The Republican journal., 1909-06-03
. Literary News and Notes.

The joys Of vacation time are vividly
recalled by the picture of the Old Swim
min Hole which adorns the front cover
page Of the June American Boy. The
contents are both varied and interesting.
The opening chapters of fine serial
dealing with the opening days of the
American Revolution are given. It is
entitled the Young Continentals at Lex
mgton, and boys will get from it a
glimpse of the stirring history of those
fateful times. Winning His Shoulder
Straps is continued four. chapters. "A
number of splendid short stories and the
usual entertaining and instructive depart
ments make up an excellent issue.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of
the June Woman's Home Companion is
the wealth of fiction. There are ten
stories IN this issue-not heavy, psy-
Geological diagnoses of world-word minds,
but breezy stories of love and fun that
are suitable to the season. Among the
Hale, Maude Radford Warren, CYRUS
Townsend Brady, Marion Hamilton Car
ter, Mary Hastings, Ernestine Winchell.
Georgia Wood Pangborn, Frederick M.
Smith, Marion Hill, Annie Hamilton
Donnell and Rosa Naomi Scott. The
stories are illustrated by prominent ar
fists, among whom are F. C. Yohn and
John Cecil Clay. Naturally, much is said
about weddings in this June issue.
The June National Magazine, of Bos-
ton, meets the irrepressible desire for
good stirring fiction, to follow up the
good health that comes after the sulphur
and molasses of the spring time. In all
the wlnsomness of the graduate girl, the
National appears on the neWsstands
with one of Blumenthal's covers, redo
lent OF the beauty and passion of early
summer tide. The sentiment of the
month is toasted in a tribute to the
Esprit Of Bunker Hill" The quadruple
frontispiece shows Mrs. Taft in her in
augural gown. The opening section of
the magazine contains Joe Chapple's
sparkling comment on the process Of tar
iH-making, combined with pictures that
excite the interest of the reader. His
unique pen pictures of men and affairs at
Washington mark an epoch in magazine
making, affording the entire family the
''open sesame to the mystic workings
of life and procedure at the White House
and Capitol.
The June number of the Atlantic Month
~ opens with the first installment of
General Morris Schaff new series of war
memories, 'The Battle of the Wilder
ness.' Those who recall the charm and
interest of General Schaff's earlier series,
''The Spirit of Old West Point" will
read these opening pages with especial
pleasure. A melancholy interest attach
es to the publication in this number of
another paper by Anna A. Rogers, as it
was completed only short time before
her death. Mrs. Rogers will be remem-
bered as the author, Of one of the Allan
tics most successful papers "Why
American Marriages Fail" In this
paper she has discriminating and pungent
things to say under the title "Some
Faults of American Men," Two other
contributions naturally link themselves
in the readers attention, Richard Bur-
toms virile and suggestive verses, wis
tas of Labor" and Jonathan Thayer
Lincoln S paper on factory development
under the suggestive title ''The Time
Clock" There is abundant material in
this number to stimulate the interest of
those concerned with the problems of
education, and to make good the claim
of the Atlantic as magazine which
opens it's pages to the fearless discussion
of such problems.