The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-11-06

are not tickle In fact, they make ideal
lovers. Pavlova writes on The Fine
Act of Dancing" and Ellen Terry, Hiram
Maxim and Chevalier Ginistrell des-
crbe The Most Impressive Sights
they ever saw. Concerning Cyril
Maude' is an interesting account of the
well-known English actor who is now on
d visit to this country
The November Atlantic begins with
the autobiography of Abraham Nitric
Rihbany, who twenty years ago was "a
penniless Syrian immigrant, and today
occupies the pulpit made famous by
James Freeman Clarke. These first
chapters promise a story as interesting
and significant as Mary Antin's. Rihbany,
who is the son of syrian carpenter,
was brought up under conditions almost
precisely like those described in the
Gospels, and the intellectual and spirit
ual metamorphosis which he has under
gone is even more surprising than the
change in his physical environment. The
other serial in the Atlantic, Letters of
a Woman Homesteader, began in Oc-
tober and has been pleasantly commend
ed. The letters are a human document
IN the real significance of that thread
pdIe term. lney were WFIltel WllHoul
thought of publication by young widow,
who after going out to daily service in d
western city found an opportunity to go
demonstrating, with results that every
reader will enjoy.
In the November American Magazine,
Maravene Thompson begins a new serial
story entitled 1.-The Woman's Law" 1t
is story of double identity: time. the
present; scere, New York. 1t starts out
with the proposition made by judge
who said be could find his double in New
York City inside of half hour-his
double. as regards height, weight, shape
of the head, color of eyes and hair, his
double in these and all the Characters
ties that can be conveyed by descrip-
ton. In the story, woman, in order to
protect her child, acts on this opinion ex-
pressed at dinner party by a judge,
and substitutes an innocent man for a
murderer under circumstances that make
an interesting and thrilling story. Ray
Stannard Baker writes an article entitled
''The Glory Of Panama." in which he
shows how the Big Ditch. dug on honor,
is a fine exam pie of the new idealsm in
business. He commends Uncle Sans
work highly and says that as an example
VI ClilSlCuSy ~ w oOil NC WOI III all IL las
cost if it should be totally destroyed at
the time Of its opening.
| An especially attractive cover design,
32l terse, descriptive articles and 344
vivid illustrations, serve to make the Mo-
vember Popular Mechanics Magazine
one of the best issues of the year. The
cover shows two sailor lads landing a
big gun along an aerial galloway extend
ing from the deck of battleship to the
coast. The stimulus Of the Panama
Canal - masterpiece of engineering
achievement, which recently withstood
Natures severest test, an earthquake
on the spirit of the nations, is manifest
ed by the renewed determination Of the
! British to tunnel the English Channel.
This old project, which is attended with
more complex problems today than ever
before, is discussed in all its bearings byJ.
E. Murphy. Another important transpor-
tation project is the transcontinental
Lincoln Highway which will connect the
Atlantic and Pacific shores of the United
States. A map in the November maya
zine shows the proposed route. H. H.
Windsor. in his editorials for November.
talks on a number of live subjects,
among them, 1.-The Growth of Refrig-
Grafton" "How Big Business Loses.
STANDARD Freight,Cars, and Convict
Built Roads,"
In the November Woman's Home Com
panion the campaign for "BetterBabies"
is still further carried forward by the
establishment of special departing mt
for Better Babies" in which series
of articles is to be published containing
practical suggestions to mothers for the
care of children. These articles are to
be contributed by great authorities on
the subject. The first in the series is
entitled 1.-The Meaning of Motherhood, >.
by DR.. S. Josephine Baker, Director OF
-ChildiHygiene, Department OF Health,