The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-11-07
CURRENT LITERATURE
Some Observations Of New Books
and Late Magazines.

Oskaloosa and Knoxville furnish
the scene of Charles Tenney Jackson's
latest novel, 1.-THE Midlanders." In
the story Knoxville is known as Rome,
while Oskaloosa figures as Earlsville.
THE Midlanders" is a story of the
great middleywest, The. scene is first
laid in New Orleans but speedily shifts
to the swamps and bayous of Louis
lana, from there to the farms and
small towns of the Iowa Reserve.
There is plenty of plot and action in
the story and the characters, of which
there are many, are skillfully drawn,
while the author has an unusually
pleasing literary style and the de-
not primarily political novel, the
story is full of present-day politics,
and students of Iowa political affairs
will be wildly reminded in the con-
test between Congressman Hull and
Editor Curran in the story, of that
occurring between young editor in
the Eighth district and one OF the
wheel horses of the republican party
but a few years ago.
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The Ladies' World for November
ic another exceptional number. The
| cover is by Charles Dana Gibson, and
the contents in literary and illustra-
| tive excellence are quite up TO the
standard of this great artist. Mary
| Heaton Worse writes of The Danger
GUS Years in mmarried-the sixth to
tenth, which see more divorces than
any other period.
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Lippincott's for November is rich
| in fiction, long and short; and there is
also some seasonable matter that is
easy to read and worth remembering.
The most important of the varied and
| diverting contents is of course the
nOvelentire-a type of fiction which
| has long been feature of this publ
| cation This novel is racy, enter
| tanning detective story entitled THE
White Alley" by Carolyn Wells.
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! A sketch in the November number
of ST. Nicholas, the beginning OF the
new volume, will tell American boys
/ and girls, under the title of His
Highness the Young Raja," about the
American boy or girl to imagine the
! lives of some of the future rulers of
! India. ut is almost impossible for an
American boy or girl to imagine the
extravaganza and luxury that sur
round some of these young princes. y
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| The carrying of women's suffrage
amendment to the government Reform
| Bill is the next stage either of victory
| or defeat which awaits us. If mill
fancy is renewed, defeat is almost Ger.
tain, says Millicent Garrett Fawceet,
president of the National (British)
Suffrage Societies, who discusses in
the November Century, Violence in
the Woman's Suffrage, Movement IA a
disavowal of the militant policy
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In the November Woman's Home
| Companion, Woodrow Wilson, demo
cratic candidate for the presidency,
writes an article entitled THE New
Meaning of Government" It's central
idea is that those whom we send to
! Washington to govern us, ought to
keep house" for the whole people.
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! The November Scribner will be
found a remarkable number in many
ways. Price Golfers new series of
articles on Germany and the Ger
mans from an American Point of
View, " that begins in this number,
bids fair to create even more of SEN
sation than his England and the Eng
lish from an American Point of View. .
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The new steamer, CITY of Detroit
| III which runs between Detroit and
Buffalo, is the largest side wheel pas
senger steamer in the world, having a
! length of 40 feet, breadth of 55
| feet, and a depth OF % feet. Her
speed is .21 miles an hour. Interior
! views of the vessel appear in the No
vember Popular Mechanics Magazine.
There is Get-Rich-Quick" story
in the November Red Book Magazine,
which is a great relief from the Wal
! lingsfords who have been travelling
through the pages of current fiction
so successfully In this story, "The
Magnate of Marysburg," the small
town sucker" puts one over on the
| "con" men-which is the way the
thing happens in real life these days.
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Woman's World for November in
cludes among its fiction, short stories
by Emerson Taylor, Berton Braley and
f. r. Upset. Burns Mantle retells
the story of the successful farce "Rea-