Show 11 CffJFETT VVc4 MONSO J j Alrtfilees Magazine for January has for Its novol < tto No Iloro by E W Hor nung a lively story full of good points There ire also good slorlwj by IJ K Mr Itr Harold MacGrath Ella W Pealllc VI11 X lliirbcn I Edgar SaltuM Frank 1 KorrJii OJLorgo Illbbard tttchard Burton Jullen Gordon C C Jlolchkfas Dorothy DJx I Edwin L Sublm Kate Mastorson and other good writers In story mid poetry Alnsleefl lakes n high rank among tho monthly publications for elegant ilcflon si ml bright work generally AlnMoo Slag nslno Co publishers Now York I 1 t Current History for December ban the + I record of the world for tho month of October Oc-tober This lJI 1 comprehensive und written In excellent < < form with nufllclcrtt llluatra tlor to make clear evor thing and help 1 out th text A subtitle Is a lcv of tho Vorlds Leaders which gives portraits I and biographic of a large number of tho Riding character of the work There laU la-u sprclnl nrtlclo on Newfoundland antI emu on tLa Maorlcw Tho record covers I I ourythln Including lnlr rnnllonal af I ftln fnltcd States Interests li < affected I by other powers relations In America end tin fir Eastorn situation Affahs n Arrka Include noL cnly the local affairs of this country but Canada Newfound I I JfcuJ l Mexico and Central America und I South America Affairs Europe Include I the dealln M of the principal pcoplS there J 1 I 1 I Aali Oct a tlea and Africa arc fully remembered re-membered Them Is a Hpoclnl division for science and Invention another for sociology sociol-ogy and one for nrt music and the drama There IK 1 a lltornry chronicle and a record of deaths both American and foreign It I la a firstc nan publication for posting upon up-on affairs of the time Current History Co Boston Harpers Bazar for January begins a series of Stories Without Words Lll Han Bell continues her Talks to Splutters 1 Splu-tters Edward 11 Layton begins a serial se-rial rho Ultimate Moment Society and life in Vienna are treated by Alice Lounaborry There is a Christmas eve poem and excellent holiday reading Tho I fashions arc fully set forth In gowns hate nnd house wear The Game Dinner IH r 1 reasonable contribution by Josephine I Grenler Hints for TIomoMnku I a new jtnllcrn finest and womans affairs generally gener-ally aro given good space 1 The editorial comment IH well done and tho number i In 1 all respects him I a tirstolass one liar ptr Broa publishers New York The National Magazine for December hns llm usual IniitnllmonL of Joe Mitchell Oiapplos breezy Affairs at Washington Washing-ton t with Illustrations of prominent pconln whoso names arc constantly before be-fore the country There are excellent Sentiments for the Christmas Season fyjan account of Booker T Washington among Ills West Virginia neighbors a f storyof Christmas Visitors from Ocr Seam a vlndlcatlon of Si Louis as a muchmaligned metropolis rent Grandmothers in Atlanta Journalism a plcacant story As Seen by llo Typewriter t Type-writer Girl i Poultney Ulgelow gives an account of domestic life From tho French Family Point of View Studies of Boom J and their MakerK Is a good del de-l partmuit und there are many lino Btorles l and HhiMtrullona In the number The W W Potter Company publishers 13oHlon I Thn IlandMcNnllyt Bankers Monthly for December has un article on govern I irienl deposltorlca by till lion 111 tonI K ton-I Alles 1lto Islam Secretary of tin Treasury i Treas-ury which treats Very fully of that portion por-tion of the detail of the treasury work Credit and Credit Currency by the 7 Hon Lymnn J CJasrt Is I a very strong plea for tho oxpannlon of the use of those Hecurltles which may bo counted ac abcs a-bcs for tho Isano of currency The duties du-ties of a stockholder In banks In explained by Charles MV Stevenson In such a way I as to mnke the stockholder a good deal more than a mere Investor of money i Itla his business to lieo about the condition I and affairs of tho bank Imperfections of the Banking System are pointed out and the commercial and banking reports In the numbor am full and good Rand 1cNIlIly Co publishers Chicago Itechans Monthly for Decombor Is tho Until ISBUO of that pleasant publication which now goes Into tho shades Thu frontispiece la a colored plate Smilax I JValtcrl and there la a fine description of it In tho succeeding pages WildFlowers i Wild-Flowers and Katuro are handcomoly treated In four pages General Garden I Ing Is well written and illustrated KloKraphy and literature receive hand I I sumo treatment and tho number Is the I I hest that has been Issued S Mendclson lltehan Qcnnnntovn Pa Tho Architectural Record for December treats very handsomely by text and pIcture pic-ture The Parisian Suburb of Pass It bras an excellent article on EngllHh Dec oration + by Walter Crano It gives an illustration of tho plan of a model city I In which It would be a joy to live but tho lko of which one may never sec Tho Contemporary New York Residence Is treated fully with sufficient text and very