Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-01-09
Magazines.
CENTURY.

| In the January CENTURY, the next to
the last installment of s'The Life of
Lincoln appears. This installment
contains graphic account of Lincoln 5
last day and his assassination, also a
chapter on the fate of the assassins ard
q description OF the mourning pageant
| There is portrait of Andrew johnson.
diagram of the box in Ford'S Theater,
Il fac-simile of play bill found in the
| Presidents box. a picture of the funeral
car and of the monument at Spring
field. Supplementary papers by other
hands are printed on the pursuit and
death of John Wilkes Booth The latter
| papers are by two Confederate officers
who met Booth and Herold in their
| flight, and by Union officer who COM
manded the cavalry who captured the
fugatives.
sThe frontispiece of this number of The
CENTURY is portrait of Prof. james
Bryce, tire author of THE American
Commonwealth. :" Accompanying the
portrait is a sketch of Professor Bryce's
life
A very full nstallment of Jefferson S
Autobiography gives some amusing
tales of the early advent ares of the
author. Jefferson also describes the
elder Booths acting of Sir Giles Orer-
reach. and tells about that eccentric
knight, the actor Sir William Don.
There are also descriptions of Julia
Dean, James +. Murdoch, and Henry
Placde and the installment closes with
brief essay entitled. "a Play is an
animated picture" The installment is
profusely illustrated.
Tho fiction of the number consists of
new chapters of Mrs. Bars '.Friend
Olivia and Stockston's 1.-The Merry
Chanter' +; also complete stories by
Matt Grim and John Heard, jr.
There are poems by Rev. L. L. Mum
ger. Mrs. Louise Morgan Sill, Margaret
j. Preston, Florence Earle Coates.
Helen Thayer Hutchinson, Charles e.
d. Roberts, and Gin Bric-a Brace by
James Whitcomb Riley, Edward A.
Oldham, and others.
ST. NICHOLAS.
The January ST. Nicholas fully war
rants the promise that it was to be vir-
tually a second Christmas number. OF
contributions peculiarly seasonable may
be noted: Harriet Prescott Spoff0rd's
poem, ''The Yule Logs Song" 'In the
Tenement" gentle reminder, by
Malcolm Douglas; christmas on the
Polly " by Grace F Coolidge, little
marine. song, telling of new trap for
Santa Claus; IA New-fashioned Christ
mas humorous bit of verse. by Julie
Nj, Lippmaun, and the charming story,
''Fhe Little Buttonwood Man." by
Helen p Strong. The frontspiece is an
original engraving by +. French, and
shows a lovely child whose bright face
shows her to be "Ready for New
Year
Nora Perry's serial begins with char
acteristic spirit, and is beautifully illus
trated by Birch. Walter Camps Foot
ball paper deals with the great games
at the Polo Grounds, and is reinforced
by study of ''The Drop Kick" con-
tributcd by Yale's famous expert, W.
L. Bull. whose kicks won Yale a cham
pionship.
A stirring story for boys, by William
I. Stoddard. strongly illustrated by G.
L. Hill, is begun by two chapters full of
incident. No boy reader could be con-
tent without reading furthur Install
ments of Jack Ogden's adventures when
Crowded out o. Crofield."
A story of New-Mexican life, by
Charles +. Lumnis, gives the legend of
the now inaccessible "Enchanta Mesa"
upon which, tradition says, there is
deserted village just as it was left hun
dreds of yeas ago. A photograph of
the Mesa from nature is one of The IL
Illustrations
1t is a varied and strong table of con-
tents, with material for all ST.. MIC
HoLAs readers, from the toddlsrs to the
gray boards.