Show LITERATURE Babyhood Babyhood for January contains a number num-ber of popular medical articles whiclr all parents ought to read Dr Delavan points out The Causes and Prevention of Chronic Troubles of the Throat in Children Dr Bissell illustrates graphically graphi-cally Pigeon Breast and kindred deformities formities Dr Yale in his talk on Fever tells mothers just what and what not to do in order to ascertain the intensity of fever andDr Walker con inuesthe valuable series of Domestic Treatments of Slight Ailments of Children Child-ren In addition The Punishment Ledger relates entertainingly how a father recorded the punishment of his children and their effects Muttergar tens and the Kindergarten series offer practical suggestions to mothers anxr iou to study Kindergarten methods and there arc many useful hints in the various departments Babyhood 5 Beekman Strest New York The Phrenological Journal And Science of Hcalthfor January begins the 81th Vol of this valuable magazine Several recently elected governors are presented by portrait and analytical biography Family Talks with our young Readers One of the most attractive articles is translation of avery a-very poetical discription of the Swedish I Alps by the King of Sweden Notesin I Science and Industry contains many items of interest Of the editorials possibly pos-sibly Culture and Happiness is most striking The journal is glad to have people cling to li even by hanging on behind because it is so sure of doing them some good and making their pathway easier through impressing them with some truth of which they can make practical use The publishers are Fowler d Wells Co 753 Broadway New York Wide Awake The frontispiece of the New Years Wide Awake The PigeonTower of Grandval will at once attract readers to the very interesting article by the ar tist Mr Henry Bacon entitled The Doves of the French Revolution a most quaint contribution to historical knowledge A charming feature is the long Christmas story by Sarah Orne Jewett The Christmas Guest and a notable feature is the second paper of the Longfellow literature promised for this yearAn Old House which describes the old Longfellow home in Portland and is tully illustrated by drawings and photographs A choice piece of biographical work is Mrs Bol tons article in herSuccessful Women series about Miss Mary L Booth the I editor of Harpers Bazar Mrs Jessie I Benton Fremont in Taffy and Buster II describes an entertainment by children to raiso money for the care of i wounded soldiers in the time of the Civil War Mrs Davis in her series In WarTimes War-Times at La Rose Blanche chronicles I the devotion of a little colored boy to his I master under the title The Gunnels Vallj In Fairy Folk All Miss I Guiney writes about Fairy Monarchs Mrs Bpoffords series Ballads of Authors Au-thors is represented by SamuelJohn sonin Uttoxeter Market Mrs A D T Whitney Mrs HarrietPrescottSpof ford Kate Putnam Osgood and Edith M Thomas contribute the principal poems The new department The Contributors and thu Children embraces em-braces A New Fact about Capt John Smith by Miss Gniney The Care of the Hands DyMrs Sherwood Getting Get-ting Things Done by Sarah O Jewett I A Study 1ll Natn at History by C W Conant and Waiting On the Boys by Frances A Humparey D Lothrop d Co Publishers |