| Show RECENT PUBLICATIONS The December number of The Cosmo has as os frontispiece a n reproduction tion of the striking painting by PIerro Tho Peace of ot Centuries Past la Ita first article Is called Peace on onEarth Earth and aM In this the author suggest that American Christians on Christ Christmas mils mas day sign petitions to the British people asking their brothers on the tho theother other aide to arbitrate with the Boers and end tho war Thill Is IB very appropriately followed by nn an Illustrated ac nc account count of at tho Hoer Doer war by Allen Sang Sangree ree Among tho tM other contributions to this number ore Early Earl Opera In Amor Amer lea by C D Hess Tho Story of ot Theodore Theodoro Life Lite by Jqhn A Now New Carol by W Pole Vete Ridge Parent Parenthood hood by Ella Wheeler Old American by HJort Some Examples of f Recent Art It Is nn In excellent num number number ber richly Illustrated Now York The Growth of ot American Coal Ex Exports ports llorts Is tho title of ot th leading ar aI article In The Engineering Magazine for COt December It Is by P F E Mr Philip of English Amer American ican lenn and Continental Steam Engineer EngineerIng Ing treating particularly British trac traction tion power houses and their equipment Paul Daimler tells t tho story ot his hl work arranged 1 from notes of an nn article the tho elder Daimler had In preparation for The Engineering Maga Magazine zine at nt the tho of his death Mr Hamilton Church finishes hi hili series on the Distribution of the Factory Ex ponso pons Burden C W Wring Wrington l rl ton J H n Jr havo a I re review review view of d opportunities In Eastern Russia There is the regular full Review Index of ot the Engineer Engineering ing Press Tho Engineering Magazine lne New York V VIn In III the tho December number of the tho Inter International national Socialist Review Vf W H So has an article on Borne of tho Negro Problem Other cover n 1 writers In the th great variety of ot subjects l from a I Social 1st point of avenue Chi cage The December number ol ot Magazine opens with nn Illustrated paper America by Allen Other n a v Northern Waters IP 1 r Stringer The Tho n wham Senator Al AI Melt tho Most Man Inn In tn Con L A Tho Talking Ships Short Story A V 11 r Couch I A Loyal ItI short story William In Decem December ber poem n Whitney The TheOP Opening OP ll of tho Houw QUo George GeorgeH H J vt t Noir Nair chop rhod story Oliver M at William Mm tr MI and Topics of ot tho Now York The Christmas number of ot tho New Kew Mn ol 1 an nn excellent holiday h publication The complete hove IH III by Louis Evan and andis is entitled Then Theil thero many short stories King Coronation is l ed by IJ Mrs of ot London Agnes Allne talks talk about The Oppression slon of gifts A paper by Edmund dosso lili jl D about The rM Hest nooks Dool Is good goult reading Some quaint old 01 1 for tor forgotten Rotten gotten about Christmas told anew by Farwell twell t It hI Ither her hOr contribution entitled Christmas Stories of ot tho tM Saints I t two po m Sea a a Of ot Marmora and Smyrna Harbor beautiful spool specimens mens of ot tho writers volatility o Th und Wine department d thin month la Is morry with a t The Tho December of Womans Journal with an Illus Illustrated atory byJ L J Once Upon n Time It Is n 11 pretty r little lit lie sketch This Is III followed by Early by hy Aunt Km Onn OM Apart Is another Abort Then there Is 1111 a alove love atory entitled itA A Newspaper Now Clipping by The Moon Moonbeam beam by Elen and 1111 a fi paper on Kindly Light by Al AI Allan lan Louise Reynolds Prof Walter M Wolfe writes about The Tho Indian Wo Woo Women men mn of t the South and Sara Whalen has hasa a I on Nature Studio for tor Mothers The rho u departments department Lessons Le In Cookery C kery Editorials Juldo arc well edited There are firo several pieces 1110 oS of ot poetry and among these n Christmas composition This Thill Day by Christine P D Young ConstitUtion Building Suit Salt Lake City The Womans Homo Companion Gomp Is al always II ways w full rull of or reading ending to tho Benson and the tho December number la III no exception to the rule rUlo In III this Issue Mrs LarnOd d tolls how lo 10 a 1 Christ Christmas mOB mas dinner Thero are articles descriptive tive Uve of ot holiday entertainments t and many about the making of ot dimple gifts Tho notion fiction Includes Include Charles serial Tha Rein Heln Reincarnation carnation of ot Captain John Lady Adventure Tho 1110 Single Singleton ton Syndicate and I nd a IJ childs Christ Evo story Peter find the Green Oreen Men Ien A timely feature C IB lu Mr Knights I Uncle l begins a Famous Art Artists In Grand Opera with a IJ biography of Madame The Co Springfield Ohio County Ilfe In America for tor Decem December December ber has hns for tor leading Article An Outlook on Winter by L II n Amon other lending leading features are nrc Tho Ches Chesterbrook StacIe Farm by l Nelson which tells how A 3 J Cassatt president of ot tho Pennsylvania railroad raises blooded horses cattle ami sheep on n his famous bluegrass ei cis In eastern castern Pennsylvania and A Flower of ot tho Million of ot tho Mil Millionaire which Is tho title of tho two largo Jorgo photographic studies of geran geraniums and orchids Henry Troths series of It photographs entitled Harvesting which won tho first prize In the recent Country rr Life photograph competition are presented and A Radclyffe Du moro mori contributes two photographs of live amid nil all the beauty bO of their natural surroundings Plea for Gay Oay Little Gardens offers suggestions that will add color and cheer to the tho home Page Co New York The December number Worlds Work presents an nn article by y President Roosevelt n on Mr A 0 q photographs of ot wild animals Julian Ralph outlines the results result of the tho Boer war to date M lIf a O and Arthur Goodrich In a splendidly Illustrated at tide tell how Now New York Is III being rt built Frederic l Emory Emary writes of the Greater America There 13 a timely character of ot LI Ll Hung Chang Chanu and another by William Justus nol l lat of at George O W Perkins In The March of Events the magazine continues to describe President Roosevelt and deals with tho Schley Inquiry the Southern Educational Conference and conditions In national and municipal political lift Union Square New York An article on Michael Angela Anielo by John La Ln Forgo Forso In tho Christ Christmas Christmas mas number of ot McClures Magazine It ItIs ItIs Is the first of at a n series by that artist and critic The fiction Is especially sea seasonable There seven short mostly by recognized d authors author A Mendicant by 1 Is a 1 tale tala of Japan In the heyday of ot ro 10 romance mance maMe touchingly simple in plot and Md full tul of ot the spirit the medieval Ideal IdealIsm IdealIsm Ism which finds Its It prototypes In tho West In the tales of troubadours and minstrels A strange tale talo IB Is that by Agustus Bridle and ana J K 1 Macdonald of the tho eight days wanderings of an Amor Amer AmerIcan lean Ican Charles Dunn In the tho Arctic Cir Circle Circle cle Then there thero Is another of ot Miss Morris stage atago recollections of time another of t William Allen Alten Whites characterizations this time of Senator The Tho Illustrations of Cf tho number are aro remarkably fine New NewYork York |