Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-08-03
LITERARY MOTIFS.

A floating boarding house was a
months ago. 1t was crowded from the
moment its gang-plank was thrown
out until lack of docking space forced
it put of business. The scheme was
too good a n to abandon, hence The
Designer for August offers it for con-
s%ideration to philanthropists and 9TH
ers who live near rivers, lakes or bays.
The Transformation of a Farmhouse
gives suggestion to owners of such
real estate, and Mary Kilsyth supple
ments 1t with In interesting article
on interior furnishings, "A Vacation
Episode" by l.. O. Lennart, is a pas
toral comedy wherein figure n man
and two maids-a combination invar-
iably productive of interesting cpl
sodes. Autumn styles are forshadow-
ed in the fashion pages, and Points
on Dressmaking" presents latest ways
of tying sashes, shoulder knots n
rosettes. For Prince and Princess
a host of self-supporting women a few
Babikins" shows the latest contriyan-
ces for the comfort of these impor-
tant members of the household.
Perhaps the most striking feature
of Harper's Magazine for August is
the group of eight short stories
brought together in this number. They
are notable not only for technique,
but for their vital human interest.
The authors are Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, James Branch Cabell, Alice
Brown. Grace Ellery Claiming, Annie
Hamilton Donnell, George Hubbard,
Mary e. Wilkins Freeman and Rich.
ard lie Gallienne.
Mr.. Melville f. Stones fifth paper
on THE Associated Press in the Au-
gust Century tells with plenty OF an
ecdote, how the association works in
wartime. Mr.. Stone also discusses
in this instalment the assertion, so
often made, that the Associated Press
is a monopoly.
The Worlds Work for August is a
special double number, devoted to an
exposition of the land of the people
of the Great Northwest. The first
article is a word and Photographic
description of the Lewis and Clark
Fair, by Robertus Love. Other arti-
Giles are: THE Land and the PEG.
ple;" The Future of Our Oriental
Trade" American Mastery of the
Pacific" What the Northwest Is"
The Larger Coast Cities" ''The
Contest for Pacific Traffic" and THE
First American Government on the
Coast"
Is money, or the present mania for
amassing it, really an evil? Read
two remarkable article in the August
Everybody's, dealing both with the
direct and the indirect efforts of the
money-mania; they may help o to
a conclusion. A miracle of millions"
as performed some half dozen years
ago, in Boston, by the now notorious
New England Gas & Coke Company
CHenry M. Whitney and Fl. III. Rogers,
leading spirits), is the amazing reve,
lation reversed by Mr.. Lawson for
this significant instalment of "Fren'
zied Finance" In the powerful con-
clusion of "The Greatest Trust in the
World" Mr.. Charles Edward Russell
shows the needless suffering infiict'
ed upon the Chicago poor by the mer'
CHESS money-makers of Packingtown:
and eloauently urges the overthrow
of the Beef Trust by united moral
force.
Rudyard Kipling has not been Of
late a frequent contributor to maya
zines. The August Century contains
a story by him, a tale of Americans in
England called AN Habitation En-
for1ed.' The story is an unusually
long n for Mr.. Kipling, so long that
The Century editors were minded at
first to print it in two numbers. but
it was decided to let it all appear in
| the Midsummer Holiday issue.