Show The December number of the Century I Magazine isin every respect worthy of the Christmas time for it is a Christmas Christ-mas number The frontispiece is Gains borouerhs portrait of Mrs Graham engraved en-graved by Timothy Cole from the original origi-nal painting It is a beautiful thing and it is so soft that it looks almost I like a steel engraving Merry Christmas Christ-mas in the Tenements by Jacob A I Riis is an interesting story and in some respects a rather pathetic one There is a very thoughtful article on The Causes of Poverty by the late i General Francis A Walker It is a I study of the causes of poverty and not I of pauperism The second part of the Rubaiyat of Doc Siffers by James Whitcomb Riley is given in the present number In many respects Tennyson and His Friends at Freshwater by i V C Scott OConnor the leading article II ar-ticle of the number It is amply illustrated illus-trated There is a full page portrait of Tennyson of Lady Tennyson Hal I lam Lord Tennyson and Arthur Henry Hen-ry Hallam It is fully illustrated in other respects A charming article is i The Wonderful Morning Glories of Japan Ja-pan fully illustrated They must be wonderful if the descriptions are correct cor-rect The various departments Topics Top-ics of the Time Open Letters and In Lighter Vein are all filled with interesting in-teresting matter The arrival of the Century is always an event with the reader of magazines for in its special lines it is first The Century company Union Square New York Price 35 cents In Memoriam By Alfred Tennyson With a preface by Henry Van Dyke Illustrated by Harry Fenn New York Fords Howard Hulbert 8vo xxxiv 229 pp Silk gilt top uncut edges boxed 350 All lovers of Tennyson and all lovers of poetry are lovers of Tennyson will be glad to have an edition of the late laureates perhaps greatest poem in every particular worthy of It In this edition they will find just what they want Mechanically the book is all that could be desiredpaper type and illustrations The edition is such a one as makes it a holiday book fit for a present for the dearest friend fit for the library shelves of the most exacting exact-ing There is a descriptive and analytical analyt-ical introduction by Dr Henry VanDyke Van-Dyke whose personal acquaintance with the poet and diligent consideration considera-tion of his works have despite his fame as a preacher and success in various va-rious literary fieldsespecially identified identi-fied him with the study of Tennyson All that one needs to know of the origin ori-gin progress and meaning of the poem and of the mutual relations of the poet with his departed friend and other personages per-sonages alluded to may be found in this most illuminative preface as Dr Van Dyke modestly calls it Many beautiful poems he remarks and some so noble that they are forever illustrious have blossomed in the valley val-ley of the shadow of death But among them all none is more rich in significance signifi-cance more perfect in beauty of form and spirit or more luminous l with the triumph of light and love over darkness dark-ness and mortality than In Memoriam Memo-riam the greatest English elegies The edition is one that is adapted alike to the wants of the reader and the student of Tennysons poetry The Improvement Era for December No 2 of vol 1 is enlarged by some sixteen pages over the first number it Is probable that this increase in size will be continued H G Whitney has a review of the Pioneer Jubilee Prof Done writes of Young Characters in History Article II on Religious Faiths treats of The Doctrines and Claims of the Greek Catholic Church There is a second article on Statehood and How it Was Achieved by Congressman Con-gressman King The Era is well calculated calcu-lated to supply the demands of the class to which it is specially addressed The Improvement Era 213 and 214 Templeton building Salt Lake City I |