Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-08-02
LITERARY NOT ss.

April number, published an essay, at
once clever and phllosophic, on The
Ideal Wife, demand was created
for paper on ''rhe Ideal Husband"
by the same author--Levinia 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 Delneator is that which illus
trates by Photographic process the
latest dress materials, accompanying
the illustrations with 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 Il 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 a Train Dispatcher Docs
and his duties are calculated to shatter
the strongest nerves--will be told i'll
the August Century in an illustrated
article by Charles De Lano Hine. The
writer is young ex-officer of the
army, who has turned railway man
ager, and writes from personal ex.
periences of 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's Audrey" it contains
no less than six complete stories or.
sketches by such popular and prac-
ticed hands as Abraham Cahan, Duff
al, n nch Arfh Cotton
Duvall, etc, which Will insure its be-
coming Il fay orite with readers of
summer fiction.
The Worlds Work for August gives
up most of it's space to the PAM
American Exposition-lnaking large
and handsome souvenir number. The
description and Interpretation of the
Exposition, within and without, are,
strikingly interesting and valuable.l
Mr.. Walter H. Page, the editor OF the
magazine. gives vivid picture OF
the outside of the fair-the spectacle,
the illumination. the architecture,
sculpture, and color, and the cosmo-
Dolitan crowds that visit Buffalo,
1.-The Kidnapped Millionaire" by
Frederick Upham Adams. has recent-
w been issued by the Lothrop Pub
fishing company, Boston. This is a.
startling story of certain great
American millionaircs kidnapped
from Wall street and marooned I'M
the south seas, and the results that
came of thei- disappearance. 1t is
an absorbing and thrilling story and
mingles adventure, r"mance and.
finance in remarkable manner. This
paragraph from a full page review,
in the Chicago American will give
some idea of it's worth:
hn
wants is a book which will be cxcit-
ing enough to force itself upon the,
attention during the dog days. with
enough solid thought behind the
wealth of incident to give cause for
reflection through the coolest wealth
err This is the sort Of book Fred
erick Upham Adams has written un-,
der tho allrring title of 'The Kid
mapped Mllionaires.' 1T is not an
easy task to accomplish but the man
nel in Which the result is reached
is simplicity itselt-anybody can do
it, now Mr.. Adams has shown them
how"
"a Princess of the Hills: A Story of
Italy, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, is
announced by the Lothrop Publishing
company. Boston. Mrs. Burton Har-
rison is charming story-teller. Her
admirers are thousands, and not one
of them but will be delighted to know
of the latest story from her pen. I'm
like her other rOmances. IA Princess
of the Hills is not romance of New
York society nor OF colonial times.
IT is the story of an American tourist
who retreats from Il broken engage
ment al Venice to the solitude of
that section of the North Italian
Alps known as the Dolomites. Here
1,o Ian
striking in form and feature, the
last of Il once noble race, but now
a humble peasant girl,-a real
princess of the hills. The cOmpli-
cations of the situa ION; the aroused
interests of the Americana; the rival
lovers.--English, American, and Ital-
ian; the fierccness of the feud this
love engenders; the struggle for pos
session and its unexpected outcome
and dcnoucmcnt,-arc told with mas
terly skill and with an interest that
remains unf1aggilg to the end.
In the Midsummer Fiction NumbeS
of McClure's Magazine. Clara Morris,
whose s.Recollections of the Stage and
It's People, has proved such delight
full reading, tells the story of an ac-
tor that failcd---failed dismally. He
was an understudy in n leading role
in 'Mazeppa,' and when called upon
to assume the part, owing to the
tragic death of the principal, he did
not take advantages of his opportuni-
ties. AS the ''fiery unframed steed,"
cold Bob turned ''NLazeppa' into Il
roaring farce. Walter M. Glackens'
pictures are almost us, amusing as tho
text.
The speech in the house of lords
of the bishop of Hereford on the SUBJ
iect of gambling recalls a story told
of Bishop Potter of New York The
bishop, travelling through Louisiana
some years ago. addressed inquiries
to his fellow passengers with a view
to obtaining information regarding
Tho s,rnb,r1> and f,.1it iptereSfS of