The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-01-13
CURRENT LITERATURE
Observations of New Books and Late
Magazines.

The American Magazine by its as
tonishing articles on ''Barbarous Mex
leo" has awakened throughout the
country an intense indignation. In its
January issue, the editors bring for
ward further and absolutely convinc-
ing proofs of the truth of their state
merits that slavery is existing at the
present moment in Mexico.
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The salient article of the January
Century is easily mfr. Waiter Camps
chatty discussion of Personality in
Football" in which he asks and an
swers the pertinent question, Are our
boys trained to Sc up false standard
of hero1worsbip and shows at length
what contributions to the real pro-
gress of the game have been made by
such players and coache sas Lee Nc
Chung Arthur Poe, John De Witt
George Chadwick, Upton of West
Point, DAILY of Harvard, "and host
Of Others"
Hanlin Garland, perhaps the fore
most American writer of fiction today,
contributes to The Red Book Maya
zine for January story loaded with
human interest entitled "A Short Line
Romance"
In the January, 1910, number of
Popular Mechanics appear 270 articles
and 272 illustrations, and this does not
exceed the average monthly contents.
Every article Is written so you can
understand it," and every picture tells
story OF its own.
There is the first of new Ralph
Henry Barbour STORY in the January
st. Nicholas, and it starts right off
with a new boy in boarding school and
some football complications. Kings
ford, Quarter" is the title OF it.
The article on Education in Ger
many" which President Hadley of
Yale contributes to The Youths Com
panion for January 9th should be read
by all parents VINO are concerned in
the education of their sons.
Soft Snaps" by Captain Leslie T.
Peacock, late of the British army, is
the initial story of a series of maya
zine tales which promises, in the re-
viewers opinion, to be one of the
most individual and interesting feat
uTes in the magazines for the coming
year. Each story is complete in the
10 Story Book.
Scribner's Magazine for January is
the first number of its oath year-a
year during which it will reach the
largest audience ever held by mag
azine of any similar class. During
most of the coming year Theodore
Rloosevets great series on his Afri-
can trip will he continued.
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The Ladies' World, which Is just
out, has a large amount of unusually
good fiction, the idea of the editor be-
ing to provide in this and the next
number stories that will prove excel
lent reading for the midwinter season.
The opening contribution is a delight
full story of a boy called Richard the
Lion Heart, by S. Ten Eyck Bourke.
Everybodys January number opens
with poem America" by Herbert
Kaufman, of the type that our British
cousins are used to calling 'brag."
This number is the Christmas edition,
and the publishers announce that
hereafter they will celebrate the Yule
tide along about the end of December.
instead of in November, as has been
the general magazine custom.
Again the big feature in the Outing
Magazine for January is Harry Whit
ney's Hunting in the Arctic" This
issue Is also a special automobile
number containing bright, breezy ar
ticles which get right home to the
owner of a car; "Automobiling for
Average Incomes" "Equipping Your
Automobile" etc.
What Is Wrong With Our Public
Schools?" is the generic title of an ex-
traordinary series of six special ar
ticles, by Joseph NJ. Rogers, to be pub
lished in Lippincott's Magazine, be-
ginning with the January issue.
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In Woman's Home Companion for
January we find attractive features.
A double page of pictures shows some
OF the most famous work of modern
European masters; there is also Il
large full page painting by Mary Sigs-
bee Ker of Young 1910" waiting on
the threshold of the New Year.
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What tragedies were offered as toll
in the three-cenutry-old quest of the
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