The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-30


piece in tints large number of full page
engravings representing some of the best
work of the best modern artists. The tic-
ton, which will be given prominent
place in this number. is of a character
especially appropriate to the holiday sea
son. and the editorial departments will be
brimful of illusions to Christmas cheer
and Christmas duties.
Thesbcund volume of Harper's Young
People for 1890 is in no respect inferior to
its predecessors, either in the excellence OF
its reading matter or the beauty OF its IL
lustrations Among the list of contrib
utors TO this volume we notice the names
of William Dean Howells, Thomas Nelson
Page. Hjalmar Hiorth Boyesen, Margaret
+. Sangster, Richard Malcolm Johnston,
William Hamilton Gibson, Dora Read
Goodale, Howard Pyle and many other
favorite American writers. The pictures
are by such artists as Gibson, Fanny,
Smedley, Rogers. Dielman. Thulstrup,
PYLE. ROsina Emmett Sherwood, and many
others equally famous. The volume is
issued in good time for the holiday season
The Christmas edition OF the COsmopoli
tan Magazine is one hundred thousand
copies. Tie order. as originally given TO
the printers, was for 5000 copies, but
while on the press it was thought advlSa-
bic TO increase the number to 100000.
1t contains a feature never before at
tempted by any magazine, consisting OF
123 cartoons from the brush OF Dan Beard,
the now famous artist, who did such
wonderful illustrations in Mark Twain :
book. The Yankee at the Court of King
Arthur"
These cartoons are placed at the bottom
of each page of the magazine, and take for
their subject. Christmas during the
Eighteen Centuries of the Christian Era,
with variations. showing the way in which
we modern Christians carry out some Of
the chief texts of the Christian gospel
The frontispieces of the Cosmopolitan
have of late become noted for their beauty,
some of them having rs much as four
printings That for Christmas while in
but two printings, is not behind anything
that has proceeded it in artistic merit
The Christmas issue contains rs illus
tratiOns, nearly double the number that
have ever appeared IN any illustrated
magazine.
Scribner's Magazine for December is a
holiday number with special bronze
cover containing seven illustrated articles,
in which a remarkable list OF artists Is
represented. including Robert Blum. Do
rnenico Morelli, Harry Furniss, Howard
pyle 4. +. Jacassv. c. ID. Gibson, W. l..
TAYLOR. and W. /. Metcalf Among the
contributions are Sir Edwin Arnold : first
paper on Japan. Humphry Wards descrip-
ton of the famous LOndo picture sales
room. known as Christie :; W. II. Ride
ing's picturesque account OF Amy Rob
sart's country: 4. T. Jacassy's article on a
great contemporary artist - Domenico
Mo7elli: and three short stories, which in
feeling and motive are especially suited 70
the Christmas season
\ unique feature in magazine lllustra-
ton Is a Pastoral Without Words. -
twelve drawings by Howard Pyle, which
tell their own story without the aid OF
text. They have been delicately engraved
Why do American Girls wish 20 Marry
Abroad 3" ! the question which Mrs John
Sherman viii discuss in the next number
% Hsrper's Bazar The same number
viii contain an extravaganza by Dufiield
Osborne entitled '.Psusy." and practical
article on TableauK Nivants oy Mary
Gay Humphreys
The December Century = more
'Christmzsy" than j usual with that
magazine. there being \ Cnrlst mas story
by Joel Chandler Harris. and Christina
poem by President Henry Morton. q
stevens Institute. while the EDITOR N
some CHRISTMAS Reflections says that
perhaps The rsalers NAV aue a. much q