The Republican journal., 1915-09-09
Literary News and Notes.


the 'Eastland' disaster and rescue work
accompany an ar icle by Searle Hendee
appearing in the September Popular
Mechanics Magazine. These views give
a clear idea of the general scene of the
accident, show the degree of submerg-
ence, and indicate how it was possible,
with thousands Of persons rushing toward
the spot and with numerous water craft
swarming around, for nearly thousand
human beings to lose their lives. Be-
sides the .'Eastland" views. the Sep
TENDER Magazine contains BAT other il
Illustrations.
The Strand Magazine for September
makes its bow more particularly as an
American magazine than ever before.
This was foreseen in the appointment
last February of Wendell Phillips Dodge,
a young American newspaper man, edl-
tor, dramatic critlc and literary director
for David Belasco's important theatrical
and dramatic enterprises, as editor of
the American edition of this highly en-
PERTAINING magazine, which in Great
Britain is the leading and greatest month
ly periodical. In addition to two strik-
ingly American articles of timeliness
and interest, Billy Sunday and His
Home Run Religion" and ''Uncle Sam
at Work, as told in motion pictures, be-
sides the regular American theatrical
feature, MASKS and Faces" every ar
ticle and short-story has direct appeal
to Americans, and of especial interest is
an article by Frederick G. Cooke of East
bourne (England) Volunteer Training
Corps, on 1.-The Value of Observation in
War"
''Hints for the Household WRITER by
Annie Balcomb Wheeler, and "Educat-
ing the Verse; Writer" by Frances Bar
Der, are helpful practical articles in the
September number of 1.-THE Writer,
the Boston magazine for literary work.
ers. Other topics discussed are Stories
for Boys, The Modern Short Story, The
Influence of the Century Magazine. Poe
Seeking Publisher, A Tip from Pub
Usher, and What is Short Story? An
nouncement is made of number OF
prize offers for manuscripts, and the
story is told OF manuscript rejected by
editors for fifty years that has just won
a $500 prize. The departments of
writers of the Day." and Personal
Gossip About Authors" are full of inter-
est, and there is valuable reference list
of Literary Articles in Periodicals, while
the News and Notes" give all the live
news of the literary and publishing
world. ''The Writer" costs ten cents a
number, or one dollar a year, and is in
teresting to all literary people and in
valuable to those engaged in literary
work. Address: P. O. Box 1905, Boston.
The spirit of adventure, sought or
thrust upon one, is to be found aplenty
in The Wide World Magazine for Sep
TENDER. Surely, no more thrilling and
hair-raising experiences have before
been recorded than as are set forth in
great detail by men who have literally
'gone through help and write first
hand of what they encountered in this
magazine that lives up to the old maxim,
truth is stranger than felton, One
has only to read such thrilling true ac-
counts as Dangerous Jobs" dealing
with a number of American occupations;
trapped in Furnace" with the scene
laid in Pennsylvania; '"The Circle of
DEATH" also in the Keystone State; "An
Ill-Starred Elopement, in Florida;
Behind the Nailed Door," in Africa;
Sin Search of Adventure, p" in Australia;
ga Memorable Man-Hunt," also in the
island continent; "a Woman Alone in
China" speaking for itself, or rather
herself; ''Petre' Island" in the South
Pacific; ''Kermis' Time in Belgium"
and the numerous other stories, true sto-
ries, are 1ull of thrills, adventures and
besides being full of interest, providing
an unsuspecting course in geography
and natural history, to feel the effects
of life's drama.
Three important and unusual articles
open the September Atlantic. The
Monroe Doctrlle as Germans See It,, by
Herbert kraus, is particularly, illumi-
mating in view of the recent discussions
of Pan-Americanism and the Germano-
phobia so prevalent today. DR.. Kraus,
German scholar unsurpassed in knowl-
edge of the political relations of the
Americas, interests US when he informs
that the Monroe Doctrine has no definite
scope; that everybody has a different
idea of it; and that there is no hostility
to it in Germany. He does more than
interest US when he claims that the ex-
portatlon of munitions is as contrary to
the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine as the
present tone of the American press
and threatens that it will doubtless play
d part unfavorable to the Union in the
general accounting A who share the
widespread anxiety concerning the Ger
man attitude toward the United States
will find this paper suggestive. Also
suggestive, and more brilliant, is The
Modest Immigrant by Agnes Repplier,
scornful attack on the allen who, hav-
ing done US the honor of accepting cit
izenship, yields his vote as a cudgel,
bidding us beware of the weapon we
have amiably placed in his hands. TIE
Progress of the Social Conscience by
ex-President W. J. Tucker of Dart
mouth, is more optimistic. President
Tucker finds US Americans to have ad-
vanced greatly in regard for our fellow
men during the past generation, and in
Inmates that in this advance lies the
hope of an era of civilization and peace
to come. The Atlantic's war articles in
clude a well considered plan for "A
League to Enforce Peace by President
Lowell of Harvard; humorous and enter
tanning War Notes from a Newspaper
Desk by Simeon Strunsky; an article on
'Side-Issues of the War by Sydney
Brooks; one on War and the Wealth of
Nations by L. P. Jacks; and the final
installment of Mildred Aldrich's excit-
ing Adventures in the Little House on
the Marne.' There are also papers of
varied interest by Gamaliel Bradford.
Laurence Binyon, Paul Elmer More, and
Randolph S. Bourne; poems by Wilfrid
Wilson Gibson and Sarah N. Cleghorn,
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