The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-17

THE MODERN BANKER BY James B. Goods.
Published by Charles II. Kerr. Chicago. Ryics
25 cents
THE WORLDS GREAT SNARE By =. Phillips
0ppenheim. Published by Lippincoit. For sale
by Breniano Washington. d. q. Price u.
SIMPLICITY. By A. r. @. Price. Published b
Rand. McNally Co., Chicago.
Magazines and Notes.
The Bookmdn comes out for December in
good thick number, full of cha. about books OF
the day. There Is Chronicle and Comment OF
writers, American. English, and foreign, with
portraits of Yone Noguchi, the japanese poet;
Elizabeth Stuart PheIps-Ward; Walter Pater,
Elizabeth Woodward Reese; J. NJ. Barrie; and
other authors in whom one is interested. There
is goodly amount OF verse; clever article
on The New Child and Its Picture-Books.
Days with Mr.. James T. Fields; Living Critics;
Ian MacLaren's story. Kate Carneigie; the
Paris Letter, Book Reviews. Holiday Publica-
tons Books for Children, and on. Dodd,
Mead q Co., New York. Price 20 cents.
The China Decorator for November is little
tardy but it makes up by having handsome
coiored supplements dahlis design for jar
dinieTe. There are other graceful designs for
china, and articles and notes on the subject for
the help Of all who are working in this de-
lightful art. PSI Fifth avenue, New York.
Price 30 cents.
The Humanitarian Edited by Victoria Wood
bull Martin. Published at New York. Prizes
10 cents.
See AFTER the Theatre by Hambidge. in
Truth. For sale on all trains and news stands.
Outing for December is one of the best num-
bers of the popular sporting magazine. The
number opens with The Pectoral Cross. pow
erful story of the stage. by Justine Ingersoll.
second complete story, and good one, Is
Znto. by III. Z. Mum, who proves to be we'll
posted in the customs of the Indians about
Great Slave Lake. Features of the sport and
travel departments are: Hares and Hare Hunt
ing. by Ed. w. Sandys; At the Top of Europe,
by f. nj. Allaire; American Amateur Athletes
of SO, by w. B. Curtis; Golf in America 70
Date, by Price Collier; and Racing Schooners,
by r. Z. Burehard.
Capt. Alfred t. Mahan, who recently resigned
from the United States Navy in order to devote
his entire attention to literary pursuits, has
written an article on Nelson in the Battle OK
the Nile. for the January number OF The Cent
ury Capt. Mahan has for years been studying
the career of Nelson, in preparation of life
of the great commander, and the present paper
is one of series of four he is contributing to
| The Century, on Nelson's most famous engage
ments.
| The December Arena is a brilliant number.
| 1t opens with an article on The Relation OF
| Art to Religion, by the widely-known sculptor
| William Ordway Partridge, and closes with
another of Will Allen Dromgoole's inimitable
short stories, entitled Sweet LEASES, in which,
as usual, the humor and pathos are blended.
| Within these limits are TO be found valuable
papers on great variety of subjects, in proof
of which it is sufficient to cite merely the
names of some of their writers: Prof. Frank
| Parsons, of Boston University School of Law;
Edward Everett Hale, d. d.. Mary A. Liver
more, Lillian Whiting, Camille Flammarion. the
great French astronomer; Eltweed POmeroys
| B. o. Flower, Ellen NJ. Henrotin, etc.
| Popular Science, a monthly bulletin OF news,
| nature, invention, botany, chemistry, medicine
and hygiene. Published at New York. Price
| 10 cents
! The Outlook, an illustrated monthly magazine
| for Christian families. Published a. IL Astor
| Place, New York. Price 10 cents.