The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-12-25
Book Notices.

arities which distinguish one quality of
olive oil from another, especially those
which by artificial treatment are made to
resemble grades IN which they do not
properly belong. The experienced palate
is the sole reliable judge, and if really ex-
perienced, deception is wholly impossible.
\ All that may be said is that the finest oils
have pale, greenish hue. very similar to
those riffs ofautumn sky between the sun
set clouds after a day of storm, faint,
nut-like perfume, and leave just the slight
est suspicion of acridity in the throat,
after portion of the oil has been sWal-
lowed, not unlike the 'puckering" of
breech-mast. The oils marketed as the
best varieties are frequently adulterated
with the cheaper sorts. A really fine oil
placed upon ice will deposit small! layer
of clear, solid fat, leaving residuum Of
transparent fluid. A poor oil will solidfy
throughout, or CONCEAL in broken, irregu-
lar Jumps and flakes. Again, low grade
! is always much heavier than a high
grade, and the subject will have no diff
Guilty in distinguishing the real from the
unterfeit.-Fr0m "Ihe Olive and OIiue
oil, in Demoresfs Magazine for January.
The complete novel in the January is
sue of Lippincott's Magazine Is "The Waits
of Fighting Rocks" by Captain Charles
McIlvaine. The scene is laid in the
mountains of West Virginia, and the tale
is one of adventure, love, and jealousy
among the mountaineers "By Tele-
phone" a stirring newspaper story by
Francis G. Regal, shows how plucky re-
porter defeated a conspiracy and brought
the criminals to justice. "a Question of
Responsibility" by Imogen Clark, deals
with deicacy VS.. life-savlng in lodging
house. The other stories belongsto Christ
mas, and are offered at the right time in
stead of month beforehand, as is the
usual magazine custom. These are MRS.
Santa Claus" by Marjorie Richardson, "a
Prodigal Friend" by S. Elgar Benet, and
Mrs. Risley's Christmas Dinner" by Ella
| Higginson. Each of them is in the spirit
of the season, though the last is in minor
key. "Christr1as Customs and Super
stitions" are collected by Elizabeth Fergu-
son Seat. Edgar Fawcett recalls New
Years Days in Old New York." and
Edith Duff Empress Josephine's Happy
Day." ninety years ago. In "The Ducks
of the Chesapeake Calvin Dill Wilson
tells all about the canvas-back before he
is shot and after. Gilbert Parker offers a
study of Herbert Beerbohm Tree" the
actor F. Nj. B.. in with the Autocrat,"
recalls some notable private utterances of
DR.. Holmes, and NJ. Kaufman discusses
Socialist Novels"
Nearly all the most popular authors
seem to have been drawn upon by the
editor of The Ladies Home Journal to in
sure for his readers a particularly inter
esting year during 1895. Jerome K. Jer
ONE, for example, will resume his role of
an idle Fellow" for the benefit of Amer
lean girls and women in a series of arti-
Giles; Bret Harte will have a new love
story, while Frank r. Stockton has given
the Journal not less than three of his
quaintest and drollest short tales; Mrs.
Burton Harrison will write on correct de-
pertinent and usages of good society while
Mrs. A. d. I. Whitney is to write to girls
on marriage and dress Madame Nordica
and Jessie Bartlett Davis will tell of the
care of the voice; Mr. Howells will con-
tnue his successful literary autobiogra-
ply; DR.. Parkhurst, the famous New
York preacher. will write his first series
of articles for women on the questions of
the day which women are thinking about;
Edward Bellamy will add a chapter to his
Looking Backward; Eugene Field, Bill
Nye, John Kendrick Bangs and Robert J.
Burdette will supply the humor; Conan
Doyle will give his views of 1.-The Liter
airy Side of America; Frances Hodgson
Burnett, the late Jane Austin, Julia
Magruder and Elizabeth Bellamy will
supply novelties Kate Greenaway is to
draw her quaint little tots of women for
the first time for magazine, while Pal
mer Cox will supply some new Brown
Ies'; unique article on Mrs. Shakes
peare" will present all that is known of
Shakespeare's wife; Margaret Deland,
Sarah 0rne Jewett and Mrs. Burton Har-
mil L I'D, ~
Woman. when those terms should be
used E. S. Martin is going to tell "Where
Was the Garden of Eden p; Reginald de
Koven has given his new song, while
other famous composers will also be rep
resented by songs, marches and waltzes.
And in this representative manner, The
Ladies' Home Journal will really cover
every interesting phase of contemporary
life, especially that of woman. The
magazine will indeed be worth having
during the new year.