The Republican journal., 1910-10-20
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Literary News and Notes.

John Clair Minot, we'll known gradu-
ate of Bowdoin College and the editor of
Bowdoin Verse and other college publica-
lions, has story in the October 9Th,
issue of the Youths Companion, entitled
THE Baby on the Train.''
Anyone who likes excitement will be
more than ordinarily interested in the
news that The Ridgway Company, the
well-known publishers of Everybody s
Magazine, have issued new publication
which will be entirely devoted to ''the
most interesting and thrilling adventure
stories to be found anywhere. 3" It's
called Adventure, and the first number
has just made its appearance. If the
contents of this issue can be considered
a fair sample of what is to follow, it is
safe to assume that the publishers have
found what they are looking for. 1t is
said that Adventure starts with a circu-
lation that would do credit to an estab-
lished publication of long standing. The
Magazine itself is unique, physically at
tractive and powerfully interesting. 1t
ought to create and fill a distinctly new
place in magazinedom, and be the means
OF entertaining good many hundreds of
thousands of people monthly Here is
Five women head the list of writers in
/ the New Idea Woman's Magazine for
November. Mrs. Robert Edeson writes
most entertainingly on 'Daily Living
With Matinee IDOL" Of course, it is
her own husbands daily life Mrs. Edeson
tells about, and she presents some par
ticularly interesting new facts about this
popular actor husband. Edna Kenton
tells of the Eleanor Clubs of Chicago. -
where the problem of proper living for
girls on small wage seems nearing So
luton. Honore Willsie writes most feel
ingly on ''Home, Sweet Home" Mrs.
Willsie tells Of her pilgrimage to the
home of John Howard Payne, the author
| Of the world-known song. It is an &C.
count filled with pathos and should be
read by all. In ''The Woman in the Pull
pitt Harriet Gillespie pays charming
, tribute to those hundreds of devoted
women in this country who are giving all
| their time to the work of the church.
All girls and women will like "a Woman
Who Sells Dogs" by Elizabeth Lewis.
Of the late Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt
an exchange says: 'Her originality and
keen literary talents early developed,
anu w llllS III IeI CeSIlS lL6 ARTICLES she
wrote appeared in the newspapers of
Portland, Rockland and Hallowell Her
pen has been always busy one. She has
furnished for the Maine papers a great
variety of work in the form of stories.
sketches of people and places, and de-
scriptive poems. For long time the
reading public tried in vain to discover
her identity; she modestly yelled it be,
/ hind so many assumed names. She has
| written under the names 'Minnehaha, -
.'The Dreamer" Inquirer" "Annie
{ May" etc. II is pity that Mrs. Hunts
poems have not been gathered into book
form. She produced some rare and
sparkling gems that should have more
than transitory existence. Among
these we may mention s"The Mission
Dollar Doubled, The Alpine Call, -
''Till He Come" and "My Woodland
Path" She wrote for the human heart
| burdened with cares and sorrows, seek
ing to invoke the ministrations of the
| Great Comforter.