The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-10
Literary News and Notes.

A recent issue of the Literary Digest
has review of a book published by
CHM & Co.. written by Prof. E. II.
Sheath who has summer home in Cam.
den, The title of the book is Words.
worth, Poet of Nature and Poet of Man,
The stories in the April Atlantic are:
"Why it was W-on-the Eyes," by Mar
garet Prescott Montague, and "A Well
Regulated Family" by c. F. Tucker
Brooke. There is long and interesting
installment of the serial, evan Cleve. 3
by Mary S. Watts, and two poems, 1.-THE
! Late Return a narrative poem, bv
Katharine Fullerton Gerouled, and '"To a
Motor" by Louise Imogen Quincy. The
number closes with an entertaining Con-
tributors's Club.
In its issue of April Sd The Youths
Companion begins a serial story which
the editors are confident will make read
ers sit up and take notice. 1t is tine
story of young forester's experiences
in lumber-camp. The lumber com
pany's ''boss" has no use for scientific
forestry or foresters, and the proceed
ings subsequent to the first meeting of
the two are lively enough to please the
most exacting. The story is called ''On
Misery Core" and the author is Holman
Day.
The Woman's Home Companion in its
April number carries on vigorously and
picturesquely its great fight for Better
Babies by reporting the story of con-
test just held in Colorado at which prizes
We're awarded to the finest babies in the
State from the standpoint of health. The
baby photographs that accompany this
article are about as attractive as one
could imagine A national campaign for
Better Babies" is now we'll under way.
Fully one hundred cities al! over the
United States, both large and small, are
planning baby shows of the new sort for
this year-that is, baby shows at which
the standard If supremacy is not to be
beauty, as in the old-time baby shows,
but health and physical excellence.
The April issue of the Theosophical
Path Official organ of the Theosophical
Movement, Katherine Tingley, Editor,
Point Iona, California; cannot fail TO
appeal to all who wish to keep in touch
with the advanced thought Of the day
The cost Of high living by Lydia Ross,
NJ D., we'll told story; against Capt.
tai Punishment" by W. ]. Renshaw, a
dialog; 'Noah's Ark by R. Marchell,
an interpreted ton of the story applied to
the present human race; Literary Tai
ent in the Italian Royal family" by K.
M, and Learners, by Winifred David
son, are all deserving of mention and
add to the interest of truly noteworthy
number.
The revival of interest in Artemus
Ward, stimulated by there cent publica-
ton of ''Artemus Wards Best Stories,
leads the London Spectator to compare
the humor of that writer and of Mr..
Dunno. without Artemus, it says,
Mr.. dunno would never have created
MIR. Dooley' If Mr.. Dunno makes US
laugh more often, the laughter which
Browne (Artemus Ward) arouses is in
finitely the louder For the freedom, for
the self surrender of that laugh one can
forgive him anything. The world has
not known many writers who could make
her laugh out loud, and when she finds
the golden gift she can i'll afford to criti-
cize. And, indeed, the humor of Artemus
Ward defes analysis.
One very interesting contribution to
the April American Magazine is a report
showing exactly how Scientific Manage
ment is working, Now that agitation of
definite results have been obtained in
factories where the invention has been
put into actual operation. One of the
cases reported is that of a Government
Arsenal, where, since the adoption of
Scientific Management, the cost of molds
to the GOVERNMENT Chat is, to the peo-
ple) hassbeen reduced from SLIT each to
$.54 The daily earnings of the molder
have been increased from So % to S.. Ia
The American Magazine has been offer
ing prizes for the best letters descriptive
of THE Bravest Thing | Ever Did. J"
The prize winning letters are published
in the April number.
Taken altogether, Lippncott's Maya
zine for April is a characteristic and
delightful number, maintaining all the
excellencies Of oldtime reputation. The
complete novel is a story of love and
mystery, entitled Don't Trife with
Money" The short-stories are all good
and all lively. The titles and authors
follow; ''The Chain Succession,.' by
Stanley Olmsted; ''Pasetsk the Second
Handler by Mary Inlay Taylor; "An-
derson of the Volunteers, by Charles
Harvey Raymond; 1.-The Escape" by
Annie Steger Winston; "The Weak
ling" by Percy Shaw; and 1.-The Smiles
Suggestion" by Elizabeth Whitford
The Short-Story Masterpiece this month
is Four Days" war time sketch by
the wonderful Russian writer Wsewolod
Garslin. "What He Was" is spark
ling little sketch by Frederick Moxon.
Verses by Ethel NJ. Colson, Richard
Kirk, Madison Cawein, Jane Belfeld,
and others complete the number.
Few people can write description of
ship, machine, natural phenomenon
or strange custom so graphically, com
petely and yet conciseIy that everyone
who reads will see the thing described as
the author saw it," says an editorial in
Popular Mechanics Magazine, "but hun
dreds of paid and volunteer correspond
ents in every part of the world send us
descriptions that need no translations,
drawings that are as accurate as the pro-
cesses of lature-news written with the
camera in the only universal language"
This claim is ably substantiated by the
April number which contains $50 articles
and $50 illustrations, every article writ
ten so you can understand it,, and every
picture telling a story of its own. The
feature article of the month, from which
the handsome cover design is taken, gives
an authoritative list of the Fortunes in
Prizes Waiting to be won." The list in.
cludes both American and fore gn prize
offers, and the prize SUMS range from q
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