The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-04

- PCSAh ny NTGHeTal Lew Nul-
lace, illustrated by f. V Du Mond; The
Queens Jubilee, by Richard Harding
Davis, illustrated by r. Cation Wood
vile; Destiny at Drybone, story by
Owen Wister, illustrated by Frederic
Remington; An Act of Charity. Inv
Charles Dudley Warner; George William
Curtis at Concord, by George Willis
Cooke, illustrated; A Birds Egg, by
Ernest Ingersoll, illustrated by fac Smile
in color of the eggs Of the most familiar
American birds; and Puppets, Ancient
and Modern, by f j. Ziegler, illustrated
The short stories of the Christmas Hur
per's are Destiny at Drybone, LIN Nc
Lean story, by Owen Wlster, illustrated
by frederick Remington; Marianson, a
Macklnac story, by Mary Hartwell Cath
erwood, illustrated by w. Z. Smedley ;
south, by w. l.. Sheppard, illustrated by
the author; and Mr.. Willie's Wedding
Vel, Louisiana romance, by Mary Ira
cy Earle, illustrated by A. B. WenZel.
The complete novel in the December is
sue of Lippincott's for December is Poor
Chola, by Julia P. Dabney. The scene is
an unfamiliar Tlneriffe, in the Cana
~ Islands; the story is full of local color,
interest and pathos; the plot is far from
commonplace. The Consolation of Gam
aliel, by Marion Manville Pope, is the
quaint tale of Missouri farmer whose
humanity extended even to "bugs :"
Joseph A. AItsheler, in The Red Light
deals with supposed episode of the war
of 1912. The DR.. Felix of whom Francis
Lynde writes rose from obscurity to local
fame and fortune by prescribing for cats
and dogs, not knowing that his patients
were not human.
The Christmas number of st. Nicholas
opens with the first of Rudyard Kiplinc's
Just-So Stories, which tells how the
whale got his tiny throat. Mrs. Ruth
McEnery Stuart contributes Southern
sketch, An Old-Time Christmas Gift
telling of little white girl and her
slave maid, who belonged" to each 9th
er from the time when they were only a
day old. Cousin James Mistake, by Mari
Bradley, is a Christmas story for girls
Amelia Wofford writes Of The Court Jes-
tiers of England. In The Christmas Ship
q. II. Bennett describes the Holiday oh.
servance of two little girls who were ice
bound OH whaling vessels in the Arctic
Ocean. The Purioined Christmas is a
good old fashioned fai y-tala by Gelett
Burgess. P. Kitty Kondaoheff tells OF
Some Russian Games. Two new serials
ara begun, j. I. Trowbridge's Two
Biddiout Boys, and The Lskerin Athlet
ic Club, by Rupert Hughes.
The Christmas number of the Century
reflects much Of the Holiday spirit. The
opening article is Merry Christmas in the
Tenements, by Jacob A. Riis, author of
How the Other Half Lives and other
studies of life in the tenement districts of
New York. The late General Francis A.
Walker is represented by a paperEon The
Causes of Poverty. W. Lewis Fraser
writes q critical sketch of ga Religious
Painter, Fritz Won Uhde, and % mum Der
of famous paintings by this artist are
reproduced. In the series of wood engra-
wings by T. Cole Of English Masterpieces,
Gainsborough is the artist represented in
this number, with critical comment by
Prof. John G. Van Dyke. A richly il
Illustrated paper on Tennyson and His
Friends at EreshWater is written by V.
g. ScObt-O' Connor, and contains many
new portraits of the Tennyson family
published with the consent of the present
Lord TennysoD. Miss Eliza Ruhalnah
bClIo vi 4uG W Ouu6FluI
ing Glories of Japan, which are taking
the place of the chrysanthem in the
affections of tho Japanese people. Ac-
campaigning the article are illustrations
of many striking varieties Of the flower.
Edwin Booth in London is paper by e
h. House, in the course of which is given
description of a notable visit paid by
the actor to Charles Reade.
MoClure's Magazine for December opens
with new Kipling novelette, entitled At
the Tomb of his Ancestors. 1t is COM
plete in this number. The story purports
to be the narrative of the experience of a
young English officer whose family had
done their duty in India without noise
or brag, but With great efficiency and
bravery, through a number of genera
tions, and who on taking up the fam "
work found himself compelled to live up
to very high family tradition in the
matter of shooting tigers and laying
down the law to the native tribe of Bills
Especially exacting on him was the final
disposition of a certain "clouded" tiger
entailing a series of great adventures
Another installIneEt of Mr. Dana's Per-
sonal Recollections is published in this
number which is especially interesting
because it contains the Judgment of Mr..
Dana on the generals in Grants army
before Vioksburg.
In personal Glimpses of Our New
England ports, " in the December number
of the New England Magazine, Mr..
Charles Akers relates in delightful way
many anecdotes of his personal iHeer-
course with Lowell, Longfellow, Elmer
son and Holmes. When struggling
young artist he was invitedto visit Lowell
in Cambridge, and it was through the
latter's influence that Mr.. Akers was
able to crafty his desire to portray some
notabilities and earn living. "a sketch
of the reception given by these men to a
bothersome stranger, Mr.. Akers says,
'whom they could aid, but who was
little likely to repay, cannot add to the
knowledge of what they did, but may
help to realize what they were. Repro
auctions from the artists original
portraits accompany the article. Other
interesting articles in this number are
the story of Brook Farm told by George
Willis Cooke; CT Municipality. Old