The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-09-10
Literary News and Notes.

Home Companion, and contains many
things of interest for every woman.
| American political life, and especial
! ly society in Washington, will be re-
| Elected in couple of volumes which
Duffield & Co., have in press. These
will contain THE Letters of Mrs. as.
G. Blaine" edited by Harriet S. Blaine
Beale. They will cover the period from
1875 to 1890. "
The first of series of unusual covers
in full colors appears on the September
number of Recreation, now on all news
stands. This issue devotes considerable
space, in letter press and pictOrially, to
the sport of the season, boating, al
though camping, fishing, hunting, golf,
motoring, and other clean sports are
treated attractively, and are beautiful
is one which would appeal to any man
recreation that is possibe-Outdoor
News Co., New York.
| General Kuropatkin's Memoirs of the
| RusSo-J japanese War, which were sup
pressed by the Russian authorities, fur
nish the leading article i'll the Sept. Nc
| Cures. General Kuropatkin makes
striking charges concerning the cause
of the war, and remarkable revelatlons
concerning the great policies OF the
Russian Empire. The fiction in this
number is unusually diversified and at
tive. the "reminiscences OF carr ochurz
| Will END with the last chapter OF ms
extraordinary llfe winch he competed
prior to his death in 1906.
Rav Roach antbor of The Rarrier
and The Snoilers himself an extremely
nicturesone fonre of Alaskan adyen-
tnre is hazel, in New York after his
SIMMER Of hnntinp in the far North.
In witness of the affection that attack
ed his eyes and frightened his TRENDS
| through exaggerated press reports, MT.
| Beach is wearing blue glasses, but his
shoulders are as mighty as ever, and he
has nothing but cheerful words tor the
trip and what it brought him. Ihere
were more than few big bears ana a a
good bit of rare game, and the rest OF
the story is yet to be told. The Barrier
| greeted its author by going stralghtWay
into another reprint on the Harper
press.
~ ho frosb1v informed and un.to-
doto rosd tho Sontamher issue of the
Wational Maoazine Its contents are
d a spio" H. for vim and lack of the
u s.m oims od nvor,, element Follow Toe
Chann1s,s r.cv account of "a New Era
rpai;t;aoI Camna;9n;no, for a
glimpse of the inside of the wonderful
mechanism of political campaigning,
the remarkable evolution in national
politics from the old torch-llght meth
DDS to the modern card-index system.
There is not tepid line or Worn-out
bit of information in this splendid ep..
itome of political ways and means.
| In fact the September issue OF the "a
tional is a winner and deserves care
full reading.
Tho rontomher American MAGAZINE is
foir Nv oil liz With GOOD reading Charles
pn ,,ry 'I leadS off 1be numhpr with .sThe
Wnndarland of Dalirium IT is A rec
nv f 10 l'ei'u uso,,ol avnnriencas of the
oIu VI IlJ pens ;thi ~ nast vesr lived
ah, 49, thtaa, dauS IF 6elirinm in
on1U"s ti urfneoI hns ry AZ nsvcho-
iaI lae, VIZ - is s+ory of emrnas
10y lo" ,t uno amd as naca Of wiring
i II e commemorative to De Onincey's Con.
LESSONS OF an OPIUM Eatel. C o',iea
artlcles OF loIdpie i,lteite. or x
fltch humorous oesoIiPs Eais - lon ut'I
divorce coiony alt SIOUX alis, ,sou on
Dakoea, MI. Dooley Dc lent Stanno Ud
pig uahle Huh'ihs, ailu wy Nc St t~ INIT
BAKER pelsonal ooitet t, io ,9,r s''
we oughI 10 40 aoou' 'iio iosio'
It was never new thing for Brit
ish statesman to write a book, but the
wonder grows that so many popular
American storywriters should go in
for politics. Winston Churchill, Booth
Harrington. George AIDE and Brand
Whitlock are among those who have
been closely attracted, and now news
comes that John Kendrick Bangs has
entered politics in Maine, field which
Holman Day. who wrote King Spruce,
is also covering in the coming contest
for the Maine legislature. The career
of John Kendrick Bangs has kept him
in close touch with public iSsues-lt
VIII De rememoereu Una: w We sTn
ne was ed,Io s VI na aan,s first ASSAY at
IS !lils Inc autlny i '" n.s nemocrat
polltlcs: Navy ~, ~ "I Ranos and Mr.,
VINO notea thaI M'; j., p this or " are
Ade' the humoils.s III 'i''' s'oop' ~
also the hepuoiicais'
n, . recent trim in the Maine woods
wh Hn " I Hoimsn MP Dav was gathering
n,atari, lif fn , his novel King Spruce
nn, a ~, of If, tha uarner hest sellers-he
n liom or't 70 '' ..timher cruiser who
sana IL som 90 resnocts The prototype of
| Was Ill oOIlC lCopOCeo VIZ r.