Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-11-11
WITH THE MAGAZINES.
What the Current Issues of the Leading
Periodicals Present This Month.

The American Boy for November
comes to us with thirty-six pages
chock full of matter of interest to
boys that will keep them busy for
many long evenings. This number
contains some particularly attractive
matter. The first chapter of story
by tile editor entitled. "Three Yankee
Boys in Ireland" being combined
story of travel and history, thorough
ly illustrated, makes It's appearance.
Appropriate to the month are two eX-
cellent football stories" Harding
Substitute" and Jack two Victor
les" with an item OIL "How to train
for Football. Other stories are
"How Me and Bill Trapped a Dog
fish :" Fritz Ulrich's Turkey" "Mr.
Reed and the Harmless Cub - "Ihe
Little Cayuse," and "How jim Got
| His Antelope"
During August this year Reverend
Peter MacQueen of Boston visited
Macedonia. Turkey and Bulgaria for
the National Magazine He tells the
touching and pitiful story of what he
saw there in the National for Novem-
Der, under the title, The Inside Story
of the Macedonian Massacres, illus
trated from photographs. Frank Put
man, in the same number, writes The
Year with the Labor Union, strong
and timely paper in which the unions
are urged to get rid of their stupid
and criminal leaders of the Sam Parks
stripe, and warned against trying to
monopolize public as we'll as private
employment.
President Eliot of Harvard Univer-
sity opens the November Atlantic
with an important article on The
School, its characteristics, what it's
aims should be, and into what it
should develop. Brooks Adams dis
cusses The Economic Conditions of
Future Defense, maintaining that
force is the only law among nations
and that only the fittest survives Will
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lem of the American Historian and
Burton j. Hendrick, A Great NUM-
cipal Reform, the new tenement law
in New Yolk,-a group Of notable and
valuable papers upon as many differ
ent topics, all of which are of national
Importance.
Radium, the new element, the re-
markable facts connected with it's dis
coyery and it's wondrous possibilities
in the sciences and the arts, forms
the subject of compreh snsive article
in the November Review of Reviews,
by DR.. George +. Kunz. the we'll
known authority on mineralogy. This
article combines the highest scientific
value with popular method of treat
ment.
A mission is liable to swamp a
magazine. So much zeal is developed
that the real function of the publica-
ton, which is to entertain, is forgot
ten. Into this excess Everybody
Magazine, which has recently under
taken crusade against the idolatry-
of-riches habit in America, is obvi-
ously not to be led. The November
contents table makes most inviting
showing, presenting as it does stories
and sketches by such amusing writers
as Alfred Henry Lewis, o. Henry and
Eugene Wood.
"a House Divided is the taking
title of the novel in Lippincott's
Magazine for November. It's author
name. Ella Middleton Tybout,is a
familiar one to readers of Lippincott's
Magazine, though heretofore her pro-
auctions have been in the line of short
stories Her PARALLELS in Black"
lately running through Lippincott's
are particularly striking and indicate
that which is richly fulfilled in this
latest work. The little State of Del
aware has been chosen by Miss Tybout
for the placing of "a House Divided,
and her portrayal of farmer who,
becaue he believes his wife to be I'M
true to him, has not spoken to her for
sixteen years. is a remarkably clever
bit of Characterization. Lippincott's
novels are always worth while-and
the November number sustains this
opinion.
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