The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-06-12
CURRENT LITERATURE
Some Observations Of New Books
and Late Magazines.

Pictorial Review for June is big
and splendid magazine and especially
so for this time of the year. The
cover design is by Max Nonnenbruch
and then follows an editorial resume
of Our Readers Opinions on Suf-
frage; followed by four snappy and
unusual short stories.
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| Outing for June has the real vaca-
ton lure. 1t opens with Stewart Ed
ward Whites story. Climbing for
Goats in the Cascades" Wilderness
Nights" is realistic and at the some
time unusual series of fiashlight pho
tographs of deer.
Great game. this spending of public
funds in aid of navigation and politi-
cal aspiration! says Walter v.
Woehlke in June Technical World
Magazine. ... ..
Scribner's Magazine for June opens
with an article describing the three
I"glorious mountain highways" which
have been opened up by New Passes
in Tyrol." The author, Charles l..
Preston, is well known by his "The
High Roads of the Alps" and THE
Passes of the Pyrenees."
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Ralph Henry Barbour has reputa-
ton for writing delightful romances,
so when we say that he has excelled
all his former efforts in his latest
complete in the June Lippincott's-
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strong statement. But it's all true.
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The Ladies' World for June is the
first number at the new price of ten
cents, and in point of interest it is
the best issue of this popular maya.
zine that we have seen. An air of
novelty is given by the cover, strik'
ling picture of a Gibson man taking
the place of the usually pretty girl.
In the June American Magazine Ida
M. Tarbell, writing about THE Hunt
Tor Money Trust" describes and
criticises some Of the workings of the
New York stock market. In the
same number Henry X. Pomroy, a
former president of the Stock Elk
change, replies to Miss Tarbell.
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Ida M. Evans, that brilliant new
writer of true-to-life stories, contrib
utes Pink Fondant and Gray Serge
to the June issue of the Red Book
Magazine. 1t is story built around
a saleslady.
The June Woman's Home, Compan
f,,rf nf hc
fight for Better Babies" which is now
being carried on all over the United
States. A number of photographs o.
prize-winning children are reproduced
with this'month's report, .e a.a
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, Woman's World for June features
Herbert Kaufman's editorials, "Th'
Dirge of Doubt" Morgan" and Civ
ing the Working Girl Chance" The
fiction for the number includes 9TH,
Little Lamp" a love story, by Mari
Roberts Rinehart; the continuation
of Anne St. Cross" by Ella w. Peat
tie, and story of the play, THE Con
spiracy," retold by Burns Mantle.
The second installment of "Garder
Making and Some of the Garden
Stories," by Grace Tabor, in the June
St. Nicholas will tell 1.-The story of thu
wicked dwarf" (aphids) and just thu
information which garden makers o
all ages want at this time of year.
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The Theosophical Path (Oficial Or
gan of the Theosophical Movement
Katherine Tingley, Editor, Poin
Iona, CALI, in its May issue has TO
leading article THE Intelligence Be
hind Evolution" by Magister Arthur
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A Texas inventor is attempting t
harness the wind to the task of driV
: ing a pillow. He made a trip of eigh
miles along a road with his quee
plow, the wind driving 1t the entir
distance. but has not yet succeeded
in making it operate with the pillow
l share in the soil A picture of tn
plow appears in the June Popular Me
| chanics Magazine.