Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-10
LITERARY NOTES.

| H 3 y 4 Is
"a Soldier OF virginia. a tale Of
Colonel Washington and Braddock's
defeat, by Burton Egbert Stevenson.
author of 'sAt Odds With the Regi-
ment,'' has been published recently
by Hou2hton, Mifflin e. Co. .rhe Sol
der of Virginia" tolls his own ro-
nance and narrates the story of Brad
docks disastrous defeat; and having
been Il close friend of Washington;
then a young colonel OF militia--he
| ,liscloses his friends character and
personality and chronicles his eNperi-
| ences and achievements in d way to
bring before the reader convincing
portrait OF ',thc Father Of his Coun-
| try at the beginning CT his career.
Braddocll is effectively portrayed and
| his unhappy campaign against Fort
Du Quesne accurately and yet enter
tainingly described. The picture of
Virginia social life in the middle Of
| the eighteenth century, with it's pa
triarchal institutions and border
| Harms from French and Indians, is
ci>ayiy drawn. and the love story has
:iucii the same dclicacy and charm
which attach to an old time mink,
| ture. Baker-TriSler Co., Des Moines.
! The beautiful simplicity Of the home
| life of Quakers in America is touched
on very sympathetically in the May.
number of The Delinsator by Walden.
Fawcett. His article is entitled
"Quaker Maids of Today" and deals
largely with the younger element of
the Quaker body.
| Mary Johnston opens the May At
tantic with her long-looked-for story,
Audrey" (u romantic tale of Nir-
| ginian life in the eighteenth century,,
| % the delight of her thousands of eN-
| oectant readers.
The Worlds Work for May has two
| articles which deal with the transmits
sion of electricity, one by Theodore
| Waters detailing the rapid progress
and extent OF this new use OF electri-
:al power; another by Dwight T..
| Woodbridge, who, in describing the
| great work of Francis IL. Clergue,
| shows the use he has made of it. The
| story of the difficulties which Mr..
| Clergue met and conquered is a thrill.
| ing one.
The May Century is Travel Num-
Der, transporting the readers to many
lands and climes-Italy, England aid
| France, India, China and Japan-or
dropping him down in mid-ocean on
IN outward bound steamship. Not
the sketches only. but even the fiction
is cosmopolitan in it's appeal. The
magazine appears when the spring
| fret" is urging it's victims strongly to
| drop routine tasks and fare forth on
their travels.
The Ladies Home Journal has COM
| missioned Ida Sharper Hoxie, the well
known author, to go to the German
| Hurz mountains and write of the rails
| ing and training of canary birds. She
| will proceed to ST. Andreasburg, ''The
Singing Village of Germany" where
G0.O0O caEarieS are reared every year,
and spend some time in the home Of
one OF the most successful breeders
of these peerless singers. gathering
material for the article
''1he Helmet of Navarro" novel
| by Bertha Runkle. is announced by
the Century Co., New York. This is
the story which has been appearing
serially in The Century Magazine and
has attracted wider attention and
been more highly praised than any Of
i it's predecessors. AS the first book
of ~ young writer, it is certainly re-
markable. The Critic calls it ga res
markable performance, not only for
young writer, but for a writer Of any
age" 1t is a narrative of intense and
sustained interest. The scene is laid
in Paris during the Investment of the
city by Henry of Navarro. and the
| story occupies but four days Of the
week preceding Henry's entry to give
Ills lOflldl lUNeTenco 10 the IabnO1lC
church. The authors remarkable fer
tility of invention crowds the story
full of plot and sub-plot natural to
the violent times, to the clash Of
faiths, and to the rivalry for the hand
of court beauty known as the Crosse
of Lorraine" 1t is a fresh. engaging
and well sustained addition to roman.
tic fiction.
In the Review of Reviews for MAY
| appears an important illustrated ar
ticle entitled 1.-The Steel Trust on the
Great Lakes" by w. Frank Mcclure
This article sets forth the nature of
the ore mining and carrying opera
| tions in which it is expected that
great economies will be effected by
| the new cOmbinatio The rema rk-
| able development of lake transporta-
ton in recent years is well described
| in text and pictures.
A powerful chapter from one of the
most remarkable of recorded human
experiences appears in McCfure's Mag,
azine for May-Capta;n Alfred Dreys
fus' own story of his arrest, degrad-
alton and transportation to Devils
Isle. To this story is added portion
OF the diary kept by Dreyfus on the
| island, for his wife, and referred 10 SC
often and so myster.ously in the
| Rennes trial, but never made public.
The Great NIilmo Palace.
Work is in progress near Monterey
Mexico, on the great Milmo palace.