St. Paul daily globe., 1890-12-01
The December magazines.

The December Arena celebrated the
opening of its third volume by appear
Ing iii handsome new cover of pearl
gray background, printed in deep blue
and silver. The effect, while rich and
striking, is in good taste and highly
artistic. The table of contents will de-
light all intelligent readers. 1t is strong,
thou ght-provoking and entertaining
!nde ed, of late each issue of The Arena
has seemed to SurpasS its predecessors,
and the December number is no eXcep-
ton. The publishers announced hat the
first edition of the December Arena is
$4,000 copies, which indicates how
strongly this review has taken hold of
public favor. in the brief space of one
year.
The athletic interest developed but a
few decades ago in our Eastern colleges
is strong in the smaller colleges of Ohio.
u. w. Forgy, in an interesting article in
December Outing, says: There is a
strong athletic spirit in Ohio colleges,
and, what is of more import, the spirit
IS growing and spreading, just as the
standard of the colleges themselves is
being gradually raised to the level of
Eastern colleges. There is an evolution
going on in athletics. A vigorous inter-
est for athletics in all branches is grow
Ing. The Irregular, spasmodic efforts
are gradually developing into systematic
and scientific training for Well-regulated
field days"
In these days. when the field of liter
ature is strewn with the wrecks of imi-
tationS of the works of popular authors.
and liking SOlOmon's Mines" has host
of would-be and tireSome followers. it is
refreshing to come across such story
as "A Far Countree," the first part of
which is published in Outing for De-
cember. The author has boldly struck
back into the antediluvian period of the
mighty SaurlanS, and weaved a record
as thrilling as it is novel. What the
novelist has done with the text Outing
has dlstanced in the splendor of its en-
cravings and illustrations.
The December number of The North
American Review brings to close the
151St volume of that ancient and honor
able periodical, which still retains the
foremost place IL has long held in
periodical literature 1t is a notable
Issue, containing articles on timely and
interesting topics by many dis
tinguished writers. The editor has in
creased the number of pages from 12S to
IA, In order to make room for greater
variety of interesting matter.
ELECTION Methods in the South are
NOSSllpCU III Tic NONGlUDer numDor OF
the North American Review by eX-Con-
gresham Robert SmalIs, now collector
OF the port of Beaufort, in South Caro-
lima. In the same issue of the Review
MIR. A. w. Shatfer. one of the chief
supervisors of elections i'll North Caro-
lima. set forth in trenchant article
the objections of Southern Republicans
to the Lodge bill.
Scribner's for December contains
three Christmas stories, by Richard
Harding Davis Ghe author of s'GalIe-
gher'O. Octave Thanet (author of '.Ex-
piation') and George A. Hibhard (author
of The Governor''. Octave Thanet's
story has for its central character an
Arkansas postmaster. and Incidentally
some of the evils of our civil service
system. Mr.. HibDard tells a railroad
story.
Domenico Morelli, the patriarch and
head OF the present Italian school of
painting. is the subject of a richly
illustrated article in the December
Scribner's. He contributes an original
sketch to the article. which contains a
line portrait engraved by L. Johnson.
The bound copy of the Century Mag
azine for the past six months is out. and
contains all of tine valuable and inter
estIng collection for that time. Ele-
gantly bOuud, the volume comes in good
season as an appropriate holiday pres
cnt.