The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-03-06
Literary News and Notes.

cleared lanO Is usually long and SOme-
times costly job. A new way of stump
burning, as practised in the Northwest,
is described in The Youths Companion
of March 9Th. 1t is said to be rapid and
economical.
Dillon Wallace's story of ''The Wilder
ness Castaways, now running in The
Youths Companion, carries the reader
to the bleak shores of Hudson Bay,
where two boys, lost from the vessel in
which they were cruising, go through a
series of stirring adventures. The second
serial, ''The Colonel's Experiment" pub
lished in the same numbers, has an old
fashioned Maryland plantation for its
scene.
In the March American Magazine, Al
bert w. Atwood writes an article on
Railroad Wrecks. Why They Increase, "
in which he brings out many interesting
facts and IDEAS The article is an i'm
portant one and ought to do good. 1t is
written in the right tone-not carping,
but soundly helpful, although searching.
A real bartender contributes ''What a
Man Will Do for Drink, " in which he
tells many amazing stories. Edna Fer
Der, David Grayson, Raymond Ward Hof-
fund, Earl Derr Biggers, Cav. Angelo
de Angels and Arnold Bennett contribute
fiction. James Montgomery FIagg and
E. W. Howe present humor. The de-
partments Interesting People" and
''The interpreters House" are always
worth reading.
The March issue of Lippincott's keeps
the pace set by recent numbers, which
have been getting no end of praise. The
complete novelette, is by Edgar Jepson.
whose 'tPollyooly and the Lump" has
proved so popular. 1t is entitled ''The
Changeable Professor" and in it are
adroitly commingled both farce and melo-
drama, as in one of the big theatrical
successes of the present season. The
Professor is scientist whose arduous
labors have injured his health, apparent
ly beyond repair. But he discovers a
strange cure for his malady. and lives to
confound his brother scientists and to
win the girl he loves-and she's we'll
worth the winning. Vivisection or
something akin to it-plays an important
part in the narrative, which ''gets busy"
from the start, and never is permitted to
ag.
The Strand Magazine for March con-
tains some excellent fiction by such
writer's as Morley Roberts. Richard
Marsh, p. M. Jameson, Herman Schef-
fauer and Beatrice Heron axwell. The
story by Scheffauer, entitled "The Host
age of the Air, is one of the most re-
markable that this writer has given US
for some time. A long serial by Conan
Doyle, entitled 1.-The Poison Belt" is
announced and also one by Baroness
Orczy, "Unto Caezar." Professor John
j: Ward writes an interesting article on
1.-THE Mystery of the Sap" and Pro-
fessor A. 7. Poffenberger, of Col mbia
Unlve sity. describes the operations of
Testing the Senses" 1.-The Sort of
Man Woman Likes" is symposium of
women writers, including Elinor Glyn.
"Humors Of Parliamentary Life" relates
some good stories connected with the
British House of Commons
The Wide World Magazine for March
contains stories and articles dealing with
places in all the quarters of the globe.
Among the narratives is one entitled
Expelled from Mexico" which is decid-
eddy tropical. 1t appears that a few
months ago an article appeared in the
Wide World entitled The Master
Bandit" which reused the ire of Presi-
suit that the author, Mr.. Harry H.
Dunn, was arrested, confined for thirty
SIX ours without food or water in a
filthy, verminous CELL" denied com
II unication with his Consul or Ambassa-
dor and finally sent under guard to the
frontier where he was expelled as a
''pernicious foreigner In an article
Mr.. Dunn describes his trying expert
GDces wit tho binb bopGaI of Of
the Mexican Government. Other arti-
cles and stories include "A Jungle
Tragedy" 1.-The Lake of Fire. "A
Miracle Wrought by Water. - '"The Cliff
DWellers of the Arctic, - Through the
Wilds OF Asia, " ''In Peril in the Wilder
ness, - Frontier Life in South Ameri-
ca, THE Stowaway" aud 1.-The Track
Layers.
Perhaps the principal feature of the
March Woman's Home Companion is an
article entitled "Better Babies, I'm which
the author reports a great movement
that began in Iowa year or two ago
ana is now spreading over the whole
country. The originator of the plan,
Mrs. Mary I. Watts of Iowa, discovered
that in her State there was widespread
ambition for better farm products but
very little thought about Better
Babies. She started public contest
at the State fair at which children were
awarded prizes, not for their beauty but
for their health and physical condition.
In fact the babies were judged ruthless
ly by scientific men, and the results
amazed the people of Iowa because they
showed an inferior quality of develop
ment. This shock to the people OF Iowa
caused public revival of interest in the
care and study of children, with the re-
suit that at second exhibition five times
as many children were examined and
marked improvement observed. In the
present year scores of public contests,
backed by scientists, are to be held in
various parts of the country. with a view
to intoxicating among the people better
habits in the care Of children.
Mr.. Wilson's policies and methods have
been the subject of many magazine arti-
cles, but the opening paper in the March
Atlantic takes different turn and at
tempts an acute but fair minded charac-
terization of the kind of man Mr.. Will
son is. The signature, E. S., is the
same as that subscribed to former pa
pers on Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Bryan,
much discussed at the time. A paper of
peculiar interest at the moment is an
appraisal by Frances E. Leupp of the
present and future prospects Of the Re-
publican party. The title. 1.-THE Passing