The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-12-15
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Literary News and Notes.

State Librarian Prince of Augusta has
received check of $25, handed him by
State Superintendent of Schools Smith
from the Colonial Danes of Maine to pay
for libraries to be sent to the remote
school districts of the State This sum
will pay for sending out ten libraries.
| The State now has It's of these libraries,
of which 125 are at present in circulation.
Houghton Mifflin Co., publishers of
the works of the late Julia Ward Wowe,
announce that biography of Mrs. Howe
| is in preparation by her daughters, Mrs.
Laura F. Richards and Mrs. Maud Howe
Elliott. In order that nothing may be
lost from the record of Mrs. Howe's &C.
tivities of many years, the authors re-
quest the loan of letters and character
istic notes that may be useful for the
purposes of the biography. Communica-
tons may be addressed to Mrs. Laura F.
Richards, Gardiner, Maine. All material
sent will be promptly copied and return
ed to the owners. The authors will also
be grateful for any personal anecdotes
or "reminiscences of Mrs. Howe.
The Wide World has long and varied
table of contents, the initial paper being
.'The Fire-Dog of Asu," by Lewis r.
Freeman. Among the others we notice
can Unknown Land H." by Mrs. L.
M. Pagan; "a Honeymoon on the Fam
besi-II," by Mrs. H. E. A. Scott; "The
Mystery of the Blue Hope Diamond
by John G. Rowe; 1.-THE Adventures of
Cow Girl, - by Elsie Salisbury; ITO
Bokhara and Beyond" by Douglas Car
ruthers; ga Naturalist in New Guinea
H." by A. E. Pratt; 'Man- Hunting in
the West" by P. H. Newberry ct al.
The number is profusely Illustrated.
The Atlantic Monthly for December
opens with a discussion of ''The Tariff
and the Tariff Commission. by F. w.
Gaussig, in which clear light is thrown
on certain aspects of this vexed ques-
ton in a manner to interest and in
form the average reader. This Open
ing paper is followed by what is
perhaps the most striking contribu-
ton to the number-tA Hero's Con-
science" by Gamaliel Bradford, Jr.
This is the first of Mr. Bradford's dis
eliminating studies of General Lee, and
will add immeasuraby to the popular ap-
probation of Lee as a man and soldier.
Other contributions of timely interest
and Importance are Zone Way to an
American Merchant Marine" by Ad-
miral Francis T. Bowles, and "The Mat
ter with U.s." by William S. Rossiter.
The second paper from Joseph Husband,
relating his experiences in coal mine,
treats with graphic power the tragedy
of fire under ground. A particularly
sympathetic and valuable paper is con-
tributed by DR.. J. J. Putnam on the late
William James. Among papers and es-
says of more popular interest will be
found prophets or Engineers, "by Rev.
Malcolm Taylor, "a Poets TOLL" by
Anne C. E. Atkinson, and Lying like
TRUTH, by Margaret Sherwood
An edition of the works of Maine au-
thor, Sarah Orne Jewett, in seven uni
form volumes, has been published by the
Boston house of Houghton, Mifflin Com
pany. The Review of Books, New York,
in its notice of this new edition of her
STORIES, gives the author high praise,
from which we make an extract:
"There are writers as individual in the
expression of their art as though there
had never been a book in the world, and
the writing of one had been their own in
vention. Their stories are as distinctly
theirs as are their lives, and what they
give to art is of value, be its bulk what
it may. Sarah Orne Jewett was one of
these unique souls, and her contribution
to American literature is the child of her
own heart and mind, unlike any other,
precious as an entirely sincere voice in
the immense chorus of humanity.
miss Jewett remained among her
gray Maine villages and New England
backgrounds and her own people in prac-
tically every tale she ever wrote. When
her characters pass out into the world
beyond, they commonly leave the story
at the same moment. There are a few
glimpses of foreign parts, the Irish hold
an attraction, and many of the stories
are of those who follow the sea, and so
bring gust of far-faring winds with
them. But it is New England to which
Miss Jewett is constant, and her men
and women, her children and young low
ers, almost all are New Englanders born
and bred.
"These seven volumes chronicle a part
of our national life. Possibly it is bit
hard, sharp sometimes, narrow always;
but it is devoted to an ideal, it is inform
ed with a courage proof against the dew.
il himself, and what is lacking in breadth
is made up in intensity. This phase of
life, now passing from among US, Miss
Jewett has pictured in a series of por.
traits and of Incidents etched with firm
hand and singularly vital. She reveals
the insight of understanding, not merely
that of observation. Her work is sure
to remain permanent part of our liter
AZURE, even as the life it interprets will
remain as a quality of our American
character.
"Among a host of noisier achieve
ments her quiet stories, with their cam
eo-like perfection, re-assert the suprem
acy that belongs to the true artist
whatsoever be the medium employed o,
the subject chosen. Her work, if no
great in bulk, is by no means meagre
and there is, in spite of the apparen
d sameness, no lack of variety. In thi,
) edition, where one is able to run through
/ it all, one is comfortably conscious of ;
;, roundness, a completeness that justifie
{ the use of that rather hackneyed phrase
u life work.
u A WARNING TO MOTHER.