The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-12

sign in color and an appropriate greet
ing In the calendar and booklet boxes IS
Happy thought Of somebody. Aessrs-
trangs holiday publications have thor
ousnfy American character about them.
FOR a dainty Christmas present for my
lady pretty calendar VIII always be
most welcome gift.
The Partisan for December SAYS. "A
journal Is soon TO be started in Paris
wn'cn IS 10 be written, printed and pub
hshed BY women only. Not single man
VIII be employed. either as editor. re-
porter, proof-reader or printer. At the
mead OF the stan viii be a young and fas-
cfnatfns matron. who is the divorced wife
Oh prominent politician" There is also
some very Interesting illustrated articles.
peasant fiction numbers and brilliant
nook chat and breezy Partisan gossip n
the number.
monthly, published at Lincoln, Neb., was
received during the week. II Is devoted
exclusively 10 the Problems OF Education
within and Without the schools" Every
teacher and student Of psychology should
nave this magazine. In this months num-
Der there are papers in the child study
department on Child Study In the
home Study Of Boys Entering the
Adoiescent Period Of Life" Three Modes
or influence" Some Educational Bear
1ngs OF the Principal OF Imitation" and
Contribution TO the Study OF the Chiid's
Moral Nature" The magazine IS itself
an exponent OF educational matters, first
and all the time.
The December number of ield and
stream. the sportsman's magazine. comes
our IN most suspicious manner with this
issue All or the articles are worthy the
-
Tor those in this section of he country are
Deer Calling in Southeastern Alaska"
A Little California Natural History"
and "A Puget Sound Outing" This last
is written by W. A. Stewart. He must
nave been an inhabitant OF Tacoma for
no one but an inhabitant of Tacoma calls
our grand Mount Rainier Mount Tacoma
In this narrative he calls Puget sound the
Mediterranean OF the New World" That
is all right. but if he had called the old
mountain by its geographical name 1t
would have been much better.
There is no event in the literary history
OF this country more intensely interesting
than the Brook Farm Experiment" The
recent death of Charles A. Dana has add
ed still more piquant interest TO the
events OF fifty years ago. when Hawthorne
''mtlked the traRseendental heifer.'' A
charming description OF the Brook farm
as it is today and It's connection with the
Bhthesdale romance appears In the De-
cember National Magazine. of Boston. 1t
is written in a most charming and enter
tanning way by Arthur w. Tarbell and
illustrated by Walter l.. Greene from re-
cent sketches.
Hiram 8. Maxims article, National
Differences in Labor Handling Methods
which leads the Engineering Magazine
Tor December, Is one of the most import
ant contributions yet made 10 a topic of
paramount interest and significance-the
sudden advance of the United States to
commanding position in the COMPETE
tive industrial struggle, which marks the
close of the nineteenth century. Ameri-
cas- great distance from the vast markets
OF Europe and the East, and her high
scale OF wages, long gave the European
manufacturer a. sense of confident se-
curity and confined the efforts of the
American to his home field. Mr.. Maxim
shows that the concentration of Ameri-
can genius upon the production of labor
saving machinery, enabling work of the
highest accuracy to be turned out in en-
ormous quantity by the simple operative
has revolutionized the situation, aided by
the blind faulty of the British trade
.unionist In Fastening his own downfall.
In the American Monthly Review of Re-
views for December the editor discusses
the international questions growing out
of the seal negotiations with Great Britain
and the Cuban situation. He advocates a
firm policy on the part of the United
State. Irresolution IN the past he says,
has cost us much prestige and done us
serious harm. There is nothing that the
world respects so mucn in a nations attI-
tude and policy as firmness and fixity II
purpose. IL the people of the United
SHnt1 x.fets -
they have the most abundant uoraf
justification for doing 50. The only thing
that could condemn such a movement on
the part of our country would be doubt
in our minds as to the wisdom or Justice
or our policy. American intervention in
Cuba at any time within the past year AMI
a half would have beeen accepted by the
whole world with even less of cavil or
criticism than the Russian Intervention on
behalf OF Bulgaria twenty years ago"