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an indication that it will be its policy to
treat of Pacific Coast scenery and travel
mainly throughout its career. 1t has,
! however, stories, sketches and operates
Travellers Bureau of Information" at
| It's Office, and considers all subscribers to
| the paper subscribers also to the bureau.
| The illustrations are half-tone process
pictures, and the very best in that line of
art We like the first number of the
Traveller" and predict for it success if
its future numbers keep up to the stand
ard of the initial one.
There is a powerful story, entitled ga
! Wild Midnight Hunt" in the "Argon-
aut' of December 18th (San Francisco).
The author is Egerton Castle, whose tale
OF "a Woman With Gray-Green Eyes"
will be recalled by readers of the Ar
gonaut, OF two years ago. The present
story tells of an Englishman's visit to a
Polish lord at his chateau in the Carpathi-
ans, where he finds his hostess is a beauti-
full English girl who lives in constant ter
/ ror of her savage husband. How the
! baron tries to xiii his wife and her lover
and how his vengeance recoils on him
| make one of the most exciting stories
/ THAT have been written in many long
day. The same issue contains an un-
usually interesting letter from Paris. 1t
| Is criticism of Dumas last book of
/ pay anu NlSCuSS6S Ills QlSCNlSslOlA VI lis
| heroines. Dumas always attacks social
! question when he writes a play, and in
! the three dramas just published he pre-
| SCENTS pictures of a woman who is saved
| from her lover by her love for her child.
Admirers of Rudyard Kipling have an
! opportunity to read now short story
from his pen in 1.-TWO Tales of December
9th. This is characteristic tale by MIR.
! kipling entitled My Lord, the Ele-
! phant.' The story is another Of the in
imitable Mulvaney's "reminiscences, and
is told with all that individuals charac-
! teristic humor. Moreover Ortheris sup
| plies from his own experience the Incl
! dents necessary to round out the story
| incidents that happened while Mulvaney
was in the hospital. There can be no
doubt of the truth OF Mulvaney's and Or
! theris' statements-at the end of the mar
ration they are vouched for by the mat
ter-of-fact Learoyd. Still, it was an
amazing feat that Mulvaney performed.
He, himself, appreciated this. for he says
in regard to it: Il came not to speak av
ut at the last bekase-bekase l do not
care to knock the face av ivry man that
calls me liar"
The Century Magazine" in bound
! form, vol. NLIV., May to October, 1892,
is at hand from the Century Company,
New York. 1t makes a book of nearly
1000 pages, suitable for any library. a
! NOIulll6 Ol INC century Is SlIOIl8 It.
Election Of the best there is in literature,
art, poetry, discovery and current thought
| for the period covered. 1t is a gallery Of
! fine pictures, a book of choice fiction
| from the pens of the best writers; record
of travel i'll discovery and geographical
research for the time; critical review of
| the best of recent literature; a work, in
short, that is vivid with the best light and
color Of the time. a set of the volumes
of the Century" few years hence-say
ten or twenty-five apprehend Will be
! treasured and of great price as one of the
! best records of the current literary work
Of this day.
1.-The New Peterson for January is one
of the handsOmest and most attractive of
| the months magazines. The cover is
artistic, the paper and typography excel
! lent, the illustrations good, and the literary
| contents worthy. "Philadelphia, Com
parative Study by Talcott Williams;
"A Court of Last Resort is by Octave
Thanet. 1.-The Christmas Mail" by NJ.
&. McClelland, is a splendid short tale.
| 1.-The Glove" by Fannie Aymar Mathews,
/ is a bright and sparkling parlor farce.
Among the New Books is by Louise
| Stockton. Evolution OF the Fireside,'
/ by Minot J. Savage; "a Grumble," by
Rebecca Harding Davis; ''Tista," by
! Robert G. Meyers, and LAS Far as Paris"
| by Mary Gray Umsted, follow. Pub
pany, Philadelphia.
"Harper's Weekly' for December 18th
| appears to us to be new departure
| Certainly the department divisions, heads
and arrangement are wholly new, and
we must confess attractively so. The
! illustrations are largely dramatic, and
| illustrative of scenes in the war in Vene-
zuela, and of the exhibition of the Society
| of American Artists. 1t consists of
| twenty-four pages, and has more process
| plates in it than in any issue of this old
| time and Incompatible paper that we can
| recall.
The New York Musical Monthly Or.
A. Saalfeld, New York, for December is
an extra Christmas number, with an
Illuminated page and fifty-siX pages OF
choice music in great variety and adapted
| for the piano and the voice. Among the
pieces is the song Crossing the Bar"
written by Tennyson just before his
death. There are nine choice Christmas
carols and songs in the collection.
A. Carlisle d Co., stationers and print
ers, San Francisco, have issued sheet
for the Office wall or desk that is a great
convenience. 1t gives the names and adj
dress of all the county officers in the
State and those elected November Sth,
those of San Francisco only not being
official. 1t is neatly printed and well ar
ranged.
The New York Musical Echor (NIu-
steal Echo Company, Broadway Theater
building, New York;, presents each
month twenty-four pages Of choice music
and a portrait of some person prominent
in musical circles.