The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-07-02
Literary News and Notes.

Illustrations. H. H. Windsor dis
cusses. 1.-THE Misplaced Factory" and
s.Sleeping on his Arms. the latter treat
ing of business and industrial conditions
in the United States. There are many
mage views and groups of views, some
of them showing: Guns used to guard
the Panama Canal; the Cape Cod Canal,
now nearing completion; the Alaskan
oovernment-built railroad routes; scenes
Extending the taking of Vera Cruz by
the, United States forces (six pages);
nulling down the walls of Jerusalem;
building military roads in the Philippines;
a strange funeral custom of an African
tribe. etc. The Shop Notes and ANA
teur Mechanics departments are full of
practical carefully prepared material.
Six pages were added to the magazine
with the July number, and they were
used to enlarge the Amateur Mechanics
department. All the articles are writ
ton an Won can understand it.
The JULY Strand contains number of
interesting articles, one of the best be-
ing a well-illustrated account of how
the American Cup defenders are built.
George R. Sims, the well-known drama
fist writes on "CIever Detective Feats,"
giving MANY interesting cases which
have happened within the last twenty
mr. thirty wears. .'The Latest Develop
ment in the Teaching of the Blind is
another interesting article dealing with
subject which is attracting great
deal of well-deserved attention at the
present time. In this article the curious
fact is stated that people blind from their
birth have no conception of the actual
sizes of ANIMALS and people. One boy.
for instance, who recovered his sight,
expressed the greatest terror at the i'm
mensitv of his parents. "Heroines of
the Film" will be appreciated by all ad-
mirers of moving picture actresses.
generous amount of fiction by well-known
writers may also be found in this months
issue of The Strand.
One of the most interesting articles in
the July Wide World is entitled "Uncle
Sans Floating Court, by Walter
Noble Burns, who describes and Illus
trates the manner in which the United
States Government administers justice
among the Eskimos, whalers, and the
scattered white population OF the Tar
northern Alaskan coast, Behring Sea,
and the Arctic. Many strange cases are
brought to the Judges and the tasks
they are called upon to perform are
varied, amusing and sometimes tragic.
"Pussy-Foot of Oklahoma deals with
William E johnson, late head of the
Bureau of the United States Indian Ser
vice, and his successful efforts smash,
the outlaws of Oklahoma who were SELL
ing vile spirits to the Indians and gener-
ally defying the law. In advertising
for Wife," Lucius L. Witch, of Jop-
lin, Mo-. describes how Colonel Worth,
millionaire mine-owner OF Joplin, tried
this experiment and thereby narrowly
deal with Picture Hunting In Hungary,
MY Experiences in Western papua, -
"a Coyote Round-Up, EAST Africa as
| Saw it, - "Our Battle with the Head
Hunters, :" and many other subjects of
world wide interest.
In the July American Magazine ed
die" Collins of the Philadelphia Athle-
tics, whom "Johnny" McGraw of the
New York Giants has called the greatest
baseball player in the world, writes an
article entitled Pitchers Have Faced, :"
in which he tells many stories of his ex-
periences with the most wonderful base
ball pitchers in the major leagues. In
the same issue Stephen Leacock, who is
called the Canadian Mark TWAIN" be-
gins new comic series entitled "Arca-
dian Adventures with the Idle Rich. "
Under the title "The Part Money Plays
in Marriage" man who has bad twenty
five years experience as husband re-
ports some of his adventures in the mar
riage relation. Richard Spillane, news
paper man, writing under the title,
Through Hurricane and Flood con-
tributes a wonderful story founded on
actual experiences in the Galveston dis
aster. Ray Stannard Baker, writing an
other letter from the field in his series
entitled ''Seeing America" describes a
daily newspaper advertising campaign
conducted on behalf of the churches in
Baltimore. Albert Hickman, contribut-
ing an article entitled 'The Sea Sled, "
reports experiences in developing new
type of fast motor boat. Fiction is con-
trlbuted by Marjorie Benton Cooke,
whose serial story "Bamby'' is making a
great impression; Number 5000, con-
Wet in a western penitentiary, who tells
another Boston Blackie" story; and Re-
becca Hooper Eastman, who writes a
story entitled ''That Awful Bill, which
is report of an adventure treating of a
wife's financial affairs.
The Atlantic for July opens with "a
Message to the Middle Glass;" which is
at once warning and an appeal. Sey
mour Deming, whose paper on "Our In
stinctive Idiocies' in the May number
has already won for him the interested
attention of Atlantic readers, here
criticizes the middle class attitude to-
ward social phenomena and Industrial
crises, and suggests means by which
harmony between the classes may be
promoted. Mr.. Deming's sympathetic
and impassiored presentation of the
case for the workingman is followed by
"a Reply" signed by E. S., in whom
the middle class finds az able and spirit
ed defender. Among the literary essay
its, John Jay Chapman makes notable
contribution to the criticism of Greek
literature and its interpreters in 1.-The
Greek Genius; and Charles H. A.
Wager, who appears for the first time
in the Atlantic, justffies with intimate
appreciation the hesitations of Erasmus
and his temperamental kin, in "a Plea
for Erasmians." The Jelly-fish and
Equal Suffrage" by C. William Beebe,
another new contributor, and "What of
Coeducation 2" by iona Gale, discuss
with sanity and good humor two impor-
tant phases of feminism. The question
of education, irrespective of sex, is
further treated by James Mascarene
Hubbard in his review of the Carnegie
Foundations recent investigation of
oduco +ion in Varmopf. and Rnhort M