The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-11-05
r. r., MOODY.
Literary News and Notes.

The increase in the price of paper has
been factor in forcing another one OF
our magazines to increase in price. The
| Woman's Home Companion, preparing
| to give it's readers bigger and better
magazine, will raise it's price from 10
cents to Is cents a copy, and from 81. 90
to 81. Is year in a few weeks. This ad-
vance is in part due to the increased size
and value of the magazine, and IN part to
the increased price of paper, which IS
affecting every publisher in the United
| States.
Leading features of McClure's Maya
zine for November are: ''The Fight for
a New Navy" an article showing that
steps have been taken to correct the mis-
| takes in the construction of our battle
Cure Cure s "ali Year ago; dFireNAn American
Extravaganza" by F. W. Fitzpatrick,
| who says that we burn down almost as
fast as we build; "What Organized Labor
Wants." an interview with Samuel
Gompers by George Kibbe Turner, and
history of '"The Vanderbilt Fortune"
by Burton J. Hendrick. The number
| also includes another instalment of '"The
Familiar Letters of Augustus Saint
Gaudens," and an article by Edgar
Beecher Bronson containing thrilling
story of the old days in the West. There
are six good short stories: ''The Per-
sistence of the Uninspired," by John
Fleming Wilson; Caroline and Her
Notebook" by Claude c. Washburn;
''Scotty," by Colin Mckay; THAT There
Oliver" by Caspar Day; 'The Golden
Fleece" by Albert Kinross, and s"The
Domino of Behring Beach," by Helen
Green.
The contents of the Strand Magazine
for November are as varied and interest
ing as usual. The fiction includes a
weirdly dramatic story by Morley Rob-
erts entitled ''The Fog;' true story by
Georges Dupuy, called ''The Monster OF
Partridge Creek" Corporal Sam,''
story dealing with the army by Co."
''The First Stone" by Fred M. White;
1.-THE Girl in the Light Blue Dress, by
Richard Marsh, and combinations OF
"Salthaven, the amusing serial by W.
W. Jacobs, and "The House Of Arden, y
by E. Nesbit. The articles are very en-
PERTAINING and treat of English Homes
and Gardens" (Cawdor Castle, up the
Schreckhorn in Storm, - 1.-THE Comic
Side of Crime by Harry Furniss; my
African Journey" by Winston Churchill,
M. P, and an appreciative and fully IL
Illustrated paper on the Eccentric Art OF
Mr.. S. H. Sine. The colored section is
devoted to ''The Ideal of Child-Beauty
of Different Nations,'' and gives some
very beautiful portraits in duotone de-
picting representative types of Ameri
can, English, French, Italian, Japanese,
Hungarian and Dutch children.
The November American Magazine is
a periodical without dull line in it. The
leading feature is character sketch of
the Sultan of Turkey, who, according to
the author of this article, is SO base that
he will not only allow thieves and
grafters to wreck his country, but will
commit murder with his own hand. Evil
IDENTIFY the wave of Democratic ideas
drowning out in Turkey as fine band OF !
pirates as ever practiced the art Of OPP
preston. In the same number Ida M. |
Tarbell begins a series of two articles
entitled, "How Chicago is Finding Her
SELF She calls Chicago the most Won |
derful and inspiring city in the United /
States. Otis Skinner, the actor. re-
ports the story Of how Edwin Booth, in !:
the dead of night, burned the papers and
costumes which had belonged to his
brother John Wilkes Booth. DR.. Will |
liam Lee Howard, writing on Helpless
Youths and Useless Men, advocates
the separation of boys from girls in our
High schools ''The Interpreter pre-
sents an ingratiating character sketch of
Thomas A. Edison, in which mass of
new facts is produced. Professor W. l:
Thomas writes of ''The Psychology of
Woman's Dress" "Mr. Dooley'' talks
on uplifting the Farmers. Notable
fiction is contributed by 0. Henry, Myra
Kelly, William j. Locke and Brand Whit
lock.
The November Atlantic presents a
range of unusual scope. Three articles
deal with the great social problems Of the
day, Executive Aggression, by George
W. Alger, Democracy and the Expert, !"
by Joseph Lee, and "Anthropomania, "
by Wilbur Larremore. Education is rep
resented by President Henry s. Prit-
| chett's striking comparison OF Harvard
and West Point, and an interesting arti-
Gle by Bertha H. Smith, ''Self-Govern-
ment in Public Schools In lighter vein
and cram full of humor is Rev. S. M.
Crothers' ''On Being a Doctrinaire. :"
More special questions of daily life find
voice in "Automobile Selfishneess, by
Seth K. Humphrey, and in Closing the
SOulCiy 1!oLle, Wy LePiii!c tluiii paA ~,
while in the field of Art is Restoring
Works Of Art, by Frank Jewett Mather.
Mr.. Havelock Ellis has skated success
fully over the thin ice in his article ''On
Learning to Write" In the field of
literature itself are "Some Moral Aspects
of the Play" by Louis w. Flaccus, can
other Source of Paradise Lost, -" by N.
Douglas, and ''The Cambridge History of
English Literature, a searching review.
The Seekin' of Ike" by Mrs. Edith F.
Scott, "The Cheerful Feast of San
Michele by James E. Dunning,. and
1'Mrs. Dixon's Culture Course" by
Elizabeth Jordan. One poem of peculiar
interest for its oriental suggestion is '"Fhe
Soul of Nippon, by Joseph l. G. Clarke:
Two short poems, 1.-THE Secret Thing"
by Fannie Stearns Davis, and ''The
Empty House, by Florence Earle Coates
and a diversified Contributors Club"
complete the list.
Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air pas
sages stops the irritation in the throat, soothes
the inflamed membranes, and the most OBJ.
stinate cough disappears. Sore and inf1amed
lungs are healed and strengthened, and the
| cold is exne11ad from the svstem, Refuse anV