Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-13
LITERARY NOTES

Outing for July opens with n com
plete story, Her Highness," by Caro-
line Shelley. 1t is tale of the turf.
and the author draws a very pleasing
pen picture of the play of human pas
sion in the breezy atmosphere of the
training stables and the track.
The July number of the Delineator
is called the Summer number, and its
resume of the latest styles of hot
weather attire. with especial refer
ence TO the needs of sojourners at sea-
side and inland resorts, is rendered
graphically complete by glowing color
plates and scores of accurate wood
cuts. Mrs. Reginald de koven, a ma
tive of Chicago, discusses the socia!
life of that city with refreshing can
dor. Various aspects of Queen Vic
toria diamond jubilee are entertain
ingly considered by Mrs Alec Tweedie,
whose books of travel have made her
name familiar on both sides of the At
lantic.
The curious psychological conditions
dominating the mob are discussed by
Prof. E. A. Ross in Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly for July. He shows
that crowd, even an excited crowd,
is not mob. Great mental lnsta bility
marks the true mob, and this charac-
terizes only the crowd that is under
the influence of suggestion.
In the Midland Monthly Tor July
Mrs. j. S. GARRISON, wife of Gen. Clark
son. contributes an able paper on Iowa
~ hot ha Go,
ciety for Political Study. of New York
City. A beautiful picture adorns the
frontispiece.
Edward Bellamy's new book,
Equality" has just been issued from
the press of ID. Appleton q Co., New
York. In the new book the author
takes up the theory of Looking Back.
ward and broadcns the view, setting
forth the various conditions of the
new life in vivid manner. Industrial,
financial. social, educational, and
political conditions under the new
organization are explained. The
author also explains how the changes
were brought about, thus giving a
history Of our times, and a prophecy
as to changes now close npon us.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton
University, asks the perplexing ques.
ton, what is Americanism?" in the
July Atlantic. His paper IN that Issue
on the making of the Nation is strik'
ing sketch OF the growth and develop.
ment of American national feeling.
lie traces the various stages through
which it has passed and the great
events that have contributed TO it.
The July issue of the Art Inter
change is an unusually interesting
number in both pictures and text, and
brings two pleasing color plates as
well. One is poetic evening land
scape by Arthur Hoeber, called Late
October" the other fine study OF
Yellow Orchids by De Longpre.
The present widespread interest in
the subject of Hying-machines, gives
timeliness to "A serial extravaganza
that begins in the July Century. 1t is
called up the Matterhorn in Boat,
and is written by Marion Manville
Pope, whose striking story of the Min
nesota forest fires, "A Day in Tophet,"
was recently published in the Century.
The department of Current History
In Cartoons in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for July reproduces
series of recent Punch Cartoons, by
Sir John Tenuiel, who is now In the
forty-seventh year of his work for the
British comic weekly.