The Republican journal., 1915-07-01
Literary News and Notes.


a magazine never has appeared than the
July Wide World Magazine, which is
better than any Cooks Tour" ever ar
ranged-just the ideal reading for the
stay-at-home tourists" as we'll as for
all lovers OF good and stirring stories of
more fact than fiction. To begin with
there is an admirable article on wartime
wanderings in the Italian Alps, which is
most timely and particularly interesting
just now with Italy entered into the
great and terrible European conflict
Victor Pitt-Kethley contributes breath
lessly interesting account of thrilling
rescue from caved-in, well, every word
of which, like truth always, SIS strang-
err than fiction" There is another
thriller" in IA Fight for Life in Mid
Air. not, however, pertaining to Zeppe-
Inns, and all sorts of gripping stories of
adventure, true stories of thrilling deeds
and happenings that keep the reader ever
guessing" Don't miss this number.
The Strand Magazine for July is about
as wellbalanced number of magazine
as could be put together. 1t contains, in
keeping with its usual high order of
fiction, eight splendid short stories and
eight fine articles, besides continued
symposium of particular interest and
the usual pages of "Perplexities, a
page of puzzles, and "Curiosities. ;"
There are several unusually good war
stories and features, including the up-to-
minute continued story by Richard
Marsh. "Sam Briggs Becomes Sol
der" An article rich in romance and
interest is that of "a City Built for
Motion Pictures," and in his regular
monthly dramatic department. "Masks
and Faces" Wendell Phillips Dodge con-
| tributes an interesting first hand ac
count of the reuniting of Charles Froh-
man, who lost his life aboard the tor
pedoed Luistania, and David Belasco,
with whom Mr.. Dodge is associated in
a important capacity, after twenty
years. The number is replete with
striking illustrations and is a big fifteen
cents worth.
Among the interesting articles in the
Secret of Steady Golf" by Jerome D.
pion of America; "Gott Strafe Eng
iand," by Edward Lyel Fox, CORE
spondent in Germany for The American
Magazine; '"The Golden Rule in Bust
ness" by Ida M. Tarbell; 'Picking up
Stage WISDOM by Katherine Grey;
"a Senator's MAIL" by a United States
Senator. Fiction is contributed by Wal
ter Prichard Eaton, David Grayson,
John Taintor Foote, Frank Goewey
Jones, Lucy Huffaker and Eva Chapel.
The Interesting People" department
contains five entertaining and inspiring
little articles, and announcement is made
of a new department called Family
Finances" In this department will ap-
pear facts, ideas, and stories of personal
experimental contributing to fuller
understanding of family budgets, allow
ances, investments schemes, for saving
and thrift, and all matters pertaining to
the money side of family life.
The great European war, with it's
tragic development of the past six weeks,
furnishes subject matter for number
of unusually interesting articles in the
July Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
use of poison gas and liquid fire as weap-
ons of attack, destruction, and defense
by erst-while civilized peoples overthrows
all preconceived ideas OF the ethics of
warfare, taxes the imagination, and
causes apprehension as to the future
The monstrosity that deals out death by
these barbaric means is grimly depicted
in the cover design of the magazine,
while an illustrated article describes the
practice of shooting gas and fire and
shows what protective measures armies
are employing. The worlds greatest
sea tragedy, the sinking Of the. "Lusi-
tania," is discussed not merely in it's re-
lation to the war, but also in its bearing
upon ship construct on-for the "Lusi-
tania" was one of the most modern
products of the shipbuilding industry,
and supposedly unsuitable. Many un-
usual pictures accompany this article,
among them a double-page drawing of
the sinking of the vessel. The tragedy
is further discussed in number OF edi-
torials by H. H. Windsor, who, by means
of some striking comparisons, shows
what it means to take to the lifeboats
under adverse conditions at sea. Mr..
Windsor also discusses the possibility of
raising the ''Lusitania.
An absorbing account of experiences
at the front, utterly different from the
reports sent to this country by profess
sional war-correspondents, begins in the
July Atlantic. The author, an America an
lady long resident in France, was living
in the tiny French village of Hurry, close
by the River Marine, when. the war broke
out. There she remained while the Ger
man tide rolled nearer and nearer. With
her own eyes, from her own front lawn,
she saw the Battle of the Marine. know
ing that if the Germans gained the short
miles between them and her house, she
would lose every thing she owned. She
saw things no war correspondents saw,
and her angle of vision was different
from theirs. Her letters, written to a
friend at home, make a narrative as
graphic and interesting as it is full of
literary charm. 1.-THE Little House on
the Marne" will run through three is
sues of the magazine. The Atlantic's
war articles reach its usual high standard.
Alfred G. Gardiner, writing on British
Generalship, sketches briefly the charac-
tiers and military careers of Sir John
French and Sir Ian Hamilton. Sir Edwin
Pears and George Macaulay Trevelyan,
both authorities on the Near East, point
out the probable course of events in Tur-
key and the Balkans; Bertrand Russell
makes fair and clear-headed statement
Of ''The Future of Anglo German Rival
ry"; while Sir Francis Younghusband
writes on ''The War and Spiritual Ex-
perience." from the point of view of the
average layman. Other articles in the
magazine cover wide range of subjects.