The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-11
Literary News and Notes.

The November installment of the :sDi.
airy OF Gideon Welles' in the Atlantic
Monthly deals with the circumstances
surrounding the death of Lincoln. It is
the most accurate and detailed account
in existence of Lincoln's last DAYS. being
written only three days after the events
occurred, There is further installment
of General Schaff narrative of the t.Bat-
tie of the Wilderness" poems by Rich
ard Watson Glider, Olive Dargan. Madi-
son Carwein, and Mrs. SCHUYLER Van
RENSSELAER,, and the number is completed
by the usual entertaining Contributors
In Notes and Queries in the Boston
Transcript we find this mention of a
Maine author: "Boy Life in the United
States Navy" was written by Rev. Hen
~ H. Clark, chaplain at United States
Naval Academy, and is one of series of
very popular books for boys. He has al
so published at least one volume of po-
ems. He was born in Midtown, Me-,
about sixty-five years ago, worked at the
bench as shoemaker until over thirty
years of age, when he studied for the
ministry, and was ordained as Metho-
dist minister. Rose to his present posi-
ton quite rapidly. Was with Grant on
his trip around the world.
With the issuance of the November
number, the American Boy completes the
first ten years of an enjoyable and useful
LIE, and the fact is duly chronicled in two
pages OF this number, handsomely illus
trated with half-tones Of it's editorial and
business staff, and number of its prin-
ceipal contributors. The splendid picture
IN colors of the Puritan boy with the
pumpkin, which adorns the front cover
page, eloquently tells of the delights of
the Thanksgiving feast, and the contents
are as agreeably varied as the Thanks
giving menu. To the boys who are anx
ious to do things the various departments
are specially appealing. In addition there
are 100 illustrations, and handsomely
gotten up eight-page Premium List. $1.00
year. The Sprague Publishing Co.,
Detroit, Mich.
With Pickpole and Peavey, or Two
Live Boys on the East Branch Drive, is
a new story of the Maine woods by c. B.
Burleigh, that delightful writer Of tales
OF the Maine woods, who has already in
troduced many of the characters here
portrayed in his previous book, All
Among the Loggers. Norman Carver,
son OF General Carver, a Boston attor-
ney, is sent into the woods as clerk in a
logging camp at Quadrate lake. While
there he chums with Fred Warner, cooks
assistant, who is fine, manly fellew;
and the reader becomes acquainted with
others who follow Norman into the mazes
OF the present volume, which deals with
his adventures as clerk Of the drive on
the Sebois. There are Big Pete Bedotte,
a French teamster, Sol Soc, and Old
Town Indian, Felix Lamare, the camp
cook, Jud Skinner, Yankee woodsman,
and Billy Eustace, the camp boss, all
typical characters of the lumber drives
on the Penobscot river. The book is full
OF adventures in which the two lads
acquit themselves with courage and re-
sourcefulness. The windigo, a spectral
figure which frightens the camp, turns
out to be hermit, who talks in sounding
periods, but proves a friend in need to the
young men later on, when their encounter
with Gusty Peters and Black Jake brings
them into troubled waters. There is
conspiracy to blow up dam, and some
historical details are drawn upon to fur
nlsh the reason for this episode in the
supposedly peaceful wilds Of Maine. The
charm Of the book lies in it's accurate
description of life on the Penobscot
drives, its perils and jollities, which the
author knows so well how to portray.
Spirited Illustrations by H. C. Edwards,
mainly from photographs taken from
scenes on the lakes and river, where the
logs are f1oated down, make very at
tractive book. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
Co., Boston. Price, $3.50.