The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-02
Literary News and Notes.


story coming from the press of the
Houghton, Miffiin Co. 1t is called Su-
sauna and Sue, and finds its motive in
domestic sentiment. The scene is LAID in
a quaint Shaker settlement
Holman Day, author of King Spruce
and The Eagles Badge, has written for
the September number of Harper's an
interesting account of "The Queer Folk
of the Maine Coast. Driven out of
their old haunts by the ever-increasing
number of cottagers, the queer folk"
have hidden themselves in undesirable
clefts along the coast or in islands not
wanted by people who can buy what they
desire. Mr.. Day found these shy and
lonely characters them the old
man who still digs for Cap'n Kidd's
I treasure; the three old brothers. one of
them a poet, who occupy two separate
| shacks on account of family quarrel
and has written about them with sym
pathetic interest.
There are plenty of good stories in the
| Woman's Home Companion for Septem-
ber-stories by Octave Thanet, Mrs. John
Van Worst, Katharine Holland Brown,
Mary Heaton Worse, and others, illus
trated by such artists as James Mont-
gomery Flagg and Alice Barber Stephens.
Kate Douglas Wiggin's serial story of
the Shakers, Susanna and Sue, - is also
IN this issue. For the theater-goer, Wal
ter Prichard Eaton's article, "The De-
cent Stage" " will prove splendid guide,
giving list of the good, clean, success
full plays that will appear outside of New
York this fall. The childrens depart
ment is even bigger than usual. There
are many pages devoted to embroidery
and other hand work. Fannie Merritt
Farmers cooking pages are full of new
IDEAS, and all the other regular depart
ments are as good as they always are.
In the September Mcclure Lieutenant
! Shackleton, whose remarkable Antarctic
expedition discovered new lands and made
the closest approach to the South Pole
yet achieved by man, begins his story of
the expedition, entitled 'Farthest South, "
in the September McClure's. President
Emeritus Charles w. Eliot of Harvard
describes the great success of the new
Canadian labor legislation under the title
of ''The Best Way to Prevent Industrial
| Warfare. y Sir Harry Johnston, the Eng
lish scientist, gives can Englishman's
/ Impressions of American Rule in Cuba. /"
/ George Kibbe Turner discusses the cur
rent temperance question from a new
standpoint in Beer and the City Liquor
Problem. Jesse Macy, on The Efficiency
of English Courts, and E. T. Brewster
on ''The Fly-The Disease of the House,"
contribute two Interesting and notable ar
ticles. The fiction includes stories by
Percival Gibbon, John Fleming Wilson,
and Kenneth Brown, and there are poems
by Florence Wilkinson and Villa Sibert
Gather.
! Everybody's September number opens
with quaint child story, Happiness, "by
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. This
delicate little yarn is a long way from
Mrs Andrews famous story of a clergy
man. adventures with a humorously in
toxicated college friend, said to have been
taken from an experience of her broth
er's, the Rev. Percy Shipman. But al
though in her new form Mrs. Andrews
strikes no note of fun, she does touch a
| note of human feeling that will linger just
Greer's pictures are what in one of Emily
Posts novels surely would be described
as "delectable. If there are no comic
situations here, the deficiency is made up
in the succeeding pages by L. Frank
Tooker in his sketch, "a Day Off,"
which recounts the doings of a Tammany
picnic. And it goes to prove that being
an editor of The Century, as Mr.. Tooker
is, neither confines him to ''high brow"
aloofness from the homely things of life,
nor makes him ''stand offish" with a rival
publisher. Robert Dunn's 'Semper Sparl-
ing'' is quite thrilling as fiction, but the
| story will also be recognized as patriotic
plea for merchant marine. And it is
convincing. Forrest Crissey's ''Coopera-
| ton Close to the Soil is the sequel to his
'tRobbing the Hand that Feeds, and is,
| in effect, rousing cheer for the new Or
CARNATIONS by which the farmers propose
| to meet trust methods with methods of
trust.
"Hill against Hartman Story Of
the Ten Years Struggle for the Rail
road Supremacy of the Vest is the
leading feature of the September Ameri-
can Magazine It's author, George H.
! Cushing, says "Hill has worked in the
| tomorrow of things. Hartman to-day.
Hill has won by projecting an idea
! ahead of him and working up to it. Har-
riman thinks in present profit and crash
es through opposition with the weight of
his financial support. Hills is the sue
cess of brain; Harriman's of money and
organization. The article gives sur
prising glimpse into the inside workings
of great railroad deals. Ray Stannard
Baker writes about THE Faith of the
Unchurched" and tells why it is that of
! the one billion dollars that has been
given away by Americans during the
past ten years for various philanthropic
purposes, comparatively little has gone
to the churches. ''Women and the Oc-
/, cupations," by Prof. W. I. Thomas,
shows how women are entering the
trades and professions from the top and
| bottom, and that they are therefore en-
I titled to equal suffrage. '1The Evolution
| of Train Robber," by Edgar Beecher
Bronson, is the story of good cow
puncher who went wrong, and Walter
| Prichard Eaton describes where and how
moving pictures are made. High grade
fiction is contributed by Inez Haynes
Gilmore, Mrs. L. H. Harris, Fielding
Ball and James Oppenheim, while inter-
esting reading is offered in "A Servant
on the Servant Problem" ''Margarita's
Soul, 1.-The Pilgrims Scrip" and 'In
the Interpreters House, An impor-
tant editorial announcement is made in
| this issue of the American Magazine
| which will awaken much curiosity and
lively interest in the October and sue
ceeding issues.