Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-29
LITERARY NOTES.

clothes In my bag an ordinary school
education behind me, and New York,
with its boundless opportunities, ahead
OF me-" that is the beginning of the
adventures in New York of Lucy
Green. They are real adventures OF
real girl, who tells her story to the
readers Of the Companion.
In the October Atlantic, John Bates
Clark continues the Atlantic's study
or Socialism by an article on "Educa-
ton and the Socialists Movement"
With pungent criticisnE and pertinent
suggestion an able New York editor
discusses enthusiastically the question
which Is the daily despair Of the
thorphtful-"Is an Honest Newspaper
Possible?" William IT. Allen explains
conrincjngly the work OF the bureau
or Municipal Research In "A National
Fund for Efficient Democracy" "Tbe
Farmers Union and the Tobacco
Pool" by John l.. Mathews, explains
the tobacco crisis in Kentucky. This,
and clear discussion of the principle
OF Competition" by Henry Holt are
articles which no student OF political
economy should fan to real. James
NJ. Hubbard, in 1.-THE Progress Of
Egypt" and ]. T. Sunderland, in
"The New Nationalist Movement in
india" go far afield and bring back
ne"r md familiar problems garbed in
eastern phrase.
Eugene Debs Is the voice of the
Socialist party; he is its nominee for
President. He is man with a de-
finite idea what is the matter In Amer
lea. and what to do about It. Lincoln
Steffens has interviewed Debs, and
put the same questions to him that
he put to Taft and Bryan and Rccse-
welt and Johnson. The answers, which
appear in the October EverybodWs,
are candid. Straightforward, enlight-
ening. Frrore has outdistanced US in
its straightforward cmfwvp mcfwypm
its practical provision for workmen's
Observation-Disclosures and Germanv,
particularly, hove adonted plans that
procure EQUITABLE relief for those who
gre manned in the Industrial battle.
Pensioners of Peace" William Hard
calls them: and he pleads elouuentIy
for readjustmert of orr conditions
In America and the abolition of the
old order of things, where after years
Of litigation and expense, the crinrlad
workman may get no compensation
at all.
Cracking the whip and other ire
sponsible games when they are PLAYED
bv ta"iturn Arabs on the desert in the
MOONLIGHT. give color to Norman Dun
cans travel article. "In Camp at Biz
el-Abd" (the Well of the Shade) which
Crens H7rper's MACHINE for October.
One of the most famous cases in the
history of LITIGATION, related by Hamp-
ton L. Carson, is "Pennsvlvania's
Defiance of the United States"-the
account of a thirty years battle for
prize-money for a full-manned British
cntetr captured in 1878 by one Gideon
Olnstead and two boys The home
ideals and community manners of the
Eskimo are described by Vilhjalmr
Stefansson, a veteran hero Of the Iron
Cross at Grsvelotte repeats the story
Of that battle to Robert Shackleton,
and Edward s. Martin has a gently
satirical paner on 1.-THE Use of
Fathers" "The Earth as a Magnet"
,s a noteworthy scientific paper. with
diagrams by F. A. Black, F. r. 8.
F.. English village sketches by Walter
Hale reprodrced in tint accompany
an article. "The Tin Honeymoon" by
Louise Closes Hale.
A feature of peculiar interest in
McCIure's Magazine for October. fol-
lowing as it does Professor Hugo
Munsterberg's article on Prohibition
and Social Psychology" is a paper by
DR.. Henry Smith Williams on "Alco-
hol and the Individual" DR.. Williams
declares that experiments have shown
that the effect of alcohol Is every
where Oppressive, that 1t Is narcotic,
not a stimulont, and that its use even
In moderated quantities reduces mans
working eff oiency ten per cent. Gener-
al Kuropatkin continues his secret
history of the Russo-Jap anese war. de-
claring that the superior moral force
Of the japanese was responsible for
the defeat of the Russians; Burton
J. Hendrick writes Of the battle
against the famous Sherman anti
trust law. the measure that for eigh-
teen years has successfully withstood
the attack of combinations Of both
caDital and labor; and Ellen Terry
tells of the death of Henry Irving.
the great actor, who, when asked
what he had got out of life, said:
well, a good cigar, good glass Of
wine, good friends"
The coming of the fall months
Of the year is aptly symbolized in the
fine picture Tin colors) of Halloween
fun which decorates the front cover
of the October American Boy, and
the contents will be found most en-
joyable by grown-ups as well as the
boys. The serials by Houston, Tom
linson, and Optic are continued, and
Weir's story of Circus life is con-
Guided. There are quite a number of
short stories delightfully."- interesting.
The usual departments are filled with
Just the things boy delights in. In
addition there are about 80 illustra-
tions. 1t has been the constant aim
of the publishers to make "The Amer
lean Boy the best magazine for boys;
to make it n definite influence for
good in developing mind and BODY;
| for broadening out and shaping the
! character In the mould of true man
| hood. One of their notices is. snake
what tire boys want and what their
! parents want them to I've" To this
end 1.-THE American " Is edited
with unusual care. Its contributors
! rank among the nations able authors:
their articles are helpful and uplift-
| ing.
A timely article In the October
Century will be a comparison. by the
Hon. Seth Low, member Of the Civic
Federation, of the Republican and
| Democratic platforms In their treat
ment of the labor question. Under
title of "The Writ Of Injunction as a
Party ISSUE" Mr.. Low discusses at
length-and with open sympathy with
the general aims and purposes of
organized labor-the attitude of the
| general nuhlic tnwarn the In innctinn