The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-17
JANUARY MAGAZINES.

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JANUARY MAGAZINES.
LIPPINcoTTs MAGAZINE: The
New Lippincott for January be-
gins the year with a complete novel
called THE Bread Line by Albert
Bigelow Paine. This is a tale of fun
and love in New York's bohemia, be
ginning with New Years night at the
Model Bakery on Broadway, where
some comrades encounter THE Bread
Line" and ending there, after a year
bohemian studio. Love plays signal
part in redeeming the hero. The series
Of stories on Mormon life by Mrs. J. K
Hudson. begins in this number with
THE Third Wife" These should prove
a useful weapon against polygamy. The
short fiction consists of three stories by
comparatively new writers: Behind
the Lines a tale of social life in Wash
ington, by Archibald Willingham Butt;
THE Story of a Sky Scraper," by Percie
w. Hart; tale of today in taller New
York
APPLETON'S POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY: In order to adapt
it more closely to the wants
of the general public and to
make it more than ever before the
medium of readable and trustworthy
information on scientific subjects. the
publishers ofAppletons' Popular Science
Monthly inaugurate with the January
number several marked changes in the
magazine. The price is lowered to 70
cents.
To mention but a few of the articles,
Sir Robert Ball. president of the Royal
Astronomical society writes of the
Advance of Astronomy in the Nine
tenth Century; Professor Charles E.
Munro treats of the Applications OF
Explosives" which in a variety of forms
are now doing their deadly work in
war; "A Paradoxical Anarchist is
described and studied by Cesare Lom-
broso, the eminent Italian criminolog1st;
What Makes the Trolley Car GO is
explained and illustrated by Mr. Will
liam E. Baxter, c. E., and there is also
timely article on the Destructive
Effects of Vagrant Electricity" by
Hubert S. WynkoOp, electrician to the
department of municipal lighting in
Brooklyn. President Jordan of Stan
ford university, Miss Mary M. Patrick,
president of the Womans College in
Constantinople, and Herbert Spencer
also have articles in the number.
FRANK LEsLIE's POPULAR
MONTHLY: Frank Leslie's Pop
year with generous table
of contents. Among the notable
articles are: America at the Paris Ex-
position" by Ferdinand w. Peck, COM
missioner general for the United States,
illustrated from the official plans, with
views, portraits, maps, etc; Eng
lands Free Hand on the Nile" by G.
w. Stevens, the correspondent of the
London Daily Maitland author of with
Kitchener to Khartum," illustrated by
Warren B. Davis and H. c. Edwards:
''Wayside Views of Life in Persia by
Robert E. Speer, who brings from the
ancient, historic land many up-to-date
pictures, Photographic as well as men
tai; Artistic American Furniture" by
Florence Miner who describes the
products of the city of Grand Rapids,
al,s y fo1, fc he, mr.
manufacturing center of America;
New Years Day in Japan" by a Jap
anese writer, Onoto Watanna; S. r.
Crockett's latest story (complete). en-
titled THE Promotion of Sergeant Cub
bison; another short story, THE Misses
Potter's Chaperone," by Harriet Nash;
and a good installment of the new,
Bath Comedy" by Agnes and Eyer
ton Castle, illustrated by F. Luis Mora.
ENGINEERING MAGAZINE: Mr.
Going's interview with John Hays
Hammond, which leads the Engi-
neering Magazine for January, is
summary of the entire situation. Mr..
Hammond's knowledge of the field is
comprehensive, and the interviewer
brings out new facts and explanations
which not only clear up the chief ques-
lions as to the mines and their prob
able fate, but incidentally throw most
instructive side lights on the Boer char
acter and institutions. It is note
richest mines will be worked in the
Boer interest, and that, while no COM
prehensive destruction of mining prop
erty will be attempted, some desultory
damage is to be apprehended. Other
handsomely illustrated papers are by
Henry Roland, on 1.-The Revolution in
Machine Shop Practice" by Q. A. Hague
on 1.-The Steam Engine for the Traction
Power House." with most interesting
views of new installations, and by Wal
don Fawcett on Notable Salvage OPP
eratiOns." Mr.. Beaumont summarizes
Progress in Automobile Construction;
Mr. Miller describes Independent and
Industrial Telephone Systems, with
plans and figures Of cost; Mr.. Norris
contributes a most instructive account
of Actual Experience With the Pre-
MUM System"
The year 1900 is jubilee half century for
Harper's Magazine. The publishers
promise many new attractions. among
them two serials. One is Eleanor" a
novel by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. The
subjects treated by Mrs. Ward are the
deep currents of religious and political
thought now swaying Christendom The
illustrations for Eleanor viii be made
by Albert Steiner. The other romance
is Mr.. l. Zangwill's THE Mantle of Eli
jah'' In this novel an important fea-
ture is the domestic side of the hero'S
character. Mr.. Louis Loeb will illus
The Thorn Comes Forth