The record-union., 1897-12-13

| life and work of George Ripley and
| showing that Brook Farm. though a
| seemingafailure, was in reality a grand
| success.
| The Overland Monthly (San Fran
cisco) for December. freely illustrated,
has these leading features: Fronts
pieces. The Pilfage of Beauty by Law
! (painaing by Maurice Leloir), The Pole
Sagged, and Dipping Into the Road,
Was Shat tered" Wash by +. n.
Hatch); Sea Fishing in California
Waters" illustrated, Horace Annesley
Vachell; ITO Santa Catalina" Silvia
Lawson Covey, Christmas Chimes. {"
illustrated. ]. Torrey Connor: "A Hy-
meneal Mosaic" illustrated. James
Howard Bridge: Northern California
Gold Fields" illustrated, Charles How
ard Shinn; THE Cruise of the Catch
Can" Paul Shoup; 'Stampedes on the
Klondike," illustrated, Joaquin Miller;
Robert Louis Stevenson" Parma
Gentry; The Stevenson Monument, .
drawings by Tebbs; Sing Lees China
Lily" illustrated, Mary Bell; The
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art" illus
trated, Kate Montague Hall: "A Ser
enade in Antiphone," illustrated by
r. S. P; "Bronson's Luck" by Eliza
beth A. Wore; "A Dreamer's Dream %
by Sam Bean: THE Overland Prize
Photographic Contest" Fish Propa ga
tion in California" illustrated, Alfred
V. la Motto.
Carriers Monthly for December
(Chicaso). a Christmas number nicely
Illustrated, has many interesting fea-
lures of which these are chief: 'The
City of Mexico" ]. E. Fornof: THE
Cobbler's Story Lawrence Bertram;
Bargains in Old Books" w. H. Mil
Ter; Mind Your Own Business" An
drew Macdonald; THE Prison of the
Stricken Heart Fred DeLand: Reel
procity, Story" s. F. d. Beckdith:
Christmas in OldTime Kentucky" w.
l.. Nisscher; "A Christmas Grief" Opie
Read; 20 Christmas Tree" illustrated
poem), Robert McIntyre; Hickory
Bills Christmas Story" Ernest Nc
Gafey; Noted Western Men" with
portraits); Two Pictures of Christ
mas" illustrated poem) L. w. Turner:
When Christmas Come to Buckskin''
dialect poem). Richard Linthicum:
Thirty Years in Chicago" John Nc
Govern; AN Elopement Tangle, Story"
A NJ. Kerr; How the Good Saint
Came to Pancho." story, H. S. Canfield;
interviewing Father Time" DR.. D. III.
Reeder; "Old Ransom; "Benefactions
by Chicago Millionaires'': Patrick
M. Henney's Life Work" illustrated,
William L. Larkin: The Public Uses of
| Electricity in Chicago"
Donahoe's Magazine" for December
'Boston) is bright with Christmas hope
and promise A beautiful picture of the
Chr1st-child framed in passion flowers
forms the cover design Then comes
Conde B. Pallen's exquisite ESSAY on
Emmanuel" This story of the Incar-
nation so beautifully told, requires no
aid from the engraver's art Distinctive
| " Christmas features are the Editors
| Greeting" and the Lesson of the
| Christmas Rose" an illustrated poem
by Charles S. O'NeilL Maurice Francis
Egan writes as only he can of Some
! Popular Books of 81" dwelling on
the feeling excited by books of the type
| of Hall Gaines Christian" Another
paper of much literary interest is "a
Plea for the Revival of Cooper by Ed
win Lyell Earle. "Shall Man be Sup
planted by Machinery" is a question
worthy Of the treatment it receives from
Walter L. Ramsdell, Mayor of Lynn.
| Bolton Hall in the Natural Method of
| Charity" discusses another important
| economic question, and opens up the
way to reaching a solution of some of