Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-08-01
LITERARY NOTES.

April number, published an essay, at
once clever and philosophic, on The
Ideal Wife," a demand was created
for paper on "The Ideal Husband
by the same author-Leyinia Hart.
The August Cosmopolitan contains an
essay ON this subject-on which few
people agree-which is certain not
only to prove widely interesting, but
to cause lively discussion.
A very valuable feature of the
August Delineator is that which illus
trates by Photographic process the
latest dress materials, accompanying
the illustrations with a running COM
ment, so as to guide those who wish
TO have the fullest knowledge of ma
terials before going shopping. This
is one of the features of practical
character that makes the Delineator
so highly esteemed by women. The
same number also goes very fully
into the subject of trimmings and
other dainty accessories of dress.
what Train Dispatcher Does
and his duties are calculated to shatter
the strongest nerves-will be told in
the August Century in an illustrated
article by Charles De Lano Hine. The
writer Is young eA-oincer Oh inc
army, VINO mas turned railway man
ager, and writes from personal ex-
periences of a dispatcher's duties.
The August Atlantic is most en-
tertainingly and strikingly Fiction
Number. Besides the dramatic con-
clusion of Miss Jewett's 'Tory Lover"
and the romantic continuation of
MISS johnston auurey, contains
no iess tnah SIX cohlplete stories OF
sketches Dy such popular anu Prac-
tieeu nahds as ADrahaih .anah' Luz
neid osoorhe' arthur lotion, Eiieh
Du'all' etc, whlch WIN insure its oe.
coming ia'orlte Win reauers Oh
summer hctlon.
Inc Norlds work ior august gives
up most OF lts space TO the rams
American ENposltloh.mak large
ana handsome souvenir NUMBER. Inc
description ana incorporation OF the
Exposition, ,wlthln ana Without, are
striklngiy interesting ana Vaiuapie.
Mr.. waiter IL. rage, the edltor OF the
magazine, gives VNld picture Oh
the outside OF the tair-the speetaele,
the illumination, the archltecture'
sculpture, ana color, ana the cosino'
poltan crowds that WISH buiiaio'
The Kidnapped Mllllonalre, oy
Frederick Upham Adams, has recent
ly been issued by the Lothrop fuo-
fishing company, Boston. Ihls Is
startling story OF certain great
American miilionaires kidnapped
| from Wall street ana marooned In
the south seas, and the results that
came of their disappearance. 1t Is
| an absorbing ana thrllllng story anu
| mlngles adventure, romance ana
finance in remarkable manner. ms
paragraph from a full page review
in the Chicago American VIII give
some idea of its worth:
What the reading pubic really
wants is a book which Will be exert
ing enough to force itself upon the
attention during the dog days, with
enough solid thought behind the
wealth of incident to give cause Tor
reflection through the coolest wealth.
err. This is the sort OF book Fred
erick upham Adams has written un-
der the alluring title OF The Md
| mapped Millionaires. IL is not an
easy task to accomplish, but the man
ner in which the result is reached
is simplicity itseif-anyDody can 90
it, now Mr.. Adams has shown them
how
"A Princess of the Hills: Story OF
italy" by Mrs. Burton Harrison, Is
announced by the Lothrop publishing
company, Boston. Mrs. Burton Har-
rison is charming story-teiier. her
admirers are thousands, and not one
OF them but VIII be delighted TO know
of the latest story from her pen. IN
like her other romances, "A Princess
afthe Hills is not romance OF New
York society nor OF colonial times.
1t is the story OF an American touriso
who retreats from broken engage
ment at Venice to the solitude OF
that section OF the North Italian
Alps known as the Doiomites, mere
st,.;L;na in form and feature The
Last ~ , once noble race lint now
a humble neasant girI-a real
nr;ncass % The hills The commit.
cations of the sitnatIon. the aroused
;,taras,s 81 The Amar;oan. the r;y,I
levers English American and JtaI-
ion. tho 6erceness Of the feud This
Love ang.nders. the STRUGGLE for nos
sess;on ond ;ts unavnected outcome
and announcement ARE told with mas
tarI, sim and ,,ith nm interast that
remains nnaagg;ng IN the end
Tn tbe NIidsnmmer Fiction Numbe,
| % NtoCI,re,s M.goz;,e CIar, Norris
whose "Recollections of the Stage and
Its People" has proved such delight
| full reading, tells the story of an ac-
| tor that failed-failed dismally. He
was an understudy in leading role
in "Mazeppa," and when called upon
to assume the part, owing to the