Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28
Some january Magazines.

The January "St. Nicholas is capital
number. 1t opens with an appropriate
poem, The Child and the Year" by Celia
Thaxter, which we reproduce elsewhere.
Another timely article is the breezy aud
exciting ice-yachting story by Z. Vinton
Blake, which introduces US to our old friends
the Dalzells; while John R. Coryell con.
! tributes bright and home-like story, called
"Bsby Deb Pays for the Christ
mas Goose" which tells how the
feast was kept in New England light
house. Historic Girls" new companion
series to Historic Boys" by L. s. Brooks. is
begun by the same author, in the S I'd IL.
teresting style, with an account of the girl
hood days of Queen Elizabeth, and the
Christmas festivities at fairfield House,
three hundred years ago. ]. I. TroRbridge
continues his serial, because his hero, in
spite OF his hard experience, has not yet
cured himself of "His One Fault" "Davy
and the Goblin" 60 through another install,
ment of the most surprising and illogical
adventures; and Edmund Alton tells great
many more instructive and entertaining
tbirgs he learned when he was a boy,pa
Among the Lawmakers" Louisa NJ
Alcott and 81. 81. Boyesen bring their two
verv short serials to an end, but have, no
doubt, oilers just as interesting ready to
tale their places very soon.
~
The Century" for January presents
literally crowded table of contents both
the BODY and the departments showing
wide range of topics. Chief among these,
in timehness, is the status Of the negro at
the South, which Mr.. George W. Cable treats
with much plainness of speech, and much
suggestiveness in a paper entitled, The
FIeedmans Case in Equity" which is likely
to attract attention and give rise to discus
sion North and South. The same theme is
touched upon, less directly, in an editorial
article, "a Grave Responsibility, and in an
Open Letter" from Southern Demo
GRAFT" Another subject of wide interest is
treated helpfully by Washington GLADDEN.,
under the head of Christianity and Popu-
ular Amusements." Other practical topics
briefly handled are THE Trouble With the
Stage" THE Degradation of Politics Go
operative Studies" Political Work for Young
Men" THE Recent Legal Tender Decision,
"Women's Clubs, The Newspaper and the
Organ" The fiction consists of short
sketch by Mark Twain, "Jim's Investments,
and King Sellermun,. illustrated by Kem-
BILE; "Orpiment & Gamboge," q one part
tale of studio life by Ivory Black, with
drawings by Rogers; the second third OF
Mrs. Litehfeld's Knight Of the Black
Forest" with picture OF one Of her Ameri-
can girls by Mrs. Foote; and the third part
of Mr. Howells' new novel, The Rise of
Silas Lapham," in which Tom Corey comes
to an understanding with Colonel Lapham.
The principal illustrated articles are q con-
tinuation Of Mrs. Van Rensselesr's series on
Recent Architecture in America, and
Captsin James B. Esds and Rear Admiral
Walker on 1.-THE Western Gun Boats" and
the part they took in the civil war. The
frontispiece of the number is portrait OF
Edward Everett Hale.
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Bishop Huntingdon opens the North
American Review" with q timely article on
"Vituperation in Politics" Henry Water
son writes on "a Reunited Union" and
Richard T. Hinton on American Labor
Organizations" The literary article OF the
number is Frederic Harrison's discrimina-
ting review of "Froude's Life of Carlyle"
Instructive and entertaining is Richard A.
Procior's William Herschefs Star Sur
veys." Too much given to generalization
is w. l.. Courtneys Socrates, Buddha and
Christ" The numberis fittingly closed with
the acute essay OF Prof. John lie Corte's on
"The Evidence of the Senses"