The Republican journal., 1912-08-08
Literary News and Notes.

The New England Resorter for August
is the Mountain Number and the illus
trations include striking two-page view
of Mount Adams and Mount Madison,
two of the loftiest peaks in the famous
presidential range of the White Noun
tains of New Hampshire. The front cover
has an attractive picture in colors by
Chase Emerson of the August summer
girl. While the number is distinctly
mountain-number, there are many other
interesting things in It, with New
England Resorters" tells what fashion
able America and New England's best
people are doing while on their vacation.
Fourteen Lessons in French" is an ex-
ceptionally clever short-story typical of
resort life by Norton Campbell; in
"Cap'n Bill and the Blue Fish," William
F. Lehman pictures the delights of blue
fishing on Buzzards Bay, and Felix Koch
gives most interesting account of life
on Old Nantucket. And "The Woman
of IT, has lot of things in it of interest
to the girl who goes mountain climbing.
Out this week. Resorter Pub. Co., Man
chester, Mass. On newstands, Is cents
the copy.
The spirit of the Seven Modern Won
ders of the World-every one of them
the result of the application of mans
thought to the service of mankind-dom-
mates the August number of Popular
Mechanics Magazine. The publication
conducted an international poll to de-
termine what the eminent scientists of
the world regarded as the seven greatest
modern achievements. The result was
most interesting in that, as H. H. Wind
Modern Wonders is the thing itself-not
the instrument. To the Ancents, a
wonder had to be fashioned with the
of size and strength. The Modern Won
ders find their inspiration in an improve
ment of human life-every human life
and their conception in minds. not in
muscle" Each of the Modern Wonders
is discussed in the August magazine, the
contributions including: 1.-THE Tele-
phone" by Alexander Graham Bell;
"Wireless,' by F. Minturn Sammis:
''The Aeroplane, by Albert F. Zahm;
1.-The X-Ray," by Robert Williams
Wood; "Antiseptics and Antitoxins,
by E. E. Hyde; Spectrum Analysis,
by David Todd; "Radium," by Herbert
N. Mccoy.
August-preeminently devoted to vaca-
tions-is also the fiction month. Even
the man or the woman whose year is
pretty we'll given up to digging after
truth casts longing eye toward at least
few idle days, with diverting story in
a coy nook. 1t rests, while it stimu-
lates. Lippincott's August number has
been regulated accordingly, for it opens
with an unusually bright and entert in
loff olx lob Po11n
This is the first long story of a writer
whose short stories are attracting wide
attention Florence Selden Peple. The
scenes are laid on an ocean liner and in
Paris. The author displays delicious
sense of humor, as we'll as strong de-
scriptive powers, in her accounts of her
young heroine's experiences with ''The
Old Gray Thing with the eccentric
preacher, with the pugilist travelling in
cognito, with the ships captain, with the
crazy sailor, and with all the other inter-
esting people she meets on shipboard,
together with Monsieur the Duck, "
Marie with the soul French, and the
others who helped render her stay in
Paris memorable. Lady Make Believe
herself is young American writer who
goes abroad partly for her health and
partly to study French. A romance
started on shipboard soon develops as
founding complications and puzzling
mystery. There is happy ending to the
story, although for time it looks as if
such result were out of the question.
Among the short-stories is a remarks able
one called yellow Water" by Will
Lexington Comfort, whose time is too
fully taken up with writing 'tbest SELL
ers" to do much in this line. Other in
teresting stories are '"The Heritage of
the Serpent" by Stanley, Olmsted. and
"a Belated Rosebud" by Emily Newell
Blair. A new series Of .Short-Story
Masterpieces" starts in this number,
Russian authors now being represented.
The August Masterpiece is "Silence," a
weird tale by Leonid Andreyev. As
usual, there is an introduction by the
Editor.
"Burbury Stoke.'' summer novel by
the author of ''The Clammer, !" of happy
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