Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-16
LITERARY NOTES.

H. L. Wilson's striking novel, "The
Spenders," published by the Lothrop
Publishing Company, of Boston, and
now in its fifty-fourth thousand, has
been dramatized by Edward Rose for
William Fl. Crane, who will open with
the play at the Savoy Theatre, New
York, next September.
The July Worlds Work has a wider
sweep than is usual with this TYPICAL
ly American magazine. Norman Dun
cans entertaining article ON, The
Codfishers of Newfoundland" wildly
describes the life of a hardy race just
beyond our borders and A. B. Lueder,
the engineer in charge OF the work,
relates in Building American Bridges
in Mid-Africa' the unusual adventures
of American workmen in the topics,
contributing also some excellent pho
tographs.
Apropos of Mr.. Chamberlain's inn
perial tariff propositions, the Review
of Reviews for July declares that the
time has come when the high-tarif
wall between Canada and the United
States ought to be battered down.
The United States, says the editor,
should propose reciprocity which
should ultimately, IL possible. be
brought to the point of full CONNER.
cial union.
In the Atlantic for July, Jack Lon
don contributes an historical sketch,
THE Gold-Hunters of the North !;
and Mary Austin and Mabel Clare
Craft contribute typical Western
stories. On natural history subjects.
| John Muir writes a characteristic
| I'll - q
monumental American Silva, and
| Bradford Torrey describes some adj
ventures and discoveries among west
ern birds.
In Everybody's Magazine for July,
| the two picturesque features leading
themselves to illustration are, Fly
ing Down Fifty-Mile Flume" and the
Kindergarten of the Streets" The
former is written by Bailey Willard
and illustrated by w. ]. Street. 1t is
a graphic description of a perilous
ride down fifty-mile fiume by two
daring and adventurous spirits. which
will make you hold your breath part
of the way sure.
How many persons know that the
number of stripes on our flag is fixed.
| and why? How many know from
what flags of Great Britain our Stars
and Stripes are an evolution! Who
knows how the flag adopted in 1777
and the flag carried In the Mexican
War differed? Who knows in what
year Congress passed the law which
governs the flag honored and loved
to-day around the world? All these
facts and many other interesting de-
tails are told in the July st. Nicholas
by Parmalee McFadden.
How Methodism may be said to
| have begun in Susanna Wesley's nur-
sery, rather than in the University
of Oxford, so often called its birth
place, is one OF the fresh and inter-
esting points made by Professor c.
T. Winchester in the first of his pa
pers on "John Wesley" which Is
printed in the July Century. The July
| chapters of this new life of the great
reformer carry MIN from his birth to
| 1850, when the storm of persecution
against the new sect and its eloquent
| leader first began to subside.
.Chauncey Thomas has written
many good stories for McClure's, but
none better than the one in the cur
| rent number, "Ruggles' First Case"
Ruggles is a young lawyer in Denver,
| briefess and almost breadless. His
/ first client is a trusting young Eng
lishman who has just parted with his
last penny to Yankee syndicate in
exchange for a sailed mine. Rugles
takes his case and FORCES a settlement
| but by procedure considerably
more strenuous than the ordinary
processes of law. A good story of a
good bluff never fails to appeal
Will N. Harden, author Of 'Abner
Daniel" and "The Substitute" con-
tributes a strong short story to Har-
per's Magazine for July. entitled "A
Filial Pretence." In the same num-
Der are stories by Mrs. Stepney Rev.
son, illustrated in tint by Elizabeth
Shipper Green, Arthur Cotton, Julian
Ralph, Margaret Sutton Briscoe, Mary
| r. s. Andrews, and others.
The manor house of the old ana
distinguished family of Van Cortlandt,
| situated in one of the suburbs of New
| York City, and now owned by the
Society OF Colonial Danes of New
| York, is an excellent example OF the
Dutch Colonial style of architecture.
| 1t was constructed over a century and
| a half ago and has sheltered many
men of national prominence In the
early DAYS of the Republic. In the
July Delineator Miss Alice M Kellogg
describes this old structure. and fine
| Illustrations of both interior and ex.
terror add to the suggestiyeness oil
the article.
In his romance OF the old west,
4 "The Lions of the LORD" Harry Leon
Wilson, whose 1.-THE Spenders" is one
of the successes of the present year,
shows an advance in strength and
4 grasp both in art and life. II is thrill
| Ing tale of the Mormon settlement OF
Salt Lake City In the central charac-
ter of Joel Rae, the author has drawn
a pathetic figure of religious mystic,
who comes Dy hard experience to see
| that the Mormon teachings are dire IN
their Significance, especially upon wo-
| men. His love for his adopted daugh-
ter and the child's growth into fatr
Young womanhood, when she Is won
| by a cowboy, are admirably depicted,
Such dramatic scenes as that OF the
famous Mountain Meadows Massacre
| are told with great power. and Brig
ham Young and other Mormon lead
ers are hit off to the life. Lothrop
Publishing Company, Boston.
/ "Why did Gayboy's handsome steno-
grapher leave him SO suddenly he
says she found number OF letters
from his wife in his desk"
do you think he would accept a
bribe?" Certainly not-f any one
was looking"
It's all right to earn our daily bread
by the sweat Of our brow. but most OF
us kick il 1t isn't pie.