The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
Literary News and Notes.

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Literary News and Notes.
The May Strand is an especially good
number, containing excellent fiction by
Hall Game, Conan Doyle, w. w. Jacobs
and others less famous. The articles
deal with such widely different subjects
as Mountaineering Tragedies" 1.-The
Whirligig Beetle, "Mazes and How to
Thread Them" and 1.-THE Light Side of
Finance" Alma Tadema, r. A., the
famous artist of Greek subjects, con-
tributes some chapters Of MY Reminis-
cences, which are illustrated with many
of his best-known pictures. An amusing
story by Lloyd Williams regarding a
trained donkey is embellished with some
inimitable sketches by the animal artist,
j. A. Shepherd.
In it's June number the New Idea
Woman's Magazine offers many attrac-
tive features. One of the articles that
will be enjoyed is Ada Patterson's de-
scription of ''The Gods of the Girls. :"
The various matinee heroes are sketched
with clever art. ''Six Months Away
From my Own Kind by Honore Willsie,
carries with it the outdoor spirit. The
writer tells of her experiences in min
ing camp on the Arizona desert ''Mak-
ing Commencement Worth While,'' by
Maude Burchit Akers, gives good advice
to the girl graduate. In ''Woman as a
Good Citizen" Mary Eastwood Knevels
points out the duties of the non-voter.
Allen Sutherland offers suggestions con-
corning Intensive Farming in the City"
a most successful method of helping the
poor to help themselves. The fiction for
the month is just what the summer read
err will want, and the fashions cover a
wide field of feminine interest.
Recreation makes one claim for dis
tinction, which is certainly warranted
by the current issue. Its articles and
pictures there are 1913 fine reproduc-
lions from photographs in the May num-
ber-are from the pens and cameras of
men who have "been there Recreation
is always virile, full of interest and al
ways trustworthy. Emerson Hough
author Of the famous novel "54-4O or
Fight, and one of the best of practical
sportsmen, contributes an intensely in
teresting article entitled The Native of
world famed yachtsman, gives instruc-
tons for getting acquainted" with a
small yacht. There are twenty other
instructive and interesting articles in
this May number, covering the field of
outdoor recreation fishing, shooting, bait
casting, canoeing, automobiling, kennel,
etc., ETC., which will strongly appeal to
sportsmen. The cover of Recreation is
one of the most successful in colors of
the seasons production and alone is
worth the price of the magazine.
1.-The Hundred Worst Books" is the
engaging topic with which Samuel NJ
Crothers opens the May Atlantic. The
whimsical humor of his essay is balanced
by the serious and suggestive paper that
follows it, 'Is Immortality Desirable?"
by G. Loves Dickinson, the famous
author of "The Letters of Chinese Of
ficiap' and other contemporary classics.
In his article on Railroads and Public
ity," James O. Pagan reaches the eli
max OF his series, supporting the grave
charges he makes against unionism in a
way which will be difficult enough for the
unions to answer The other Atlantic
series, ''The Diary of Gideon Welles, "
provides an interesting installment on
the gross mistakes of Seward during the
early years of the war. The old naval
secretary tells the truth, as his custom
was, without the slightest reserve. 9th
er telling articles in the number are a
timely paper on Charter Making in Am
erica" by Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
''Occupational Disease and Economic
Waste" by c. E. A. Winslow, and
newspapers as Historical Sources by
the distinguished historian, James Ford
Rhodes. Papers in less serious vein in
clude one on the Circus, by Ralph Ber-
gengren, women in the Young Turks
Movement, by Mrs. Kenneth Brown,
and an entertaining article on the adver-
tisements of Addison s famous Spectator
which apparently put the modern adver-
tiser in rather deep shade. The number
is especially strong in fiction, which in
cludes ''The Other Mrs. Dill" by Alice
Brown, "The Cobweb,' by iona Gale,
and 1.-THE Revenge of Chanticleer,
written in beautiful English by French
writer, Ernest Dimnet. The poetry
comprises sonnet by William Watson,
some very modern lines on ''The Aeron-
auts," by Rhoda Hero Dunn, Spring in
Ireland, by Ethel Holt Wheeler, and a
long and remarkable poem by Josephine
Preston Peabody entitled ''The Trees. :"
An important unsigned review of recent
fiction and a delightful Contributors
Club complete the number.