New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-28
NOTES ON MAGAZINES.
SOME CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.

Serious, but not too serious; scholarly ye' WIN
provision for those who like merely 10 DC s"osco
adhering with admirable persistence 10 the mig"
standards for IL long aeo-whst woua We 40
without the noble old Atlantic oio' lh"co"'
fof II is now marked Volume LNil.' Inc Decem
her number Is a notable one varied, suggestive ell
pertaining. Mr. W. ID. Hyde discusses me Future
of the Country College, there IS particularly peas
ant article William Warren py MI. H. ~ 'iaPp
Charles Egbert Craddocks novel Is inciuoeuand Oh S
We have something TO say later-Mss Woosey tSusan
Coolidge) contributes paper on convent Schooi
Of the Last Century : Mr.. W. II. 1hayer deals win
"The Close of Garibadfs Career and Professor
Hsrdy's strong novel, PasSe Rose Is continued
There arc many more equally attractive papers
Tho large number Of The Atlanuc's' present coi
tributors are writer's whose names did not appear III
its earlier volumes but though authors may come
and sotoo many alas TO " The Celestial Country
tho magazine shows no faltering in its high ideas.
Remembering how great have been the improve
ments In tie and illustrations of Haipers Maya
vine, in the last thirty years hestaes 10 say that
there can be no better number than this which MARKS
the Christmas Of 1855 but, in truth, II VIII not
DO easy 10 improve upon it, In rich variety OF text
and in beauty OF illustrations it touches the modern
high water mark in current illustrated periodical
literature We leave such publications as Art and
Ietters out Of the question: for they not intended
for general family circulation There is no need TO
psxtcusrze the merits OF these Illustrations, ior all
America will look for itself: but we cannot Dut give
= grateful word MI William Hamilton GIBSON
whose Midnight Ramble' holds sketches full OF
Motto feeling which stiS TO tho heart the born
lover of Nature These beautiful drawings ana MT
Gfbson's graceful text take straightway mo 'he
fairy world of the summer night We have not
space 20 note each paper I'm detail they are an eo"u
But IL be said that Mr. Aldrichs dainty celeOra
ton OF Hypatia in her new spring ha'' Is IN
his most winsome vein; that Mr. stcdmah
Morgan is a ringing and ncvcr-to-be forgotten con
trbution 70 The English balladry and that MI
Bowe!s has surpassed himself in his parlor comedy
The rapid movement, the constant surprises Of "A
Likely Story mark It as the most artistic OF all
his pretty little comedies.
The conductors of "Scribner's Magazine TO be
congratulated upon the most brilliant number which
they have thus far produced. Mr. ii. W. Maybie's
Winter in the Adirondac1s" leads ifs tempting list
OF papers. The fsscinauons Of day in the winter
woods-who that knows them can ever forget them
The cracking snow. the smell of the hemlocks, the
bare boughs that etch the blue sky, the
tall flower stalks rstling with their caps
of dried blossoms-all have charm
Of their own, beguiling as those of summer
One can almost breathe again the clear and vivid
afr of the mufted woods as one reads Mr.
Maybe's text and studies the charming illustrations
that accompany it. The art Of the number Is flili
OF interest and beauty, and shows marked progress,
Mr.. vedder Mr. Gibson. Mr.. Low and
Mr. Blashfed among the contIibu-
tors. With judiclous recognition of
the holiday spirit, the editor has given fiction the
predominance in this number; and very good fiction
1t IS. from Mr. Stevenson's exciting story 10 Mr.
Burners pathetic sketch. The concluding nstament
Of Mr. Wallacks "reminiscences is full Of delightful
anecdoc, which nobody ought 10 miss Thc~but
why go over the list of clever thingsit is too long
1t Is number Of which the house Of sclbncr should
be proud
The chief attraction Of "Iippincotts Magazine
Is Captain Charles Kings spirited military novel
Dunraven Ranch 10 this the editors have added
portrait Of the handsome author and sketch OF
him cleveIiy written by Lieutenant Philip Rca,le L.
:. 4. Captain Kings novels have among other
qualities worth noting. the special distinction of
ardent and poetic sentiment. lie is almost the only
American novelist who allows his heroes 10 be frank
w. heartily and Economically in love.