Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-12
December Magazines.

The Andover Review closes its twelfth
volume with the present number. The
leading articles in the December issue are
The Old Pessimism aud the New, Holman
Hunt and the Pre- Raphaelites The Spectre
of Negro Rule Pulpit Prayer The Problem
of Duty, A Study in the Philosophy of
Ethics. The remainder of the number Is
occupied by the Editorial Department Soci.
illogical Notes, Reviews and Literary Notes
The very able and finely written article on
the Problem of Duty is from the psn OF Rev
Ch~s Fletcher Dole, a native of NJ ine, nov
pastor If the Unitarian Church at Jamaica
Plain. Mass. Boston; Houghton, Mifllin
& Co, 500 per year.
The Christmas number of the Judge is
sharp. brilliant and witty. full of telling cuts
and hits at the follies of the day and
resplendent with color in illustration. IL
sends out a. a supplement copy in colors
of Gilbert Gsurs military piece. Bringing
Up the Guns stud full of the pain and
spirit of the battle. Both are sent on receipt
Of 80 cts. New York; The Judge Build
ing, 9Th Avenue and 10th Streets.
The Cosmopolitan for December is really
brilliant number, both in literary attractions
and artistic features. OF its eleven articles
all but one are copiousIy illustrated, the en-
cravings being among some of the best we
have ever seen in magazine work. The chief
articles are Child-faces Christmas Morning /:
Kansas City; The Capitol of the Dragons
Empire; Joes search for Santa Claus; The
Turner's of New York Fur Bearers aud Fur
Wearers; The Art Socialists of London: Lit
erary Washington, and The Flower Market of
New York. The long story in the number
10 Betty" by Anna Vernon Dorsey. New
York: John Brisbin Walker; 81 40 per
year.
Poet Lore completes ite first volume with
the December number, and has been a con-
stantly welcome visitor to our table throughout
the year. 1t has preserved in beautiful ty po-
graphical form many delightful and readable
essays in the lines of its special field and
we are glad to know that it will enter upon
its new volume with the best equipments
In prosecuting its commendable work. No
one, We think, but = cultured. energetic. able
woman could have made n success out of this
library venture. Philadelphia 223 South
3sth Street; $3.50 per year.
In the whole range of magazine literature
We know of no better periodicals for family
reading than CasseIls Family Magazine, and
The Culver. They are each large monthliss,
well illustrated, filled with bright, clean
short stories, long novels, poems. sketches
and music. The former contains depart
nents for all members of the family circle;
and the latter is more especially made up for
Sunday reading. The price of each is only
81 so per year. New York; Casse1 &
Company, o. NJ. Durham. manager.
The color work in the Christmas number
Of the Book-Buyer is very attractive This
10 found in the ten special articles prepared
for this issue, describing the more notice.
able illustrated, art and gift books for the
holiday season, with impressions from
selection Of the finest of the illustrations
from each. These articles contain a total
of nearly seventy Illustrations, many of
which are in the neutral tints.
half tones and colors now so much
used in press work of their nature,
The articles describing these holiday books
are by leading critics and popular writer's,
and the whole number is specially sessonable
and interesting. Among its contributors are
Edward Bellamy, Prof. Arthur S. Hardy.
Margaret Deland Lawrence Hutton, Noole
Brooks. Mr.. Boyesep, Mary Hsllock Foote
and Mrs. Burton Harrison. New York :
Charles Seribner's Sars