The Republican journal., 1911-08-24
Literary News and Notes.

Margarita Spalding Gerry has left tn,
heat of Washington for the cool breeze.
of "down East" and is now at Haven
Maine. She is giving the finishing
touches to her fall book, which is to be
not unlike her last, 1.-THE Toy Shop: A
Story of Lincoln" in its sympathetic
qualities.
Margaret Deland has gone to her beau
tiful summer home, Kennebunkport, Me-,
for rest and change after her four years
work on THE Iron Woman" She ex-
poets to spend part of the summer in a
camp in the heart of the woods and will
not return to her Boston home until
after 1.-The Iron Woman" is published.
Holman Day. after winter and spring
abroad, has returned to this country and
IS now yachting on the Maine coast
Cap'n Srroul, the retired sea captain in
his book, ''The Skipper, and the Skipped, p"
has such flavor of reality about him
that it is almost possible to believe that
he is sitting on the deck of Mr.. Day s
yacht, spinning some more of his out
rageous yarns.
William Dean Howells IS dividing his
summer between Kittery Point, Maine,
and Europe. He expects to reach Spain
eventually, country he has not visited
for years. 1t is possible that this trip,
like many earlier ones, may result in a
book of travels. All his writings are at
last being collected into a complete
edition. During the last year he has
written two books, and one of them,
my Mark TWAIN is likely to take its
place among the best.
Albert Bigelow Paine, who acknowl-
edged that in writing his book. 1.-THE
Ship Dwellers, he was inspired by the
earlier and famous trip of the limo
cents Abroad" has gene to Europe for
the summer. And now he is following in
the footsteps of the author of the 'In-
nocents,' in search of facts connected
with Mark Twain's life in Europe. These
he expects to embody in his life of his
friend, the great humorist. Strangely
enough, Mr.. Paine's last book was for
young readers. "The Hollow Tree Snow
ed-ln Book.
The American Magazine announces
that it is to begin immediate publication
of the Autobiography of Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin. The September
number contains an article introd uctory
to the series. La Toilette is described as
one of the greatest fighting liberals of
this generation, a man who has had a
world OF adventures and met all the
most important men of our time. These
adventures he will report and these men
he will characterize. The September
American contains fiction by w. ].
Locke, James Oppenheim, James Hoop
er, Wells Hastings and Inez Haynes Gill
more.
Ordinarily there are so many unusual
articles in each number of Popular Me
chanics Magazine that it is difficult to
choose a few as features The Sep
TENDER number however, is an eXcep-
ton to this rule, for while it contains the
usual amount of interesting material,
Barney Oldfeld's long, illustrated article
on automobile racing is certain to create
a sensation and provoke comment-if
not legislation all over the country.
Mr.. Oldfield, probably the most expert
enced driver of fast cars in the world,
and who declare he was never famou
until he went through the fence at St.
Louis and killed two spectators, accuses
the public of blood thirstiness, and the
race governing associations of greed.
The writer is never abusive. Fact by
fact, incident by incident, picture by
picture, he pleads his case, resting it at
the bar of American public opinion,
which, he declares, ceases to condone
faults the moment the wells of pretended
VIRTUE or progress are torn away.
The September Woman's Home Com
panion is the advance fall fashion num-
Der of that periodical. 1t contains an
immense amount of fashion news that
will interest and be of practical service
to women. Grace Margaret Gould, who
conducts the fashion department of the
Companion, does her work admirably;
that is, her object seems to be-not to
present fashions in way that will in
but in way to show the great mass of
women how they may dress fashionably
and yet at reasonable cost. On the enter
tainment side the September Companion
is an unusual number Notable and lively
fiction is contributed by Alice Brown,
Annie Hamilton Donnell, Anna Mcclure
Sholl, Mary Heaton Worse, John D.
Swain and others. Eight special arti-
cles, full of new facts and ideas, are in
Guided. The titles of some of these are:
what Companion Readers Think About
the Cost of Living" 1.-The Boy and Some
of His Opinions, - 1.-The Modern Woman s
Paradise, Housekeeping by Electrici-
ty," Saving Steps in the Kitchen. J"
Fourteen special departments, and the
great fashion, home decoration and
household features, complete the num-
ber