The Republican journal., 1910-06-02
Literary News and Notes.

June is month in which so many inn
portant events happen that the con.pre-
hensive woman's magazine must be I'M
usually full of interesting articles. The
June number of the Woman's Home
Companion includes wedding Gifts That
are Different" "a Novel Graduation
Program, when You Graduate" "a
Vacation Trip to Europe" etc. Kate v.
Staint-Maur contributes another of her
practical articles this month on straw
berry culture, and the love song, Your
Worth All the World to Me-" by Alfred
G. Robyn, is just the right thing to sing
on summer evenings. Unusually care
fully selected fashions are shown this
month by Grace Margaret Gould, with an
eye particularly to the needs of the girl
graduate. The special departments are
filed with timely and good advice on
many subjects: and the younger readers
of the Woman's Home Companion find in
the June number almost small maya
zine for themselves.
Evidence that young people naturally
turn to good books-if they are as inter-
esting as highly colored trash-is given in
letter to the publishers of "Boy Life
a volume from William Dean Howells's
writings. A teacher in the seventh grade
of the New Rochelle, New York, schools
had read several pages from 'Boy Life"
to her pupils, and the letter adds: ''That
afternoon fifteen boys from this class ap
piled at the public library for copy of
Boy Life The teacher, to whom the
librarian reported the fact, said that she
had rot suggested that the pupils call at
the library for the book, as she had in
tended to continue the reading with her
class. This incident is certainly tribute
to the charm of this selection from How
ells's writings, and makes it plain that
grammar-school pupils will respond with
enthusiasm to good literature"
The Strand for June contains nire
stories by popular writers and twelve ar
ticles of interest. George Edwardes, of
the Gaiety and Days tneaters, London,
writes his "reminiscences" and inciden-
tally remarks that musical comedy sell
dom pays on its London production.
Willy Clarkson, the famous makeup"
man, discourses on 1.-THE Art Of Dis
guise,' and an anonymous writer con-
tributes an appreciative article-fully
illustrated-on 1.-THE Art Of the British
Working Man." Another series of
"Life-Size Portraits is given, the pho
tographs including Maude Adams, Will
lam Gillette, Ida Conquest, Ethel Barry
more and David Belasco. An interesting
mature" article is one entitled IA
Plant that Quenches Thirst" Andrew
Soutar describes and illustrates number
of models which have been produced
in court" to aid juries in their decisions.
The issue is interesting from cover to
cover.
"What about the Democratic party?H
is the title of Ray Stannard Bakers ar
ticle in the June American Magazine. In
it Mr. Baker points out that the Demo-
cratic party is steadily gaining strength.
James Oppenheim writes of his investi-
cations among the almshouses in New
York State. The things of which he
writes are almost unbelievable. 1t is
hard to conceive of such human suffering
as Mr.. Oppenheim describes. ''The
Wonders of Pitching by Hugh 9.
Fullerton, is another Of the notable series
of baseball articles which are appearing
in this magazine. Other features, all of
which are amusing and OF a humorous
vein are "a Week of One Night Stands"
in England" by Charles 7. Whitefeld,
alnd Upon the Threatened Extinction of
the Art of Letter Writing" by George
Fitch The fiction is contributed by Lin
coin Colcord, and James Francis Dryer,
and Mary Heaton Worse, while the de-
partments of ''In the interpreters
House" and THE Pilgrims Scrip con-
tain their usual amount of meaty read
ing.
The complete novel in the June Lip
pencott's is ''Francine' and the author
is Marie Louise Goetchius, VINO has the
book Came of Treboul'' and many ex-
cellent short stories to her credit. A
timely and forceful paper on ''The Tar
if, the Cost of Living, and National
The sixth and last of Joseph NJ. Rogers
articles on "What is Wrong with Our
Public Schools is entitled "a Model
School Outlined" In it Mr. Rogers
shows what he thinks should be done to
place our public school system on the
plane it should occupy. Among The short
stories are 1.-The Headstone of the Cor
ner, characteristic tale of rural life,
by Eden Phillpotts, author of children
of the Mist, ''Sons of the Morning."
etc; ga Cabin and a Claim by Will
Lexington Comfort; "Stage-Struck, by
Lucy Copinger; doctor Bodgett's
Duty" by Arthur Stanley Riggs; 1.-The
Chauffeur" by Eleanor NJ. Ingram, and
''Bluebeard Closets" by Elizabeth
Maury Coombs. Delightful sketches are
by Thomas L. Mason, Who writes on
June" and Ellis 0. Jones, who dis
courses on Baseball Fans"
With the June number, Everybody's
Magazine celebrates its eleventh birth
day, and the end of the seventh year
under the present ownership. 1t marks
the event with significant cover utter
ance and an interesting expression from
the publishers elsewhere, in addition to
putting forth one of the best NUMBERS of
the magazine yet issued. Southwest
ward Hon' is ar illustrated article by
Herbert Kaufman calculated to do JUS
tice to the stirring movement into that
part of the country. ''The Cost of
Women's Clothes" by Emily Post, will
help to clarity at least one of the finan-
cial problems of the day. "Will your
Widow Get Her Money!" is an article of
widest interest calling attention to the
value of the spirit and plan Of the fra
ternal life insurance orders, and showing
the weaknesses in them that must be re-
formed if they are to continue IN safe
and prosperous service to the people.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey answers his critics
in a final article of his important series.
A skit for all householders to read is
Eugene Woods delightful why Pay
Remit" and iH sociolopi cal contrast an