Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Thc Atlantic Monthly for December opens with an argument for reciprocity as thc only safeguard against f war of retaliatory tariffs destructive to commerce com-merce and prejudicial to International comity The Real Judge Lynch Is explained to have been a Massachusetts Yankee of a century and a half ago Literature and the Civil War is an appreciative ap-preciative review of some of tho great A things written during that period study of Lord Manstlcld with an account I of his great curcer Is contributed in avery a-very strong paper by John Uuchan Illmcan Days tells of wanderings In Grecian paths Tho Resources of tho Confederacy Is a review of recent publications pub-lications showing Southern financial mothods and their fallacious wasteful bases There Is an outcry against The Plague of Statistics A Plea for Crabbe reviews of recent novell and Tho Contributors Club Mary John storks Audrey continues and there aro excellent short stories and poems A grout landmark In literature Is the Atlantic At-lantic Published by Houghton Mlfflln and Company Boston Scrlbncro Magazine for December has an exhibit of American Portraiture of Children 3 very handsomely Illustrated poem Thyrcus telling again tho old story of tho attempt to win Cleopatra from Antony and The Turquoise Cup Is an elegantly Illustrated story oA Forgotten For-gotten Pilgrimage is recalled with handsome hand-some pictures by Ernest C Pclxotto An Old Virginia Sunday Is depicted In Its grim rlgldness by Thomas Nelson Page and surely a Puritan Sunday couldnt the Snow have been much wore When Falls In tho Adirondacks is a study In Inter effects well Illustrated F Hop klnson Smiths serial continues and Tho Point of View und Tho Field of Art are both excellent Charles Scrlbncrs I magazine Sons New York publish this very flno Casslers Magazine for December has for frontispiece 0 fino porlralt of Hon Abram Hewitt and a biographical sketch of him closes tho number Petrolcum In California by W L Watts of the California forum State Mining Bureau is a clear and wellIllustrated paper Tho Nile Dam at Assouan describes that mighty work and shows details of tho sluices crosssection of tho Nile with Us Irregular bottom and of tho water level and top of parapet arc given Wages and Labor in tho American Steel Trades ore discussed dis-cussed and machinery Influence noted The widening uso of byproduct coke ovens is explained with nine Illustrations Electric supply In Great Britain and tho disposal of town refuse In Great Britain arc good articles and current topic are ablo reviewed A beautifully printed and Illustrated monthly Thc Cassler Magazine Maga-zine Co New York Folly In Fairyland By Carolyn Wells With Illustrations by Wallace Morgan Published by Henry Altcmus Company Philadelphia A very clever book for tho children which undertakes to tell all about Fairyland how they live there what their houses are like and what they do to amuso themselves I tolls of the visits I of a little girl who called on Aladdin Alad-din Cinderella the Queen of Hearts tho Three Bears tho Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe the Sleeping Beauty and a lot of the old favorites I Is a fancy well conceived and written which tho children are sure to enjoy The Princess Cynthia By Marguerite Bryant lllustrallons by George R Hn vclka Published In a handsome book by Funk Wagnulls Company Now York City A story of the order of Anthony Hopes Prisoner of Zenda having a mythical king a lovely princess a devoted de-voted lover and a tragedy which prevents pre-vents the wedding of the lovers In this story tho king Is sister to the princess and Is very good to her the lover Is of a proscribed family but he and his brother arc restored to royal favor and bear true allegiance to the royal house The talo Is well told certainly It has plenty of go and tho author chooses her situations and her phrases very well I Is a readable story that ought to win a goodly portion of public favor |