The Republican journal., 1911-09-28
Literary News and Notes.

Kin Hubbard, author of "Abe Mar
/ tins Neighbors, " in The American Mag
azine for October is young man on an
4 indianapolis News" who writes col
umn in that paper every day, containing
the supposed musings of Abe Martin, a
rural philosopher of Brown County, In
diana. Though he has not been writing
a great many years, the piquancy, kind
illness and truth Of his paragraphs have
entitled him to a position in the leading
rank of American humorists, as success
or of Artemus Ward and Josh Billings.
The October Woman's Home Com
panion contains the first chapter of a
new serial, '"The Poor Lady," by Mary
E. Wilkins Freeman. 1t is a story Of
modern American life, and is chiefly con-
cerned with two women-one an ambiti-
GUS and INSCRIPTIONS wife, the other,
fine, high-minded and womanly. In the
same number a well-known financial au-
thority writes an article of interest and
Importance to every woman. He de-
scribes the snares set by dishonest bust
ness concerns to catch women investors,
and tells many stories of real life illus
trating his point.
The American Magazine for October
publishes the first instaIment of the auto
biography of Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin. 1t deals with the early life
and first political struggles of one of the
greatest fighting liberals of this genera
ton. 1t is crammed with adventures
and vivid with intimate pictures of great
men. Fiction, in the October Americana is
headed by announcement of H. G. Wells
new serial novel, Marriage" which
begins in the November number. Mr..
Wells stands at the head of contempor-
airy novelists and students of the age,
and Marriage" is startling analysis
OF matrimony by the one man who real
ICES its relation to modern society.
"Ed" Howe, author of 1.-THE Life,
Death and Obsequies of George Coul-
ter" in The American Magazine for
October, is one of the distinctively
American characters who crop up every
little while, like Artemus Ward, Mark
Twain, or Lincoln. He was long famous
as the editor and owner of the Atchison,
Kansas, Globe, and gathered news him
self, diligently stopping people on the
main street of the town, and asking,
What d. you know" From the an
swers he made up columns of local his
tory, pungent, intimate and sharp as the
cracking of whip. His editorial para
graphs are quoted wherever newspapers
use the English language.
The fact that the United States gov
eminent recently issued the millionth
patent was matter of pride to both
press and public and as such was bruited
throughout the land. Nevertheless, the
number of patents cannot astonish for
size the person who keeps abreast of the
times by reading Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Rather, he beholds for every
practical device protected by its inven-
tor, the termination of a dozen ideas
which are assimilated by the general
public for its use. Doubtless many of
these would not be patentable, but they
add their quota to the convenience, COM
fort and profit of human existence. The
patent Office represents but 1.-THE of
the restless creative ability of the peo-
pie. In the October numher of Popular
Mechanics Magazine there are 265 arti-
cles and 264 illustrations. Many of these
articles describe new devices, others pre-
sent new and easier ways of doing old
things, and still others discuss the prog
ress of the age and its problems.