The National tribune., 1885-01-01
Tho MAGAZINES.

East Lynne" by Mrs. Henry Wood, and The
Diary of Village Gossip" by A. NJ. Brown.
ST. Nichoyas-This number opens with poem
by Celia Thaxter, The Child and the Year"
Another timely article is the breezy and ex-
citing ce-yachting story by E. Vinton Blake,
while John r. Coryell contributes bright and
home-like story, called baby Deb Pays for
the Christmas Goose" which tells how the
feast was kept in a New England lighthouse.
" Historic Girls" new companion series to
" Historic Boys" by Z. S. Brooks J. T. Trow
bridge continues his serial of" His One Fault; I"
"Davy and the Goblin" go through another
instalment Of adventures, and Edmund Alton
tells q great many instructive and entertaining
things he learned when he was a boy-page
"Among the Lawmakers" Louisa NJ. Alcott
and II. II. Boyesen bring their two very short
serials to an end. There is a spirited full-page
picture of very old-fashioned elephant with
tusks curved the wrong way, by j. b. Nugent,
and description of it by c. f. Holder.
The Century presents crowded table of con-
tents, both the body and the departments
showing wide range of topics. Chief among
these, in timeliness, is the status of the negro
at the South, which Mr.. George w. Cable treats
with much plainness of speech and much sug-
gestiveness in a paper entitled 1.-THE Freed
mans Case in Equity" which is likely to at
tract attention and give rise to discussion North
and South. The same theme is touched upon,
less directly, in an editorial article, "a Grave
Responsibility" and in an "Open Letter" from
"a Southern Democrat" Another subject of
wide interest is treated helpfully by Washing
ton GLADDEN., under the head of Christianity
and Popular Amusements," the writer sup
plementing his own suggestions with an &C.
count and commendation of an experiment on
the part of the Cleveland Educational Bureau
to supply wholesome entertainment TO work
ingmen. Other practical topics briefly handled
'lan tI,A CHArr
Degradation of Politics." Cooperative Studies"
Political Work for Young Men," The Recent
Legal Tender Decision" "Women's Clubs"
"The Newspaper and the Organ" The fiction
consists of a short sketch by Mark Twain,
"Jim's Investments, and King Sollermun,"
illustrated by Kemble; "Orpiment & Gam
boge," one-p part tale of studio life by Ivory
Black. with drawings by Rogers; the second
part of Miss Litchtieid's Knight of the Black
Forest" with picture of one of her American
girls by Mrs. Foote; and the third part of Mr..
Howell's new novel, "The Rise of Silas Lap
ham," in which Tom Corey comes TO an under
standing with Col. Lapham.
United Service Magaziae-Contents for Janu-
ary: To, About and Across Madagascar, by
Lieut.. NJ. A. Shufeldt, U. S. N; Mcdowell and
Tyler at Bull Run. by Lieut. Col. II. w. Clos
son, U. S. A.; The Golden City, poem, by the
late Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase; The Date
of 1885, by Rear Admiral Geo. Henry Preble,
U. S. N; The National Guard, and the Neces-
sity for its Adoption by the General Govern
ment, by Capt. VIM. II. Powell, Brevet Major,
U. S. A; Jack Haultaut, Midshipman, U. S. N,
or Life at theNaval Academy, Chaps. and 2, by
Commander Allen d. Brown. U. s. NJ; After
Storm at Sea, poem, by T. 81. S.; One of the
Duanes, Chaps 10 and II, by Alice King Hamil-
ton; The Enlisted Man, by Lieut.. I. III. Stevens,
U. S. N; The Late Senator Anthony, by Ben:
Perley Poore, late Major Sth Mass; United
States Naval War College, by Commander S. B.
Luce, q. S. N; Army Administrative Service, I,
by J. Watts de Peyster, Brevet MajorGeneral,
S. Ny.
Decorator and FnrniShcr. - This excellent
magazine, which, as its name implies, makes q
speciality of the decoration and furnishing of
houses, has made its Christmas issue an especi-
ally fine and valuable one. 1t contains three
colored plates-two of them interiors "a morn
ing room and a hall decorated in Brge Velours),
and the third showing various designs in
Glacier Window Decorations Full descriptions
arc given of the three plates. The letter press
is in keeping with the illustrations, and the
number is very interesting and attractive in
every respect. The Decorator and Faraisher is
published in New York, at 30 cents number
or 81 a year.
Harper's Magasine for January contains
among other articles of more than passing
value, fine sketch of :" Wiclif and His Times,0
by A. w. Ward, and a practical study by How
ard NJ. Newhall upon "a Pair of Shoes" Sarah
Orne Jewett tells story of Farmer Finch"
John Fiske discourses upon the Town Meet
ing Zadel B. Gustafson sings "The Rune of
the Vegas Rudder." The illustrations, as
usual, are of the highest order, and the char
acter of the entire number gives brilliant
promise of what the Harper of the new year il
to be.
NOTES.
The November Century is on the press for the
fourth time. The first edition of the February
number, containing Gen. Grants "Shiloh,"
will be 175,000.
Mr.. Z. z. Roe's new serial story, "Driven
Back to Eden," will begin in the February ST.
Nicholas.