The Republican journal., 1908-01-09
Literary News and Notes.

ly launches the magazine on its fifty
first year. Among the many notewor-
thy stories, essays, and poems IN tins
number the first installment OF Edith
Wharton's Second Motor Flight
Through France" has a prominent POSI-
ton.
The Atlantic fiction for January is
better than ever. Alice Browns
charming novel, "Rose Macleod" goes
on into its fourth installment. Elsie
Singmaster contributes missionary
story of unusual power, 'The Uncon-
querable Hope" Marjorie l.. G.. Pick
thall has a remarkably sweet tale en-
titled LA Tristesse," and r. S. John
son, in "The Ticket for Ona," writes an
immigrant story of great skill.
| 'Mr. Dooley," who is now writing ex-
clusively for The American Magazine,
describes Congress in the January num-
Der. The cartoons are by McCutcheon,
of Chicago. In the same number OF the
American, scenes and incidents lllustra-
ting the extravaganza and fantastic lie
of the Super-rich are reproduced from
''The Metropolis" an unpublished
story of New York society by Upton
Sinclair, author of ''The Jungle" This
new story by MI. Sinclair, which is
| bound to create a sensation, will run
| for several months.
| Stirring stories, interesting informa-
ton, valuable instruction, and en-
| enlargement along lines of right living
and high endeavor make the January
American Boy of noteworthy issue:
The front cover picture speaks eloquent
| thy of breaking Home Ties Dr.
Owens pirate story is continued two
| chapters, as is also that Dillingham; Boy
| Mr.. Trowbridges serial, The Boy and
| the Beast, is concluded, and Mr.. Tom
| linson's serial, Four Boys on the Mlssls-
sippl, is begun, and promises to sustain
the splendid reputation OF the author
| as writer for boys. A notable article is
Canal and Jungle, the Boys Own Story
of the Big Ditch at Panama, written by
Hugh c. Weir, who was specially sent
by The American Boy to Panama to
write up the true conditions for its
readers, and the boys will ENJOY the
snap ,ud vim of the story.
The Woman's Home Companion for
January begins well with handsome
and snowy cover design by James Mont
gomery Flagg. 1t is notable number
from the standpoint of illustrations. In
addition to Flagg's striking cover design
there is a full page reproduction OF w.
Balfour Ker's painting, Forgotten. :"
1t represents winter farm scene, the
house and barn in the distance, and the
old family horse standing drearlly by
the pasture bars, ankle deep In the fall
ing snow-forgotten Among the fiction
is an Important installment of MIS-.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps great novel,
Though Life Us Do PART" 'The Ad-
justed Honeymoon" by Anne Warner;
"a Lesson in Consequence, by Mary
Nilhelmina Hastings; Rose Mary, II
Quaker love story by Carrie Hunt Latta,
aud The Lamps of Psyche" by IONA
Gale, author of the new popular novel.
"The Loves of Peleas and Ettarre.'
"Today the young men of Canada
see visions where the old men dreamed
dreams This is the text Agnes Deans
Cameron uses in the December Atlantic
in her article, 'Wheat the Wizard of
of the NORTH Her theme is the great
uncu!tivated, rich-sojled acres of west
ern Canada, I. land mole prolific and
wealthy than the best gold country yet
discovered. Silently, surely, inexorably
are the nations pouring into Canada,
from the South, from the West, from
the East. The Salvation Army brought
over %. 900 immigrants last summer on
eight chartered OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
English, Irish, Italians, Russians, Nor
wegians, V elsh, Swedes, Greeks, He
brews, all eager for wheat. American
farmers step over the border line to
grow wheat Miss Cameron concludes:
s'The white ghost OF Henry Hudson re-
visiting the glimpses of the moon, II
still to be touched by earthly issues,
would seem to say:
open the Bay, which DER the Northland
Dumb, vet in abor with mighty fate!
Open the Bay! Humanity intrudes.'"
ExPresldent Grover Cleveland has
written a remarkable article on Our
People and Their Ex-Presidents' for
The Youths Companion, which was
published January I'd. In it Mr.. Cleve-
land says:
'.As / am the only man now living
who could at this time profit by the
ideas | have advocated, l hope my sim
cerity will not be questioned when L
say that | have dealt with the subject
without the least thought of personal
interest or desire for personal advan-
tage. | am not in need of aid from the
puDllC treasury. L uopC hLu uCiloNS
that | have provided for myself and
those dependent upon me comfortable
maintenance, within the limits OF ac-
customed prudence and economy, and
that those to whom ! owe the highest
earthly duty will not want when | am
gone. These conditions have permitted
me to treat with the utmost freedom
topic which involves no personal con-
siderations and only has to do in my
mind with conditions that may arise
in the future, bu are not attached to
the ex-President of today; and l am
sure that l am actuated only by an
ever-present desire that the fairness
and sense of justice characteristic OF
true Americanism shall neither fail nor
be obscured."
In the January American Magazine
Ida M. Tarbell, writing of Roosevelt
VS.. Rockefeller" presents many inter
esting facts about the Standard Oil
Company. OF the earnings of the
Standards pipe lines she says: ''The
pipe lines system of the Standard is
worth $50, OO0,O but this is the accre-
ton of over thirty years. The profits
of the Standard pipe lines are phenome-
nal The trunk system is made up of
various corporations, the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company, the Indiana Pipe
Line Company, the Buckeye, the
National Transit Company, etc. In
1906 the Buckeye Pipe Line Company