The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-01-09
CURRENT LITERATURE
Some Observations Of New Books
and Late Magazines.

usual, a monthly magazine devoted to
all subjects that are essentially OF in-
lterest to women, both of practical
and entertaining nature. The cover
design is by Harrison Fisher. The
frontispiece is reproduction Of the
famous painting, Der Heilige Abend"
tThe Holy Night, followed by time
lly poem After Inc Holidays" by
Frederick Harolde Beach.
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The Ladies' World for January
opens with striking confession by A
Woman Of Forty as to why she did not
marry either of the two men to whom
she had been, at different times, en-
gagged. In each case II was because
she felt the man was more absorbed
in his own affairs than in her.
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James Francis Dryer, that remark
able Australian who leaped to the
| front with his weird stories of advenr
ture in the jungle, has tremendous
story In the January Red Book Maya
zine. "The White Camel of Dras.'
The January Woman's Home Com
lpanion contains a. complete connec-
ted account of the violent fight for
woman suffrage that Is going on in
England. 1t reads like the story OF
a revolution altogether different
from the tremendous peaceful adj
vance that has been made in this
country.
Nothing that man can do is able to
lessen the awful destructive force oil
the typhoons which ravage the far
East, or of the cyclones which are al
most as greatly dreaded In the west
ern hemisphere. But 1t would be q
great thing to be able to foretell the
coming of one of these resistless
storms and to locate the center OF the
convulsion and the path of it's pro-
gress, says Robert G.. Skerrett in
Technical World Magazine for 1anu-
airy.
The fiction in Woman's World for
January includes the second Install
,Gnent of a serial by Gouverneur Nor
ris, Under Pressure" story of Ari-
IONA life, 1.-THE Long Night by Geo.
Pattullo, and quaint tale by Will
lam Johnston about prize fighter
and bishop who were Both Friends
of Mr.. Blenderby." Burns Mantle re-
tells the story of the play, The Gov
ernor's Lady"
With an unusually attractive coyer
design. 337 interesting articles, 30l
striking illustrations, plump adyeF-
Using pages and a guaranteed Scircu-
latlon of 100000 copies for it's Janu-
airy number, the New Year certainly
opens auspieiously for the Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
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| The January Century contains
the third of that magazines After
the-War" features and has to do with
The Impeachment of Andrew John
SON. which subject was introduced in
the December number by Cen H, ].
Otis and Gen. j. B. Henderson. The
January contributors are Gaillard
Hunt and Major Benjamin G. Tru-
man.
Scribner's Magazine for January be-
gins the fifty-third volume. The Sc
rial of the year, of which the first gen
erous installment is printed, is The
Custom of the Country" by Edith
Wharton. 1t is an intensely modern
story of American life.
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Not one of the many publication
now being displayed on the news
stands is more attractive-inside or
out-than the January Lippincotts.
From the very striking cover by the
kidneys, to Its ever popular depart
ment OF humor, "Walnuts and Wine
at the end of the book, there isn't a
feature that doesn't demand atten-
ton and compel the interest.
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From Nature and Science" in Jan.
uary st. Nicholas: Smoke Is not con-
posed of gases only, but of solid, or
perhaps partly liquid particles, which
are mixed with the gases and carried
along by them. 1t is these particles
of natter that are visible to- the eye,
and not the gases themselves.
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The Testing Fire" is the title of a
new book by Rev. Alexander Corkey.
of Wayne, Nebraska Rev. Corkey Is
well known to Oskaloosa people by
reason of his pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church In this city, One
of his other works, Allen Putledge.
has had great sale, and the new
book is equally interesting and well
written. 1t is published by the IL. X.
Fly Co, of New York, and is on sale
at the local book stores.
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You will see all the pretty babies
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