The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-03-08
Literary News and Notes.


boasts the distinction of being the only
active volcano. The other States, says a
writer in the March Wide World Mag z
inc, do not grudge California the possess
sion of this phenomenon; volcanoes, as
history shows, are not good neighbors
The mountain Evoke up about two
years ago and has continued to erupt
with more or less violence ever since,
though no loss of life has been caused.
In the h arch Woman's Home Com
panion Mary Heaton Worse has love
story entitled The Great Cod" an in
teresting indictment of the lives of many
American women of the weather class.
There are many other good stories and
large number of excellent articles and
special features. The short stories in
Guide 1.-THE Message" by Emily Sargent
and Cry Baby" by Mabel Dill. Sin
Innocents. Fashions are discussed by
Grace Margaret Gould, who gives many
new ideas for spring costumes.
Brimful as ever of interest for readers
of all ages, the March issue of Popular
Mechanics Magazine has a wealth of
graphic illustrations of timely topics, re
cent lnve ions, and feats of the engineer,
the builder, ard the mechanic Its con-
tents include 2S7 separate articles, while
the illustrations number approximately
4OO. The cover design rivets attention at
sight, depicting as it does the artist $
conception of the spectacular destruction
OF Serbian motor cars by King Peters re-
treating army, to prevent their falling
into the hands Of the enemy, This thrill
ling scene, on the steep bank of noun
tain torrent, is described in a we'll written
article.
Good fiction and number of powerful
articles are the leading features of the
March American Magazine. One of the
articles is by J. Ogden Armour, who
writes o." Armour Men Who Got Ahead
and Why" Another American Achieves
the IMPOSSIBLE" by Walter V Woehlke,
describes the work of Daniel c. Jacklibg,
the Utah mining colossus, who has
doubled the worlds supply of copper
and saved electrical industries from seri-
GUS embarrassment. Other articles are
do You Eat Enough Roughage?" by
DR.. Arthur R. Reynolds; 1.-THE Pope and
the Lone Crusader" an interview with
Benedict XIV by George Barr Baker;
preventing Men From Becoming Mis-
fits" by Merle Crowell; "A Good APP
ple," by David Grayson; 'How 1t Feels
to be Thirty" and an article by Annette
kellerman, who tells how she attained
her perfect physique against great odds
as she was cripple in her girlhood.
A useful article on Germs, Ideas, and
1.-The WRITER" the Boston magazine for
in fC iafh
year. E. B. Hughes; continues his in
structive series of articles entitl ID "Com
mon Errors in Writing Corrected and
Ruth Hall writes of ''The Redundant
Statement" and Eliot H. Robinson of
the advantages of system in literary
work. In the department, advertisement
Writing" conducted by'-an advertising
expert, Joseph Gerard Morgan has en-
article on Practical Advertisement Writ
ing" The publication of "The Writer'S
Directory of Periodicals." giving infor
| nation furnished by editors regarding
their manuscript needs, is continued, and
further information regarding the pres
ent special manuscript needs of various
publications is given in the department,
1.-The Manuscript Market" which also
makes announcement of number
manuscrip pit prize offers. An editorial
discusses frankly commercial writer's
agency, which makes glowing offers to
writer's. Information is given about
writer's Of the day, and there is full
reference list of literary articles in cur
rent periodicals, while the "News and
Notes" department gives the live news
of the literary and publishing worlds.
1.-The Writer" is Indispensable to writ
eIs, and interesting to all cultivate! peo-
pie. The price of the magazine is ten
cents number. or one dollar year, and
the address is P. o. Box 1905, Boston.