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Show WHAT'S IN McCLURE'S. McCluro's for January opens tho New Year with an astonishingly good number, distinguished, as usual, by tho clean-cut, vigorous tone of Its articles, ar-ticles, and by fiction of marked excellence. excel-lence. "Marry Baker G. Eddy: the Story of Her Life, and tho History of Christian Science," opens its first Instalment In-stalment In a manner that practically Insures the success of tho serial with tho American public. Its tone is clear, conservative, and incisive, and it presents pre-sents tho remarkablo story of Mrs. Eddy's childhood and youth, and the early influences which molded her career in a narrative of absorbing Interest. In-terest. Carl Schurz has an unusually strong article describing his first meeting with Lincoln, and the famous fam-ous Lincoln-Douglas debate at Quincy, Illinois. Eugene Wood writes with Irresistible humor of "Tho Drama in Our Town." Burton J. Hendrlck takes up one of the most striking soda, phenomena of our times the great Jewish invasion of New York. "Car," by Ada Melvin, tho story of a Swedish pioneer child, Is a tale of quite unforgettable and touching beauty. . In "Tho Man Who Knew," Perceval Gibbon relates a tragedy of the veldts with great power and simplicity. sim-plicity. "Remodeling It," by Lily A. Long, is a fascinating comedy of situation. sit-uation. "Tho Pot-Hunters," by Rex Beach, a broad western farce about a professional foot-racer who "did" a Kansas town, Is ono of tho funniest stoiies of tho year. "Flod-TIde," by Margaret Cameron, 'A Perjured Santa San-ta Clans," one of Myra Kelly's most successful East-Side tales, and "On tho Night Trail," an exciting out-of-doors story, of adventure, complete the flcton In the number. Theotlosia Garrison's poem, "Tho Daughter," will attract much notice. "The Fool's Mothers," by Jolin G. Neihardt and "In Extremis," by Geo. Srerllng, are unusually good verse. Drawings by Horace Taylor and Frederic Dorr Steele, reproduced in tint, Illustrate "Tho Drama in Our Town" and Myra Kelly's East-Sldo story. E. L. Blumenscheln, Martin Justice, Paul Julicn Meylan, and others have done artistic work for this number. o |