The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-01-04

serial anu stories mucn ABOVE the level
OF ordinary domestic reading. Fancy
work and Home Decoration reflect the
prettiest Christmas novelties in pro-
fusion of graceful and well-drawn
designs. Mothers or told how to train
Pretty Children" to have soft curling
hair aud sntpely features. The toilet,
edited by shirley Dare, tells women
"How To grow Plump" and How to
Keep You g." Home Dtessmakers"
are taught how to make and hang the
newest skirts, the test OF well-dressed
woman today. The garden is full OF
|deliIhttul suggestions on decorative
plants and Apwers for the dinner-table
for holidays; Cake for Christmas
Boxes" goes into detail for young
housekeepers, while the winter deli.
cacies and desserts are TOO much for
hungry man to read. Good sense of
comment and suggestion Throughout
will make The Housewife welcome in
all cultivated families.
Published at 81 Warren Street, New
York City. so cents a year.
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Among the January Magazines, The
NeU Peterson is one of the very best.
The list OF contributors holds various
OF the most popular names OF the day,
and the writer's have given their best
work. THE story of Statue" by
Edgar Fawcett, promises to be his
finest short novelette,. Howard Seely
has won fresh triumph in "Castle
Grumble." The opening article"
Actors and Audiences Of Other Days."
Patty Pemberton Berman,is full OF out
OF the the way incidents and anecdotes,
aud the illustrations are from rare
old engravings neverbefore reproduced
in this country. The most written
about American author in England
and this country is Louise Chandler
Moulton, and everything from her pen
is eagerly read and always delightful
reading; but she has done nothing in
the way of reviewing more artistic
than her paper on Coulson Kernahan's
"Work in Literature" A very large
edition of his new volume, "a book
of Strange Sins," was exhausted in
London on the day it appeared. "a
Hindoo Legend" by M. G. McClelland
is veritable gem. "Quebec" and "a
Daughter of Perugia" are not only as
interesting rs they are unlike, but the
illustrations OF both papers are beauti-
fnl. The poems are by Florence Earle
Coates, Charles Washington Coleman
and other distinguished singers. The
"Fireside" is unusually varied and at
tractive, with some elk or seven short
articles by Minot J. Savage, Professor
J. Howard Gore, etc. One dollar a
year-ten cents copy-for a fairly
ideal literary periodical. Address The
Peterson Magazine Co, ia South
Third Street, Philadelphia.
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Scribner' sMag sine forJanuary marks
the beginning of the fifteenth volume.
The first great fiction feature for the
year is the serial John March, South.
erner," by George W. Gable, the auth
or OF "Old Creole Days" This is the
first long novel that Mr.. Gable has
published in many years, and is a
most dramatic story of the new South.
The opening chapters reveal Mr.. Ca
ble's sympathetic style and clear char
acter.drawing at their very best. Serial
stories by j. M. Barrie and George
Meredith are announced to begin later.
Another feature OF this year will be a
series of special frontispieces selected
by the eminent art critic, Philip Gil.
bert Hamerton, to represent the ten
denotes OF contemporary art. Each
picture will be accompanied with a
brief article by Mr.. Hamerton and q
portrait of the artist whose painting is
reproduced. In this number Manet's
offer" is the striking picture chosen.
A new name in magazine literature
though one Of the best known and
most popular to the general public, is
that OF John Drew, who contributes to
this number his "reminiscences of the
everyday life of 1.-THE Actor" The
article is marked by the graphic way
in which he tells certain amusing and
tragic incidents, and by the excellent
conception of the hardships and re-
wards of the actors career which he
presents. 1t is the sixth article in the
series of "Men's Occupations" and is
deliberately illustrated by W. L. Met
calf.
The Honorable Robert G. Winthrop
(who studied law in Daniel Webster's
Office, and afterward when Speaker of
the House OF Representative nearly
fifty years ago was associated closely
with Webster in his public career,)
las contributed to this number his
"reminiscences of "Websters Reply to
Hayne,. and his General Methods of
Preparation" The personal quality
of this paper and the eminence of its