Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-04-13
LITERARY NOTES.

In st. Nicholas for April Miss Ida
Tigner Hodnett writes of THE Little
Japanese at Home" describing the
typical homes of Japan and the sports
and pastimes of the children. Miss
Hodnett also tells of the growing up
of the japanese boy, and of the family
festivals that are held to mark the inn
portant events of his life.
In the April Harper's there are two
complementary articles of timely inn
portance bearing upon the question of
army man9uvres, one The Essentials
at Fort Adobe: Cavalry Tactics on the
Plains, by Frederic Remington, is "a
description of cavalry man1uvres at a
post on the plains; the other, Wanted
An American Aldershot," is plea
by Captain James Parker, U S. A., for
battalion drills and man9uvres of the
kind practiced in England
Outing for April we'll sustains the
reputation of this best of sporting
publications. Many fine illustrations
and a pleasing selection of seasonable
sketches of sport, travel and adventure
will satisfy readers of all tastes. The
number opens with an interesting
description of tiger shooting.
'Columbia's Athletics" by j. Parmley
Paret; ''Taxidermy for Sportsmen," by
Ed. w. Sandys; "The Building of Lawn
Tennis Courts" and with the Cana
dian Northwest Mounted Police" are
articles of peculiar interest.
The announcement that Anthony
Hopes novel, Rupert of Hentzau, :"
now running in McClure's Magazine, is
soon to appear in book form is an error.
1t can not so appear until it has con-
Guided in McClure's, and this will not
be until midsummer at least. In it's
serial publication. the story is now at
its most absorbing stage.
The story of the Swiss governments
purchase of the railroads, as author
lied by the recent referendum vote, is
told in the American Monthly Review
of Reviews for April, by Mr.. j. r.
Macdonald.
''Ursus," the prize poem in the April
Midland Monthly Des Moines), by
Beatrice Harlowe, of Milwaukee,
wildly pictures the arena scene in Quo
Vadis. Another prize contribution to
that number is a beautifully illustrated
paper entitled ''Israels and the Dutch
Painters" by Mary A. KirlSup, of Fort
Dodge, recently returned from her art
studies abroad.
In Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly for April the Importance
which the future wheat supply of the
world has for civilization is pointed
out by Worthington c. Ford. chief of
the Bureau of Statistics 1T Washing
ton, under the title THE Question of
Wheat"
Andre Castaigne has drawn for The
Century series of striking full-page
illustrations of the Seven Wonders of
the World The first one, a repro
duction of the Pharos of Alexandria,
will appear in the April Century, with
accompanying letterpress by Professor
Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
The astounding price of 5a5 guineas,
or S2,s61, was recently paid in Edin-
burg for copy of the first edition of
Burns's poems, printed in 1856. 1t was
in the original blue paper cover.
In Roanoke College, at Salem, Va,
are five students from Corea. In June
next one of them will graduate, and
he will be the first Corean to take the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in America.
For thirty years Senator Davis, of
Minnesota, has been collecting books
relating to Napoleon Bonaparte Some
of them are rare and of great value.
The collection now numbers over
500 volumes.