Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Tho International Monthly for December Decem-ber has fivo very brilliant nnd meaty articles ar-ticles Tho International Position ot Spain by Arthur Houghton of Madrid Mad-rid which points out tho freedom ot position po-sition left to Spain with the loss of her troublesome colonies the singular Isolation Isola-tion of Spain among the nations she haying hay-ing no support from any In her tlmo of neccl and the apparent watchfulness of tho present Cabinet toward the formation of such alliances now The Evolutionary Trend of Germun Literary Criticism bj Kuno Francko of Harvard University who traces tho development through Its successive stages of metaphysical sociological sociol-ogical historical philological and psychological psycho-logical and concludes that the literary crlllc of the future should combine nil theso In one Tho School nnl tho Home by Paul II TInnus of Harvard University who sees lllllo help to the skilled educator In homo Influoncps Tho American Inlhwncps Negro and His Economic Value by Booker T Washington of tho Tuskcgco Institute makes nn encouraging showing Arch cocglcal Progress and the Schools ot Rome nnd Athens by Arthur L Froth Ingham Jr Is tho work of an enthusiast enthu-siast In the science who magnifies Its i admittedly very hch function In all departments de-partments of research and knowledge Avery A-very able strong magazine Published at I Burlington Vermont by Tho Macmlllan I Ccrepcny New York Current Literature for December has a portrait of tho genial Joel Chandler Harris Har-ris on Its cover page It treats of books and bookmakers hut rcadlnga and illustrations illus-trations from the newest books has tmtol hUI pertinent per-tinent and wellwritten editorials gossip of authors and writers choice selections of poetry under different labslllcatloii and Is lt allaround good publication with plentiful quantities of excellent reading Current Literature Publishing Co New York Jacinta a California Idyll and other verses By Howard V Sutherland Pub llshod at Doxeyu the Sign of the Lurk New York The llllo poem Is 1 or tho lovo of a poor youth for a i daughter oC wealth and the jhml triumph lir the lovelit way sweetly told with a delicate sense of and fit words The other rhythm lt wordt poems are short nnd ul bear witness to skill and poetic power Tho American Illustrated Methodist Magazine for Duccmbor traces Asburys trail in western North Carolina correctn the usual historical biUornCHS agilnut Col l Butler In connection wIth mi fncroa In the Wyoming valley continues Its Illustrated Illus-trated history of Methodism tint his much Sod reading In prpso and poetry Tho Methodist Magazine Publishing Company Com-pany St Louis The Advancement of IoarnliiR Uucona famous cn edited by PrnfuH I csiy P1Mml or Henry lolh No SKI of CahfullM National Morlpy 01 CatcIIH Nnlolll Library I Li-brary new scries J very ImmlMoinc reprint re-print In small pagca Cusieil < Company I Com-pany New York The Cosmopolitan for December has Tho Peking Legations a National Up rlnliig anil Inlurnallomil 1 Episode by fir Robert Hart G C l1 J < u IIICML ab soiblng account ot the curt cvuntb In China and their causes by one who knows moro about them than < doc any oilier Caucasian Tho Centennial of tho Nations Capital IH l a brilliantly Illuc rated paper and the general contents of tho nusibtr nro Huasomtblo and aiirjw I tive Tho Cosmopolitan NOV York |