The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-23
The MaRaZInes

Another of Prof. G. II. Henderson's
illustrated articles on "GlasS-maklng'
will appear in The Popular Science
Monthly for December. In this one
1.-THE Evolution of Glass Bottle" Is
picturesquely described.
Some "New Phases in the Chinese
Problem" Will be presented, by Will
lard b. Farwell, in the December Pop
uldr Science Monthly. The writer asks,
in view of the wretchednesS of mil
lions OF the Chinese at home, whether
exclusion will exclude, and invites
more thoughtful consideration of the
Chinese problem, which is made eSpec-
tally serious 10y the peculiar constitu-
ton of the Chinese mind.
The Christmas December) Number
of Ha,per'S Magazine will contain six
complete stories, all but one of which
are illustrated. Two are by represen-
tative New England writers, Mary Il.
wilkins, and Sarah Orne Jewett; two
| by representative Southern writers,
NJ. Il. M. Davis and Ruth McEnery
Stuart; one by leading English
writer, Thomas Hardy, and one 10y the
artist-author +. ID. Millet, whom Mr..
Henry James considers artistically
interesting-highly So"
New writer's for periodical literature,
in spite of the protestations of the
publishers of the leading monthlies,
always fear that their articles will not
be candidly examined name counts
for everything; and an article even
of unusual merit by an unknown per-
son stands no chance. While this sup
position may be true about the editors
of Second-rate periodicals, 1t can hard
ly be charged fairly agoinst the editors
Of the leading monthlies. They can
not afford to be so careless; and, on
the other hand also, it pays to be con-
scientious. Take The Forum as an
example. lit effort is to have only
such articles as are written by author
tiles. Authorities on all subjects are
people who have obtained some dis
tinction. else they would not be author
tiles. Yet no manuscript received at
| The FOl1nt Office is ever returned before
a careful reading, and some of the very
best articles that The Forum has ever
printed have been volunteer" articles.
There is hardlya month but one OF
two are by men who are unknown tC
the public: as, for instance, in the No
Vember number there are at least three
writer's who therein made their first
appearance in periodical literature.
Frank Leslie'S Popular Monthly fol-
December, just out, is the Christmas
Number and occupies the field in adj
vance of all its contemporaries. 1t
has special illuminated cover,
wreathed in holly-leaveS and berries
The table of contents is rich and sea-
Sonable, and the magazine is as full OF
pictures as pudding of plums, An
exquisite colOred plate, entitled I'm
der the Mistletoe," forms an apprOpri-
ate frontispiece. Among the illustra'
ted articles are: How King Christ
mas has Conquered the Country"
"Wilkie Collins" IA biographical
sketch; New York's Art Museum
by Ripley Hitchcock ; "A timely paper
on the Centenary of the Catholic
Church in the United States, just Gel
ebrated with splendid pomp at Balti-
more; Buifalo-hunting in Ceylon,
by James Ricalton; a graphic descrip-
ton of General Kilpatrick's great raid
near Atlanta, Ga, by an old trooper ;
"Sant' Elena and the Battaglia Baths,
and "Orchids," by Charles II. Simp
son. There are half dozen short
stories, all good a paper on the gifted
young Russian, Marie Bashkirtsetf
whose recently published diary is the
sensation of the literary world and
poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Doug
las Sladen, Carlotta Perry, the late f.
S. Saltus, and others.