The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-28
Scr ;bner.s Christmas Number.

offers some. pertinent suggestions to those
who are ANXIOUS about the fate of "the
dearest holidays OF all the year"
Scr bner's Christmas Number.
The Christmas numter OF Scribner'S
Magazine contains ten illustrated articles.
in which is represented some Of the best
work of well known artists, including l..
Marchetti, Albert Moore, Howard Pyle,
E. H. Blash1eld, f. Hopkinson Smith.
Herbert Denman and Victor Perard.
Following the precedent of previous
Christmas issues, there Is an
of short fiction. There are a poetic
legend of the first Christmas tree entitled
''The Oak Of Geismar," by Henry van
Dyke; a stirring tale of the Franco.
Prussian war, IA Charge for France"
by John Heard, Jr.. with Illustrations by
Marchetti, the eminent Ere nch artist and
pupil of Detaille; an artists story OF
'Espero Gor1oni. Gondolier,' bv +. Hop
kinson Smith, with the authors own
illustrations; another of George A. Hib-
pard's charming short stories. entitled
"a Fresh water Romance" a tale of the
great lakes, the interest of which centres
aDout an old propeller; and "A Little
Captive Maid." by Sarah Orne Jewett.
which is the story of a CHEEKY Irish girl,
whose service made easy the last years of
an old New England ~sea-captain. This
instalment of MI. Stevenson's story.
"The Wrecker," describes wildly a voy-
age on the Pacific. and the arrival at the
deserted island AM. the wreck around
which the action OF the stnry moves. In
addition to this notable fiction, is an ap-
preciative article on Albert Moore, the
English painter, who passed fifty years of
age without recognition by the Royal
Academy, and yet has achieved y unique
position with artists and CRIT
t tvs Of fG hi. w s%s The hs's'n most ralc uaii,,
illustrated Article IN the number IS
sfAfoat on the Nile" by Mr.. aud Mrs. E.
n. Blashfield. which describes the voy-
age in, a dahabeeyeh from Cairo to the
Cataract, illustrated by Mr.. Blashfeld's
W sketches; Charles f. Lummis con-
tributes the first of a group of short
papers on the little-known regions of New
Mexico and Arizona. which he calls "The
Land of POGO TEMPO" (the land of
Pretty Soon). For a number of years Mr..
Lummis has lived in this region, and has
been making a unique series OF photo
graphs, from which selections will be
made for his articles. Miss Guiney's bal
lad of tPeter Rugg, the Bostonian," is
illustrated by twelve pen drawings by
Howard Pyle; and "Peleus to Ihetls." by
Bessie Chandler, has elabo rate decor
ations by Herbert Deuman. Several un-
illustrated poems and the Point of View
complete the Christmas issue, which APP
pears with a special cover design by VIII
IL, Low. A change in the table Of o n
tents was made at the last moment, when
the presses were stopped to insert Mr.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem, ELM
wood" in memory of james Russell
Lowell.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly"
Joaquin Miller's new story, The Red
Shield,' is published entire and exclu-
sively in the Christmas (December) num-
her of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
IL is a dramatic aud highly-cotored TO-
nance drawn from the exciting history
of the foundation of the great banking
house of the Rothschilds. in the early part
of The present century. Another feature
is the graphic narrative of a visit to THE
Seminoles at Home" in the Florida
Everglades, by Caroline Washburn
lockwood. the author of In Bis
cayan Bay" and p~rofusely illus
trated from photographs (the first ever
taken of these Seminole hraves) by Mr..
Thomas A.. Hue. Other important illus
trated articles hre Clara C.. Gilson's per-
sonal "reminiscences Of 'Agassiz at Cam
BRIDGE; .'Spurgeon, by De. Ferdinand G.
Iglehart. "Why the Holy Places Remain
in the Hands of the Turks" N Ami
NAL Traing and Intelligence" by Ernest
Ingersoll. There is an abundance of sea-
sonable Christmas matter. together with
the usual variety of tales. poems and
miscellany.