The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-12-27

Globe Democrat, has written most interesting
article for the January Forum on THE Pay and
Rank of Journalists telling what journalists
are paid In the principal news centres of the
United States comparing journalism as career
with other careers, and briefly sketching the
wonderful growth Of newspapers in this country
since their FIRST beginning in 1000.
Frank Lesie's Popular Monthly for January
just out is really holiday number, with re-
gard both to the character OF its reading matter
and its richness in illustration. The leading
| article, st Andrews and Andrew Lang by
Mrs. Leicester Adds, is charming account of
the university career and literary life of this
versatile author, also of the quaint little Scotch
city of his Ina Mater where the now faddish
game of golf has been played on its native links
ever since the Middle Ages Frances Smith
gives glimpse of Miss Gould at Lyndhurst I"
Illustrating the occupations of an American
chatelaine A full page engraving of Boutigny's
picture of the death of Marshal Lannes at the
battle of Essling furnishes the motive for some
interesting historical pages about Napoleon
and Alexander 1. of Russia.
The DeIineator for January, which is called
the holiday number, offers table of contents
that is extremely attractive and promises we'll
for the New Year, The Fashions are illustrated
and described in the usual satisfactory manner
and there is special article appropriate for the
season on Misses and Girls PartyDresses. In
the College seriesa new departure is made and
the description Of life at the Co-educational In
situations is begun, the first article being on
Cornell, from the pen of Florence " Holder,
'o1. The spirit of the time is reflected in The
Display of the Shops, and Among the Holiday
Books; and there is an exceedingly pretty Good
Night - Drill for children. Seasonable Cook
ing is made more valuable to the housekeeper
by the addition of lists showing what fish, lesh
fowl and vegetables are to be procured in the
markets. There is advice on How to Serve Ba-
nanas. aud continuation of the articles on the
Home There are also Around the Tea-Table
and Floral Work, and New Designs in Knitting,
Netting Tattng, Crocheting, Lace Making, &c.
The labor question, the discomfort in the
West the power of the poygamists in the new
state Of Utah, Christian missions to India, the
status and future of woman suffrage, the peace
of Europe, dpropos of the death of the Gar
these are some of the opportune subjects taken
up in the December Forum The Baltimore
Plan of Currency Reforms an explanation OF
| and argument for the plan for an elastic curren-
ey that was recently approved at the Bankers
| Convention, by A. B, Hepburn, formerly comp
| troller of the currency and president OF the
| Third National Bank, New York CityS New
| Story Tellers and the Doom of Romance" by
William r. Thayer, one of our best critics and
essayists who shows that the new groups Of
successful novelists have brought the utter over
throw of the Realists-Zola and the restI Mr.,
Purushoiam Rao Telang, the Bombay Brahman,
who recently wrote in The Forum about child
marriages in India, contributes an article on
Christian Missions as seen by Brahman, y
who thinks missionary energy and money
wastes; oil the other hand In "Christain Mis-
sions as Seen by a Missionary" Bishop Thoburn,
Methodist missionary bishop to India, who has
| seen long and devoted service there describes
the success Of the work in redeeming India;
and there are this month brief estimates of i'm
portant new books--fourteen articles in ALL OF
more than the usual variety,