The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
Literary News and Notes.

The Family Page of The Youths Com.
panion makes one think of Columbus and
the egg. 1t tells lots Of easy ways OF
doing things. saving wear and tear, =
and most of us wonder why we never
thought of them before ourselves.
Current Literature for August is spec
tally devoted to a discussion Of Mr.. Taft's
reelection possibilities. the Steel Trust
investigation, the new tariff era that
has dawned in the Reciprocity Agree
ment, the European war alarm over Mo-
rocco, and the critical struggle between
the House of Lords and the present
British government. John D. Archbold,
foremost in the reorganization of the
Standard Oil Company; Joseph Little
Bristow, the insurgent Senator from
Kansas; the new and heretofore obscure
Premier of the French government,
Joseph Caillaux; and the rascally Prime
Minister of China, Prince Ching, are set
forth as persons in the Foreground. -
The other departments are, as usual,
timely and interesting.
In the National Magazine for August
affairs at Washington" continue to
present the same popular and versatile
melange of solid information, up-to-date
biography, amusing anecdote, genial
comment and optimistic cheeriness char
acteristic of Joe Mitchell Chapple. Its
illustrations include a full-page portrait
of Senator w. Murray Crane of Massa-
chusetts, of the new Juarez monument
at Monterey, Mexico, the dedication ex-
ercises of the Hall of the Americas"
at Washington, and the magnificent art
window of the Belmont Chapel, Cathe-
dral of St. John, New York City. The
serial, ''The Quest of Honor" is conclud-
ded, and THE Cruise of the Molly o" by
Will Gage Carey, Roy R. Gardner's ''The
Contralto and Mrs. Gordon" and Matt
land Leroy Osborne's dainty 'Love
Story" furnish the fiction of an unusually
interesting and attractive number.
One of the most interesting things in
the August Woman's Home Companion
/ is an article which reports the girlhood
of Mary Garden, the famous grand opera
singer. The article is one of series
just beginning which is to treat of the
girlhood of a number of prma donnas.
The present article contains thrilling
account of Miss Gardens first great
public appearance in Paris. 1t was
sudden call into an important part, and
the young woman made herself famous
in might. How Sold My Daughters, ~
is the title of an extraordinary piece of
self-revelation by mother 'Art in
America is an interesting illustrated
series by George Alfred Williams
"What Man Expects of a Girl and
Margaret E. Sangster's talk on youth
and old age are notable features. I'm
usual fiction is contributed by IONA Gale,
Fannie Heaslip Lea, Dorcas Davis,
Frederick M. Smith, Mary Hastings
Bradley, Harriet T. Spotford and others.
AThe American Magazine for August is
fresh, vigorous blend of real stories
and of keen, straight from the-s shoulder
articles. Mother, by Kathleen Norris,
is one of the great stories of the year,
telling with sympathy and charm how
woman's happiness deepens with the
number of her children: and the great
JOY of bringing life into the world.
Edna Ferber attains new power as a
story-teller, in humorous tale of
lady drummer; Philip Curtiss writes
a vivid, exciting polo story; and Virginia
Tracy contributes an unusual story of
the stage. There is other fiction by
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Harris Mer-
ton Lyon and Dion Calthorp. Walter
Prichard Eaton writes on what to do
with "The Abandoned Farm" He tells
how the cities, which have been the
means of running the New England farm,
shall be the means of infusing into it
warm life again, and there are many
other articles of timely interest .
The place of honor in the August At
lantic is given to a brief novel by Mrs.
Cornelia A. P Conner, author of the At
lantic's Letter to the Rising Genera
tion.' The Long Inheritance is, in es-
sence, very trenchant discussion of the
divorce question. for the plot centres
about divorce made at Reno. Nevada.
where, as one of the characters of the
story says, folks that have real reason
for smash-up don't have to go
Throughout this midsummer number the
element of fiction is strong; there is
another of Madame Dragoumis' dra-
matte stories of modern Greece and a
shorter tale by Paul Marriott. In the
Hands of Receiver, in Dr. Crother's
lnlmltable vein, bemoans the increasing
cost of the higher life, now so prevalent,
when every man feels it his bounden
duty to attend to all the obligations of
his sighbor. Other papers in light and
pleasant humor are In the Key of Clam,
by Atkinson Kimoall Making Believe
Ny 1sopCi W. bdy, anu "A ITdlTle LARA
vansery,' by Margaret Lynn; while Miss
Alcott's New England, by katherine F.
Gerould, and The Uses of the Comic
Spirit in Religion by William Austin
Smith, add the zest of satire. The num-
Der is ballasted by long and important
estimate of the value of the United
States Navy as compared with the
navies of Germany and Japan, written
by the great English naval constructor,
Sir William H. White. Other outstand-
ing papers are Illuminating the Prisons,
by Morrison |. Swift, Darwin at an
American University by Richard C.
Maclaurin, Our National Debt Habit
by W. Martin Swift, and an article on
the forerunners of modern Socialism by
Vida D. Scudder. Mention should also
be made of a short but remarkable mar
rative by Nathan Kraus, young Jewish
boy, who recounts the hideous scenes of
persecution which drove him to America.
A full Contributors Club completes the
number.
FREEDOM.
Mrs. Almatia Wescott found a full blown ap-
pie blossom on one of her early apple trees
July oath. -. Rev. T. P. Williams and son Cor
don from Houlton passing their vacation
with Mrs A. M. Small. ... Mrs. Frank Holmes
and tmn Obi