The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-04-07
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Literary News and Notes.

Names gifted author, Kate Douglas
Wiggin, has been invited by Anthony
Hope to respond to one of the toasts at
the annual dinner of the Royal Literary
fund in London on May 5. The other
speakers will be Maurice Hewlett, Gilbert
K. Chesterton, Maarten Martens, Lord
Tennyson and Andrew Lang. May Z,
Mrs. Wiggin will go to Stratford-
Avon to witness the first performance
of The Piper at the Memorial theatre
the author, Josephine Preston Peabody,
having invited her to be present.
The Easter number of the Woman s
Home Companion, besides being a holi-
day edition in spirit, is a big magazine
filled with spring fashions, spring cook
cry, new ideas for every branch of home
making, and the best of reading matter
from some of the most prominent auth
ors. As full of color and life, art and
interest as the inside of an old-fashioned
Easter egg. Never was the household
so well taken care of: Margaret Sangs-
ter, Woods Hutchinson, M. D., Kate V.
Saint Maur, Doctor Jean Williams, all
give their best work: "May.Pole Dane
es, "Wood-Block Printing - "a Per-
fume Garden Happiness Chest, !"
MISS T dTtlleI , heC!peS, GFelyil dISOIlS
Summer Embroideries, Music, Art
these are just some of the contents of
this surprising magazine.
The editors of Everybody's seem to
have set out tc cover, in their April num-
Der, about every phase Of life, and to
provide entertainment and interest for
every member of the family. In '.San-
ity and Democracy, which opens the
magazine, they furnish some remarkable
facts about the success of American
cities under Comission Government.
From this start, they talk about wild
animal photographing in Africa; athlet-
les, straight and tainted, the production
of gold, its romance, and its effect on
high prices; the makeup of an orchestra,
and all the complicated machinery that
goes into the pleasant sounds to which
we dance and sing; the trials of Judge
Lindsey in his fight with machine politics
and corporation greed; the theater and
its people; the new books of the month,
etc. The cover is an absurdly attractive
collection of Easter eggs, with fuzzy
yellow chickens just coming through the
shells. They were photographed from
life, and have at least the merit of in
finite pains.
Miss Mary Johnston, the distinguished
novelist, strikes some hard blows for the
advancement of woman's cause in the
Atlantic for April. Her paper on "The
Woman's War" is strong counter to
Mrs Deland's much-discussed paper of
last month This issue of the Atlantic
opens with discussion Of "Waterways
and Railways" by Logan G. Mcpherson,
which will give small comfort to the ad-
vocates of expanding millions on the de-
velopment of inland waterways Anoth-
err topic appealing to the pochetbooks as
well as to the common sense of Ameri-
cans is concrete discussion of rising
prices by w. Martin Swift. ''The Re-
ligion of the Present." by DR.. George A.
Gordon, is an interesting statement of
those articles of faith which still go to
make up the creed of the intelligent lay
man of to-day. The two historical Sc
ries, ''The Battle of the Wilderness
and Gideon Welles' DIARY of Recon-
struction," are continued in this number.
The stories are "The Madelon Viera,'
by Mary Heaton Worse, and 1.-THE Way
of a Woodchopper, by Edwina S. Bah
cock. Poems by Katharine lyman and
Martha G. D. Bianchi, and an unusually
interesting Contributors Club complete
the number.