handsome pictures Tho Campanile of SL Marks ut Venice la given both before and after tho disastrous fall The second article ar-ticle on L Art Kouveau at Turin Is given vary handsome and graceful Tho Architects Portfolio and Over the DraftingBoard arc handsome studies of good technical value rho Architectural Record Company Now York Tho Left Side Man By Margaret Blake Robinson A handsome book from the J S Ogllvlo Publishing Co Now f York A work of deep religious fervor and perfect faith The story is one of tho country and tho woods an woll as of tho momcnt nnd trouble of the politics of the day In tho most muddy and corrupt phases the wretchedness and misery of I city life ns well on 1 tho free air of the mountains It Is a work of a good deal of Interest and charm carrying a fresh and beautiful love story full of winsome descriptions very pleasant to read Tho book la full of faith In God and the peo I pie and elevating In sentiment throughout I through-out All good people will enjoy reading Itt i It-t Hidden Manna By A J Dawson Published by A St Barnes Co New York A story based on travels and studies In tho Interior of Morocco It Is full of Arab philosophy submission to I fate and tho curious forms of reasoning taken respecting everyday life and the I philosophy of living that grow In tho Oriental mind It represents for tho first i tlmo things and places utterly unknown Ito I-to tho usual traveler and to people who read the usual travelers books It is unique of Us kind In that It gets more 1 deeply Into the Oriental mode of thought and life than any other BO far us that II thought and lIfo arc represented by present pres-ent life In Morocco And this book gets Into tho portions of Morocco which are less known and which more closely conform con-form to the ancient iiodo of life than do those portions so commonly written about as to be hackneyed Thu romantic features fea-tures of tho story are well told and 1 In good vein with a Moorish lovestory of the old fashion In it Tho true spirit of I the love of adventure and of the open country arc carried and a large number of types arc represented In the story The writer has 1 done his work well and given the public an onjoyublo hook to read Observations by Mr Dooley Pub lished bj R H Russell Now York city t A lnI180me book Tho test Is In JMr I Doblcys wellknown style with excellent I I i rctidllion of Irish dialect The contents t I are A Llttlo Essay on Books the I Laws Delays1 Sherlock Holmes In i ternallonal Amenities Art Patronage Patron-age Immigration Whllo llouso Discipline Money and Matrimony Prince Henrys Vitt Prince Henrys Reception Cuba vs Beet Sugar Bad Men from the West European Intervention Inter-vention Tho Philippine Peace Sol dlor anti Policeman King Edwards Coronation Ono Advantage of Poverty Pover-ty Thu Fighting Word Home Life of Gcnliiics Reform Administration Work and Sport Tho Nows of a r Week Tho End of the War Newport New-port Arctic Exploration Machinery Machin-ery Swearing The War Game I Newspaper Publicity Adventure flights and Privileges of Women Avarlco and Generosity The End of I Things Hypocrisy History En I Joyment Gratitude The authors caustic and witty style aro well known he Is a past master In the art of putting things Three Years War By Chrlstlnan Ru dolt Dowel The frontispiece la a portrait por-trait of Gen Dewet drawn by John S Sargent Ti A and tho book contains con-tains four plates and a map Charles Scrlbner8 Sono publishers New York A large handsome volume telling of tho active ac-tive operations of tho Doer war as seen and conducted by Gen DewoU Hu tells of his first notification to go out to tho war and his going as a private burgher Ho tells of his advancement gradually until ho got Bupremo command of a detachment de-tachment and of his successive and rapid promotions He gives lively accounts of the battles and maneuvers these being especially full at tho beginning telling of Nicholsons Nek the sleg of Lndysmlth I the overwhelming forces which Lord Roberts Rob-erts brought to bear on the west lino of the field of operations tho disastrous Paardebcrg campaign where Gen Cronjo was captured with his command and In which Gen Dewct claims that ho opened a way for Gen Cronje to escape with his men and horses but ho would not consent to abandon his wagons and supplies On this point undoubtedly l considerable controversy con-troversy will arise between him nnd Gen Cronje later on After the llrst success of the Boers and their siege of Ladysmlth large numbers of them returned to their homes on leave I gut thoy were quickly recalled on account of the Roberta Invasion Gen Dewct tells with much gusto of tho large captures of English prisoners and generally of the nucccssful operations and the flying cola col-a of tho Boers But the English woro too many und swarmed over the country driving the Doers Into hiding Gradually tho English extended their operations overrunning tho Orange TYco State com plotely capturing Pretoria and driving President Krugcr