The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
Literary News and Notes.

The July Woman's Home Companion
contains a great variety of fiction, includ-
ing the first instalment of four-part
mystery story entitled "The Sound of
Water" by Margarita Spalding Gerry.
Other contributors of fiction are: Mary
Heaton worse, Molly Elliot Seawell,
Mabel Martin Dill, Frederick M. Smith
and Adele Randolph. Special articles in
the number full of new facts and inter-
esting, practical ideas are: ''The Bust
ness Girls Vacation''-made up from
letters sent in by various contributors;
"Why l Shall Marry Again" written by
widow forty-seven years old; How Not
To Be Fat" written by woman whose
report and suggestions are so specific
that she declines to sign her name; How
to Write Moving Picture Play,' by
Daniel Frohman, the we'll known theatre
cal manager; "Fifty-one Better Babies"
''The Queen of the Garden" in which
Frank A. Waugh, the well-known horti-
culturist, tells how to grow roses; "a
Girls Rights" in which Christine Ter
hume Herrick discusses the question as
to whether a girl with a comfortable
home should earn her own living; and "a
Two weeks Vacation in Old England, !"
full of practical help to anyone who
would like to take short trip abroad at
small expense. The regular Fashion,
Cooking, Handicraft, Young Peoples,
Tower Room, Puzzle, Entertainment and
Exchange departments are full of enter
taing reading and good ideas.
The June Atlantic opens with a detail
ed sketch of Victoriano Huerta, drawn
from life, by an English patent lawyer
l.r,l ha haS
been living in Mexico City, following
with close interest both the personnel
and policies of Mexican government.
This portrait, while more favorable in
the main than is countenanced by Amer
lean opinion, will give to every reader a
deal of interesting and first-hand infor-
nation. A personal paper which carries
with it widespread interest is William
Garrett Browns Confessions of T.
3D. which describes the attitude of soci-
ETY. toward the tuberculous patient and
gives In turn his attitude toward society.
''The Influence of the Passing of the
Public Lands" by William J. Trimble,
is thoughtful presentation OF one
of the most significant of American
phenomena. Frederick Peterson, the
distinguished neurologist, contributes
can Exposition of Sleep" Ralph Pull
itzer, president of The New York
World Publishing Company, replies in
this issue to the attack on Newspaper
Morals" recently made in the Atlantic
by Henry L. Mencken. "Credc Quia Pos
sibile," by Henry Dwight Sedgwick, is
spiritual plea for layman's creed.
Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York
Evening Post, discusses 1.-THE Survival
of Ability" in an entertaining converse
ton. WANTED: An American Minister
of Marine" is suggestive contribution
by an officer Of the English Merchant
Marine, Randolph S. Bourne describes
an English experiment in cooperative
living, and Henry Seidel Candy draws a
significant moral from a description of
what has happened in Redwood Canyon.
Grant Showerman's ''Sunday in Anda-
lusia" pictures Spanish holiday, while
Joseph Husbands brief paper gives a
vivid presentation of tie significance of
giant mill. Perhaps the most popular
feature of the number is delightful
story by Cornelia A. P. Conner, entitled
The Wealth of Jimmy Zimmerman. -
"Marco Baldi, Owner" by Gino C.
speranza, and ivy of the Negatives, u
by Margaret Lynn, are other storlesiin
this number. The issue contains poems
by Joseph Warren Beach and Sarah N.
| Cleghorn and closes with satiric sketch
by John Galswortly, entitled HALL
Marked" There is a full Contributors