Show MAGAZINES The Tho January nUmber ot of the Young Womans Journal has for tor a 11 frontispiece a beautiful engraving showing the old year ear In the figure figuro of an old man dying upon the tho shore willIe across the dawn lit ocean comes the thc beautiful form of the new year ear her arms and sort soft drap draperies cries eries entwIning cherubs of love and hope The pictures Illustrate a New Years poem by Ilke with which the number opens Another charming channing picture or of quite II a different nature Is The Tho Three Graces which Is aptly apU Interpreted by Mrs Nellie LIttlE and n a list equally of entertaining articles make up II a most Interesting New Years number A Bunch Dunch of at Nerves Nene Is the title or of ortho the tho opening story In the Youths Corn Com panion for tor this week and the rest of the number Is made up or of the usual list or of Interesting stories poems bright anecdotes etc In Iii the number Is also made the sad announcement or of the tho death of Daniel Sharp SharI Ford who for years has been pUblisher and of the Youths Companion The with which he managed the popular journal Is ex cx pre pressed sed tn In the fact that front Crom a circa lation of whIch It had at the time he took hold ot of it 11 the Companion at athis athis his lIen death th had n a subscription list or of over half a million A sincere tribute Is paid in t the c announcement to the high moral character or of the deceased The International Monthly should have hae been beton labeled Review for tor the length and heaviness of Its leading heading or nr tides only fit n a periodical that comes out once a quarter The first number OP opens with a 11 very scholarly article by douard Rod flod of haris on Later Evol ot of French Criticism It Is vat al as It passes In review most ot at atthe the great French literary critics but butto butto to anyone one not specially Interested In French literature Its tort forty pages will willbe wIllbe be deadly dull The same thin thing may maybo maybe bo be void of Prore Professor or NS N S paper laper on Influence ot of tM hO Sun Upon th the Formation ot of the Earths Surface It ts is written In pop popular popular ular style and It discusses many ot of great reat Interest but there Is too much of It Other are Charles do de Kays Kas Organization Among American Artists Artist Professor ProCessor John Becent Advance In Phy sirel Science and Norman Hap goods The Theatrical Syndicate These three auers are nil all short crisp and readable The Is ed edIted edited by Frederick k A of ton Vt It fua nay be that the Interested in III the thorough treat treatment merit ment ot of a subject by a specIalist Is large enough to sup support ort this ne new yen ven venture ture but we doubt It It will certainly appeal to scholars and to the cultured public b but t the people who de desire desire sire their Instruction sugared with en will not be enamored of It The editor has an advisor board boutI made up UJ of at scholars In France l En EnI Eng England I land and GermanY It If retried carried out OUI on the lines lilies the bound volumes or of Ute the mr should his he or of value alue to tonn nn any York The Mac Company prIce 3 n a year single copies 25 5 cents The Century for tor January Is ems ous because of the color work on Its cover corer and In Its embellish merit ment The cover corer design Is n a New Year conceit by b Will Bradley Drale The colored IllustratIons are In Frederick A Cooks account ot of The New cries The They are reproductions ot of photo photographs graphs of Antarctic In which the colors of at the thed d desolate l antl are treated sug suggestively rather than literally A poem by Kipling In the Matter o of One Compass is II handsomely embel with tints Capt Slocum the hero bero ot of n a lonesome voyage around the tho world orld tells of If his arrival nt at Capetown and vIsIt to the South African republic where lie hI was accorded accoro nn an Interview with President Kruger Dr Do Mitchells The Autobiography of a Quack ends In lint issue but another serial b by Dr Mitchell will begin In the March number It Is called Dr North and Ills His Friends Black Dlack Silas n a short hort stOry by VirginIa affords nn an contrast to Booker T description of the present and forecast of the future or of his people The opening of at the Civil War and the battle ot of