The Republican journal., 1908-08-06
Literary News and Notes.

The C. NJ. Clark Publishing Com
pany, Boston, is just issuing book Dy
a young Maine author, Maude Clark
Cav, She comes from WaldObOrO and
her first book called The Knitting of
the Souls enjoyed quite a large sale.
Paths Crossing that this company is
bringing out is clever western story.
The August number of Recreation
makes its usual strong appeal to the
sportsmen, the nature lover and the en-
thusiasts for outdoor life, and presents
some unusually beautiful illustrations.
The September number will contain a
superbly illustrated paper on ocean
yacht racing by one of the best yacht
ing authorities, w. S. Quigley, with
lots of other good things. The Outdoor
News Co., "a West 10th Street, New
York, n. Y. Subscription price, So a
year.
Among the men in the national
Forest Service the most popular bit of
summer fiction is novel by Holman
Day, King Spruce. Mr.. Clifford
Pinchot, their chief, calls King Spruce
one of the best pictures of the woods
he has ever found. He says it has an
appreciation of forestry that is keen
and right, and the likelihood also of do
ing deal of good. But the story it.
self is what holds the enthusiasm of
the Woodsmen, who fight so we'll them
selves for these forests.
In the August number of The Ameri-
can Bow the fine serials of Houston,
Tomlinson, and Optic, with Weir's
story of his experiences, Under the
! Great White Canvas, continue with in
| creasing interest and there are many
splendid short stories. The Runabout
Trio at the Chicago convention gives a
most interesting account of what three
bows saw and heard while attending
the National Republican Convention
at Chicago. Then there are How to
Float. Trapping Hints for Boys, Open.
! ing of the Oyster Season, Talks with
the Doctor, and Destroyer of Boys,
while the various departments are filled
with the sort of matter which appeals
to the boys with hobbies.
Last month Joe Chapple, editor OF
the National Magazine, told the story
of the Chicago convention in his breezy
way, and in the August number he de
picts the Denver convention with pen
and pictures. The Home Department,
as usual, has large number of practi-
cal and useful hints to home makers
the serial essays on "My Lord Hamlet
are worthy the thoughtful considera.
ton of every student and lover OF
Shakespeare. Continued chapters OF
that charming serial, ''The Keeper OF
the Door," appear in this issue. Every
one of the stories has the snap and
90 about them that is SO entertaining
and belongs peculiarly to these gllmpses
of national life; and the fiction of the
National has long been recognized as
of high standard.
Now that Joel Chandler Harris is
dead, practically the only novelist to-
day who halls from the State OF
F! Georgia is Mr.. Will n. Harden. The
/ late beloved Southerner was in fact the
patron of young Harden when the
latter began to write many years ago,
/ and in recent years the Uncle Remus
Magazine has contained a generous
share of Harden sketches. Mr.. Harden
dedicated one of his early books OF
sketches of northern Georgia to Mr..
Harris. This scarcity OF novellsts IN
Georgia is very singular in comparison
with snch prolific States as Indiana, or
even Tennessee and Kentucky. MI.
Harlem makes up for it, as well as one
man may by giving all his novels
/ Georgian settings. Perhaps the best
known of his books are Nam Linda, a
Harper success of last autumn, Abner
| Daniel, and Ann Boyd