Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-01-16
LITERARY NOTES.


addresses, sermons and poems deliv-
cred before the New England society
in the city Of New York during the per-
iod extending from 1920 to 1885.
The contents were collected and ed
tied by Cephas Brainerd and Eveline
Warner Brainerd, by direction of the
board of officers, with an Introductory
note by Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Among the distinguished men repre-
scented in these volumes land for the
most part represented by orations not
previously published, save in rare
pamphlets, now sought by collectors)
are Leonard Bacon, Ralph Waldo En-
erson, Rufus Choate, Mark Hopkins.
Robert G. Winthrop. Daniel Webster.
William Adams, George p. Marsh. DIR.
Hadduck Ia nephew of Daniel Web
ster), oliver Wendell Holmes. William
Cullen Bryant, Richard Salter Storrs.
William NJ. Evarts. ]. Prescott Hall
and George William Curtis. The poem
of John Pierpont on THE Pilgrims of
Plymouth" is also included. The two
volumes, in rich cloth binding, gilt
top, handsomely printed and put up
in box, are offered at $500. net.
(Thirty cents should be added for
postage.)
~ SOlUTduO SOIOuel, anu OtueT
sketches by William Carey Campbell.
seq 'ss!Iols uIslssM 10 4ooq Aeu q
been announced by Crane & Co., pub
fishers, Topeka, Kas. This is a col
lection of twenty sketches of life and
scenes in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and Arizona. There
are scores of fine half-tone engrav-
ings. illustrating western life. The
book is full of humor and pathos.
"A Colorado Colonel" novelette,, is
character sketch rivaling David
Harum" or "Eben Holden" while the
shorter stories are redolent of noun
tain, gulch and plain. These are not
blood-and-thunder stories, but bright.
cleverly told western tales of absorb
ing human interest. One reader says
OF them: mot since Bret Harte's
stories began to appear have | read
anything with which / have been SO
much captivated; the humor Is delic-
ious, and running through all of them
Is thread of gold that shines bright
er as one goes on"
The Christmas number of the Co.'S
mopolitan contains an article on The
Boer War To Date" II is q well writ
ten and splendidly illustrated and
will prove of great interest to the
readers of that popular low-priced
magazine. In the same number John
Brisben Walker tells The Story Of
Theodore Roosevelt's Life
r. III. Russell, New York, has re-
Gently published I'm the Fog a mod
ern detective story by Richard Hard
ing Davis. This is the most entertain
ing novelette, that Mr.. Davis has ever
written, marking his entrance into
new field of fiction. 1t Is a detective
story, but full of adventure and mys-
teries. The work is illustrated with
pictures in color by Frederick Dorr
Steele and Thomas Mitchell PIERCE.
The publication may be obtained Of
all booksellers, or will be sent post
paid to any address by the publisher
upon receipt of price, 81 so.
IL the old saying, "All the world
loves lover" is true, then the fic-
ton in The Cosmopolitan for January
should be popular, indeed. All the
stories vary in treatment. plot and &C
ton, from Frances Courtenay Baylor's
charming story, "Cupid's Practical
Joke" to Maarten Martens strong
domestic tragedy. Her Fathers
Wife," but all have love for central
theme.
Prof. John B. Clark, of Columbia
University. contributes to the January
Atlantic a notable article in the
Looking Backward" vein, rehearsing
and analizing the probabilities of the
coming century from the standpoint OF
a citizen Of the year 1000.
The January Country Life in Amer
lea is California number with superb
pictures characteristic of this unique
and beautiful magazine, and wholly
devoted to the outdoor world on the
Pacific coast. The special covers show
big trees of the Sierras, and, a mag
niicent trontispiece, the blooming
orchards at the foot of the snowcap-
ped mountains. The leading article,
by l.. II. Bailey, tells OF the diversified
beauties and peculiarities of the land
that flowers in winter and sleeps in
the summer. where thunder storms
are not. and where the sun shines
everlastingly.
A very notable paper. the first of a
series in McClures, Is George Wash
burn Smalley's personal recollections
OF English Statesmen and Rulers"
Mr.. Smalley was for years chief Ameri-
can newspaper correspondent abroad,
and knew well most of the great men
and women Of his day. In this paper
he writes of Roseberry. Arthur Bal
four, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman,
II. H. Asquith, and Sir Edward Grey,
discussing not their politics. but their
personal qualities and social charm.
Emerson Hough's third paper ON
The Settlement of the West" to APP
pear in the January Century. will deal
with the movement, not down stream,
with current, nor up stream, by steam
power. but across the waters" by
rail and caravan. One of Remington's
Illustrations for this number-a six
horse stage by moonlight--is printed
in tints as the magazines fronts
piece.
With "The Area Of Exclusiveness
Is Past" for text The Worlds Work
for January devotes its space largely
to the political and commercial ex-
pansion of the country. Nearly every
article gives not only the vivid incl
dents of America abroad to date, but
in full. as well. of suggestions toward
making the incidents of our trade in
every limits of the earth great uni
fed movement.
The Patron Saint of Childhood" is
Eugene Fields title in some parts of
this land, and in Missouri the school
children set aside one day each year
in which to honor his memory. Few
poets have ever cared so much for
children as he did, and for this reason
The announcement made by The
Ladies'. Home Journal that Mr.. Max
field Parrish is to picture some of Mr.
Fields bestowed poems for that mag
lzine should be a pleasurable one,
especially for the little folks.
Prof. Emory r. johnson. one Of the
of the Isthmian Canal Com
contributes to the Review of
Reviews for January. a compact and
account OF the commits