Marston Moor are arc Mr Mor lays special themes In the current In Installment installment of his Cromwell John M r cowboy tale talc Only the Mae Mas Master ter Shell Praise the prize stor story In the magazine competition of Is remarkable and that too not merely ns as the product ot of a young man In whose veins flows os n a liberal admixture or of In Indian dlan dian blood The Tho Book Dook Buyer Duer for tor January contaIns Marshalls portraits of er Milton Suckling Md and Herrick from rare prints a ot of Old and New loy by Will II H Low and book reviews with II by Fits Ho Boy Carrington M MA MA A Do De Wolfe Howe Carolyn Shipman Elizabeth L Ii Cary James Gregg ud an others The Tho In In remarks about the books or of orthe the past year which have achieved a flattering degree ot of popularity anti and thus hul contributes contribute to the review r feature turo ot of the issue The Literary News In Is Mother another article of Interest It Is from J M Bulloch The Notes on Rare flare Books and the dt de devoted devoted voted to Current Literature are aro worthy attractions PUblished by Chas ScrIbners Sons New York The Tho LivinG Are Age for tor January re reprints reprints prints Robert slashing criticism ot Of Kipling called The Voice or of the tho Hooligan A new short story by Seima Lagerlof will appear In the number for tor January It Is called Our Lord anti and Saint Peter The January Traveler contains n a reo ic series of group pictures of California scenery The frontispiece gives nine ot of the grand canyon of the Tuolumne which has many ot of the Cea features turo ot of the Yosemite Valley Other group pictures are of Falls Tahoe and Cape Horn and a halt dozen dozell glimpses or of ChInatown The Tho nr ax tides are bright nod and readable Table Talk for tor January tells of Table Manners Mannera ruling fashions and fancies answers housekeepers and gives advice on a ot of ques questions In which all lovers of the tho home are Pa Colliers Weekly for January pub publIshes lIshes an interestIng article on The Artillery or of the tho South AfrIcan War i by Lieutenant Godfrey L 14 Carden of I the na navy an American ordnance ex expert expert pert who describes the tho wonderful guns uns and murderous whIch are ae arenow now being used In South Africa by the British and Doers and ond explains among other things what has bas long been II a mystery ho how the Doers Boers secured mug mag ordnance and ammunition In such vast quantities The illustrations are photographs of the batterIes form forming ing Ine thE new British sl si ge e train recently to South Africa and guns with Which the British expect to fire firo shells Into PretorIa from a die tance of yards also pictures ot of the around LadysmIth the garrison In 1 action IU The current number ot of the LI Age has the following lint ot of conte The Voice cit at The Robert flobert Buchanan contempOrarY contempo t view A Place In the Country Quatt Qua i ly Iy Review The Perishing Land X l Uprooted Vineyard by neno rue vue des Duex The CU fu Storm In tie tho Far East Iy oy J The Kidnapping 1 Weeks by Dennet bill hili Ma Magazine The Happy IsI Is s Frank Fank SavIle Pall Mall Magazine Church In the t 11 cratic Saturday A Dream by A t The Tho Jr r and Fall of the NaturalistIc N i l 1 lYe France by Charles It B e Yo Ye lart b by W ij DI D Novels and Preface by AndrE Andro Lang Longmans M Magazine hood by H C nan uan Boston DOlton Science Month for tor January opens with an article by s Hobert on ot of A Ax m my In the Nineteenth Century Application or of Is nn an IJ t rated article by Prof C E B Proto Prof Cesare Lombroso Contributes brief study on A Paradoxical nth lets and tells tell ot of an experiment Q demonstrated the power of Lu It turn an apparently in l 4 vidual n a crimInal What frUtt the Trolley Car Oo Go Is nn an article by William Tr Ot r nurea of th ar r ore t Womans Struggle for tor Liberty In Oer many Scenes on the tho Planets n j Volcanic Eruptions In n t tt Philippines and The I the Body Bolly The are g Appleton Co n York Almanac for tor 1900 Is at hant hani Ills It is the annual pUblication of it kind Its aim Is to give a 11 torl forecast ast ot o disturbances of the earth eartha as Indicated b by the position of the tic plan planets ets The Almanac contains besides val valuable noble information on many Richard Mans III Hock Island Ill |