The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-11-05
CURRENT LITERATURE.
Observations of New Books and
Late Magazines


The striking foot bali cover of The
Pilgrim for November will doubtless
serve to decorate many a college boy
or girls room. 1t is one Of the most
attractive covers the news stands are
showing and quite the best The Pill
grim has ever published.
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The Review Of Reviews is keeping
up its reputation as the best inter-
prefer Of the news of the day among
our monthly journals. The Novem-
Der number deals with the postal in
vestigation, the fall elections, the re-
cent exposures of "high finance" in
trust organization, the Panama Canal
situation, the award of the Alaska
boundary tribunal, the protectionist
movement in England, and the issue
in the far East between Russia and
Japan.
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
nam, in the same number, writes The
Year with the Labor Unions" a
strong and timely paper in which the
unions are urged to get rid of their
leaders of the Sam Parks stripe.
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Eugene Wood, wno had paper in
a recent McClure's on 1.-THE Swim
ming Hole" has followed it with one
on 1.-THE Sabbath School" in the No
yember number Mr.. Wood seems to
be tilling his own little plot of new
land, the common place doings of
commonplace people, the class to
which most of us belong. No one
who has sat, through the droning ses-
sions Of the old-fashioned Sabbath
school win fail to be amused and per-
haps touched by this clever paper
"The Silent Places, or The Trail Ct
Jingoss," Stewart Edward Whites
new novel of the Northwest, begins
serially in Outing for November.
Among many profusely illustrated
articles are Vance Thompson's "The
Golf Links of Paris" characterizing
from an American point of view
French golf and golfers.
The editors of Wayside Tales have
made many improvements in this
popular monthly since it was re-
moved to Chicago. Story writers of
the highest order are represented in
the November number. The cover
for this number is exceptionally at
tractive. A former editor of the
Youths Companion contributes a
''Wayside Tale" from South America
The November number of Scrib-
ner's Magazine contains a most nOta-
BILE article on the work of Mr.. John S.
Sargent, the foremost painter of our
own day and one Of the greatest por-
trait painters in the entire history of
art. This is the first time that that
permission has been especially given
by various owners to reproduce any
number Of Mr.. Sargent's portraits
and drawings in periodical, and Of
fers an exceptional opportunity for a
comprehensive view of mis- work and
a study of his methods.
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Good Housekeeping for November
has charming Thanksgiving cover
design in blue and orange, and opens
with the first installment of serial
story, Paying Guests" by Mary
Stewart Cutting, the author of Little
Stories Of Married Life. This is H.
Illustrated by Karl Anderson. Boys,
their ways and needs, are sympathet-
ically treated in a symposium whose
chief contributors are William Allen
White and Judge Shute, the author
Of The Real Diary of a Real Boy.
The November number OF The Cen
fury, which opens Volume LXVII. eel
ebrates that event by new cover in
color, and by variety of colored in
sets, which include among the sub
jects Tropical Sunsets, Wild Animals
and Italian Gardens. Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman contributes the open
ing article on the New York Stock
Exchange, entitled Life ON the
Floor" AS veteran and retired
broker, Mr.. Stedman brings to this
subject a personal knowledge, which
is admirably supplemented by his
trained literary style.
No more interesting stories are
written than those which deal with
finance and industry on large scale.
The average fiction involves the lives
Of Ave or six principal characters at
most. The story of great corpora
ton involves the lives and happiness
OF hundreds of thousands of human
beings. "The Story of the Worlds
Largest Corporation"-the Steel