Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18
LITERARY NOTES.

ly boys paper In America The
Sprague Publishing Co., Detroit. Mich.
In the North American Review for
September apropos OF Jules Verne'R
recent prophecy that the novel, as
form OF literature. would not be known
in fifty or q hundred years, James
Lane Allen, w. d. Howells. Hamlin
Garland, Fl. W. Mabie and John Ken.
drick Bangs give strenuous answer
in the negative to the question will
the Novel Disappear"
A series OF important papers by
Booker T. Washington, principal Of the
Tuskegee Institute, IN the moral value
Of manual training and labor. begins IN
the September issue of Everybody's
Magazine. Work with the Hands"
the first article, is largely autobto.
graphical. and explains how the author
learned self-respect and satisfaction
from handwork well done. These ar
ticles will be an important and val
liable feature Of Everybody's Maya
zine.
II is risking something to ask the
public to place piece OF fiction along.
side of Poe's best work. The editor
Of the Cosmopolitan ventures this In
the following note, which appears In
the September issue: "One does not
often find story which seems to come
In the classification of Edgar Allen
Poe's best work. Yet one might DO
tempted to ask such a place for Tho
Canonic Curse which Arthur Il. Mo
Farlane contributes to the Cosmo-
politan for September"
In brilliant article on oliver Wen.
dell Holmes, Jurist." which appears In
the Review of Reviews for September.
George Perry Morris suggests the Ca
pacities and characteristics Of the gift
ed Massachusetts, Judge whom Presi-
dent Roosevelt has Just called to the
bench of the United States supreme
court
A little anecdote article on "The
Boyhood Home of Mark Twain" Is one
of the attractions of the September
Century, containing as II does some
pictures of Mr.. Clemens old home In
Hannibal. Mo-, to which are annexed
Inscriptions in the numorist's mint
able manner.
The Worlds Work for September Is
full OF interesting and important
things. notable among which is the
first of M. G. Cuniff's articles on labor
unions. Mr.. Cuniff has been living
among union men and he writes of the
spirit of union methods as seen from
the inside.
W. E. Burghardt Du Bots opens the
September Atlantic with an impress
sive article on the Training of the
Back Man." Talcott Williams, LII. d..
describes the New Navy of the United
advance of "a National Standard in
tnh ElnnasfAp 4. ~ al
tells What Public Libraries are Do.
ing for Children" and Vida d. Scudder
contributes Democracy and Society
in her able series Of papers upon
democracy.
"Chanticleer," by Violette Hall This
is an idyll Of modern life. Roger ami
Mary. happily mated. lose by fire
their house with its belongings. They
are artists by temperament. though
Rogers ostensible vocation Is litera-
ture; and they determine to cut away
from their accustomed life, with itS
exactions and Its cares. its worry over
servants, housekeeping. and entertain
ment, and all the artificialities OF So
ciety, and to go back to nature and
build for themselves a new home In
the woods that shall be a home AMI
nothing more. They create simple
but adequate camping place In the
rural solitude. Friends hearing Of the
experiment flock about them and build
houses of their own. A love story Of
charming sweetness develops and
holds the reader. Lathrop Publishing
Company, Boston.
In Mr.. Pidgin's new book, THE Gil.
max; or What Might Have Been" just
issued by the c. M. Clark company.
Aaron Burr as the romantic president
general of the Utopian America be-
lieves that a senator should not have
a longer term than a president, and
recommends that the president he
elected for term of eight years with
the provision that he may not serve
two terms In succession. He believes
that a congressman's term OF Office
should be four years. the two year
term bringing the election around too
often and limiting the value Of the
congressman's service at Washington.
He thinks the vice president Is very
much like the fifth wheel of a coach;
he Is like having an assistant captain
on ship. but instead Of having him
with the captain where he can SEQ
what Is going on ana be ready to take
the captains place II anything should
happen to him he Is down In the cooks
galley making chowder and plum duff.
President General Burr believes that
the senate should elect its own presi-
dent from among its members; and
that the vice president be made a
member of the cabinet by virtue Of his
high office, and that he also have n
right to seat In the senate, but with
out vote. He also believes that the
members of the cabinet should have
right to sit in the house of represen-
tatives and take part in Its proceed.
ings, but without vote. All of these
suggestions of President General Burr
were adopted and made amendments
to the constitution in "The Climax"
Visitor lat insane asylum)-"My.
these are bad cases. aren't they"
Guide-"Yes. sir, This Is the ping
pong ward"
Our leading novelist was run over
by railroad train Thursday morning.
He hopes to get enough out of the road
In damages to enable him to publish
bis new book.
Ethel-"Oh. Mae! I'm In such a
quandary! Old Mr.. Roxe has proposed
to me and / don't know whether
love him or not" Mae-"Why not
look him up in Bradstreet?"
let me see" said the man at the
desk, pausing with his pen in air, 'who
was the author Of Twice Told Tales"
"Chauncey Depew. wasn't it," suggest
ed the man at the other desk.
Kentucky IL one Of the liveliest
states in the union" remarked the
young man. 1T Is" answered Colonel
Stilwell. beyond doubt. When I was
last there every man I met was run,
ming for some Office or for his life.'
Il don't care how severe cold 10
Is" said the man who was not suffering
from one, Il can get rid Of II In one