The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-09-09
CURRENT LITERATURE
Observations Of New Books and Late
Magazines.

The Book News Monthly is devoted
to Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
centenary occurs this month. The
articles on DR.. Holmes are illuminat-
ing and full of interest for the gen.
efal reader while the pictures form
a valuable collection.
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Everyone interested in good read
ing, combined with practical informa-
ton on all things connected with the
household, should get the September
number of The Ladies' World. The
fashion pages of this issue show an
unusual variety of pretty autumn and
winter models.
The gamut of things interesting to
the family is run in The Housekeeper
for September, starting in with half
dozen vital stories and finishing with
all sorts OF sensible advice about
fashions, fancywork, health and good
cooking
Enthusiasm and interest in aero
nautics is always at highest pitch dur
ing the midsummer and fall months
when weather conditions are apt to
be more favorable for flights. The
September number of Popular Me-
chanics contains no less than Is arti-
cles on aerial navigation.
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The Outing Magazine for Septem-
Der calls itself a Baseball Number.
It's leading article is Baseball as
the Bleachers Like It," by c. E. Van
Loan, man who as baseball re-
porter has followed the game for
many years.
Once more DR.. Woods Hutchinson
has come to the rescue of our much
abused civilization. In September
Womans Home Companion, he points
out that not only are all wrong about
the race-suicide problem, but there
isn't any.
Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, late of
the British Military Service in India,
contributes one of the strongest stor-
les of the month to the current maya
zines 1t is entitled "The Arm of the
East" and appears in the September
issue of 10 Story Book.
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Everybodys September number
opens with a quaint child story, Hap
piness," by Mary Raymond Shipman
Andrews. This delicate little yarn
is a long way from Mrs. Andrews
famous story of clergyman's adven-
lures with a humorously intoxicated
college friend. .
.Scribner's Magazine for September
contains a number of articles that are
OF unusual Importance about present
day affairs. The leading article, for
example, by Montgomery Schuyler,
describes most entertainingly The
Evolution of the Sky-Scraper."
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That the women of the United
States are taxing this country $780,
100000 a year for hats;-that is the
amazing statement made in Hamp-
toms Magazine by Reginald Wright
Kaufman.
Having rounded out it's first five
hundred months of existence with the
August number, Lippincotts Maya
zine starts out with September as
though it could see a far longer vista
of months and years of life ahead of
it.
1t is not often that a magazines
fiction can be said to be timely but
such appears to be the case in The
81 Red Book Magazine for September
The leading story concerns a rich
young Americans adventure of love
in Morocco.
Hill against Harriman-The Story
of the Ten Years Struggle for the
Railroad Supremacy of the West" is
the leading feature of the September
American Magazine. It's author,
George Fl. Cushing, says Hill has
worked in the tomorrow of things.
Hartman today"
How firmly rooted in the heart of
Young America is baseball is elo-
quently portrayed in the picture on
the front cover of the September
American Boy. The contents of this
issue can not fail to interest and de-
light every reader.
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If, month after month, little COM
ment is made upon the choice quail
ity of the many illustrations in st.
Nicholas, 1t Is because habitual read
ers OF the magazine have grown used
to their uniformly high standard ana
their educational and artistic value.
In the September issue are many full
page reproductions.
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