The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-08-05
Literary News and Notes.

in adventure would be hard to find than
in the Wide World Magazine-the out
and-out peer among magazines of ad-
venture stories. Another thing about
The Wide World Magazine is that all of
che stories are true, the authors being
bound to take an oath that their stories
are true before they are accepted for
publication.
Among the recent gifts to Burnham
Tavern, Machias, is prettily bound book
"Poems by Mrs. Ellis Winslow Holiness"
presented by Miss Nancy R. Whitney of
Bangor. The author of the book was
formerly Miss Lydia Leavitt Sherman
and she had the distinction of having
been born in Burnham Tavern. She was
a sister of the Reverend MIR. Sherman of
New York who has in recent years paid
several visits to Machias, his native town.
In the August Strand Magazine is a
very timely and interesting article on
MIR. David Lloyd George, the first of a
very interesting series of great interest
to the reading public just now on the
British Cabinet Ministers. These arti-
cles, as will be seen by the first paper on
Lloyd George, will pertain more to the
human side of the men who are leading
the destinies of England in the great war
now waglng. They are written by a
man very high in British official life
who, however, prefers not to have his
| name known. But the articles carry
with them the guarantee of The Strand
Magazine to be correct and truthful In
every respect.
In the August American Magazine
Philip Curtiss begins new short serial
entitled "And West is West" 1t is a
story of California and the Expeditions
gay tale of love and of travel across
the continent, full of adventure and
humor. The war is admirably handled
in this issue. A well-Known American
banker writes on 1.-The Money Side of
; the War; and gives many important and
I amazing facts about the financial condi-
ton of all the nations engaged in the
present struggle Herbert Quick, writ
ing under the title 1.-The Submarine as
Peacemaker" shows how the submarine
will in the future prevent the domination
OF the sea by any power. In the same
number Ring w. Lardner writes an
Matthewson, of the New York Giants,
and Hypatia Boyd Reed, writing under
the title ga Substitute for Ears" de-
crbes the remarkable devices for com
fort made by deaf person. The prize
winning letters are printed in contest
entitled '"The Best Thing Women Have
Done for Their Town" James Mont
gomery Flagg contributes an amusing
piece in words and pictures entitled
"Shams." The two departments, in
teresting People" and 1.-The Family S
Money" are entertaining and sugges-
tive. Fiction is contributed by John
Taintor Foote, Ruth Sapinsky, Walter
Pr1chard Eaton, Edwin L. Sabin, Lin
coin Cocord, Molly Best, David Grayson
and Marion Hill.
The August Atlantic is especially no.
table for strong article by Brigadier
General h. M. Chi tenden, entitled
"Questions for Pacifsts." General Chit
tenden, who believes as firmly as any one
that war is horrible anachronism, never
theless condemns most of the pacifst re-
medies as impra cticable, if not funda-
mentally harmful. Taking up these re-
NEEDLES one by one, he points out the fatal
flaw in each. Such solid piece of construc-
tive criticism will commend itself to every
intelligent reader who believes in sitting
the wheat from the chaff in the pacifist
propaganda. Of lively interest also is
Won Hindenburg, General and Man."
by William C. Dreher, a ifelike portrait
Of the most important and mysterious
figure of the present war. Bertrand Rus
sell argues in favor of nonresistance IN
war, prophesying in perfectly reason
able way what would happen If Germany
invaded England and England refused to
Fighter to obey German orders. A. D.
Lindsay, in Estate against Common
wealth." effectively compares German
and English national PHILOSOPHERS. The
war enters also into two interesting con-
tributions of different ype,-Hepati-
cas-" touching story of what the war
brought to an English family, by Anne
Douglas Sedgwick ;and the second INSTALL
ment of Mildred Aldrich's exciting ''Ad-
ventures in the Little House on the
Marne,' which tells the true story of
the first month of the war from an init
mate and domestic point of view. But
the Atlantic is not wholly given up to the
war. There is much else in prose and
and verse to interest the reader of this
always interesting magazine.