Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-23
THE FIELD OF Literature

ST. Nichoias.-The first pages of the
October St. Nicholas are given up to
the memory of Mrs. Mary Mapes
Dodge. the magazines editor for so
many years. whose death occurred just
as the October number was going to
press. Richard Watson Glider writes
sympathetically
Many the laurels her bright spirit won:
Now that through tears we read The
End
The brightest leaf Of all-now all is
Is this: she was the children's
friend
The October st. Nicholas brings the
conclusion-such a happy one as all
good fairy tales should have-Of l..
Frank Baum's Queen Tiki of k and
another chapter in the funny adven-
lures of 'Pinkey Perkins: Just Boy
There is an interesting description of
the Panama canal from Walter Ken
yon well illustrated; and readable ac-
counts, by Helen ID. van Eaton, OF
'Gunda," the young elephant in the
Bronx geological gardens. New York !;
After Burgoyne's Surrender" by
Klyda Richardson Steege; and The
Little Good Samaritan and the Tall.
Tall Loaf" by Meredith Nugent. lisa
bel Gordon Curtis tells the story of "a
Children's Celebration of Halloween; "
and Ruth Kimball Gardiner. of But
tons and Button Holes Charles II.
Caffin's series of papers on How TO
Study Pictures" discusses this month
Whistler and Sargent: Joseph H. Ad-
toll
teal Boy" with minute description of
simple electrical apparatus; and DR.. E.
E. Walkers October First Aid to the
Injured" paper gives directions for &C
ton in case of wounds and hemor-
rhages.
Verse, pictures, and the departments
of Nature and Science, the st. Nicho-
las League, Books and Reading, the
Letter Box and the Riddle Box round
out the number
The Century.-The Century cele-
brates the 126th anniversary of the
battle between the Scraps and the
Bonhomme Richard, with the issue of
its October number containing Gen.
Horace Porter's account of The Re
cOvery of the Body of John Paul
Jones" Gen. Horace Porter. who gave
of himself and his means so literally
to recover the remains of our first
naval hero and 10 found a national
shrine. here tells his own modest story
of the difficult search. and its success
and of the ceremonies in Paris attend
ing the transfer of the body-a chap
ter of our history to thrill the heart of
every American. Whether the reader
of the October Century turns first to
this feature or TO the first chapters of
Katharine A Carl's record of her ex-
periences with the Empress Dowq-
ger" or 10 DR.. Thomas w. Evans THE
Empress Eugenie's Flight From Paris. -
or TO the Unknown Portraits of Shel-
ley here first brought to light. or to
Russell III. Chittenden's discussion of
Economy in Food" or to- Richard Wat
son elders essay on the Brownings.
or To the color reproduction of THE
Sandman" by Maxfield Parrish. or to
the fiction of the number. will depend
upon the individual-the range is var
led enough 10 appeal to every taste.
Interest in the American artist who
lived with the famous empress dowager
OF China many months on terms of
friendly equality while painting her
portrait has been no less keen than in
the portrait itself. exhibited at ST.
Louis, and now in the national museum
AT Washington. How did an American
girl come by such a unique expert
ence? What did she see and hear and
do in the private apartments of the
Chinese imperial palaces? What man
ner of woman. in truth. is the empress
dowager? There is vitality interesting
material in Miss Katharine Carls ex-
periences. the telling of which begins
in this issue. Mr.. elders essay on "A
Romance of the Nineteenth Century"
the fruit OF many months research.
discusses the ''Sonnets from the Portu-
Suese. and those other poems of Eliz-
abeth Barrett and Robert Browning,
written by each 10 the other, and
throws new light on this "angelical
of love- anthemed by the
two radiant AMI immortal lovers" OF
interest are two Shelley arti-