The record-union., 1899-12-06
ough." (street & Smith. publishers
New York;

The publishers of 'McClure's Maya
lar warning the public to pay no money
on its account to Myron West, who is
receiving subscriptions ami using re-
ceipts in the name of the publisher The
Mcclure Company says it has no
agents whatever, and it especially de-
nounces West as an imposter.
The cover of the December Century"
(New York; is suggestive of the APP
preaching Christmas season, the central
figure of the design being a kneel:ng
angel, with outspread wings. The brief
poem, 1.-THE Old Master" is decorated
by Edward Edwards ard illustrated by
Louis Loeb in frontispiece cover, and,
like the cover, printed in tints The
Christmas Dancers a poem embOdy-
ing Saxon legend, is accompanied by
several full page pictures. The holiday
spirit breathes as well in Jacob A.
Riis' story of New York's East Side.
DR.. Weir MitchelPs poem, king
Christmas and Master New Year" the
reproduction of Alden Weir's i Christ
mas Tree in the American Artists
Series, and Thomas A. Janviers "A
Provencal Christmas Postscript" Con-
spicuous art features of the number
are Coles engraving of Sir Thomas
Lawrence's Lord Derby, and full page
reproduction of the bust of French s
equestrian statue of Washington. In
this number Sir Walter Resant begins
a series of papers on life in East Lon
don, subject that no writer knows
more intimately. Attention will De at
tracted to Marian Warner Wildman's
poem, "a Hill Prayer" A famous
name is that of Henryk Sienkiewicz,
author of Quo Vadis," who contributes
a prose poem, 1.-THE Judgment of Peter
and Paul on olympus In the second
intallment of his study of Oliver Crom-
we'll, Mr.. Morley takes up his hero at
the beginning of his parliamentary ca
reer, and carries him forward 10 the
call to arms, in 1912. The voyage from
Samoa to Australia and Tasmania is
that part of Captain Slocum's odyssey
which he describes this month. in the
fourth chapter of Sailing Alone
Around the World" Dr. Weir Mitchell
continues his revelations of the seamy
side of the medical profession in 1.-The
Autobiography of a Quack"; Ernest
Seton-Thompson, as author and artist
both, gives a further glimpse Of the life
of a man killing bear, in THE Biog-
raphy of Grizzly" and other contribu-
tors of fiction are Margaret Sutton
Briscoe, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Ge-
lett Burgess and Virginia Woodward
Cloud. 'Zionism" is explained by Pro-
lessor Richard Gottheil of Columbia
University, who interprets it as "a ire
mendous yearning TO be better Jews, in
order to be better men," And last to
be named, but not least to be enjoyed.
is John Burroughs on THE art of see
ing Things"-an art in which he himself
is passed master
THE Atlantic Monthly for Deem
Der (Boston) has these contents: "Bri-
ton and Boer in South Africa Alleyne
ireland; "Poe'S Place in American Lit
erature, Hamilton Wright Mabie:
Reform by Humane Touch" Jacob
A Riis; 1.-The Eternity of Art" John
Vance Cheney; "A Dunnet Shepherd
ess, Sarah Orne Jewett; "A Philistine
View Thomas R. Lounsbury; ITO
Have and to Hold" XXVIII.. XXX.
Mary Johnston; New Zealand Newest
England" Henry Demarest Llovd:
Wanted, a Chair of Tent Making AL
fred Brown. Layman; THE Seven Seas
and the Rubaiyat,' Paul Elmer More:
The Fortune of Day" Grace Ellery
Charming; THE Grand Canyon of the
Colorado" Harriet Monroe; rs There
a Democracy Of Studies?" Andrew F.
West; 1.-THE Artistic Side of Chicago. 3,
Ella W. Peattie; -"Platonic friendship. ,,
Norman Hapgeod; The Detectives. y
VIII Payne: French Openminded-
ness, Avian F. Sanborn; In Praise
OF Old Ladies'" Lucy Martin Donnelly;
THE Ripening,' William Miller Gam
BILE; "Campagna Nirvana," L. Studdi-
ford McChesney; Already" joseph
Russell Taylor; Taps" Lizette Wood
worth Reese.
As might be expected, the Christmas
spirit pervades the December "St
Nicholas THE Children Danced
Around IT. is the frontispiece. and the
title refers, of course, to a Christmas
tree-one that was used afterwards as
the mast of a ship, a bears cave. and
all sorts of things that grown folks
would never have thought a Christmas
tree mt for Then there is THE Doll
That Santa Claus Bought, "Ermee's
Christmas DoQ' and Christmas on the
Home Station"-a naval story. The
Rev. Dr.. John Watson. popularity
known as Ian Maclaren, holds after
noon Service" in Gods first temples
the groves; and Marie Won Worst adj
mits US to the home and studio of the
painter in ordinary to children the
extraordinarily clever and successful
French artist, Boutet de MonyeI. Many
of NJ. de Monvels pictures of children
are reproduced in illustration of her
paper, as we'll as the large painting of
Jeanne recognizing the King of Franco
among crowd of gaily dressed cour-
tiers. In 1.-The Lost Colony. we see
the first of a series of colonial story
and-travei sketches by Elbridge S.
Brooks, in the same style as his Cen
tury Book for Young Americans and
Century Book of the Revolution. -
Short stories, verses and pictures
crowd each other in the teeming paees
of this magazine, which has been en-
iarged by eight pages, and will not be
diminished in size during the coming
year.
In addition to chronicle and comment
always full of interest, 1.-The Book
man for December Oodd, Mead & Co.,
New York; has these features: "Junice
Meredith" Ford's splendid serial story
OF the revolution; Homer" Walter
Malone; Drama of the Month";" Nor.
man Hapgood; Contemporary German
Literature" ]. F. Coar; "a Confident