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

Ca1 eCiSSNoPC III tuC AJlSh ooSSA 'a-
tory Of California: "a Yacht Race
in the Clouds" which is by no means
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 Moose's rather
than hunters point of view, depict
ing its defiant lordship, it's passions
and it's undoing. Poultry and Poul-
try Breeding in the United States"
by II. s. Babcock, will be positive
revelation to the reader. "The Place
of the Automobile as Sport Factor"
is the absorbing question of the day.
"Coursing on Western Prairies,"
breathes the atmosphere OF one If
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 Il
| 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"
! first of series of travel sketches and
| studies.
Charles III. Stevens, whose painting
| decorates the cover of the October
Ladies' Home Journal, is a close ar
| fist student of the Indian and Indian
| life. and is regarded as a 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
| the admiration of all lovers of black
and white art.
"Does Jamaica Contain a Lesson in
| Colonial Governments" 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 it's variety of
strong fiction. The Colonefs last
1 Campaign" by Brand Whitlock, is a
stirring, realistic story of politics in
the Middle West "A Matter of Tween
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 lit
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 Z. Steven
son, Senator Tillman, Edward ".
Shepard, Richard Croker, Erving Win
slow, Senator Hoar, Senator L. &.
PIatt, Senator W., NJ. Stewart, Andrew
Carnegie, James II. Eckels, Josiah
Quincy, Benjamin Taylor and y.
OzaEi.
fortunes Boats" by Barbara
Yechton, author of "A Young Saw
ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New
York. Five sisters live with their
widowed mother and bachelor uncle
in city fiat. Margaret is companion
to a 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 TIN.
l part of any of the group. 1t is
come of all this, but 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
4 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, tc
barbacues, to country fairs and tt
i cakewalks and the attractions Of
: these are well described, as is the
: children's enjoyment of them. By ant
& by the four children and their mother
g and governess start for visit IT
s England. A storm wrecks their ship
T.. but after many perils and anXietie'
all are saved This is mere outline
;, of story which has many features o.
interest, and which, with the illus
e trations, should be popular will
Youthful readers. For sale by Baker
Trisler Co., Des Moines.
Mr. Burroughs on Little Fur Bearers
- While the critics are feeling theil
. way through "The Light of Day." 50
= as to know just whecn TO rank Mr.
y Burroughs as a religious thinker
J. and are finding him worry sincere ant
l. interesting, if not wholly regular,
y his later book will surely charm al
1t critics and readers. 1t is virtually
% series of brief biographies of SOUR