Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
LITERARY NOTES.

delay, author of The Danvers Jewels"
is announced by Harper & brothers,
Publishers. New York. No novel of
recent years has met with SO enthusi-
astic n reception at the hands of the
critics on both sides of the Atlantic as
Miss Cholmondelay's Red Pottage."
Edition after edition has been pub
lished in this country and in England
the publishers have been scarcely able
to supply the demand. The story is
intensely interesting and win take
rank with the leading novels of the
day.
In McClure's Magazine for May, Ray
S. Baker tells the fairly romantic story
OF 1.-The New Prosperity" that has
burst like miracle upon the world,
and particularly upon the United
States, within less than two years.
The circulation of The Ladies' Home
Journal has reached 900, 900, and pass
ed it by 5,O00-905, 900 copies being the
aggregate circulation of the April
| issue. This is an increase of over &c.
600 copies per month for the last four
months-since January first of the
l pTtStnJ ycdT-ONcl Tic corresponding
period in 1899.
Ex-President Cleveland's two adj
dresses on the Independence of the
Executive" at Princeton, April 9th and
| 10th, will be notab contributions to
political literature. They will appear
in authoritative form only in the June
and July issues of the Atlantic Month
ly, fully copyrighted by Houghton,
Miffliu 4 Co.
| A new form of needleworlk, very
beautiful; in its results, is shown in
the May Delineator. Instead of ac-
complishing embroidery by colored
stitches of various lengths, as hereto
fore, very pretty results are obtained
by sewing carefully to proper back
ground small strips of colored silk cut
out in the shape of leaves or petals oil
stalks.
Charles II. Allen, the first American
governor or Porto Rico, is the subject
of brief character sketch in the
American Monthly Review of Review.
for May, by Henry mcfarland, tht
Washington correspondent.
"Kate Wetherill," by Jennette Lee
comes from the press of The Centur!
Co., New York. The Chicago Tribune
SAYS it is "a remarkable book. 80. 4
creation of which any author might b.
proud" The Newark IN. j. Adver
tiser says: Absorbing and impress
i've. The scenes and char acters are o
New England. capitally portrayed will
fine touches of realism, yet revealing
play of emotions that appeal to tn
: imagination, kindle the sympathy an,
: leave an imprint upon the memory o
the reader"
: The story of every day life, of
prosperous people and of great war
riors of 5000 years ago has beel
brought to light by the University o
: Pennsylvania excavations at ancien
Nippur. DIR. IIilprecht, the famou
Assyrian scholar. is the leader of tn
expedition, and his wonderful discov
cries are the subject of the principa
article in Ainslee's for May.
In "Ilolland and the Boer War,
Peter MacQueen, the National Maya
zines special representative, who i
new on his way to the Transvaal
| "IltSS VI WV "sh'soN,
the Dutch toward their brothers il
South Africa.
Outing for May, from its fronts
piece, by Frederick Remington, to tn
last page of it's monthly Review, fror
the pen of its editor, teens with ma,
, tiers of interest to sportsmen in all de
grees and tastes. The contents of thi
number, coming from more than tw
dozen of the best equipped authors C
the day, show that the new manage
e ment is justifying it's claims.
A director OF the Standard Oil CON
S pany has recently published in tn
I Independent an article declaring tn
= trusts to be good for the workinglnaI
. To the May century Andrew Carnegi
. | of the Carnegie Company, which rival
the Standard Oil for first place anon
] the worlds great corporations, contr
butes an essay taking the same grouno
Hamlin Garland, the noted autho
who grew to manhood in Iowa, !
tributes to the Cosmopolitan for Ma
a story entitled The Electric Lady.
II is the story of an Iowa farmer la
and how he spent vacation at DE
, Moines. 1t is written in Mr.. Garland
= very entertaining style and Will be al
9 preciated by all who read it.
a The Century Co.. New York, has II
S Gently published Deacon Bradbury
a by Edwin Asa Dix. In it's review {
S the book. the Chicago Times-lIeral
says: BETTER than David Iiarun
will not sound like high praise to I'll
majority of the critics. who have no
as a body, comprehended the popula
craze for that book. Whatever I'll
praise be worth, it can be safely a.
corded to a more recent novel, who's
S chief character is a sturdy, stronI
e willed. but very human and kim
= hearted farmer. more col
n vincIng picture of American villag
life has never been written"
j English starlings, which were intr
duced in New York two years ag
have increased in numbers and are ra
idly becoming domesticated.
Seventeen per cent of the watcl
r makers of this country are women.
+ 1850 all were men.
SOME PECULIAR TiMEPIECEs