into banishment Much detail Is given of Gen Devotn operations his aim being In general to confine his narrative to what he saw and did himself lie has no mean opinion of his achievements and exhibits rather slighting views of Gen Botha and others of the Boer commanders Tho different sieges of two small towns and the opera lions for their relief and tho blockhouse campaign Inaugurated by Gen Kitchener aro described with a good deal of circum stantiality and his contempt for the blockhouse cordon Is open but he shows how It gradually brought exhaustion and distress Ills raid Into Capo Colony and his narrow escapes from capture nro detailed de-tailed with sufficient fullness to enable I WISE WILLIE 1 t I I stt I 1 I q l J 7 o T 111 Willlo abed 51 dont expect to get no answer to that letter I wrote Santa Claus r ClausHis Ills Mamma Why not Willie Willie Cos I saw pop swipe the stamp off the envelope one to see the perilous nature of his campaign cam-paign Gen Kitcheners proclamations arc given In full and Gen Dowel gives In the appendix complete account of the conferences con-ferences of the Boers upon tho pence proposals pro-posals of Gen Kitchener and Lord Mllncr In these conferences It was developed that tho Boers began the war with more than COOCO fighting men under arms Tho debates In the conference over Gon Kitcheners peace propositions were very full and free and some of the less Informed In-formed speakers wore extremely strong on tho proposition that the Lord would come to their aid and they would win yet Persons of that way of thinking gave very little attention to the reports of the different commandos In the field who hud been conducting the operations and who declared that In most of the districts a continuation of thu war was absolutely out of the question that the country was exhausted the men disheartened and that if peace were refused the Boer commandos com-mandos would melt away These conferences confer-ences developed that one irrcat incentive for peace vas the dcslro to recover their women and children who had been removed re-moved by the British and kept in concentration concen-tration camps The terms of pence are fully given tin oath of allegiance as administered and the spirit In which tho conclusion of the war was received Is described The book Is one of a good deal of value as being tho personal story of a man who cut a very prominent llguro In the war It Is written writ-ten In a most Interesting style and will bo a valuable hook In any library and especially es-pecially It will always be a book or Importance Im-portance to and in South Africa It is recorded that George Meredith began be-gan his literary career as a poet His first appearance In print was as the author of some versos entitled Chllllan vullnh presumably a celebration of the battle In January Sl I9 between the English and the Sikhs U has often been complained that Meredith Is an extremely difficult poet One of tho most exquisite of Inca few poems which arc not difficult he has left out of several collections of his verso which goes to show that like many an other poet he mistakes obscurity for beauty This little lovely lyric 1 to which we refer is his Marian MAPJAN I She can be as wlso as we And wliler when she wishes She can knit with cunning wit And dress the homely dishes She can nourish BtaiT or pen And deal a wound that lingers Sho can talk the tall of mon I And touch with thrilling lingers II Match her ye across the sea Natures fond and fiery Ye who zest tho turtles nest With the eagles eyrie l Soft and loving In her soul f Swift and lotty soaring Mixing with Its dovellke dolo Passionate adoring III Such a Mho whoH match with me In lying or pursuing Subtle wiles are In her smiles ro act the world nwoonfr She Is steadfast as it slar And yet tho maddest maiden She can wage a gallant war I And give tho peace of Eden I A GLIMPSE OF DICKENS Another artist who looks backs with gratitude to Dlckcnn I noto sketching a little boy who with a great lump of clay In front of him Is seated In the sculptors studio beginning his art career and tolls once more the story of whenhe was engaged en-gaged In this artistic effort uA bright lively l young man good looking and with dark Mowing locks entered the studio ac companied by Bonnes and took his scat In a comfortable arm chair on a revolving platform He loo scorned amused lit the scene and very much so when ho naught sight of a small boy sitting In front of a foot almost I as big as himself with u bun on ono side and a largo lump of clay on tho other which he was trying to thumb Into shape I was the llttlo boy and tho lively young man with the dark flowing locks was Charles Dickens Ho came and looked over mo patted me on tho head and said some kind things but I did not know who ho was till afterward So says G A Storey And tho same genial artist lakes from his packet a sketch of Old Well or his first artistic effort which eventually he discovered was tho nngtr post po In line to art and fame