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

Publishing Company, of Boston, and
now in its fifty-fourth thousand, has
been dramatized by Edward Rose for
William III. 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, 'Tha
Codfishers of Newfoundland" wildly
describes the life of 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 i'm
perial tariff propositions, the Review
of Reviews for July declares that the
time has come when the high-taritf
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 Glare
Craft contribute typical Western
stories On natural history subjects,
John Muir writes characteristic
article apropos Of Professor Sargents
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 a Fifty-Mile Flume" and the
Kindergarten of the Streets" The
former is written by Bailey Millard
and illustrated by w. j. Street. 1t Is
graphic description of perilons
ride down fifty-mile flume 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
NV 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 it's birth
place, is one of the fresh and inter
esting points made by Professor c.
II. 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 tc
| 1850, when the storm OF persecution
against the new sect and its eloquent
leader first began to subside.
Chauncey Thomas has writer
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 trusting young Eng
lishman who has just parted with his
last penny to a Yankee syndicate II
| exchange for a sailed mine. Rugle:
| takes his case and forces a settlement
| but by procedure considerably
more strenuous than the ordinary
processes Of law. A good story Of Q
good bluff never fails to appeal. -
Will N. Harden, author of "Abnei
Daniel and 1.-THE Substitute" con
tributes a strong short story to Har
per's Magazine for July, entitled "A
Filial Pretence." In the same mum
Der are stories by Mrs. Stepney Rev
son, illustrated in tint by Elizabeth
Shipper Green, Arthur Cotton, Julial
Ralph, Margaret Sutton Briscoe, May
r. S. Andrews, and others.
The manor house of the old ano
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 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 hnt
illustrations of both interior and ex
terror add to the suggestiveness OF
the article.
In his romance of the old west
"The Lions of the Lord" Harry Leon
Wilson, whose "The Spenders" Is one
of the successes Of the present year
shows an advance in strength anc
grasp both in art and life. 1t Is thrill
ing tale of the Mormon settlement q
Salt Lake City. In the central charac
ter of Joel Rae, the author has drawn
a pathetic figure of a religious mystic
who comes by hard experience to Sc;
| that the. Mormon teachings are dire II
their significance, especially upon wo
men. His love for his adopted daugh
fer and the childs growth into fail
Young womanhood, when she Is wor
NV a cowboy, are admirably depicted
Snch 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. LothroI
Publishing Company, Boston.
"Why did Gayboy's handsome steno'
pranher leave him so suddenly" He
saws she found a number OF letters
from his wife in his desk"
"Do you think he would accept q
bribe?" Certainly motif any one
was looking"
It's all right to earn our daily bread
nv the sweat of our brow, but most oil
us kick If 1t isn't pie.
This suspense will kill me-" re-
marked the condemned murderer as
the sheriff prepared to spring the trap.
Money is the root of all evil-if 1t