Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-23
LITERARY NOTES.

In McClure's Magazine for February,
Herbert E. Hamblen, author of son
Many Seas" will tell the story of his
own experience as fireman on a loco
motive. As it was an experience full
Of rare and romantic incidents, the
story is bound to be good one. 1t
will be illustrated with pictures drawn
| from life.
| A change of publishers but the same
editor is the substance of an announce
ment in the February Midland Monthly.
Johnson Brigham, having accepted the
state Guardianship, has sold the Mid
land Monthly to the printers of the
magazine, Messrs. Conaway 81 Shaw,
who will organize a stock company
with Mr.. Brigham as the editorial head
and themselves as the business head of
the concern, thus strengthening each
department by division of labor and
responsibility.
| The February number of the Art
Interchange is rendered notable by
two special features; one, that the
entire exhibition of masterpieces shown
at the Lotos Club is illustrated in it's
pages; the other, that it carries a re-
production of sculptured decorative
panel of great beauty and novelty.
This sculpture is the work of Albert
LEM, talented American artist.
The first authorized American publ
cation of Herbert Spencer's reply to
Huxley's famous "Romanes Lecture"
which was originally published in the
London Athen@um, will appear in
Appletons Popular Science Monthly
for February, under the title "Evolu-
tionary Ethics"
! The frontispiece of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews for Feb
ruary is striking portrait of Alphonse
Daudet. Four pages of text give an
excellent summing up of the vital ele-
ments in the great French writer's
career, and convenient list of his
works is appended.
The third of Rudyard Kipling's
"Just-So Stories" appears in the Feb
ruary st. Nicholas. 1t tells "How the
Rhinoceros Got His Wrinkly Skim"
and the manner of it is just as surpris-
ing as one would expect from Mr..
| Kipling. The tale has full-page illus
trations by Oliver HEREFORD.
The short stories of the February
Harper's are "a British Islander" by
Mary Hartwell Catherwood, illustrated
| by Lucius Hitchcock; Martin Far
roner," by Marguerite Merington,
illustrated by w. r. Smedley; Roam
Barbary," a novelette, of the turf, by
George Hubbard; and IAN Incident"
the story of an attempted lynching, by
Sarah Ba-nwell Elliott, illustrated by
w. T. omedley.
Wise advice is given on "The
Mother-in-Law in the Home" in the
February Ladies' Home Journal. The
writer details the proper course for the
mother-in-law to pursue in order to
make her presence in the home of her
son delight, and directs the daugh-
| ter-in-law as to her duties in the case.
The advice carefully followed will make
| the mother-in-law welcome acquisi-
ton to the family.
The series of seventeen articles on
the states of the middle west, which
began in the number of Harper's
Weekly dated January 30, and will be
continued regularly for several months,
will make new friends for 1.-The
Nations Journal" No such sustained
and determined effort has recently
been made by periodical to give the
world the facts concerning this inn
portant section of the country. The
articles have been prepared by Frank
| lin Matthews, a newspaper man of long
experience.
During February Harper's Bazal
will begin clever new department, in
which the affairs of the day in New
York and other cities will be lightly
touched upon in bright and sparkling
paragraphs. This department will be
conducted by a lady whose name will
not be given.
The story entitled 1.-THE Adventure
ers," by II. B. Marriott Watson, which
| is continued in the current number Of
Harper's Round Table, is sure to win
for the periodical large number Of
new readers. 1t has for it's subject
that most fascinating of all themes of
| adventure, the search for hidden treas
ure. The author has conferred his plot
around an old castle in modern Wales
An article in the February Atlantic
which will attract wide attention to
an evil hitherto largely unknown and
unsupported is that upon the relations
of the labor unions to the negro, con-
| tributed by John Stephens Durham,
late United States minister to Hayti.
| Mr. Durham shows the grave injustice
an, injury done to the whole colored
racv by the system of exclusion
ticed by the labor organizations
country.
Americas Interests in China" forms
the theme of a timely and carefully
prepared article from the pen of GEN.
eral James II. Wilson in the opening
pages of the North American Review
for February. General Wilson has
written several popular books, notably
one entitled 'China: Travels and In
vestigations in the Middle Kingdom"
| DOROTHY'S TREASURE