The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-12-01

faithful chronicle of how ambitious girls
DESTROYS of becoming successful business
women live and labor in New York, giving
suggestions and valuable information that
cannot fail to be of inestimable benefit to
all talented and ambitious girls. And this
Is an ideal Christmas number also. The
lovely water color "Did Santa Claus Bring
YOu?" will appeal to everyone, young or
old. "Christmas Eye at Bethlehem" with
its numerous illustrations, takes one back to
the first Christmas Eve, and tells how the
traditions are preserved and what ceremo'
MES are observed at the present day. There
are two splendid Christmas stories splen-
didly Illustrated; there are numberless sug-
gestions for Christmas gifts; the many de-
partments are full to overlooking with good
things; and everyone who loves babies will
be charmed with the portraits of nearly a
hundred who are competitors for the 'Baby
Prize" offered by this Magazine. Indeed
the Christmas number Is generous twenty
cents worth; but it is only fair sample of
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A Japanese pupil of Mr.. Lafcadio Hearn
has asked him in horror and amazement
how 1t is that the strange subjects of love
and marriage are so freely treated in
English novels. This gives Mr.. Hearn
occasion to tell in his article, "Of the Eter-
nal Feminine" in the December Atlantic,
how different place women occupy. in
Japan and in America or Europe. Equally
noteworthy is Mr.. f. b. Sanborn's article
on "Thoreau and his English Friend
Thomas Cholmondeley." The paper is
made up mainly of letters between a young
Englishmen of no common character and
the naturalist and philosopher whose name
is coming more and more to be coupled, like
Emerson's and Hawthorne's, with Concord
In its best days. Mrs. Wiggin provides the
short story of the number in "Tom o. the
Blueb'ry Palms." a pathetic sketch of New
England life. Mrs. Cavazza's story, 1.-THE
Man from Aidone," has its third, last, and
most effective part. Charles Egbert Grad
dock continues "His Vanished Starr
Studies of nature are nearly always expected
i'm The atlantic, and from Mr.. Bradford
Torrey and Mr.. Frank Bolles the readers of
the magazine have learned to expect very
charming papers. Such, indeed are "In
the Flat Wood" by Mr.. Torrey, and "Birds
at Yule-Tide," by Mr.. Bolles. 10 these
are added the vivid pictures of Mr.. Hamin
Garland's "Western Landscapes" An un-
signed paper, "Ideal Transit" suggests,
half whmscally, pleasant solution of all
the difficulties of travel. Professor Wood
row Wilson, i'm ''Mere Literature" makes a
plea for the study of books not as subjects
of scientific inquiry. Democracy in
America" by Professor Francis Newton
Thorpe, is of interest particularly to stu
dents of our social history. "The Blazing
Heart" poem by Mrs. Alice Williams
Brotherton, and the usual departments fill
out this strong concluding number of The
Atlantic's one hundred and thirty-fourth
volume.
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