The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-10-12
CURRENT LITERATURE
Observati ms of New Books and Late
Magazines.

porterhouse steak for two persons for
forty-two meals, or it would pay the
hired girls wages for a month, or it
might pay the premium on $1,000 life
insurance for a year. When multi
piled by 1S,400,000, the number of
families here assumed it's potentiali,
ties for good are almost incompre,
hensible.-From Military Maniacs,"
in October Technical World Maya.
zine.
The first articulated-truck electric
this country for switching purposes
In the freight yard of trunk line has
recently been constructed and deliv-
cred to an eastern railroad company,
and a picture of it appears in the
October Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The October Woman's Home Com
panion contains the first chapter of
new serial, THE Poor Lady," by
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. 1t is a
chiefly concerned with two women
one, an ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS
wife; the other, fine, high-minded and
wOmanly.
Stewart Edward White continues to
recount his experiences in the Octo-
Der Outing. The Ranch" will appeal
to all lovers of the open-air life-par-
ticularly as the real ranch Is fast dis.
appearing. Some wonderful photo.
graphs accompany Protecting Pro
tected Elk"
10 Story Book for October has a
number of first-rate sketches, from
grave to gay, lively to severe" but
not so very severe This magazine is
intended to furnish a bright little
"pickmeup' for busy men and WON,
en-, or weary travellers. Its stories
are original, originally illustrated
This month The Riddle of the
World" "a woman's heart) carries the
reader from New Orleans to the pyra
mldS OF GlZeh.
1HH
Scribner's Magazine for October
has a brilliant colored cover by
Franklin Booth, and frontispiece in
color-"October Hunting"-by Philip
r. Goodwin. A real contribution to
our knowledge of a great man is fur,
niShed by General Grants Letters tC
General Beale."
Seumas Mac Manus contributes to
The Red Book Magazine for October
| a little tale out of Donegal entitled
Evenings Quiet End" that Is quite
one of the best pieces of work this
talented 1rishman has ever done.
The Ladies' World for October is
by far the most attractive number OF
that popular publication that we have
yet seen, the unusually handsome
cover giving a foretaste of the good
things within. The fiction starts
with a bright little thing-hardly
more than sketch-called The
Tramp and the Baby, by l.. Frank
Baum.
The literary event of the month Is
doubtless the appearance of a power.
full new novel by Amelie Riyes 1.-THE
Princess TrOubetzkoy), published
complete in the October Lipincott's.
Its title is Hidden House." and the
scenes are laid in Virginia.
The fact that the Emperor was not
able, during the five years of Stoly.
pins incumbency, to get a premier to
relieve him, would seem to be an in.
dication that with Stolypin out of the
way, new order of things will soon
begin In Russia.-From the American
Review of Reviews for October.
The fight now being waged to GUST
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley as chief OF the
Bureau of Chemistry in the Depart
men of Agriculture is unlike any 9TH
er fight ever made on one of Uncle
Sans employees. The conspiracy
against DIR. Wiley is told in the
Hampton-C Columbian Magazine for Oc-
tober by o. K. Davis.
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT.