Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
HOLIDAY NUMBERS OF THE MAoA'
ZINES TEEMlNo WITH
GOOD THINGS.

Christmas and New Years Calls Forth the
Best Products OF the Literary world
All the Magazines Have Extra Large
Numbers this Month, Printed in the Fin
est style.
Rudyard Kipling says that he used to
read ct. Nicholas when boy, and hoped
then some day to contribute to Its pages.
That day has now come. Those who
read uRikki-tikki-tavi" in the November
number will need no further inducement
to read "Toomai of the Elephants" in
the Christmas number; and whoever
reads about "Toomai" will be sure to
get the November number in order to
read "Rikki-tikki-tavi." Mark Twain
continues in this Dec mber issue the fan
tastic adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck
Finn, and Jim, in their wild journey to
Africa by fying-machine; and Dan
Boards picture are as fascinating as the
text. DR.. Charles Alexander E tstman,
an duca,ed Sioux Indian (the husband
of Elaine Goodale Eastman), begins III
this Christmas number set of papers
that " i'll describe his daily life, adven.
lures, and experiences when with his
tribe he led what he calls "the wild
life." OF more amusing style is the story
of general Sherman's Bear" humor-
Gus account of what became of a hear
cub that was presented bv some Indians
to General Sherman. Helen Keller, the
blind deaf mute, went to the WOIld's
Fair, and she now writes for St. Nichols
a better account of " hat she "saw" than
could be given by most little girls with
out her disadvantages. How Ted
Marched with the Regulars" is also
good story, and one that deserves men,
tion among The longer attractions in this
rich number. 1t Is the old story of grit
against hrsg, with the usual result !; and
all who love plucky little fellow will
rejoice at Teddy's success.
Not much about Christmas? Oh, yes,
there is! Here isa charming song, "Old
Christmas" by Virginia Woodward
Cloud; a poem by Helen Gay Cone,
"The Christmas Sleigh-ride"; "Sarah
Jane Col ias," already mentioned, Is a
Christmas story; there is a Christmas
picture by Liz ,e,h B. Comins; another
by Vicfor Prrard "A Santa Claus Me-
senger Boy" jingle, and another pict-
Morning These features belong to
and tn. refore are mentioned, but space
alone prevents our calling the roll of
this whole number.
The most popular little boy character
ever created in a story, "Little Lord
Fauntleroy," lives again in the Christ
mas Ladies' Home journal. But this
time Mrs Franc. Hodgson Burnett be-
gins to tell "Hnw Fauntltrny Really
.curred," while Mr.. Birch, the original
illusrat, r, sketches FauntleI oy again in
his inimitat le pictures. Frank r. ST. OK
ton, too, gives us hack his most DIT light
full character :. Pomona," and in n de-
liciopsly funny way this quaint girl be-
gas = cries OF letters to her former mis-.
tress Of ''Rudder Grange" telling her
of her social boom abroad " it'll her hus-
band amid the aristocracy of England
William Dean Howell. begins his Liter airy
autobiography which he happily calls
"My Literary PASSIONS" and lis Of the
reading Of his DO, hood in his fathers
house. George w. Chlds is likewise
autobi"g aphical in a brief narrative of
my Christmas as boy" So, too, is
H4mlin OAKLAND, who goes back to his
boyhoOd and describes "a Pioneer
WulCu 1Ccluu6II lllusUTdCCS
The full piano score Of SOusa's new
- Mania titan Beach March," is given ex-
c'usively in this issue Of the Journal,
and has all the spirit Of his famous
III gh School Cadets" and (" Washing
ton Post" marches. Mrs. A, D. r. Whit
ney writes the first Of q series of "Friend-
ly Letters to My Gill Friends" Julia
Ma2ruder begins " hat gives promise Of
being a powerful serial, "a Beautiful
Alien" with superb illus'ra tions by A
B. Wenzell. A new biographical series
is started, wives of Famous P4stors,''
which sketches Mrs. John R. Paxton,
with portrait. The humorous 4" Bob
Burdette" is very funny In his descrip-
ton of my Christmas Shopping; the
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage prophesies
"This Christmas in America based up
on the present financial stripgency; three
of A. B Wenztll's most stylish girls
portray Mrs. Mallon's article on sThe
Art of Street Dressing" while other
writer's give eminently practical advice
on every point touching the giving, max
ing and sending Of holiday gifts. Alto
gether, the Christmas Ladies' Home
Journal is the best this maga zine has
ever sent out, and seems Iidiculously
CHI ap at ita price of ten cents. 1t is GER
Unibly III IuS al "o"ou LtuCs auu
this particular is, ne stamps it as being
without peer. The Journal is pub
lished In Philadelphia at 81 per year by
The Curtis Publishing Company.
The art work of The Christmas Gen.
fury challenges attention. The outside
Of the number is embellished with spe.
cial cover adapted to the holiday season,
and the contents include five eDgravings
by T. Cole-four after Rembrandt, in
GLIDING 1.-The Supper at Emmaus" and
the detail of "The Night-Watch," and
one after Jan Ste en-; also portrait Of
unique and historic interest representing
general Grant writing his MINORS at
Mount McGregor," and fine portrait OF
the composer Berlioz, both engraved by
It. johnson hitherto unpublished sk.t-
ches by the great French painters G.
rome, Lsurens, Bcuguereau, Chavannes,
Lefebvre, Maignan, Lenrpveu; two
drawings by Sir frederick Leighton "a
Set of Sketches" nv Howard Py lie; poems