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

Red Pottage. by Mary Cholmon-
delay, author of 1.-The Danvers Jewels,
is announced by Harper & Brothers
Publishers, New York. No novel OF
recent years has met with SO enthusi-
astic 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 will take
rank with the leading novels Of the
day.
In McClure's Magazine for May, Ray
S. Baker tells the fairly romantic story
of "Ihe New Prosperity that has
burst like a 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 5,00O-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
present year-over the 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 notable contributions to
political literature. They will appear
in authoritative form only in the June
I,,lx Of ha &.
ly, fully copyrighted by Houghton,
Miffiin & Co.
A new form of needleworlS, very
beautiful, in it's 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
ont in the shape of leaves or petals or
stalks.
Charles II. Allen, the first American
governor or Porto Rico, is the subject
Of brief character sketch in the
American Monthly Review of Reviews
for May, by Henry mcfarland, the
w toh
kate Wetherill," by Jennette Lee,
comes from the press of The Century
Co., New York. The Chicago Tribune
says it is "a remarkable book. ..... "A
proud" The Newark IN. j. Adver-
tiser says: absorbing and Impress
i've. The scenes and char cters are Of
New England. capitally portrayed with
fine touches of realism, yet revealing
play of emotions that appeal to the
imagination, kindle the sympathy and
leave an imprint upon the memory of
the reader"
The story Of every day life, of a
prosperous people and of great war
riors of 5000 years ago has been
brought to light by the University of
Pennsylvania excavations at ancient
Nippur. DR., Ililprecht, the famous
AsSyrian scholar, is the leader of the
expedition, and his wonderful discov-
cries are the subject of the principal
article in Ainslee's for May.
In "IlolIand and the Boer War"
Peter MacQueen, the National Maya
now on his way to the Transvaal,
writes interestingly of the attitude of
the Dutch toward their brothers in
South Africa.
Outing for May, from it's frontis-
piece, by Frederick Remington, to the
last page of its monthly Review, from
the pen of its editor, teens with mat
ters of interest to sportsmen in all de-
grees and tastes. The contents of this
number, coming from more than two
dozen of the best equipped authors Of
the day. show that the new manage
ment is justifying its claims.
A director Of the Standard Oil COM
pany has recently published in the
Independent an article declaring the
trusts to lie good for the workingnan.
TO the May century Andrew Carnegie
of the Carnegie Company, which rivals
the Standard Oil for first place among
the worlds great corporations, contri-
butes an essay taking the same ground.
Hamlin Garland, the noted author
who grew to manhood in Iowa, n
tributes to the Cosmopolitan for MAY
a story entitled The Electric Lady,"
1t is the story of an Iowa farmer lad
and how he spent vacation at Des
Moines 1t is written in Mr.. Garland's
very entertaining style and will be APP
preciatcd by all who read it.
The Century Co., New York. has re-
Gently published Deacon Bradbury"
by Edwin Asa Dix. In its review of
the book, the Chicago Times-lIerald
says: "Better than David Harmn'
will not sound like high praise to the
majority of the critics. who have not,
as body. comprehended the popular
craze for that book. Whatever the
praise be worth, it can be safely ac-
corded to a more recent novel, whose
chief character is a sturdy, strong
willed, but very human and kind
hearted farmer. a more con-
vinclng picture of American village
life has never been written"
English starlings, which were intro
duced in New York two years ago,
have increased in numbers and are rap
idly becoming domesticated.
Seventeen per cent of the watch
makers of this country are women. In