The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16
LITERARY NOTES.

One is reminded of Marryat's ro-
mances in reading in the August st.
Nicholas Reginald Gourlay's story of
"The Lucky Lieutenant" The differ
ence between Midshipman Easy or
one of his fellows, and the Hon. John
i O'Brien, is that the former was fic-
itious and the latter real. The young
Irish officer lived through series
of hairbreadth escapes by sea and
land and eloped at last with his old
love, who brought him half million
! sterling, the marriage occurring of
course at Gretna Green.
| The August Atlantic contains sew
eral articles that will attract critic
ism and discussions: President Brad
| ley's practical and much needed pa
per on political Education;" Talcott
Williams 1.-The Trice of Order,' how
| to rule colonies and Mark b. Dun
heli's "Our Rights in China"-most
timely and appropriate in the present
crisis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Wards
new novel has been bought by the
Ladies' Home Journal, in which period
| ical it is about to be published seri-
ally. 1t is called "The Successors to
| Mary the First" and is one of the
| of fiction, touching the servant girl
| question, ever written.
The August number of the National
| Magazine contains great amount
| and variety of timely and readable
matter. A glance at the contents
page is a revelation in the way of the
comprehensive makeup of popular
priced magazine.
Tho A,,r,,c+ ,,,,p,1,o, e, Al. NIL,
American Review affords a most sug-
gestive illustration of the splendid
service which great editor renders
his readers in conducting a great
to "The Crisis in China" and each of
them regards it or discusses it from
different point of view.
| When the manuscript of Ronald
magazine. Seven articles are devoted
MacDonald's "The Sword of the
King" was read with view to it's
publication in book form, the dra-
matte quality of the story was Instant
ly remarked. Many of the scenes
seemed to need but a touch to make
them effective before the footlights.
The publishers were not surprised,
then, to learn, after the book was,
accepted, that in it's original form it
was a play, and had already been
performed in England for copyright
purposes. 1t is interesting to know
that Mr.. Macdonald spent several
years in America not long ago. The
entury Co., Union Square, New York.
Philip Gerard" by Prof. Ed AM
herst OFT, of the Drake University
College of Oratory and English, Des
Moines, Iowa, and author of several
books which have proved pronounced
successes, is meeting with q splendid
reception by the reading public. The
author is widely known as an educa-
tor of some twelve years experience,
but is most widely known through
his Vital Topic Lectures. The news
papers throughout the country have
spoken very highly ofhis latest work,
and no Iowan should fail to read it.
Address Drake University College of
Oratory, Des Moines, Iowa. {,
Among the practical September ar
| ticles in the Delineator for September
ore Preserving by New Methods"
by Edna Witherspoon; Farming for
Women" by Mrs. Moses p. Handy, and
Russian Cross-Stitch Embroidery
with page Illustration in colors.
Picking: Its Life and People, is IL
lustrated witt. rare and authentic
pictures gathered by Isaac Taylor
Headland during his ten years. pro-,
fessorship in Pelsing university.
Stephen Bonsal, whose infor1na-
ton on the subject has been obtain
ed at first hand, writes in the August
Revolution" His article is a clear
and exhaustive account of the various
reform movements in China, and es-
pecially of the rise and growth of
the Boxers, together with a review
of the complex and eventful career Of
the empress dowager.
GA Prisoner Among Filipinos" is
the title of Lieutenant Commander
James G. Gilmore's account of his
extraordinary experiences in the Phil
iPpines, which begins in the August
McClure's Lieutenant Gilmore was
captured by savage tribes while out
in small boat with a scouting party
ON the east coast of Luzon. For sew
eral months these men Travelled hun
dreds of miles through the heart of
Luzon, enduring unspeakable hard
ships.
The Midsummer Holiday Century is
chiefly notable, perhaps, as introduc-
| ing a writer hitherto unknown, of
whose power to interest those who
never read serial stories" the edi-
| tors feel confident. The new conner,
Miss Berthan Runkle, is a young
woman still in her early twenties, and
the scene she has chosen for her
first effort in fiction is Paris at the
time of the accession of Henry w
The story, which will run for severaf(
months, il called "The Helmet Of
Navarro
One Sunday the minister of small
northern country parish church had
the misfortune to forget his sermon,
and did not discover his loss till he