The record-union., 1898-12-22
"The New England Magazine" for


December Boston) is richly and pro-
fusely illustrated and has these among
other features: Fra Angelica" from
the painting by Mantegazza; The Red
Squirrel at Home" William Everett
Cram; Boston Writing Masters Before
the Revolution William Carver Bates;
st. GATHERINGS" a Christmas sketch,
Arthur Willis Cotton; Fiddle and Jim
mie,' a story, May McHenry; THE
Journal of the Minister of Bedford, >
Abram English Brown; "Old Planta-
ton Hymns" William E. Barton, D. D;
'Prussia's Greatest Artist" illustrated,
w. Henry Winslow; AN Engagement
at Sea-" a story, Lewis E. MacBrayne; !;
The Battle of the Migrations," E. p.
Powell; Colonial Architecture" E. c.
Gardner.
Universal Brotherhood'' for Decem-
Der (New York; has among other papers
these leading ones: tAlphonse de La
MARITIME, II Childhood" Alexander
Wilder, NJ. D.; Theory and Practice =
Vespera NJ Freeman; "The Rebirth Of
Beauty" H. T. Edge; 'The Art Of For
getting" NJ. l.. Guild Education, True
and False" Herbert Coryn; THE Nee
essity of Sacrifice" Hubert S. Turner;
Time and Space" Edward c. Farms
worth; students Column" conducted
by J. H RUSSELL; Brotherhood Activi-
ties" NJ. H. w.
The complete story of the sinking OF
the Merrimac and the capture and i'm
prisonment of her crew at Santiago, IS
graphically told in an article by Osborn
w Deignan, United States navy, late
helmsman of the Merrimac, in the Jan
uary Frank Leslie's Popular Month
ly," published December oath. The
story is fully and richly Illustrated with
authentic portraits of Hobson and ell
the crew, besides many new drawings
specially prepared under Mr.. Deignan' S
personal supervision. Other features
in the January Frank Leslie's" are:
Bret Harte's new story Jack Hamlin' s
Mediation"; Joaquin Miller's I'm a
Klondike Cabin; and Thomas r. Daw-
leys campaigning With Gomez
X =
The Christmas number OF Little
Folks" (Boston) the children's mag2-
zine, is out 1t is full of good things
for the small people, opening with q
charming frontispiece by Elizabeth S.
Tucker, illustrating Margherita Cassi-
nos story of "Toddles Christmas
Tooth" Mary Mann Miller tells about
the spruce and balsam trees which are
used for Christmas trees. Abby Nor
ton Diaz contributes story of THE
People From Skyton." Olive Risley
Seward has a Christmas story, and
there are others by Sophie SWEET ana
others. besides poems, jingles and pic
ture stories A more desirable Christ
mas present for child than a years
subscription to this ideal magazine can
not be imagined.
What Do I Fear?" is a question
worth asking by each man or woman.
Perhaps without recognizing 1t the
reader of this paragraph is being influ-
enced in his or her daily life by ground
less fears that are ruinous to charac-
ter. '"The Cosmopolitan Magazine"
(New York; has taken up this subject
and is obtaining the views of great
many prominent people, where they are
willing to open their minds frankly. A
great many other prominent people
have refused the ''Cosmopolitan's'' re-
quest, being afraid to tell the public
what they fear-perhaps even afraid TO
confess to themselves what they fear.
The December issue includes statements
from William Dean Howells, Richard
Croker, Admiral Gherardi, Chauncey NJ
Depew, Viola Allen. Nine. Janauscheck
and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The second
series will, it is promised, be even more
interesting. Julian Ralph, who has
been for some years in England, writes
for the December Cosmopolitan a
very clever analysis of what seems to
him the English ideas of a gentleman;
and John Brisben Walker attempts to
consider the American ideals. We are
in the formative stage of American
manners, and too much stress can
scarcely be given to the dangers of in
Producing those ideas which are least
admirable in the character of our Eng
liSh cousins.
The Christmas edition of the "San
Francisco Music and Drama" the only
purely dramatic paper published west
of the Missouri River, is a pleasing and
attractive number, filled with crisp and
original matter. Among the contribu-
tors are: Felix Morris, George Lask,
Charles Day, Max Steinle, Sydney Child
ley, Anita Fallon, Ed Dunn, Mark
Thall, Glen Miller, H. D. Cortrell, James
H. Love, Punch" Wheeler, and VIII
Lange-"Little Eva The makeup is
clear and neat, contains $50 half-tones
of people well known in the theatrical
profession, is printed on SO-fb paper,
with highly illuminated cover
Field and Stream" for December
(220 Broadway, New York;, with
choice illustrations and a great variety
of matter, is a charming number of one
of the foremost field sports journals in
the world. Among attractive features
Of this number we make note of these:
The Bears Head" Charles Lewis
Shaw; only Dog a true tale, Alex
Hunter; Under the Murmuring Pines,'
Oliver Kemp: Christmas Bells (poem),
Lalia Mitchell; "An Inglorious Trophy"
a humorous story, Talbot Warren Tor
rance; Fishing on Camas Lake, Mon
tsna," c. G. Maring; Twas Xmas
Time" Drummond Foster: Hunting
on the Three Tetons," j. NJ. Baltimore; /;
Jobs Turkey" Flintlock; Fifty Years
With Fly" General John McNulta;
Doctor Dan at the Runway" Charles
Hilliard Sawyer; Boar Hunting, -
Margaret Herbert Mather; THE Fin
deSiecle Sportsman" Charles Gordon
Rogers; GA Hunting Cruise on Pamlico
Sound" Leroy G.. Brown; Our Boys
and Our Came E. P. Jaques; Part
ridges of the United States" DR.. r. W.
Shufeldt; In the West With Note