The Portland daily press., 1896-12-14
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

issue Of Lippi ncott's ia The Chase Of an
Heress by Christian Reid. The scene
| is in Santo Domingo, a region hithsrto
| unfamiliar TO fiction.
| The Christmas number of The hook
man is the largest number ret ISSUED,
containing 1870 pages. with numerous
portraits. autographs. and other illus
trations, and with specially designed
cover by Louis F. Rhead. Among
many interesting papers in this issue are
Days with Mrs. James L. Fields and her
| friends by w. A. De Wolfe Howe, The
Present State of Literature in America
by w. Robertson Nicoll aud The Woman
and the Cat by Marcel Provost. Two
more chapters of Kate Carnegie are
given.
One of the most interesting articles in
the December Harpers' is the raper on
President Kruger Of the Transvaal Re-
ublic By Poultney Bigelow. 1t gives an
animated and picturesque description of
the dictatcrs of the Transvaal. There
are portraits of President and Mrs.
Kruger. made for the article from por-
traits as oddly provincial as the habits
and manner of Dom Paul himself.
The number is rich in short stories.
These include The Romance of an
Ambrotype, tale of the civil war. writ
ten and prUfusely illustrated by Howard
Pyle; ! he Hundred, n Christmas story
by Gertrude Hall; The Defeat of Amos
Wickliff, love-story Of Octave Thanet's
| hero sheriff: Weeds, humorous tale of
the Simpainsrille cemetery; Sunday
Sans Statute of Limitations, q Thanks
| giving tale of the road, by Henry Gal
| lup Paine; and Claws. a mystical sketch
| by Annie Trumbull Slosson. John
Kendrick Bangs contributes farce5called
a Chatng Dish Party. with which the
Drawer opens. 1t is given with illus
| trations by Edward Penfeld.
The Christmas number Of McClure's
Magazine presents itself in special
| cover decorated with a live drawing by
Henry McCarter, in Interpretation of q
well known paper by Botticelli's, and is
richly printed in colors. IL here is Christ
mas po,m by Mrs. Harriet Prescott
spofford: q Christmas Drumtochty story
by Ian Maolaren; sec ond inssllment of
the Kipling serlal aud Kipling short
story; characteristic humorous story by
Frank X. Stockton; the first of Hamlin
Garland's papers on Grant; and mot to
attempt to note all that Is nota ale), u
most clever and graceful story by Henry
Seton Merriman. The frontispiece is the
earliest known portrait OF Grant, lately
discovered, and never before pubiishsd !;
and there Is also published for the first
time portrait Of Washington painted
from life at Valley Forge by Charles
paper gives much original and interest
Ing matter In regard to the boyhood of
{ he great general.
The Christmas number Of Scribner's
has another of those brilliant and beau
tiful covers in gold and colors that first
attracted popular favor ON last summers
fiction number. The Christmas design
10 by Bryson Burroughs. The leading arti-
ole of the number Is Cosmo Mcnkhouse.s
thoughtful president of the Royal
Academy. This article was prepared n
short time before Millais's death, and
tho selection Of the maryellously beauti-
full illustrations was made with his aid
and approval.
The Christmas number nj st. Nicholas
10 full of tie holiday spirit. The frontis-
piece is from a painting by Toudouze,
and is accompanied by poem by Mrs.
Mary Mapes Dodge, AS They Danced
Them O Measure on Christmas Night.
Edwin S. Wallace contributor paper on
Christmas in Bethlehem, which gives
description of the midnight service in ths
Church Of the Nativity. 1t il illustrated
with drawings by Harry Fem, from
photographs. A Snow Bound Christ
mas by Frances Cole Burr, illustrated
by Re1yea, is the story Of party of
travellers sncw bound on Western rail-
way, who manage, nevertheless, to have
their Christmas festivities; Santa Clnus's
Pony, by ELLA h. Mosby. is u story of
peasant life founded on a Belgian tradi-
tion There ore many Christmas poems
and jinsles, most of chem accompanied
by Christmas pictures. ]. 4. Trow-
bridge contributes The Voyage of the
Northern Light. story in new veinIfor
him, telling of the eventful cruise to
Nova Scotia of college boy.
The Deceinbsr Century's frontispiece is
"Study Of the Head Of Christ" from
the painting of "The Last Supper" by
Dagnan- Bonyeaet, exhibited at the