The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-15
Literary News and Notes.

Joe Lincoln has followed his delightful
Cape Cod stories, Captain Fri, ''Mr.
Pratt, etc, with new book, "Our Viii
lage,' in which he gives graphic pic
ture of the Cape 30 years ago.
Charles FELTON, Pidgin' has returned to
his first and greatest success, Quincy
Adams Sawyer" and has written for
April publication ''The Further Advent
ures of Quincy Adams Sawyer
Not less than 81 separate books devot-
ed to Lincoln, including lives, odes, re-
miniscences, recollections or books on
his death, have already been issued thus
far this year and there are few more to
come.
Rudyard Kipling, like H. G. Wells and
Jules Verne, has taken flight into the
future in his newest book, ''With the
Night Mail, in which he chronicles the
flight of a postal packet on it's aerial
voyage from London to Quebec in the
year 1000 A. D.
Miss Jean Webster. the author of
''Much Ado About Peter" is the grand
niece of Mark Twain, and the daughter
of this humorist's former publisher,
Charles L. Webster. She is best known
as the author of "When Patty Went to
College" Miss Webster is herself a
Vassar graduate.
1t is asserted that the II Philippine
stories in Rowland Thomas ''The Little
Gods, Melted this american Kiping, J"
as he has been called, $4,000; that is to
say, $4,000 for Pagan" the Collier prize
story, and $4,000 for the other 10. AS the
book contains about $4,000 words Mr..
! 'Ihnpn r,oolofaI ohor1f E.,
word, which most new authors would as
sert was ''going some.'
The justifable Indignation of the set
ting hen at being disturbed by the bow
while attending to her duty is admirably
and humorously expressed in the picture
on the front cover of the April Ameri-
can Boy, while the whole contents of the
magazine show excellence in quality and
character. The opening chapters of
Norman Brainerd's fine serial, winning
His Shoulder-Straps; or, Bob Anderson
at Chatham Military Academy" are
given and will undoubtedly make a hit
with the boys. ''In Old Shiawassee" is
concluded, and Frontier Boys on the
Overland Trail is continued four chap
tiers. There are many interesting and
. exciting short stories and the various de-
|
A striking feature of the April number
of McClure's Magazine is the third of
George F. Parker's papers on Grover
Cleveland, which contains the ex-presi-
dents opinions of some of his great con-
temporaries-J. Pierpont Margan, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, James J. Hill, Senator
Foraker and others. Burton j Hendrick
contributes an interesting article on the
discovery OF serum at the Rockefeller
Institute, which has reduced the mortal
1ty OF spinal meningitis from seventy-fve
to twenty-five per cent. Mrs. Harris R.
Chllds writes of the picturesque ivory
trade; Rudolph Cronau tells about the
Wanton waste of our natural resources,
and Guglielmo Ferrero, the great Italian
historian, who came to this country at the
invitation of President Roosevelt, contri-
butes remarkable paper on Nero and
the Christian persecution. The number
also contains another installment of Mrs.
Humphry Wards great novel Marriage
a la Mode, and four short stories: "Our-
self and Woman by Inez G. Thomp-
son; 1.-THE Dwellers' by E. Nesbit; 1.-The
Waters of Thunder,' by Edmund Cand-
Ter, and 1.-The Brake-Beamer, bv Fran
els Lynde.
imagination in Business" by Lorin
f. Deland, which leads the table of con-
tents OF the April Atlantic, is brilliant
discussion of the possibilities of trade
through the exercise of that single quail
ity which makes man capable of sue
stallment of Gideon Welles's Diary gives
novel and intimate details concerning the
Emancipation Proclamation and the cabal
against Seward, which almost disrupted
Lincoln cabinet. In j. O. Fagan's rail-
road series the switchman- author takes
up the fundamental problem of Unionism
and efficiency. John Burroughs contri-
butes an imaginative paper on what he
calls "The Long Road" of evolution, and
Charles M. Harvey picturesque account
OF Fur Traders as Empire Builders. f" In
this number appears the last of Mr.. r.
l.. Harris witty descriptions of various
phases of social life in the back street, and
an entertaining paper on ''The Forty I'm
MORALS of the French Academy, which
comes from Mrs. Mary Bigot. Education
is admirably represented by Professor
Reinsch's '"The New Education in China.
while Kelly Miller contributes thought
full paper on the Negro Problem which
is particularly interesting in the light of
President Taft's policy as announced in
his inaugural. Among the stories in this
number, it is entertaining to notice that
The Skeleton in my Closet" which has
all the thrill of a nightmare, must be
credited to the genial and conservative
ex- Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long
Included also in the fiction of the number
are highly original story entitled Co
operative Ghosts by Florence Con-
verse, and cat the Cafe d'Orsay,' by
John M. Howels, son of the distinguish
ed novelist, who begins his own literary
career with this story. No description
of the number is complete without men
ton of the series of capital parodies of
famous poets, who are all represented as
being filled with the inspiration of spring. !