The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-11-06
CURRENT LITERATURE
Some Observations of New Books
and Late Magazines.

An especially attractive cover de-
sign, 321 terse, descriptive articles
and 344 vivid illustrations serve to
make the November Popular Mechan-
les Magazine one of the best issues
| of the year. The cover shows two
sailor lads landing a big gun along
an aerial galloway extending from
the deck of a battleship to the coast.
The stimulus of the Panama Canal on
the spirit of the nations, Is manifest
the British to tunnel the English
Chanel
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Did you ever try to make daylight
at night? asks Arthur st. George
Joyce in November Technical World
Magazine. It's very simple. All you
need are two color screens and a
strong incandescent. light. Pass the
artificial light rays through the
screens, which draw out the excess
| In colorings that are foreign to day
| light, and presto you have pure, true,
and unvarying daylight.
The November Red Book Magazine
in addition to the three big serials
which it is running-"What Will Peo-
pie say" by Rupert Hughes, THE
Ball of Fire." by George Randolph
Chester and Lillian Chester and "The
Passionate Friends" by H. G. Wells
contains some of the most unusual
short stories that have been given to
print in many a day. THE Whit
Tentacles," by James Francis Dryer.
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which is just about as thrilling as
| love and adventure can be made.
In the November Woman's Home
Companion the campaign for Better
Babies" is still further carried for
ward by the. establishment of spe-
cial department for Better Babies"
in which series of articles Is to be
published containing practical sug-
gestions to mothers for the care of
children. These articles are to be
contributed by great authorities on
the subject. The first in the series
is entitled The Naming of Mother
hood" by DR.. s. Josephine Baker, Di
rector of Child hygiene, Department
of Health, New York City.
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In all the annals of mountain.c climb
ing there has never been anything
written that surpasses in interest and
hardy adventure the account in the
November Scribner, by Arch deacon
Hudson Stuck, of his conquering of
the highest summit of Mount McKin-
ley, or Denali, as he prefers to call it.
The difficulties to be overcome were
enormous, and danger menaced at
every turn. The story is told with i'm
pressive reserve and yet with thrill.
ing intensity. He pays generous tri
butte to his predecessors who failed
and make a strong plea for the re-
tention of the name Denali.
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How can anything SO young as St.
Nicholas be forty years old! The
November number is called THE
Fortieth Anniversary Number" and
many a grown-up will be glad to see
again the old typical covers of St.
Nicholas which they looked for so
eagerly each month when they were
children. The four types of st.
Nicholas cover are reproduced in col
ors In miniature on this November
cover. and are dated, respectively,
1873, 1878, 1884 and 1885.
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The November issue OF Lippincott's
contains full complement OF inter
esting material from writer's who are
well known to discriminating readers.
David Potter. who wrote those fam
Gus books. "The Streak" IAN Acct
dental Honeymoon" II Fasten
Bracelet" etc, is the author OF the
complete novelette,, "The Unspeak-