The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-01-02
LITERARY LEAVES.

DR.. w. Dewitt Hyde, President Of
Bowdoin College, discusses in the Jan,
Forum, some of the most urgent
Problems of Our Educational Sys-
tem," with respect alike to element
ary schools, high schools and colleges.
He expresses incidentally the opinion
that "the twentieth century finds us
just bit tired of Germans peculiar
type of scolarship, WIN a zeal to
heap up the new acquisitions of
knowledge regardless of relative
worth, sense of proportion, attractive
ness of form, or either aesthetic or
practical use" -....
If Emerson, whose advice was,
Hitch your wagon to star" had
said instead, Glitch your clock work
to star" he would have prophesied
just what is done all over the country
nowadays. In several large obserVa-
tories correct time is kept by the
transit of particular star across the
meridian, and transmitted automatic
ally by telegraph of points hundreds of
miles distant. Many interesting facts
in this connection, about the Master
-.oCk" at Washington, time-balls, etc
are given in an article by w. S. Har-
wood, in st Nicholas, for January.
Mary E. wilkins contributes the
Christmas story for the current num-
ber of tne 10 Story Book. This is the
January issue, but being published so
early in the month is, in reality, the
the Christmas number of this maga-
zine. Miss wilkins story is entitled
General" and is fully up to the stan
dard of her work. !.
Among the principal features Of in
terest in the Christman Overland
Monthly are 'T4anty Fosters Mistake"
by Bret Hart, the first editor of the
Overland Monthly and Building
Slips at the Navy Vary" an article
by George d. Campbell, Jr, setting
forth the advantage of the New Gov
ernmentaI shlpbuilding industry on
the Pacific Coast. 'I4anty Fosters
Mistake" is one of the best California
stories that has yet come from Bret
Harte's illustrious pen.
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The January National Magazine" of
Boston, VIII. contain the first of a SER
les of articles by Senator Mark Han
ma, of Ohio, on the career of his
friend, the late President William Nc
Kinley. No other man was so warm
'y devoted to Mckinley, or so closely
in touch with him. These articles
will embOdy the 1enator's estimate of
his friends character, anu life work,
and give many interesting incidents
of his career.
The Century for January New
Years number) is not less interesting
than it's two predecessors. "In the
Year of American Humor" there is a
group of contributors. THE Gentle
men of the Plush Rocker" by Mrs.
Ruth McEnery Stuart, is a unique
study of the negIo; Ellis Parker But
Ter, author of "The Reformation of
Uncle Billy" succeeds in playing a
new tune on an old string in "Eliph
Hewitt, Castaway," a story of a book
agent; James Whitcomb Riley eontri-
butes half a dozen character poems en-
titled "a Few Neighbor Children"
and the series of policeman Flynn's
Adventures" by Elliott Flower, is
brought to an end.
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Those who think that inspiration or
genius makes labor unnecessary will
find evidence to the contrary in the
very interesting account of the way in
which Brahms composed his music,
which we find in an article on '"The
Work Of Brahms" by Mr.. D. G. Mason
in The Outlook.
Tradition and the newspapers are
so fond of referring to Kentucy as "the
dark end bloody ground" that at the
request of the editor of Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly, Mr.. e. Carl Litsey,
painstaking and accurate observer
of social conditions, made a leisurely
journey through the most notorious
districts of the state, carefully noting
what he saw and heard, and relying
solely upon first hand information.
The story Oh this journey, together
with a very accurate and dramatic ac.
count of Kentucky feuds and their
causes, is the opening article in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly for January.
A splendid New Years number is
the January MeClure's, making good
right at the start, the promises of the
editors for the coming year. To a dog
story is given the post of honor, and
/ "Army Jack" by w. ]. Carney and
Chauncey Thomas, goes straight to
! the spot by virtue of it's soldierly
/ frankness and sincerity. Jack" is an
, old white bulldog, "sergeant-maior ol
; Troop A." and the veteran of the
troop.
Will Cartoons Magazine, "Eyery
Where, seems TO have demonstrated
what, to many, seemed impossible
that strictly first class magazin,
could be produced for fifty cents
year. Most Of the articles are short
and very much to the point The DE
cember Every Where is full Of rea
human interest, and everything in
can be read with relish--which, 4
these days, "a a relish.
y Al Integgala during the past fe'