The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31
THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES

Rudyard Kipling, the poet and teller of
tales is known wherever the English lang uage
,, is spoken; but Rudyard Kipltng, the artist, is
something hitherto undreamed of. Yet the
second february number of the new
literary magazine, the Month, will have as
a fronts piece an original copyright drawing
| by the famous story-teller. 1t Is said to pro-
duce its effect by the broad methods of the
! designer of decorative posters. Had Mr.. Kip
| ling "gone in for" this sort of thing. who
knows but that Messrs. Beardsley and Bradley
might have had to look to their laurels?
In McClure's Magazine for February H. J..
! w. Dam has particularly interesting article
| on "The Making of the Bible" First it de-
! scribes by what strange and almost miraculous
means narratives of which the original rec
ords have utterly perished survived in fair in
| tegrity through centuries of turmoil and con-
! fusion, and next it describes the finely
wrought, typically modern instrume mentalities
and appliances by which those narratives are
| to-day published to the world, in all its varied
| languages, by the million copies, through the
Oxford University Press. Pictures of the Uni
versity Press and facsimiles OF early texts illus
| trate the article.
The most novel thing in scribner's for
| February is the appearance of C. D. Glib
| son as the writer of the notes which accom-.
pany his first series of sketches por.raying
"Londen as Seen by C. D. Gibson" AS a
writer he sees things with that fresh eye
for what is significant and picturesque in
! character that marks his drawings. He is in
| tensely interested in the pageant of the "Lon-
don Streets" and he tells you why. His
| drawings (made during his residence in Lon
| don) are studies from real people and suggest
| entirely new types. These articles, which
will continue for six months, add new Glib
son gallery to the Paris and New York types
already famous.
The February number of Current Literature
| has in addition to its well-filied and interest
ing regular departments signed article by
Hamilton w. Mabie; an appreciation by w. D.
Howels OF the verse of the young negro poet,
Paul Laurence Dunbar; page of selections
from the latter's recently published Lyrics OF
Lowly Life'' a page of verse, the work oi
Johanna Ambrosius, Germany's peasant
| poet; reading from Paul Leicester
Fords new book. "The True George Washing
TOM: one on the punishment of authors and
books from Alice Morse Earle's Curious Pun
| ishment of Bygone Days; story from the
pen of Robert Cameron Rogers; another by
Shan F. Bullock, and a special article on
"Young American Writers of To-day" by Ed
| ward S. Van Zile. The illust rattons in the
| front of the magazine have reference to the
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| Harper's Magazine for February is monu.
ment of the policy of exalted journalism
which has char racteriZed it in the past, and
| which is more and moro becoming the policy
| of American magazines everywhere. Articles
| on literary research, literary criticism, or ad
| yanced thought in art and letters though by
no means entirely absent, are subord1nated to
| reports and discussions of the vital Interests
| of modern life. Richard Harding Davis
went all the way to Moscow to report the cor.
onation of the Car and Czarina. Charles F.
| Lummis presents the first of a series of ar
/ ticles on the Mexico of to-day, in pre- pairing
which he spent three months beyond the Ric
Grande, and Poultney Bigelow has brought
back from Cape Town series of articles on
"White Mans Africa" the present number oil
which, illustrated by Frederic Remington and
| w. II. Drake from photographs taken by the
author, discusses the career of President Steyn
of the Orange Free State.
| The cover or the February Overland Mon thly
will catch the eye among hundred others
Mount Shasta, q Siskiyou County gold mine
and the Overlands famous grizzly ap.
pear in green and gold. Thomas
Magee contributes an article of more
than usual interest on 1.-The Kings
River Canyon" comparing it to the Yosemites
of this country and Europe. Dr. j. H. Stallard
continues his powerful series of articles on
| Municipal Reform; this second installment
| will without doubt attract fully as much at.
tention from the press as did the first. ]. Z.
| Bennet concludes his historical sketch of the
California missions. All friends of higher ed u
cation will be interested in the account of Prof