The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-22
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.
The November Green Bag has in
its contents the following features:
The Jones County Calf Case by J.
IS. Woodhouse; James Grant. Mod
ell American" Willis Bruce Dowd;
The Lawyers Court of Compulsory
Arbitration sThe Assignment OF
Prominent Lawyers to Criminal
Cases. "a Letter on the Improve
ment OF Procedure Judge William L,
Putnam; The Defeat of judiciary Re-
form in New jersey THE Legal
World. The Green Bag is published
monthly by the Riverdale Press,
Brookline, Boston. Mass.
The Romance of an American
Duchess by Demetra and Kenneth
Brown, the complete novel in the No
vember Smart Set, is an interesting
account or the life of an American
| girl who marries French duke and
goes abroad to live In an old chateau
/ in the depths of Touraine. There are
glimpses. too, of the fast set OF Paris,
Biarrits and the great Continental
resorts. Meth Boyce is represented
lby another of her great character
| studies, that of the wife in her story,
'sSuttee." who makes selfsacrifce her
god, and yearns for martyrdom. Jean
Webster, whose Patty stories made
her famous, contributes in ION Lone
Tree Hill one of the best examples
of her recent work. The scene of this
story is India, the subject a mans
expiation.
The big feature in the December
number of the Outing Magazine IS
Harry Whitney's Hunting in the
Arctic with which the magazine
opens. The article is illustrated with
no less than twenty-five photographs
/ taken by Mr. whitney and the whole
1 display is one of the most remark
4! able that has ever been brought BACK
i from the Arctic. The story itself IS
1graphic account of the most remark
4 able experience that ever fell to the,
Hot of an American sportsman. Other
+ articles of Importance are Waiter
i Camps Great Teams of the Past,
4 chronicle of the careers and ac-
complishments of the football teams
that have made history; "Our Lady OF
the Lakes, by A. ". Dimock, story
of canoeing trip in the wllds OF
4 Canada, fully illustrated with photo
graphs by Julian A. Dimrock, the 9TH
er half of the Dimrock partnership.
y. Everybody's for December presents
cover design from photographs OF
& snow fakes. And the editors have
i called it zone of Natures Master
pieces A little explanation on the
back Of the frontpiece tells, as in
lesson to children, how the work was
done but only the Master of all things
4 could solve for us the mystery OF
i these rare and wonderfully exact
works of art in miniature.
The Magazine proper begins with an
article, Why by Elizabeth Robins,
the famous English writer The edi-
tors asked this conservative woman
why her British sisters throw stones
and mob cabinet ministers, and the
answer is a terrible catalogue of the
wrongs and sufferings of our trans
atlantic cousins female.
In Heroes of the Telegraph Key,
a. w. Rolker contributes series of
stories of deeds of daring unsurpassed
in fiction And when one realizes that
they all have occurred right here
within the lifetime of many of US, the
wonder grows that an emotional pub
lie has resisted the impulse to be-
stow titular honors and pensions as
they do in Europe. Judge Lindsey's
: THE Beast and the Jungle is large
~ devoted to detailed accounts of his
courts methods of placing disorderly
young boys ION honor
q DR.. William Hanna Thomson's "Tha
g Nature of Physical Life is in line
g with his former work. And from such
an authority We must accept with re
speet his implied conclusion that after
i a half-century of scientific brain and
? nerve STUDIES, ne arrives inevitably
Il at indications of the soul in man, and
S the guidance of supreme power
d Of the fiction, ..The Eyes of the Two
d Jeremiahs.' by Ernest Poole, presents
the keenest, most loyable insight into
the minds and characters of certain
d "hayseeds" who really show the city
e man how to do business.
IS
IS Easy Money for Iowa.