Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The famous Delineator, which for 81
years has occupied unique position
in the American magazine world
makes great departure with the
january number, just out, by print
ing prospectus of what will appear
in the twelve issues for 1901. With
The Delineator in the house half mil
lion practical women know that they
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 a
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 a wide reading among
those who like really good fiction.
Houghton, Miffiin g. 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 citizen
has an interest, whether he has ever
visited Washington or not.
The most important group of pa
pers which the Atlantic Monthly will
offer to its readers during 1901 is
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 them,
however naturally inclined to the
northern or the southern point of
view, have written with candor and
good temper.
Every one who has read his "Obiter
Dicta" will be interested to hear that
Augustine Birrell, the London bar
rister and late NJ. =. for Fi!eshire,
has written for The Century series
of travel sketches called "Down the
Rhine" The Rhine is a river of
memories, and the delightful English
humorist, while describing its pictur-
esque and beautiful features, by no
means ignores its personal and po-
litical associations. The first of his
papers, with striking illustrations by
Castaigne, appear in the December
magazine.
From the press of Houghton, Milf
fin & Co., New York, comes "rhe
Prodigal." A young Aucklander yies
with the prodigal son of the new tes-
lament story in wasting his sub
stance in riotous living. He wan
ders forth to seek his fortune or mis-.
fortune, as may chance, and reaches
the water front at San Francisco. His
rich fathers agents under instruc-
tions dole him very scanty pittance,
and require him TO come for it daily.
He RACES, roams, meets an attractive
and providential schoolmistress, with
whom he judieiously falls in love, and
the sequel is "all that could be de-
sired" Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote
tells the story with the full intelIi-
gence and the narrative skill which
make her novels of western life SO
valuable as pictures of the country
and people, and 80 fresh and whole
some through and through.