The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-18
HARPER's MAGAZINE.

dGTDeT's magazine Tor December
is Christmas number, with an
extrs ordinary wealth and variety OF
papers, poems, and pictures, by an
array of authors and artists (Ame-
rican and Eaglish) seldom, ii ever,
brought together before. This will
take the place Of the mammoth
HGrper's Christmas of 1882, which
will not be repeated this year. The
| number has four extra plates. in
addition to its usual 100 wellfilled
pages. The illustrations alone have
cost, it is stated, over $4,000. The
number opens with a charming
title-page, drawn by Dielman, the
artist of "a Girl l Know" in which
pretty pictures of Santa Claus and
his RENDERS and of the Christmas
waits are united with a wreath of
Christmas holly. The opening paper
lis by George William Curtis, the
first distinctive article outside of
the easy Chair" that he has written
for years. 1t deals with christmas"
old and new, and particularly with
how the Pilgrim Fathers declined to
celebrate it. The Frontispiece, Sun!
der the Mistletoe," also by Dielman.
is one of the illustrations for this
paper. The poet Whitney contributes
most worthy and beautiful Christ
mast poem, "The supper of St..
Gregory" illustrated BY F. S.
Church. But "The Kingdom of the
Child" by a less known poet, Mrs
F. L. Mace, is not less beautiful,
and will impress readers with its
tender and lofty Christmas JOY,
while Mrs. Curtis adds to it charm
ing picture of child-faces. Thack-
eray's daughter contributes a de-
lightful perso pal SIX etch of her
father 8 friend, the poet Tennyson,
for which he has himself given her
material. The illustrations in
clude fine plate portrait, beautiful
drawings by Alfred Parsons, anu
published sketches by Thack
cray and Rossetti E. P. Roe, of
whose novels 100000 have been
sold, begins "a novel novel;
Natures Serial Story" in which
he proposes month by month to fol-
low the round of country life. Glib
son and Dielman Illustrate it Law
fishIy. William Black, in pleasant
letter, tells of bis beloved West
Highlander, among whom he has
laid the scenes of 80 many of his
novels. In illustrating it Mr.. Alb
hey SLOWS unexpected strength as a
landscape artist: A most curious
paper on "Nest>Builders OF
1.-THE Sea-" by C. F. Holder
will delight students of nature. with
Its brilliant illustrations of nest
building fishes by j. G. Beard. The
number is very strong In stories
Mr.. w. d. Howells contributes
delightful farce, 1.-THE Register,
which Mr.. Reinharte illustrates
Boughton, the artist, makes bill
debut az story-teller with @Th'
Kissing Bridge" a legend of AL
fbany, illustrated by q full.page plat'
from himself; Charles Reade has ;
characteristic story, There's man,
slip 'twixt the Cup and the Lip,
by Edward Everett Hale, one of hi
|, Extraordinary inventions describing
, |"COlonel Ingham's Journey" to thu
North Pole; and Mrs. P. T. Pembe
. contributes Virginia ghost-story
, Two very strong features are MI
Abbey's thirteen illustrations 70
; Pope's 1.-The Quiet Life" and other
!. for pretty poem, 1.-The Milkmaid,
by Austin Dobson. There are sti
!, other poems by John B. Tarb, Mr.
e Dorr, and r. j. De Cordova, the lat
= ter with original m1sic by MOsen
i. thai. The editorial departments al
y as bright as usual; the Dr0aOer hs
!, a pleasant Introductory Christine
;, bit from the pen of Charles Dude
!, Warner, and several Illustrations.
Is New York: Harper s. Brother
70 Franklin Square.