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Show LITERARY NOTES. "Drawing Room Plays," by Grace Irwin, Is one of the attractive works of the holiday season. The plays are bright and sparkling, and could bo used to advantage by clubs or societies which might desire to give an amateur performance without too elaborate a setting. There are seven p'ays in all, filled with humorous lines and unique situations. Outside of their utility for amateur theatricals, the book will be found both clever and interesting to the general reader who appreciates ap-preciates crisp and delightful repartee. San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Paul Elder & Co. t3 tv t5 Club Woman for December. Decorated in green and rod, bright with the Christmas trees, holly wreathes and bells, the Club Woman for December offers an unusually attractive at-tractive appearance, and while the artistic make up and ornamentation pleases the eye, the contents con-tents appeal with equal force to the mind. In teresting reports from many Federation conventions, conven-tions, special articles by Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, of California; Mrs. Henry Bischoff of New York City; Mrs. Charles H. Terry, D. A. R., of Brooklyn; Brook-lyn; Mrs. James L. Blair, of St. Louis; Mrs. Gilbert Gil-bert McClurg, of Colorado; Mrs. Amelia Bingham, of New York; Mrs. Oreola Haskell, Miss Helen M. Winslow, of Boston,, a story, "The Rose of San Fernando," by Mrs. I. Lowe'nberg Of California, a satire by Marion Howard of Boston, a poem by Grace Parker Lyon, a strong article on Physical Culture, by Viola Zacharie, these tand many more interesting contributions combine to make a bright, up-to-date and thoroughly readable magazine. |