Harry Furnlaa 1 In time Strand Magazine Tho lato Max Muller had not too high an opinion of Bismarcks biographer If you wish to be disgusted ho wrote to Sir William RU1f ell read Busch on Ills mirck L know Bucher nnd ho was not tho most exalted character but Bunch Ono feels ashamed to bo n German I always kipw that Bismarck was a brute but ho had the redeeming qualities of a brute but the reptiles Surely a man who doeR u great work may be a very small avery a-very mean mail And now they are goinG to erect a monument to D In the cathe dral at Berlin Oh the desolation ota ot-a Yet him who readoth un doralandl > WANTED OGRES GIANTS GOBLINS If tho reading houses which reformers have BO 1 often pleaded for as complements to eating houses nnd drinking houses were already in full swing and If It were possible to order therein a portion of romance ro-mance or humor or preaching as one or ders a portion of flan or flesh or fowl it Is to be feared that dinappolntmentn would lIe In wait for parents who should benevolently lead In their girls and boys for a little oldfashioned Christmas en tertainment Ogres is orf sir or Very sorry but theres no more stewed dragon and devilled princess today would roll as sure as fate from the waiters tongue Christmas boor Christmas turkeys Christmas pudding and Christmas mlnco pies nro with us still to our Inward un doing but the good old Christmassy Christmas book has wcllnigh died out of tho land even as the snow has melted from tho modern Christmas card Tho publishers and nrtlnts and authors aro so llrrnly convinced that all tho other publishers and artists and authors aro buoy producing tho old roaring Yule log gy stuff that In tho end It hardly gets produced at all In nearly two hundred childrens books of tho present season wo have not found enough giants und goblins to furnish two really bouncing tales There IH an abundance of stories of tha Boer war stores of garlnhly modern boys and girls schools stories with an avowedly accurate historical basis and of books in which contemporari actualities arc BO described or satirized oa to drag the little reader prematurely out of fairy land Into the sophisticated life which ho is bound to enter on all too soon But L while such works as these could hardly vbo reckoned on a centipedes toes the out nnd out fairy books can be counted on the fingers of ono hand The Outlook A CLEVER ACROSTIC The following unpublished acrbatlc was addressed to tho editor of Harpers Bazar by E Nesblt author of The Wouldbc goods and the Red House The editor of the Bazar had the honor of Introducing E Nesblt to American renders and it was the authors appcclatlon of this which inspired in-spired the poem Eden they say was very fair and dear Let others imago nil tho beauty there I for my part am confident tho mere Zone that encircled It made It dear and fair All that tho primal world could show of price By that straight zone was gathered safe I and closer i Each friend could read dcop In the others eyes Tho look where all tho prettiest lyrics are Had wo an Eden now whero sure and small l Germs of true friendship might In time grow strong Joy would plant flowers and Bomo bright rose 01 song I I I I I I S On this your page might from her rose tree full j I Receive Instead this palo December rose I Dear Lady for tho world is very wide I And you are hidden on the other side over forgottenbut so far so fur 1 I I i I REFLECTIONS S ON READING 1 Mr Melrose tells the ton of the com I position of tho novel originally a tale of about the fifth of the size of tho ordhiary J romance and expanded t on his susp06tlon The author saw Its obvious faulty but + fourd hat I It must go to tho world as it i t t was He < thought It good enough lift i was not humble about his book and Its OUCCCSB but ho remained practically nn i anectcdb It Ho had wakened from n I life of ordinary hackwork to Hurl himself 1 I r I In I a sense famous and it Is mont melancholy > 1 melan-choly to think how brief was the span In 1 which he had Limo pleasure of recognition 1 Ho won no great render It seems except of Shakespeuro oven Carlyle ho scorns to have missed that Idol of most young Scots and he hud never opened Hawthorne I Haw-thorne Somehow many mon of literary orl lnallf appear to be tho rsvrrs of i 1i wide readers ono mirvota l at their slender 1 libraries their scantily tenanted shelves I The bookworm Is almost an extinct rep t tile Cruising about tho Highlands all through autumn I mot at a remote Inn + a lady who casually brought down to the dinner table three hook Here at last j t 1 was a kindred bookworm but Jlr Drown f was none I presume that mankind in the w book of the novelist Dickens wcs I no reader tho novelists of wide reading I vcntnn to think arc but three and they are long dead Fielding was the earliest of the threo everyone can gutss tho I names of the others Perhaps wo should i r add Lord Lyllon who read a great dent 1 I m that lay out of the beaten tracks An = r J drew Lang In Longmans Magazine J I 1 |