Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-16
Literary Notes.

'The White Pine: A Study" by
Clifford Pinchot and Henry S. Graves
has been published by the Century
Co., New York The work is an
invaluabl contribution to the natural
history of the most important lumber
ing tree in North America. The
motive that prompted its preparation
was a desire to assist in making clear
the real nature of forestry and to
hasten the general introduction of
right methods of forest management.
Mr.. Pinchot's work as consulting
forester is best known in connection
with the management Of Mr.. Wander
bits Biltmore forest in North Carolina.
A very full number is the June issue
of st. Nicholas. 1t opens with bal
lad, THE Masters Lesson by Alice
NJ. Lovett, illustrated by Birch. The
lesson that was taught the masters by
a little king was the familiar one of
''All work and no play makes Jack
dull boy" 1t. John NJ. Ellicott, who
has had several pleasant papers on
signaling at sea and kindred subjects.
writes on What the Bugle Tells on "a
Warship." Grizzly Phil by Sidford
+. Hamp, is the story of a quiet school
boy who won this nickname and
became hero by rescuing companion
from a bear.
The Century Co. New Yorl:, announces
the publication of THE Puppet-
Booth, by Henry b. Fuller, author of
with the Procession" 1.-The Cheva-
lier of -Vani,' 1.-The Chate-
laine of La Trinite,' etc. In this book
Mr. Fuller enters field which has not
been occupied by any American writer.
The ''Puppet-Booth'' contains twelve
highly imaginative plays, each confined
to single act. They are powerful
and striking, filed with humor and
and with much of the weirdness of
Maeterlinch, and they are SO interest
ing that the person who begins the
book viii not leave it until he has read
the twelve plays.
The June Atlantic begins with
another installment of the letters of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited by
George BirlSbe Hill. This install
ment contains the letters for 1855.
Striking features in this issue are an
article upon 1.-The Politician and the
Public School, by Mr.. &. L. Jones,
superintendent of schools, Cleveland,
Ohio, and Restriction of Immigration,
by President Francis A. Walker.
The Century Publishing Co., New
York, has just published "The Collected
Poems of S. Weir MITCHELL by the
author of when All the Woods Are
Green" characteristics. I'm War
Time "A Madeira Party" etc. This
is complete collection of DIR. Mitchell's
poems 1t includes the dramatic
poems phillip Vernon" Francis
Drake" 1.-The Cup of YOUTH" etc, as
well as the miscellaneous and
occasional verse. These poems were
previously scattered through several
volumes, published by different houses,
and their appearance now in one
volume will be welcomed by all
admirers of the literary work of the
famous Philadelphia physician.
The second paper containing Elm
pressions of South Africa" by James
Bryce, NJ. r., will appear in the June
number of The Century This takes
up the race question at the bottom of
most of the complications which have
made that country the subject of in
ternational dispute. Mr.. Bryce de-
scribes the differences between the
Boer farmers and the British govern
ment of Cape Colony, that led to the
| great trek of the former into the
Transvaal.
"A Strange, Sad Comedy" by Molly
| Elliot Seawell, author of "Maid Marian
and Other Stories" 1.-The Berkeleys
and Their Neighbors,'' etc. A love
story, the scene of which is laid partly
| in Virginia and partly in New York.
| The heroine, only daughter in an old
aristocratic Virginia family impover-
| lshed by the war. comes north, where
she meets wealthy New Workers and
| their English friends. The conflict of
| ideals and prejudices inevitable when
English people of the upper class are
brought into contact with recently
enriched New Workers and recently
| impoverished southerners forms an in
teresting study. Century Publishing
Co., New York.
The June Ladies Home journal is
exceptionally interesting and attrac-
tive-both in it's literary and pictorial
features. The front cover, in perfect
harmony with the fragrant sentiment
of the month of roses, is Salon paint
ing by M. Albert Aublet, celebrated
French artist, in decorative frame OF
striking beauty. This rich touch of
nature is supplemented by A. b. Frost's
characteristic drawing illustrating
James Whitcomb Riley's poem, Gas
sander" and by groups of posies,
among which Miss Waddle's muse
sings with charming freshness.