Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-19
LITERARY NOTES.

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author of Hester Blair" make the
announcement that they have never
published book for which they felt
like predicting so brilliant a future as
this powerful story OF Sunny Italy and
Dark New York. Aside from the
names given the characters the story
Is true one, telling an hitherto un
revealed romance in one of New
York's oldest and most exclusive fami.
lies. The marriage of Tito's New
York father. prominent clubman, to
the beautiful Italian peasant girl Bet.
tina, his mother, can be found under
other names in the municipal records
of Florence, Italy. Mr.. Carson went to
Italy to get local color for this story
He lived among the peasants Of Tus
cany. He reamed the picturesque
valley of the river Arno, looking fol
types. He found there the model for
the young Tito of his tale, and cult.
waited his acquaintance. They called
this model Little Devil" and that IL
the name Mr. Carson gives him in his
book. c. M. Clark Publishing Co.,
Boston
George Buchanan Fife, whose "The
So-Called Tobacco Trust" is the
March offering of the Century's
series on 1.-THE Great Business Com
binations of Today" is the correspond
ent to whom the New York Evening
Post intrusts its most brilliant and re
sponsible assignments. Mr.. Fife was
hurried off on the Dixie to the scene
of the Martinique disaster, and the
stories he sent back are still quoted
as models of clearness, force and
vividness.
In his new book, "On Satan's
Mount" Dwight Tilton has looked far
enough into the future to assume the
creation of cabinet officer known as
the secretary Of industry. BY a pecu
liar chain of circumstances he sudden
ly finds himself president pro tenn
Washington Is under martial law. A
mob runs wild through the streets
burning and pillaging. The cry Is
Down with the plutocrats." The
hero of the novel is the peoples repre-
sentative in the cabinet; he is the
secretary of industry and the friend
of labor. The reins of government
are completely in his hands; word
from him and he may become dictator
it is the supreme temptation. The
story of how he solved the problem Is
very entertainingly told and it is well
worth reading. G.. M. Clark Publish
ing Co, Boston.
In the Atlantic Monthly for March
John Burroughs has paper on Real
and Sham Natural History" In which
he characterizes with outspoken and
delightful pungency the utterances OF
certain writer's whom he considers
sham naturalists. He does not hest
tate to name names and call "a spade
a spade" and introduces new ele
ment into certain tendencies in cur
rent natural history writing.
In the Worlds Work for March
Lawrence Perry describes his OWL
personal experience in the Marco1i
station at Cape Cod when Marconi
was sending messages to England
and shows clearly what commercial
wireless telegraphy will mean.
1t would be interesting to know how
many southern pilgrims this year viii
owe the delights of their first New
Orleans experience to w. S. Harwood's
"The City That Lives Outdoors
written to please the young readers
of the March ST. Nicholas, it is true
but certain to turn many a grown-up,S
face toward New Orleans, lin many
ways the most interesting of all the
cities In America, the beautiful city
that lives outdoors"
The Cosmopolitan Magazine for
March contains a noteworthy article
ON "The Police System of Europe" b.
Avery D. Andrews, formerly police
commissioner of New York, which
embodies many of the results Of the
investigations of the author on his re-
cent official visit to Europe, where
he went to study the police systems of
the leading countries. 1t Is capitally
illustrated. .. @es-.
A posthumous article by Julian
Ralph appears in the March number
of Harper's Magazine, "Our Tyrol and
It's Types" The author has cleverly
characterized the Green Mountain
region and some of it's original out-of
the-way types of inhabitants, from the
old spiritualist who lived alone anG
performed his own Homework to the
hotel head-waiter who was a gently
bred Yale man.
The story of George B. Cortelyou's
rapid rise from the, position of steno
grapher in the government service to
the secretaryship Of the new depart
ment of commerce and labor is tolG
in the Review of Reviews for March
by Henry B. F. mcfarland. Mr.. Cor
telyou, at forty, is one of the youngest
men who ever took cabinet seat. He
has served as confidential secretary tc
three presidents.