Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-10-07
LITERARY NOTES.
What the Leading Magazines Have to
Offer in their Current Issues.

colts Magazine comes from Frederic
Reddale's popular pen. Its title is
An Heir to Millions and it deals
with fortune made in the California
gold fields and inherited by New
York clerk with simple tastes. He
begins in no very novel way to spend
the money, but when he learns that
it is his through trickery he shows his
mettle by refusing to buy the silence
of a rascal and stands ready to take
the consequences. In his prosperity
he has little neglected his sweet
heart of humber days, but things
come round her way in the end.
Everybody's Magazine for October
comes heralded with the announce
ment that under its new management
the circulation has grown by 100000
copies during the past four months.
Now tie normal summer history of
almost any magazine is one of loss;
from June 70 September, while the
reading world is out of the range of
stands and spends its evenings
out of doors, the sales fall off by thou
sands, and the philosophic editor
bides his time and puts his strength
on the autumn numbers, which are to
pull him back to his high water line,
and perhaps little BEYOND. For
new enterprise, these months would
be presumably as the obscure but
necessary run, prefacing the brave
jump in the fall. One picks up the
new Everybody's to see why it has
violated the usual procedure.
Tie charmingly colored cover il
Illustrating a spirited football scene
prepares Housekeeper readers tor the
many good things in this month S
magazine. One of the more notable
artistic features is the full-page H.
lustration by f. DeForset Schook,
portraying the end of summer days
"A Romance of the Worlds Fair is
the story of an interesting incident in
the family of the Chinese Commits
sioner to the St. Louis Exposition. A
novelty in women's magazines is the
new department, "His Royal High
ness" in which an amusing man
presents the masculine view of mat
tiers domestic and spares not the rod.
The October number of the National
Magazines of Boston is high water
mark for that periodical. Among the
contributors of special articles and
current comment are Poultney Bige-
low, Senator Tillman. Dallas Lore
Sharp, Charles Ferguson, Dr. Felix
Oswald, Major r. S. Porter, Colonel
James Matlack Scovel, George T.
Richardson, Kate Sanborn, Joe Nit
chell Chapple and Frank Putnam.
The story tellers of the number are
Eva Hampton Prather of Atlanta, Car
RE Hunt Latta of indianapolis, Jack
B. Norman and Ellis Parker Butler
of New York, Henry Oyen of Chicago,
H. Arthur Powell of Connecticut and
Abbie Libbey Holmes of Wisconsin.
The poets are Yone Noguchi, the
japanese celebrity; Helen Hicks of
Ontario, Oscar Johnson of Iowa,
"Columbine" of New Orleans and
Mrs. Robert n. Pollard of Virginia
The October Atlantic contains
among other papers two articles of
marked value and National import
ance: Representative Mccall con-
tributes to the Atlantic powerful
political article, The Power of the
Senate, meaning it's usurpations,
taking for his text the startling vale
dictory words of Speaker Ito be) Can
non at the close of the last session.. He
arraigns the undemocratic character
istics of the Senate and forecasts a
conflict to come between the houses,
which he predicts will be decided sin
favor of those great principles of
popular government which underlie
the American Commonwealth. 4"
The Magazine Number of The Out
look for October is notable for several
articles dealing with the personal
life of men who have, or have had, a
great influence over the worlds his
tory. 1t is also notable for a great
amount of original illustration drawn
by artists of ability expressly for this
purpose. The bi-centenary of the birth
of Jonathan Edwards. which occurs
early in October, is made the occasion
OF unique article by Kate Nj. Cone,
in which the personal rather than the
theological side of Jonathan Edwards
life is dwelt upon, and his mingled
asceticism and sweetness of temper
are strikingly brought out the draw
inRs by Charles W. Furlong aid great
ly in this result