Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-04-13
LITERARY NOTES.

In McClure's Magazine for April
Walter Wellman will describe, from
his own recent experience, the novel;
ties aud hardships of house-building,
housekeeping and general domestic
life and daily work up under the
shadow OF the north pole.
Outing, which has passed into the
hands of a strong company of enthus-
iastic, sportsmen, headed by Casper
Whitney, comes to us in April in q
handsome new cover. 1t is number
like the bourgeoning spring, bursting
with new life and the promise of q
bountiful harvest. The number is H.
Illustrated by the pencil and brush of
Ernest Seton Thompson, Arthur Hem
ing, James l.. Weston, Oliver Nugent,
Z. w. Sandys, and others.
Prof. John Trowbridge, Of Harvard
University, contributes an interesting
article, entitled --latest Developments
With the Mays" to the April number
of Appletons' Popular Science Month
ly. A number of curious illustrations
accompany the text.
The author of 'Bandanna Ballads"
in the April Ladies' Home Journal, is
one of the newest singers of negro
folklore. She is Miss Howard Weeden,
and her ballads have elected the high
est praise of Joel Chandler Harris.
She illustrates her own writings with
pictures that are as felicitous, faithful
and convincing as her verse.
"The Great Steel Makers of Pitts
burg and the Frick-Carnegie Suit" is
the subject of an illustrated article in
the April Review of Reviews, by Julius
Moritzen. The article describes the
wonderful development of the steel
and coke industries of which Pittsburg
is the center.
From the ''Talks With Napoleon" in
the April number of the Century, it
appears that the emperor was SO fully
resolved to make his home in America,
in the event of defeat at Waterloo, that
he had bills drawn upon this country
for whatever sums he chose to take.
He told DIR. O'Meara that he had
'spent sixteen millions of ready
money" of his own before the battle.
Il have probably as much money as
shall ever want" he said ut st. Helena,
"but l do not know exactly where it
is"
Speaking of "The Black VOLTS
Breed" the successful novel by Harris
Dickson, the New York Times says:
apparently when Knighthood Was
in Flower is not the ocly literary
prize that has recently been captured
by the Bowen Merrill Company. Har-
ris Dickson's new historical romance,
The Black VOLTS Breed published
only Il few weeks ago by this house. is
now in it's fifteenth thousand. This is
a fascinating tale of old and new
France in the reign OF Louis XIV"
The Bowen Merrill Co., indianapolis.
Both the January and February St.
Nicholas are out of print, the large
sale of the two numbers being attrib-
uted to the popularity of the new de.
partments, Mature and Science and
The st. Nicholas League" Outdoor
study and scientific investigation are
aided and encouraged in both of these
departments, and the youthful readers
of the magazine have shown a prompt
and hearty appreciation of the oppor'
tunities thus thrown open to them.
In the April Atlantic, George F..
Parker, United States consul at Birm.
ingham, England, treats "The Con.
sular Service of the United States;"
the nature of the service; consular
duties and opportunities; the presi.
| dents relation to the service, and its
neglect by congress and the state de-
partment-in all a not especially fiat
tering or cheerful showing of our for.
eign representations.
Young men who went out on . lark
came home in . patrol wagon.
A Liverpool physician has discovered
the bacillus of pinkeye in horses.