Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-08-24
LITERARY NOTEs.

camps, boats and woods, with all the
delightful occupations incident to "the
good old summer time" A few OF
the larger articles are: ""The Oldest
School for Boys in America" being an
historical description of the Boston
Latin School, Lesson Clutches"
Easier to Supply a Good Manager
Than a Good Office Boy" "The Boy
Who Works and the Boy Who Shirks"
How the Clubhouse Was Built"
children of the Farthest South" an
account of how the boys and girls OF
TERRA del Fuego live, and The Opos-
sum-" Clever Work with the Pocket
Knife" is resumed, and there are also
articles on How to Make a Home
made Mouse Trap" and Making a
Safe for Money" The various de-
partments are all replete with good
things. The Sprague Publishing Co,
Detroit, Mich.
The earliest creations Of Autumn are
attractively set forth in the Septem-
Der D~elineator, along with the fashion
comment and prophecies of Helen
Berkeley-Loyd, Edouard La Fontaine
and other authorities in the world of
styles, and there is much in the mum
Der of interest from other than the
standpoint of fashion. Mrs. Mary
Human Able contributes an article
on the pure food question. 1t is the
first Of a series and opens the dis
cussion by outlining the part OF the
consumer, the housewife, in procuring
safe foods. n. Hudson Moore writes
interestingly on English pottery and
porcelain in THE Collectors Manual"
and DR.. Grace p. Murray has q paper
on the child in the nursery which
will be read proitably by mothers. The
hymn, Nearer BY God, to Thee" is
the subject of a paper by Allan Suth.
erland. Weymer Jay Mills concludes
his "Romances of Summer Resorts"
and there is an enjoyable travel
sketch, describing and picturing the
beautiful Lake District in England.
In the way of fiction, the number con-
tains the continuation of Albert Bige-
low Paine's serial "The Lucky-Piece"
and Of Helen M. Winslow's New Eng
land story, AT Spinster Farm" and
two short stories by Cornelia Atwood
Pratt, and Elizabeth McCracken.
There are also entertaining pastimes
for children, including an animal fairy
tale by l.. Frank Baum. AS usual,
many pages are devoted to domestic
interests and the particular needs of
woman within and without the home.
The August number of the Atlantic
has been carefully planned to be a
summer fctional number of the first
interest. The editors hope that tho
suggestion of such titles as "The
Clammer," I'm Swimming" Gan APP
ology for the Country" above the
Clouds at Metequi," may be found
cooling and s%easonable. No literary
study could be more appropriate for
a fiction number than Mr.. Henry
James notable paper on THE Lesson
of BalZac."
"The Boss Of Little Arcadia" by
Harry Leon Wilson, is announced by
Lathrop, Lee C Shepard Company,
Boston. Mr.. Wilson's friends who
have examined his latest work, "The
Boss Of Little Already" are delighted
that he has gone back to the fiId
of pure entertainment and genuine
American humor in which he made so
distinct and lasting a success in "The
Spenders." THE Boss" whose title
has been bestowed partly in jest, is
the editor of a weekly paper Of a typi-
cal village in the middle west. The
real hero of the book is his staunch
friend, though Is rival in love. The
story is told by the friend, who left
the village at the call OF the civil war,
returning as major to resume his law
practice and to figure in a delightful
ly told romance. The humor is every
where present and of a very high or
der. A leading critic said of Mr.. VIII
sons book that If there was such a
thing as the American novel of a new
method "The Spenders" was the one,
and that it was absolutely to be en-
joyed from the first page to the last.
The same can be said Of this book
with the further remark that it repre-
sents a higher literary art and an ev-
en- more genial and pleasing quality
of humor than his first success. 1t Is
no wonder that it has been one of the
leading books of the country in the
number Of orders placed for 1t in adj
vance Of publication.
Most people, unless they follow the
technical scientific journals, are quite
Of what has been actually
accomplished in the artificial produc-
ton of life. They therefore will be
the less prepared for the startling
statements made by Garrett p. Ser
viss in an illustrated article entitled
Artificial Creation of Life" in the
September Cosmopolitan. Mr.. Serviss
describes fully the present condition
Of Loeb's work in the artificial fertili-
zation Of sea-urchin's eggs, and the
still more startling attempts Of Doc
tor Burke in England to create life
through purely chemical action. No
article in the September magazine
possesses so much popular interest as
this one.