The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-11-10
CURRENT LITERATURE
Observations of New Books and Late
Magazines.

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II An insight into the sinking of tho
steel car ferry "Pere Marquette No
4 Is" is given in an illustrated article
\ in the November number of Popular
Mechanics, which explains the con.
struction of the ship, the periodical
inspection required and the method
of fastening the cars with which such
vessel is loaded.
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/ The first number of Adventure, the
new magazine just put on the stands
by The Ridgway Company, publishers
of Everybody's, lives up to Its. name
all the way from is brilliant cover to
the last page There action from
i start to finish-a great variety of it
and exceedingly well told. In "Yel-
low Men and Gold' the many admir-
ers of Gouveneur Morris will find the
best work that promising writer has
yet produced.
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Every town has its motor club and
garages have supplanted the livery
stable. The farmers have their socia.
bility runs with the townspeople and
| very frequently the merchants in the
| trading towns go out on extensive
business tours, visiting the smaller
places within radius of fifty miles
or so. With motor cars in such COM
mon use, good roads were not only
desirable but a necessity.-From "A
Fresh Trail to Santa Fe,' in Technical
World Magazine for November.
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The November number of The Out
ing Magazine is a most complete mir
ror of outdoor life in all its forms,
ranging from horseback travel in the
Rockies to the simple life in Jamaica
from the real danger in athletics to
the invasion of the English startling.
1t happened in Topeka. Three cloth
ing stores are on the same block. One
morning the middle proprietor saw to
the right of him big sign-"Bank-
rupt Sale" and to the left-"Closing
Out at Cost" Twenty minutes later
there appeared over his own door, in
larger letters-"Main Entrance
Everybody's Magazine.
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f. Hopkinson Smith has taken for
the title of his new novel, which will
begin in the November Scribner, the
name of the old square that he des-
cribed SO charmingly in The For
tunes of Oliver Horn" Kennedy
Square" is a story of the South be.
fore the war, romantic and rich in
both humor and sentiment.
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The November St Nicholas is the
beginning of the new volume, the
thirty-eighth, and of the new maya
zine year; and II brings good news for
all the boys and girls, the chapters of
Ralph Henry Barbour's new serial,
Teammates" a story of boys and
work and play at Oak Park School.
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In the November issue of 10 STORY
BOOK, Captain Leslie T. Peacocke
relates with great skill and consider
able audacity the manner in which an
enthusiastic amateur Photographer
obtaind a picture of lady of high de-
gree, apparently in "the altogether"
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While every other country in the
warld is perfecting itself in military
aviation and in the problems which
the aerplane brings into war, the Uni
ted States lags behind, Frederick
Palmer complains in the November
Hampton's Magazine.
A dramatic and curiously interest
ing short story of state governor
who has a convict examined by
great alienist preliminary to pardon
ing him is The Garb and the Man"
which James J. Carroll contributes to
The Red Book Magazine for Novem-
Der.
The Lady of the Spur" David Pot
ter's brilliant new novel. has met with
so many encomiumS that it Is safe to
say that IAN Accidental Honeymoon
complete novelette, by this. author,
in the November Lopponcotts will
find a host of eager readers.
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In the course OF her article on THE