Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-22

bulde for December Is filled. as usual.
with useful Information. making II
very valuable handbook American
Hallway Guide Book, 1852 to ia Adams
street, Chicago.
John ShermRn's book, Recollcctions
OF Forty Years in the house, senate
ana Cabinet. has excited more COM
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Ex-President Harrison receives
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lar nature. His first article, in the
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Jerome X. Jerome's new story has
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VIII be published IN the January issue
OF the Ladies' Home Journal.
Thousands OF persons 10 whom the
name OF the Smithsonian institute "
familiar, but who know little or moth
ing of Its origin, will be glad 20 read
the account Of this establishment which
DIR, Henry Darlington Bolton II 10
give in Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly for January and February.
Both articles will be Illustrated, the
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with portraits OF Smithson and the
three secretaries which the institution
has had. Mr.. David A. Wells viii con-
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toms Popular Science Monthly for
January deyoting especial attention
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taxes made immediately after the civil
war, and some of the curious facts
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One OF the most striking of the series
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drawing Tor the Centurys life OF
Napoleon" will appear IN the January
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Berlin, an historic event carefully re-
produced. but reminding one Of n
scene from opera. Thomas A. Janvier
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feature OF life In Provence. In the
January number he viii describe "a
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McClures Magazine for January IL
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McClure's Magazine for January will
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The first issue OF the Atlantic MONTH
ly for 1896 opens with an unpublished
Note Book OF Nathaniel Hawthorne
now printed for the first time. There
are MISC the opening chapters OF new
three-pRrt story by II. j. Stimson u.
s of Dale) entitled Pirate Gold" 1t
deals with romantic Boston life In the
fftles.
Two political articles will be sure. to
attract attention, "The Emancipation
Of me IONlDIIlffs ny Lbll w. ibIA'is
chairman of the United States civil
service commission, and Congress out
az Date" Other features of the issue
are "The Country OF the Pointed FRS"
n abort story by Sarah Orne Jewett;
"The johnson Club" q sketch Of pro-
yincial French life by Mrs. Gather
wood az Farm in Marne:" "Childen
or the Road" a study of child life
among Migrants. by Josiah Flynt; and
"The Schoolhouse as Centre" by the
editor of the magazine, n paper intro
duclng the discussion OF the Status
az The Tencher" in subsequent Issues.
+ NJ. Ludlow, 70 identified with the
work OF Morris and Kingley. contrl-
butes an able paper upon The Chris
linn Socialist Movement OF the Middle
~ the Century" Thre Is a powerful
installmept OF Gilbert Parker's Seats
N the Mighty" poems. and book re-
Views and the usual departments
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"st Ives" the novel left substantial
,v complete. and unpublished, by Rob
ert Louis Stevenson at his death. Is
described az purely romance OF adj
venture. 1t Is the story OF French
prisoner captured in the Peninsular
ware. who II sut up In Edinburgh
castle; there he falls in love with a
scotch girl. who. with her aunt, fire.
auently visits the prisoners. There
Is early In the story duel or extraor-