The National tribune., 1893-01-05
MAGAZINES AND NOTES.
What Good Reading May BE Found In the
january Periodicals.

What Good Reading May BE Found In the
January Periodicals.
The general reader who is pressed for time
will find in the January Current Literature q
comprehensive, accurate, and entertaining
record Of the month The death of Jay Gould,
the French political disturbances, DIR. Bri ggs's
trial. the Silver Conference. National quaran-
tine, and Hawaiian annexation are among the
current subjects discussed.
An important article of timely interest has
been written for the January North american
Reriep by Hon. w. f. Chandler Chairman of
the Senate Committee on immigration. entitled,
Shall immigration be Suspended He takes the
view that restriction is necessary in order TO
insure the success of the Worlds Fair.
Bishop Coleman. OF Delaware, has written an
article for the North american Reriep for JAN
uary in which he endeavors to define The
Limits of Legitimate Religious Discussion.
The prosperous Magazine Of american History
opens its Goth volume with an attractive jan
nary number. The leading article is by Mr..
Edward +. De Lancey, describing The Column
ban Celebration of 1892, the First in the United
States. The departments are admirably filled
this month, and there are five pages of i'm
portant book notices This magazine is edited
with remarkable skill, as shown in its choice of
precious material for permanent preservation.
The January Overland appears in holiday
colors of cream and gold, with an entirely new
cover design. representing California as on the
official seal of the State, surrounded by con-
ventional design. on which medallion of the
Overland bear is prominent, amid grouping of
characteristic Pacific Coast flowers. The num-
Der will contain stories and sketches appropri-
ate to the season, among which will be thrill
Ing Christmas story, illustrated entitled,
Brander's Wife. by Flora Haines Loughead.
Our Little Men and Women for January
sparkles with tho brightest of bright things,
written by such favorites as Mary d. Brine,
Warren H. Frych. II. w. F., Olive Harper,
Lavinia s. Goodwin, Greta Bryan, Beth Gray,
Hal Alstyne. Elizabeth Cummings, and Laura L.
Poulsson. The boy or girl who is so fortunate
as to receive copy of this delightful magazine
will have Happy New Year indeed. Price
81 year; 10 cents number. ID. LothrOp Co.,
publishers Boston.
The Pansy for January contains its full store
of good things. As popular a feature as any,
also, is its Pansy Society of Christian Endeavor,
which is winning new friends with every add
ed number. Price 81 year; 10 cents num-
Der. d. Lotbrop Co, publishers, Boston.
The January number OF Short Stories shows
that its editors intend to continue illustrating
the magazine and to use permanently the new
and attractive cover first seen on the Christmas
number. which, by the way. had to go through
a second edition. The fiction Of the month
comprises stories Of interest by Ouida," Rob-
ert Barr luke Sharp, Dumas Gilbert Parker,
William Mckendree Bangs Frederick Burton,
and other writers. The Current Literature
Publishing Co., New York.
The January st. Nicholas will contain the
opening paper in series that magazine is to
print on leading American cities, illustrated.
In this article Col. T. w. Higginson describes
Boston in n way to interest boys and girls in
the literary history of that city. For future
numbers OF st. Nicholas, Dr. Lyman Abbott will
write of Brooklyn. Edmund Clarence Stedman
will describe New York, and other famous resi-
dents of the different cities will describe them.
The value and utility of that unique literary
publication The Weekly Bulletin Of Newspaper
and Periodical Literature, published at Somer-
set street. Boston, are to be greatly enhanced
by the immediate addition of some important
new features. Besides serving guide and
index to the press of the country by affording
weekly classified and descriptive catalog of
the contents of over 1900 different papers and
magazines the Bulletin will hereafter supply
the growing public demand for review of the
periodical press by devoting several pages
every week to comprehensive summaries of
the best and most interesting articles appear
ing in the monthly magazines and the daily
and weekly papers. As the Bulletin is a weekly
publication its readers will have the sum-
maries of the best features of tho press almost
as soon as the original articles appear. The
department of Literary Notes will also be
larged and enriched, and other attractive feat
ures, such as an illustrated cover, portraits of
authors, etc, will be introduced. Published at
5 Somerset street. Boston.
Outing for January, the holiday number,
opens with strong story, "a Comedy of COun-
terplots" by Edgar Fawcett. The number is
fine one throughout, being rich in entertaining
fiction and articles on seasonable sports. The
illustrations numerous and beautiful, the
frontispiece of mountain sheep illustrating q
story by J. Macdonald Oxley and the full page
of wounded bull caribou in Ed w. Sandys'
Glance at Big Game, being gems of artistic ex-
celience
The leading features of The Ne,D Peterson
magazine for January are: Philadelphia, a
Comparative Study, by Falcott Williams The
Court Of Last Resort by Octane Thanet; The
Evolution of the Freside, by Minot j. Savage;
The Christmas Mail. by NJ. G. McClelland;
Johns Folks, by Jeanette II. Walworth;
Lista, by Robert c. V. Myers A Rhapsody, by
Florence Earle Coates. Published at Philadel-
phia. Price 20 cents, or SO year.
The Popular Science Monthly for January con-
tains among other papers, New Chapters in
the Warfare of Science, from Magic to Chem
istry and Physics, Andrew ID. White, LII D.,
l.. II. d.. Marriage among the Ancient Israeli
ties, Col. A. B. Ellis; Evolution Of Civilization
and the Arts, M. Gustav LeBon; A Captive
Comet, Charles Lane Poor; The Inventor of
the Lightning Rod, Joseph J. Kral; The Rota-
Legitimate Business Not Too Large, p. F.
Hallock.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Nathaniel
Hawthorne's only surviving daughter. has
written an article for The Ladies Home Journal,
in which she describes MY Fathers Literary
Methods" Baysrd Taylor's widow, in the same
publication, tells what it means to be 1.-THE
Wife of Literary Man." And Christine
Nilsson, the famous songstress. who now lives
in palatial house in Paris, has prepared for
publication a careful and explicit article of
suggestions on the voice, under the title, THE
Study of the Voice"
Lippincotfs Magazine for January contains
complete novel by Mary f. Stickney, author
of Circumstsntial Evidence, etc. 1t is en-
titled A Pacific Encounter. and is Illus
trated. Other notable articles in the number
are, An Old-Time Philadelphia; In War
Time; An Actress and Her Art; Gossip of the
Century; With the Wits. Published at Phila-
delphia. Price % cents.
The Goth N. Y.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Please give a
short history of the 25th N. Y. was pri-
vate in Co. ID Of that regiment.-FRED HART