The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-12-20

IN The American ma gazi.-A world
Pakes R1e1t,.. c. the
January al 1911 s,ss ;s-.s ..s,:;ss
Flng 4 ospectus c1sYnAT will apf,e, ~, ~
II: IN the twelve issues for 1901. With
Ihe DeAneator in the house half a mill
lion practical women know that thew
have the very latest dress news at
hand, set forth in such way that
by her own needle each woman can
keep up to date positively and mex
pensively. The science of housekeep-
ing, the care of children in sickness
and in health, the art of living and
OF living well, a life progressive in
home beautiful-of all these things
The Delineator is acknowledged to
be the best exponent in the world.
Under the winning title Of
Through Old-Rose Classes Mary
Tracy Earle has gathered into a
handsome book eight stories, each
complete in itself, yet many of them,
connected by scenes and characters.
The stories are quite above the aver
age in subject, and in the setting as
well as the telling. The freshness.
humor and style of the stories ought
to insure them wide reading among
those who like really good fiction.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York.
"a Hundred Years of the District
OF Columbia is the title of an Illus
trated article contributed, apropos of
the centenary of the national capital,
to the December Review of Reviews
by DIR. Albert Shaw. This article
gives the important facts in the his
tory of the federal district, and tells
what is most worth knowing about
the construction and plans of the
great public buildings there located
1t is a subject in which every citize
has an interest, whether he has eve,
visited Washington or not.
The most important group of pa
pers which the Atlantic Monthly will
offer to its readers during 1901 is o.
series of scholarly, bipartisan stu
dies of the reconstruction period.
The various authors represent both
the south and the north, and many
shades of political opinion. Some of
them were prominent actors in the
reconstruction drama; others are
known throughout the country for
their special studies upon this period
Of American history; but all of Their
however naturally inclined to tn
northern or the southern point )
view, have written with candor ar
good temper.
| Every one who has read his "Obita
Dicta" will be interested to hear tina
Augustine Birrell, the London bar
rister and late M. P. for Fi!eshire
has written for The Century a series
of travel sketches called down the
Rhine" The Rhine is river of
memories, and the delightful English
humorist, while describing it's pictur-
esque and beautiful features, by no
means ignores its personal and pr
htical associations. The first of Il
papers, with striking illustrations
Castaigne, appear in the Decemb
magazine.
From the press of Houghton, NJ
fin & Co., New York, comes "1'
Prodigal." A young Aucklander y
with the prodigal son of the new I,
lament story in wasting his s,
stance in riotous living. He wa
doris forth to seek his fortune or mis-
fortune, as may chance, and reaches
the water front at San Francisco. His
rich fathers agents under ms
lions dole him very scanty pitt
and require him to come for if
He RACES, roams, meets an at
and proyidential scheelnistre1
whom he judioipqsly tails In
the sequel is "al1 that ccu|
sired. 2 Mrs. Nary Halie
ftells the story win the e
sgence and the rnrratave 8
ineke her novels Of Mcste
'yaluahle q pastures o. til
- pesple, a11 - fresh q
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