Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-10-11
LITERARY NOTES.

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In the Clouds" which is by no means
a fairy-story; "a Boat that Pulls It.
self Upstream" and white Magic in
a Bicycle Wheel" in which it is shown
that any boy who owns bicycle may
become more or less of White Magi-
clan.
Outing for October will interest
everybody. In "A Treason of Ma
ture," Charles G. ID. Roberts enters
into hunting from a Moose's rather
than a hunters point of view, depict
ing its defiant lordship, its passions
and its undoing. Poultry and Poul-
try Breeding in the United States"
by IL. S. Babcock, will be a positive
revelation to the reader. 1.-The Place
of the Automobile as Sport Factor"
is the absorbing question of the day.
"Coursing on Western Prairies,"
breathes the atmosphere OF one Of
the most popular sports of the West.
The work of Mr.. Walter Glackens
for the magazines has attracted much
attention of late, and his illustrations
to Santa Claus's Partner" by Thorn
as Nelson Page, published last year,
made it one of the most attractive
books of the season. Mr.. Glackens
illustrates quaint, charmingly told
love story in the October McClures
entitled "The Lady With the Water.
fall"
Minister WI Ting Fang presents in
the October Century "A Plea for Fair
Treatment" in behalf of his fellow
countrymen. This is one of half a
dozen articles in the same magazine
in which the Chinese question will
be treated, directly or indirectly.
Bishop Potter writes on Chinese
Traits and Western Blunders"-the
first of series of travel sketches and
studies.
Charles Fl. Stevens, whose painting
decorates the cover of the October
Ladies' Home journal, is close ar
tist student of the Indian and Indian
life. and is regarded as very high
authority on all that pertains to the
picturesque side of the Red Man. He
was formerly an instructor in the
Philadelphia Art School, where his
most apt pupil in illustration was
Miss Alice Barbour, who subsequently
became his wife, and whose drawings,
signed Alice Barbour Stephens, are
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and white art.
Does Jamaica Contain a Lesson in
Colonial Government" is the title
of an illustrated article by Julius Nor.
itzen in the Review of Reviews for
October.
The most striking characteristic OF
Ainslee's for October is its variety Of
strong fiction. 1.-THE Colonels last
Campaign" by Brand Whitlock, is a
stirring, realistic story of politics in
the Middle West. "A Matter of Twen-
ty-Thousand," by Joe Lincoln, is a
mirthful sea-serpent yarn. The Re-
lease of Five-Sixty-Four," by Dabney
Marshall, is an affecting tale of a
Southern convict camp; and SISTER
Taylor's Registered Letter" by Sam
uel Minturn Peck, is as deliciously
numerous as it is true to life.
1t will pay educators and mothers
of families to preserve set of the
interesting articles contributed 10
The Delineator by Lima Beard. sister
of Dan Beard, the famous cartoonist.
These articles, written and Illus
trated by Miss Beard, deal with
amusements for sick children, show
ing how fun and pleasure for the 1T
tie ones can be obtained by provid-
ing them with cones, thorns, Thistle
down, etc. These articles are really
exceedingly clever.
Among the contributors to the
North American Review for October,
are the following: Adlai +. Steven
son, Senator Tillman, Edward ".
Shepard, Richard Croker, Erving VIM
Il
Piatt, Senator w. M. Stewart, Andrew
Carnegie, James II. Eckels, Josiah
Quincy, Benjamin Taylor and u.
Ozaki.
Fortunes Boats" by Barbara
Yechton, author of "A Young Saw,
age" comes from the press of Hough.
ton, Miff1in & Co., Boston and New
York. Five sisters live with their
widowed mother and bachelor uncle
in city fat Margaret is companion
to wealthy maiden lady; Ursula ID
a newspaper woman and writes a
novel; Judith is a devoted charity
visitor; Frances is an artist in the
arrangement of furniture, pictures
and bricabrac. The various duties of
the girls, singularly enough, throw
them into the society of more or less
eligible young men, and apparently
there is no studied Indifference on the
part of any of the group. 1t is
come of all this, but a reasonable
proportion of the story is clearly en-
titled to a wide and sympathetic read
ing. For sale by Baker-Trisler Co.
Des Moines.
The same publishers announce "a
Georgian Bungalow" by Frances
Courtenay Baylor. Miss Baylor here
tells for children a story OF an Eng
lish family on a rice plantation in
Georgia. There are four young per-
sons in the family, and-with negro
servants and their children, they en-
| 10Y the amusements peculiar to the
neighborhood. They go to picnics, to
| barbacues, to country fairs and to
| cakewalks and the attractions of
these are well described, as is the
children's enjoyment of them. By and
| by the four children and their mother
| and governess start for visit in
England A storm wrecks their ship,
| but after many perils and anxieties
| all are saved. This is a mere outline
of story which has many features of
| interest, and which, with the illus
| trations, should be popular with
youthful readers. For sale by Baker.
/ Trisler Co., Des Moines.
Mr.. Burroughs ON Little Fur bearers.
| While the critics are feeling their
! way through THE Light Of Day." so
| as to know just wher" TO rank Mr..
Burroughs as a religious thinker.
and are finding him worry sincere and
interesting, il not wholly regular"
his later book will surely charm all
| critics and readers. 1t is virtually a
series of brief biographies of sqnir-
rels, chipmuck, weasel, rabbit, woodJ