The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1905-04-06
CURRENT LITERATURE.
Observations Of New Books and
Late Magazines

| their movements III iowa. 1t Is eA-
pected the work will consist Of four
or FIVE volumes and the first win APP
pear in short time. The work is
/ unique in that the material is gath
cred almost entirely from the files Of
! the newspapers of the state.
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Approaching the widespread inter-
est in the Panama canal at the pres
ent time, the Big 4 has prepared ana
compiled a folder giving a map, pre-
pared by one Of the official engineers,
and descriptive OF the country
through which the Panama canal will
| be built, copies of which may be had
by addressing Warren J. Lynch, G P.
& T. A., Cincinnati.
| Seasonable and springlike from
cover to cover is the April House
keeper. In addition to a wealth OIL
fiction, verses and beautiful illustra-
tons there are numerous articles
covering the various phases of Eas-
terrible.
The cover design of The Pilgrim
for April is suggestive of Easter, and
hints in a way to the nature Of the
magazines contents. The first arti-
Gle is concerned appropriately with
Easter, and tells Of the manner of the
feast's celebration throughout the
world. ..l...
The new movement among nature
lovers and sportsmen for the substi-
tuition of the camera for the gun is
loked upon with favor by President
Roosevelt, who says in letter toI
Herbert X. Job, published in the
Review of Reviews for April, that the
older he grows the less he cares to
shoot anything except "varmints.
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Silas A. Lottridge, whose articles
and pictures of birds and bird-life
have appeared from time to time in
st. Nicholas, is teacher living in a
New Jersey town. All of Mr.. Lott
ridges spare time, it IS said, is spent
with his feathered friends. His ar
ticle in the April st. Nicholas on"The
Great Horned OWL contains the re-
suit of considerable study of this IA
miliar neighbor.
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McClure's for April tempts extrav-
agant praise. Articles of worldwide
scope, sound, pertinent, going deeply
into great affairs fairly TEEN in its
pages, crowding close with a goodly
list of bright, divertlng fiction. They
go into many fields of human activi-
1 ties, and there is equal diversity
among the stories.
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! Forty miles from the nearest nabi-
tation, the body of Leonidas Hubbard
was found buried beneath eight feet
of undisturbed snow. Beside him lay
his diary, in which ne had made rec
ords to the day of his death telling
of the hardships he and his compan-
ions had encountered as they pene-
| trated the wilderness of Labrador.
This diary, with twenty pages of
Hubbard's own photographs, and a
sympathetic introduction by Caspar
Whitney, is the principal feature OF
Outing.
| Variety and value mark the con-
tents of the April number of The
Booklovers Magazine. There are a
dozen or more contributions, and each
one is strong in descriptive and crit
ical features. Mr.. Burris Gahan de
votes his third article on The Real
Australia" to the labor leaders and
their political policies, and graphical
ly describes the rise and fall Of the
Watson labor cabinet.
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Four of the principal articles In
the National Magazine for April deal
with the railway problem now to the
front in American politics. The au-
| thors are: Representative John j.
Esch author of the rate bill now pend
ing in congress; Frank Putnam, Ed
ward D. Tittmann, railroad expert of
the New York Times, H. Allison, of
the Illinois Central railroad.
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Since most readers in picking up a
magazine find their attention attract
ed first by the illustrations, two SER
les of pictures in the April Century
may be noted before review of the
text: The drawings of Jules Guerin
and Andre Castaigne, illustrating
Richard Whiteing's 1.-THE Chateaux Of
the Loire" two of Guerin's pictures
in color, and Sigismond Ivanowsh's
ideal portraits of three Tolstoi char
acters, Katia, Mariana, and Anna Ka-
| renina.
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Startling is the revelation of the
methods of the eyer-rapacious "Sys-
tenn" made by Mr.. Lawson in the IN
stalment of his "Frenzled Finance
published in Everybody's for April.
Mr.. Lawson describes the getting to-
gether of the properties that compose
Amalgamated; and in doing SO, tells
how the owners Of Utah Consolidated