Middletown transcript., 1899-12-02
THE DECEMBER CENTURY.

The cover of the December sCentury' is
suggestive of the approaching Christmas
season, the central figure ofthe design, by
Henry Hutt, being kneeling angel. with
outspread wings. Five tints of yellow and
red are harmoniously blended in the print
ing, the lettering being in black. The brief
opening poem, "The Old Master" is decor
ated by Edward Edwards, and illustrated
by Louis Loeb in frontispiece as season.
able as the cover, and, like the cover,
printed in tInts. The color printing is not
confined to the two examples mentioned.
THE Christmas Dancers," poem embody-
ing saxon legend is accompanied by
several full-page pictuies by Mr.. HUT The
holiday spirit breathes as well in Jacob A.
Riis's story of New York's East Side, The
Kid hangs up his stocking" Dr. Weir
Mitchell's poem, king Christmas and
Master New Year. the reproduction Of
Alden Weir's "A Christmas Tree" in the
American Artists Series, and Thomas. A
JanvieI's "a Provencal Christmas Post
script" being further legendary lore Of
Provence, derived at first hand from the
poets and peasants among whom the author
has passed several recent years. Conspicu-
GUS 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 Wash
ington.
In this number Sir Walter Besani! begins
a series of papers on life in East London,
subject that no writer knows more inti-
mately. In telling the story of all imag-
mary girl of the tenement-hnuses. he is
aided BY the pencils of Joseph Pennell and
Phil May, the best known ofpictorial inter.
prefers Of the London Sums. Attention
will be attracted to Marian Warner Wild
mans poem. "A Hill Prayer" by its
decorative designs by Maxfield Parrish, and
the editorial note that it was the first prize
in the Century College Competitor this
year,-and will be held by its poetic quality
and artistic finish. A famous name but
one unfamiliar in the pages Of American
,A-~6~~HSSj ~ 1hot Va AAcuIJk OleHkieW1CZ,
author OF Quo Vadis', who contributes a
prose poem, "The Judgment of Peter an d
Paul on Olympus" In the second install
ment of his study Of Oliver Cromwell, Mr..
Morley takes up his hero at the beginning
of his parliamentary career, and carries
him forward to the call 10 arms, in 1912.
The voyage from Samoa to Australia and
Tasmania is that part of Capt. 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 "The Auto
biography of Quack". Ernest Seton
Thompson, as author and artist both, gives |
q further glimpse ofthe life ofa man-killing
bear, in "The Biography of a Grizzly; and |
other contributors of fiction are Margaret |
Sutton Briscoe, Harry Sliwell Edwards.
delett Burgess. and Virginia Woodward
Cloud. "Zionism" is explained by Prof.
Richard Gotthell, Of Columbia University.
who interprets it is "a tremendous yearn-
ing to be better Jews, in order to be better
men, And last to be named, but not least
% be enjoyed, isJohu Burroughs on "The
Art Of Seeing Things''-an art in which he
is passed master.