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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"St. Nicholas" for 1890 (The Century
Publishing Company, New York;, ap-
| pears as usual in two parts, comprising the
| full year of issues of this delightful maya
| zine for youths. The two parts aggregate
| 1,072 pages, and the two large Svos. sell
| for 81. 1t is scarcely necessary to
praise this splendid magazine, since its
high merits are so widely known and so
thoroughly appreciated by the American
people. The Century" Company, in pub
fishing this monthly journal, is, in our
opinion, doing immensely good educa-
tional work. 1t is training the eye to ar
tisticsiiy see, the mind to logically think,
and the fancy in a chsste, healthful and
| invigorating manner. The literature this
| magazine places before our young sons and
daughter is potential in molding their
| characters. Who shall say what has been
the measure of its influence in counter
| acting evil influences, in correcting wrong
seeing and in quickening the too much
! neglected faculty of observation-it really
has been and is limitless. We know the
| good such journals do, We cannot even
| estimate the evils they check or prevent,
so great is their tendency to such
ends. The "St. Nicholas" calls to
its aid no weak intellecs or cheap
writers. On the contrary. it commands
the best poetic, biographical, fiction and
descriptive writing of the age. For it is an
art, peculiarly so, to write for youth; an art
the few only possess in high degree, and
from this latter class only "St. Nicholas
| draws. Some of its members are Rossitter
Johnson, the author of Little Classics
and editor of the American Cyclopedia of
Animals" W. o. Stoddard, Mrs. c. V.
| Jamison, n. II. Boyesen, Mark Twain,
Julian Hawthorne Richard Harding Davis,
Frances E. Willard, Professor Chester, E
J. Glane, the African explorer, Alexander
Black, Waller Camp, Annie Thackeray,
| Oliver Wendell Holmes. Harriet Prescott
Spofford, Mrs. Dorr, Katharine Pyle, James
Whitcomb Riley. Elbridge s. Brooks, and
| many others. The two books making up
/ the volume under notice will make very
happy and beautiful holiday present to
| either boy or girl.
| From the publishers (The Century Com
| pany, New York; we have bound volume
40 of that magazine; $50 pages, octave, So;
muslin and boards, embossed. In this vol
ume, SO richly and copiously illustrated,
| the possessor will have in compact form
and complete or half complete, Joseph
| Jetferson's autobiography, Amelia Gore
Mason's Women of the French Salon.
John LsFarges art papers from Japan,
Mrs. Harrison's novel, The Anglomani-
| acs," Amelia E. Bars novel, Friend
|
Old Masters" A host of complete stories
by leading writers of the day are within
| the covers, while the practical papers
on astronomy, athletics, California,
cave-dweilers, women in American
literature, journalism, new naval
guns, civil service reform, whal.
ing, the single tax, Russian prisons,
comparative taxation, architecture, Lon
don polytechnics, Irish Kings, and many
others, by such writers as Keenan,, Eugene
! Camp, Professor Darwin, Hugh O. Thomp-
son Mrs. Van Rensselaer,, Henry Cabot
Lodge, John Burroughs, Albert Shaw, Ed
ward Atkinson, Henry George and others.
There are many biographical papers, arti-
Giles on the late war. and poems by Stod-
dard, Cheney, Aldrich, Hay, Whitman
and others. Indeed the bound volume is
library in itself of no small dimensions,
and book that is continuing living in
| terest, credit to the publishers and to the
nation that makes such work possible.
The December Arena" New York;
celebrated the opening of its third volume
| by appearing in handsome new cover, is
rich and striking and in good taste and
artistic. Of late each issue of the Arena"
has seemed to surpass its predecessors
! The frontispiece for December is a fine por-
trait of Count Tolstoi. The opening paper
is on THE Christian Doctrine of Non
Resistance" the views of Count Tolstoi
and Rev. Adam Ballou. Rev. Minot J.
Savage contributes Then and Now" Pro-
lessor n. S. Shaler appears in a paper on
The Nature of the Negro" An able paper
by the Rev. Lyman Abbott follows On
What is Christianity ?" A portrait of DR..
Abbott accompanies his paper A c.
Wheeler, "Nym Crinkle," writes of Dion
Boucicault; Helen H. Gardener, of
,,,U H.
full-page photogravure of Miss Gardener
accompanies this essay. President An
drews, of Brown University, writes on
Patriotism and the Public Schools" Pro.
lessor Wilbur L. Cross, Phi. D, gives
sketch of Ibsen's poem Brand Charles
Clatfiin Allen appears in paper on "Elec-
toral Reform Legislation" Hamlin Gar
land contributes "a Privates Return"
story which should be read by every soldier
and soldiers wife and son. Among other
contributors are General Marcus J. Wright,
Mabel Hayden, t. T. Tertune and Victor
Yarros. The usual department Oh editorial
notes appears.
The Century Magazine" for December
has remarkable Christmas flavor Joel
Chandler Harris has Christmas story,
Prest. Morton, Christmas poem the
editor, some christmas Reflections" and
in Dr. Abbott's paper, Can Nation Have
a Religion" and in the Record of Vir-
tue" the Christian spirit is strong. The
frontispiece is striking head, Daphne"
by George W. MAYNARD, and the opening
paper is General Bidwell's account of Life |
in California Before the Gold Discovery"
Ranch and Mission Days in Alta Califor-
nia," also appears. The hundredth anniyer-
sary of the death of Franklin is marked by
Charles Henry Harris paper on Franklin |
in Allegory," with full -page engraving of !
Franklin. The fiction of this number in /
eludes stories by Joel Chandler Harris, /,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Richard Harding
Davis and Maurice Thompson; Colonel /
Carter of Gainesville is continued; and /!
Sister Dolorosa," by James Lane Allen, is |
begun. The views on acting by Tommaso |
Salvini are given. Other illustrated papers !
are Mr., Maelay's "Laurels Of the American !
Tar in 1872 and Mr.. Rockhili's series on !
Tibet. The poetry or the number includes !
Some Boys" by James Whitcomb Riley. !
Other poets of the number are Austin Dob !
son, Celia ThaXter and George Parsons |
Lathrop. Further topics treated are Trees !
in America, "The Railway zone-Tarif of |
Hungary and Higher Education: a |
Word to Women"
The December number OF the Magazine |
of American History" presents q rich and !
varied table of contents. The opening pa |
per is 'The Ancient Town of Fort Benton,
in Montana" with picturesque accounts |
handsomely illustrated. David Hartley |
and the American Colonies is By Joseph |
W. Hartley. Following these we have |
The Institution of Thanksgiving Day, |
1921 by Jacob Harris Patton, a. NJ; La
Sales Homestead at Lachine," by John |
Fraser; "a Typical Old.time Minister, the
Rev. Benjamin Tappan," by Rev. D. f. !,
Lamson; "Glimpses of Early Michigan Life
in and About Kalamazoo" py Mary Y,
Clos; "0ur Old Websters spelling-book,"
by Rev. A. NJ. Cotton; Some Literary !
Statesmen" by Milton 7. Adkins; and |
president Garfields Silent Journey" Mrs. |
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