The Republican journal., 1910-03-03
Literary News and Notes.

Mark Twain before his return to Ber-
muda said: 'My active work in this life
and for this world is done. shall write
no more books, attempt no more lectures
or new work. | have half a dozen un-
finished books that have hardly touched
in three years. Among them is my auto
biography, of which 100, 900 words have
been written. There are still 500, 900 to
write.
The March Strand is full of good things.
Capital stories by well-known authors
including w. w. Jacobs and A. E. w.
Mason-interspersed with attractive ar
ticles 90 to make an excellent number of
this favorite magazine ''The Hand of the
Actor should be read by everyone who
takes an interest in expression. 1t is
contributed by David Belasco, George
Arliss, H. B. Irving, Forbes Robertson
and other well-known theatrical lights.
Professor Ward supplies mature"
article and Constance Clyde writes
upon ''Freaks of Eyesight. Some beau
tiful examples of flashlight photography,
reproduced in sepia, constitute the color
section for this month.
]. P. Morgan, Jr, and Emma Gold
man are among 1.-The Interesting Peo-
ple'' whose biographies and portraits APP
pear in the department of that name in
the March number of the American
Magazine. H. Arlington Bruce writes
about William James Sidis, the wonder
full boy prodigy, who at eleven years of
age has. lectured before professors at
Harvard on the Fourth Demension, "
and Thurston Welton, M. D. contributes
a thrilling but true story of the inhu-
mainly and brutality Of the New York
city police force. A high standard of
fiction is set by stories from the follow,
ing authors: Ralph D. Paine, Lincoln
Colcord, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Earl
Deer Biggers, and Inez Haynes Gilmore.
At the very moment when every
woman in the country is thinking of
''spring clothes" the Woman's Home
Companion appears as big fashion num-
Der and contains remarkable lot of in
formation as to what will be worn, and
why. Every important item connected
with the latest thing in dress is treated
in careful and instructive manner.
Articles on French hats and French novel
ties are only small part of the general
scheme. But the helpfulness of this
magazine is not confined to the question
of clothes. Etched metal work, a new
fad; the making of bead bags; the build
ing and furnishing of houses, and the
many sciences that go to make up a we'll
ordered home are all considered in the
usual excellent departments.
The National Magazine for March has
all the sweep and vigor of the early
spring winds, from the expression of
Uncle Sans genial countenance on the
cover to the last "ad'' in the inside. In
the boisterous March breezes the genius
Of ,frxr hold, foc% +oh hot
possibly the readers of the magazine will
wonder whether this brisk gale is merely
a March wind, or the evidences of great
and favorable gale of prosperity blowing
the miasms Of panic and apprehension
from moral atmosphere of the nation.
The keynote of the number is the swing
of popular sentiment toward fuller ap-
probation of the President, and belief
that this is to be the prosperity year. !"
The opening article is vigorous, terse
summary of Zone Year Of Taft Pros
perity," and makes the first three pages
: of the March number fairly flutter with
breezy interest.
Everybody's for March opens with a
new serial, "a Successful Wife," anony-
nous. Who the writer may be, probably
is one of the mysteries of authorship
which seem lately to have become fashion
able in the literary world. From a first
glance it would appear that to become a
successful" wife is task attended with
some considerable turbulence, and the
editorial introduction indicates that the
woman question of the moment is to have
an airing in fictional form. The Burg
lar" is one of Arthur Stringer's thrillers:
"Bishop Ogowanna, is a good-natured
skit on the pompous native clergy of the
South Seas, by T. S. Miller and Billee
Glynn; Shadow is one of Grace Mac
Gowan's significant fictional treatments
of the negro problem; s"The Mountain
and Mahomet," by Joseph c. Lincoln, is
broad New England humor, with touch
of love and sentiment, and Bessie R..
Hoover gives us new phase Of Pa Flick:
myers famous family under the title Of
"Jed's Jonathan"