writes on wheat, the Wiz
ard of the North" a striking article
telling of the enormous immigration to
the newly utilized fields of western
Canada. There is abundant fiction of
the usual high Atlantic standard and
the poetry is of strictly Christmas
character
One would scarcely think of Africa as
a place to 90 to enjoy perfect conditions
for automobiling, yet George c, Tyler,
in Motoring to the Garden of Allah
in the Christmas number of Recreation
declares that there are no better high
ways anywhere than those in TuniS and
Algeria. This magazine takes the read
erinto many OUT the-way places for
the holiday season. Captain B. S. Os
bon, secretary of the Arctic Club, con-
tributes ''Christmas Theatricais in the
Arctic" C.SWm Beebe tells of Camp
Life in Mexico" W. II. Kirk bride
takes the reader Fox uniting in Eng
land" Edward p. Irwin tells about
Cosmopolitan Baseball in Hawaii"
and there are lots of other good things
which go to make very Interesting
Christmas number.
The December American Magazine is
really extraordinary in Importance and
interest. The recent financial furry,
and the whispered denunciations of the
President, make Miss TarbelPs defence
of Roosevelt, In her new series "Roose-
welt VS.. Rockefeller a timely contri-
button of great significance. There is
plenty of amusement in the number.
George Fitch's character sketch of
Uncle Joe" Cannon is little master
piece of wit and wisdom. McCutcheon's
cartoons add to the fun. Then there is
a story "Fleas will be fieas" by the
author of Pigs is Pigs" and a story,
mister Cllnk Thurston's Duel" by
Edward Peple, and an article on Foot
light Fiction; the wonders performed
by press agents., in which the truth is
told about Anna Held's milk bath and
other theatrical history"
The Christmas issue of Womans
Home Companion is sumptuous mag
anne, with several pages in color. The
cover is reproduced from an exquisite
mother and babe. The number is full
of Christmas misunderstanding
good Christmas stories, Christmas pic
lures by prominent artists, and hun
dIeds of Christmas suggestions of all
sorts-practical, fancifuI, unique. The
stories include: "A Wild Boar Ram
pant, by Robert Barr; AN Undiscov-
cred Siddons," by Claire Wallace
Flynn: ''Cap'n Gilly," by Mary Cath
erne Lee; ''The Lost Spirit Of Christ
mas by Grace S. Richmond: "Freder-
ika's First" by William Hamilton Os-
borne; The Little Water Boy by
Julia Hampstead Bull, and "a Bache-
lor's Christmas Eve by Marguerite
Campion. There are scores OF articles,
III addition.
With the November issue the Define
ator started a Child Rescue Campaign,
the bringing into the home that needs a
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