Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-12-14
LITERARY NOTES.

box that was prettier than Bret
Harte's Her Letter. illustrated WITH
forty-four full-page pictures, In color
and tint, and many decorations in
gold, by Arthur /. Keller. A really
exquisite volume that, for once, no
publishers promise or critics praise
can exaggerate."-New York Globe.
''The book is a beautiful example
of Typography. and Mr.. Keller's skill
fully executed pictures are full Of
true Bret Harte humor."-New York
Times. Uarge. 8vo. boxed. $2.O0.)
Houghton, Mifiin Cambridge Press.
Behind everything that appears in
McClure's is the belief that mag
azine, to be good, need not be heavy
nor frivolous; that any subject, how
ever dull or intricate, can be made
interesting las, for example, The
History of Standard OIL" This poll
icy is not the single work of any one
of number of minds-of Mr.. Nc
Clure, Mr.. Phillips, Miss Tarbell, Mr..
Steffens, Mr.. Baker and the rest
More appears in McClure'st than can
be signed. Two great departments
of public life will appear in McClure's
for months politics, "The Remin-
isccnces of Carl Schurz," and COM
merce, "The Railroads and Their
Owners" The first will be an inti-
mate account of his own life by a
man important in public AFFAIRS for
over half a century The other will
| be an account written by trained in
vestigator of the greatest commercial
Institution the world has ever known
the vehicle of the food supply, the
railroad. Either of these papers, run:
ming side by side in McClure's Maya
zine for the next year, is werth many
times the subscription price.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
have recently published "The Wood
Fire in No. g." by f. HoRkinson
Smith. The story OF the painter,
McWhirter, and his friends who
| gather from time to time around
the wood fire in No 3, is told with all
| he humor, tenderness, and gaiety OF
which the author is master. In this
| group of congenial men, the spirit OF
good fellowship finds free play in the
rank exchange of odd or humorous
experiences common to clubabie meS
he world over. The book Is similar
makeup and appearance. as well
as in spirit and quality, to Colonel
yarter's Christmas"
John w. Luce and Company an.
1ounce that the Foolish AlmanaclS"
.or 1906, by Nixon Waterman. George
Barr McCutcheon, W. ID. Nesbit and
others, which is issued November Isl,
mas been ordered so heavily IN adj
| vance that second printing was re
luired, making the first edition 2O,-
300. 1t bids fair to rival "The Fool
lsh Dictionary in popularity.
"Starvecrow Farm" a newell by
Stanley j. Weyman, author Of "a
Red Robe" etc., is announced by
Longmans, Green & Co., SO Fifth ave.
New York. The scene of "Starve-
crow Farm" is laid in the rural Eng
land of the rugged, homely North.
The time-a few years after the Bat
tie of Waterloo. 1t is the story OF
an elopement with the unusual con-
sequences, for the girl marries not
the man with whom she elepes, bat
the one from whom she fees. AS in
the case of former novels of Mr..
Weyman's, the renders sympathies
pass from one character to the other
during the telling of the tale. The
New York Tribune says: "Mr. Wey-
man has used his narrative gift to
good purpose in this book, and has
also shown all his old skill in the
delineation, if not in the creation Of
character"
"Glenanaar: a Novel Of Irish Life"
BY the very Rev. p. A. SheeAan, of
0oneraile, author of ''My New Gu
rate" Luke Delmege," etc., has been
published by Longrnans, Green &
Co., SO Fifth Ave-, New York.
The plot is that of romance with
an historical setting in which the
great Liberator, O'Connell, and other
we'll known personages of the same
period figure. 1t is beautiful story,
full of the pathos and wit which, like
to produce the rainbow gEories OF
che Irish character. The New York
Times says the book "Will especially
appeal to those who know and love
Irish life upon it's native heath,
though the well-told tale is so full
of humor, pathos, and romance that
it cannot fail to win the interest of
every reader. !. (. Into the story are
written many of the most beautiful
traits of the Irish. The book will
awaken a responsive chord, and will
prove Illuminating as well as inter-
esting."
A book with galloping plot is
The House of Thousand Candles"
by Meredith Nicholson, author of
The Main Chance" zelda Banner
on," etc. This is a novel Of romance
and adventure of love and valor, OF
mystery and hidden treasure. 1t will
set your pulse beating and hold yon
last by its enhancing charm. '"The
House of a Thousand Candles" Is IN
other words one of the strongest,
cleanest, freshest novels in many
day. Illustrated in color by Howard
Chandler Christy. Published by
Bobbs-Merrili Co., Indianapolis.
First vermiform appendix-'People
are trying to get rid of u.s." Second
vermiform appendix-"Yes; but we
ara still in the majority "-Hx