The morning news., 1896-12-28

Business in America" and on Under
graduate Life in American Colleges" The
January issue is a fine foretaste of this
attractive programme. In many ways the
most remarkable magazine article that
has appeared anywhere in months is "A
Bystander's Notes of a Massacre" by
writer Tor whose accurate observations
and authority the publishers can vouch.
For the first time in detail an eyewitness
describes the slaughter of over 1900 Arme-
mans in Constantinople in August last.
Charles Scribner's Son, New York.
The new year begins for the children with
the appearance of the January st. Nicho-
las. The number comes just at the holiday
season, and so it contains much of the
Christmas spirit. 1t opens with a story of
western frontier life. Danny and the
Major" by Gertrude p Greble. Pins"
by c. A. Parker, ana Cousin Anita's Sur
prise" by Eleanor Root, are two little
stories about two little girls. Various in
tereStlng papers on Historic Dwarfs,"
Dy Mary Shears Roberts, will be remem-
DeFeo as having appeared IN this magazine
IN past years. Another one is given this
month; devoted to Bertholde. He was a
SnreWd little Italian who became Drime
minister to Alboin, King of the Lombards
Gustav kobbe tells of "St. Paurs Rocks"
mountain peak that appears above the
Tarl.; 9TaldaSe OF me ocean in mid-Atlantic. "A
SET Iorth| by Alice Calhoun Haines was
dragon that could not bring itself to de-
vouL ~ PrlncsSses. Ihere are many poems,
Jinsles, ana pictures in the number. The
York WV
The January Atlantic Monthly begins the
new year with the opening of a new story
by Paul Leicester Ford, the author of
The Hon. Peter Sterling" This novel.
THE Story of an Untold Love" is
love story pure and simple, but full of dra.
matte interest and it bids fair to be one of
the leading novels of the year. The Attain
tic is taking up reviews of the century
from several important standpoints. These
papers are rather in the line of John
FIske,s recent contribution, "a Century
Of Science" The review this month is
"A Century Of Social Betterment," by
James B. McMaster. the eminent histo.
rian. Another feature is w. p Trents
Dominant Forces in Southern Life" In
this paper a southerner born and bred
gives q very fa!r estimate of the present
great forces at work in the south of to-
day: Houghton. Miffiin & Co., IL East
seventeenth street. New York.
The complete novel in the January issue
of Lippiucotts is Stockings Full of
Money by Mary Kyle Dallas. 1t is a
tale of domestic relationships and affec-
tions, but turns on the mysterious disap-
pearance of $1,000 and the
various suspicious as to the thief. Henry
Willard French, in "A Christmas Mid
night in Mexico narrates an adventure
of the road which might have ended disas-
trously. The Other, short stories are AN
Anonymous Love-letter" by Virginia
Woodward Cloud and Robert the Devil
by Claude NJ. Girardeau. The question,
Are American Institutions of Dutch Orb
gin?' is discussed at some length by sgd
ney G.. Fisher, who controverts the late
Douglas Campbell's contention that the
wn-Meeting came from Holland. j. b.
Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
The Cosmopolitan for January contains
a splendid table of contents. The frontis-
piece "A Modern Shepherdess," is a SUI
perb picture. The leading article is Ger
man Students and Their Absurd Duels." 1t
is by K Farrand Reighard, and is hand
somely illustrated. Some Types in Dixie
Land" by Mrs. D. B. Dyer, is a readable
article. Uncle Bemac-a memory of the
Empire by A. Conan Doyle, is equal to any
of the stories of that author. "A Story of a
Farmers College" by Murat Halstead will
be read with deep interest The foregoing
are only few of the good things in the
number The Cosmopolitan, Irving-on-the-
Hudson.
Political Science Quarterly for Decem-
Der, has a table of contents that will at
tract the attention of students and think
ers "The Destinies of Democracy" by
Prof F. II. Giddings, is well worth
careful perusal. The reviews are excellent
while the Record of Political Grants" is
paper that will be found to be of especial
value.
MUSIC.
1.-The Ship That Never Came Back" a
thrilling song of the sea; song and chorus.
Words hv I MOnfeonerV Rogers music