The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-08
The CURRENT MAGAZINES.

THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.
Features of the November Review
of Reviews are an up-to-date illus
trated survey of the automobile in
dustry in America by E. M. West; a
review and conspectus of child-labor
legislation by Owen r. Lovejoy; an
article on "Infantile Paralysis: A
Menace" by John B. Huber M. D.:
and an account of the remarkable
campaign being conducted in New
Jersey by DIR. Woodrow Wilson, illus,
trated from photographs specially
taken for the Review of Reviews.
In the November 10 Story Book,
Capt. Leslie 7. Peacocke tells start
ling story in THE Amazing Photo
graph OF the Majors Wife. j. c..
Plummer tells the story of an incl
dent in the life of Cap. Porter, vouch-
ed by the author to be the LATEST
man in history. Stacy E. Baker writes
the prize-fight story entitled fhe
Fight With Fogarty" There are two
stories of high Cor low life in the
metropolis, one The Other Mans
Wife and Her Husband" by e. E. Nc
Ouillan: the other The Lavender
Organize" by Annie Hinrlchsen.
A short story that should be read
and pondered is The Education OF z
Husband" which Svetozar Tonjoroff
contributes to The Red Book Maya
zine for November. The Fear by
John H. Ransom is novel sort of air
ship tale. 1.-THE Trails Enc" by Per-
cy M. Cushing is the story OF a sher-
1 ifs pursuit of a criminal over the
ice. Other contributors are: Earl
Derr Biggars, Nevil G. Henshaw, so
phia Chandler, James Henry MacLaf
ferty Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
James ]. Carroll Bourbon Wilson. Ed
ward Boltwood and Walter Jones.
AT this exact moment houses are
being renovated, wardrobes being re
plenished and Christmas in meas
lure anticipated Add to this bit the
great holiday of thanksgiving now
almost upon us. and we realize tina
there is need of counsel and sugges
ton. The November Woman's Home
COMPANION seems to take all these
: points into more than careful consid
Grafton, and presents to the public
remarkable magazine, which besides
being rich in itself gives most ylvl'
promise of what the Christmas issu
will be.
: Among the stories we find the be
ginning of THE Admirars Niece a
absolutely charming novelette, D.
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary and Jan
; Eindlater and Allan McAuley. HTru
t Love. a serial story of the stage
4 reaches a point Of great interest
: this issue Buried Cold by Richar
: Washburn Child, is distinct depar
d ure from the ordinary short stor!
) and "squiggles' Turkey" by Ralph /
n Graves. is the sort of Thanksglyin
) tale Dickens might have written ha
g he been an American. Besides thes
n there are many other excellei
L stories.
), With the November number In
n Century celebrates the close OF II
IS fortieth year, laying emphasis upo
e its relation to American art From tn
D, first this magazine has paid speci'
e. attention to the Development OF Il
e art features. Thus it happens that
al lille of this magazine gives an accu
j. ate view of the progress of the iliu
IF traitors art in this country. The Ce
tury was a pioneer in this depar
10 ment. and the interesting series
1T pictures culled from its files and r
ID produced in the November numb
r. hears eloquent testimony to what tn
Is magazine has done toward secnrll
IS the pre-eminence in art enjoyed
Of American periodicals today.
h The marvellous power or anaiys,
IS, the gift for vivid and picturesque q
nv scription. evinced in such novels
o. The Garden of Allah has given
ly the work of Robert Kitchens a quail
IT, scarcely possessed in the same 9
en- gree by any other contempora
writer of fiction. The appearance