The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
"The Ledger" in New Shape.


We do not know whether or not to
hail with pleasure the appearance OF
the New York Ledger in new shape.
In it's old form it has for years been
the friend of hundreds of thousands
| of readers, and it's old familiar look
was always welcome to their eyes.
This pleasant familiarity will be
missed by those who take up the new
sheet: but it must be admitted that
when the feeling of strangeness has
passed away the new Ledger has many
advantages.
Though containing the same amount
of reading matter as of old being
now a sixteen page sheet-the size OF
the page has been greatly reduced, so
that the paper is much more easily
handled, and can be read in transit
| without folding. A greatly improved
| quality of paper is used, too, and this
results in much better typographical
appearance than of I'D. The wood
cuts in particular gain by this change,
and, printed as they now are, they
compare favorably with any which
we have seen in weekly publications.
The number dated Saturday, No
vember is, was that in which the
changes were begun. The general
Frightening up extends to the reading
matter, and it is hardly too much to
say that this was one of the most brill
liant issues the Ledger has known. A
new story entitled 1.-The Forsaken
Inn'' was begun, and if it approaches
in merit the other works OF the author
| ess, Miss Anna Katharine Green, it
| ought to prove a most attractive fea-
tnre. Leo Hartman contributes the
first of a series of papers on Nihilism,
| the Rev. Edgerton r. Young, mission
ary to the Cree Indians, begins some
| short sketches of life in the wild
| North Land,r and Henry w. Grady
writes his first article" on 1.-THE New
South
These are only some of the attrac-
| tions of a most admirable publica-
ton.
The Arena for Decsmber
The arena for December has just
been issued. 1t contains III ANY arti-
cles of interest. The Rev. Minot j.
Sage, of the Unity Church, Boston,
discusses the Agencies that Are
Working a Revolution i'll Theology
He concludes that a new faith is dis
sipating old beliefs, that religion is nc
more dying than 1t can death for
childhood to put away childish things
and enter upon manhood's state" He
goes on, sit is not faith but the lack
Of it that is displayed by those who
dare not fearlessly face the search for
truth and take the consequences oil
investigation. The real inidelity OF
today is to be found among those who
stand with their backs to the sunrise
and see no reality except in the
shadows of the night that is passing
away. God is in the power that is
wheeling the earth into the new day;
and that day is one of such promise
as the weary old world has never
SEEM
W. H. H. Murray also discusses
1.-THE Religious Question; Rabbi
Solomon Sehindler writes upon His
tory in the Public Schools; George
! e. Mcneil upon 1.-THE Democracy OF
Labor Organization" There are sew
eraI other interesting articles besides.
November's Cosmopolitan.
1t seems to us that the most inter
,esting article in the Cosmopolitan fol
| November is that of Charles s. Pei
nam-Clinton upon THE Stables o.
the Queen of England 1t is wei
written and a~greeably illustrated, anc
it affords an interesting sidelight OF
the life of royalty. Miss Elizabeth
| BisIand has a good article, too, upoI
"Co-operative Housekeeping in Tene
ments.n Other good things r 'The
French Army on a Peace Footing by
Count Paul Vasili; .'Whirlpools Of the
Grand Canyon by Ethan Allan Rey
nolds; 'Scene Painting as a Fine Art
by John p. Ritter, and "Chicago'l
Candidacy for the Great Fair by
Senator Charles b. Farwell.