El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-10
The LIBRARY TABLE
Millions Ode On the Nativity.
Written Especially For the HERALD.

Millions Ode On the Nativity.
The Century Magazine for Decem-
Der comes out>in a magnificent Christ
mas number, the chief effort being d
reprint of Millions Ode on the Nat1vl-
ty, illustrated with colors and sou
toned marginal pictures. There are
four full page, richly colored, deep
Swallowed illustrations of the scenes
at Bethlehem and in some ways these
pictures represent the boldest anu
most successful of the efforts yet MADE
at color printing for magazines. Inc
color scheme is a gamut OF tawny nues
from the bright yellow of light to
the deepest number of shadows and the
pictures have much the rich look OF OIL
paintings.
Good Stories.
The stories of this Christmas num-
Der are very good. Charles Battell
Loomis's While the Automobile Ran
Down. is full of fun and this install
ment of Hamlin Garland's story or
the Colorado prospector in England
Her Mountain Lovers full of ir-
resistible humor. The Lace Cam1sole
is a nice little story and the Helmet
of Navarro proceeds with incident ana
adventure crowding each other into
most readable story. Henry James
contributes one of his fragments or
soul analysis in the most complicated
English that is written in our day
For involved sentences and intricate
division of motives, Henry James has
not his equal; the result is not parti-
cularly good stories, but an interest
ing literary and psychological cur1oS-
ity.
Big Game in America.
The best article in the December
Outing is one on the Big Game of
America by George Bird Grinnell. 1t
is a subject which should interest all
Americans. We have seen almost in
one generation and easily within the
memory of man the days of vast herds
OF Buffalo quickly followed by these
days when a very few are carefully
kept in Zoos or guarded in national
parks to keep the species alive. Our
75.000.000 citizens are fast crowdIng
all sorts of big game off from the face
of the earth though there are still
some few wild, inaccessible or arid
stretches of land where deer, bear,
pantherS, moose mountain sheep, Carl
bou and elk may roam. But the coun-
try needs some stringent game laws
III " OHiy cSclNO thC SpCNiCo
of all these great deniZens of the for
ests. mountains and plains. The arti-
Gle in Outing is finely illustrated.
This number of the magazine also
contains one of Jack London's we'll
told tales of love and luck in the
things are loom Paula Mighty
Alaska gold fields. Other readable
Hunter. The Old Time Prairie Chicken
Hunt Breeding Thoroughbred Ponies,
and The Woodcock's Safeguard The
last article is illustrated with photo
graphs from life.
American Sculpture.
The Worlds Work, the newest of our
magazines, publishes in the December
number an illustrated article on Amer
lean sculpture, that makes pleasant
reading for those who love their land
and are anxious for it to triumph in
art as well as in war and commerce.
II is pleasant to contemplate the rec
ord of achievements of Americans of
such undoubted and virile genius as
Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies and Bart
lett Throughout the magazine one
is impressed with many of the proud
things America is doing in the worlds
work Another article entitled, The
Betterment of Working Life, presents
some of the efforts of great manufac-
turers to better the lives of their en-
ployes, with an account of gardens,
libraries, gymnasiums and lunch and
rest rooms which have been esta blish-
ed by factories to make for the health
and pleasurer of EMPLOYEES. Articles of
current interest are an account of the
Hall of Fame which the New York
University is establishing and of the
choosing of the names of fifty illus
trious Americans. The names are to
be carved on the walls of a beautiful
colonnade overlooking the valleys of
the Harlem and Hudson Fifty names
have been chosen of whom of course
George Washington is the first. An
account of a Model Public Library is
profitable reading for all interested in
the subject.
The Sullivan Expedition.
The New England Magazine for De-
cember contains as it's leading article
an account of the very beginnings of
the revolutionary war when patriots
first began to rebel against the tyran-
ny of the king and to hide powder in
their meeting houses. Our own his
tory makes very good reading and ev-
cry day that we get farther away from
the Revolutionary war, the more pic
tureSque and dramatic IL becomes In
another generation We shall hold it
still more dear as one cherisheS the
portrait of some long dead ancestor
whose features and expressions are so
much like our own that we cannot help
but have a keen personal interest and
yet his day is so remote that we invest
him with a romance of an old story.
This account of General Sullivan and
his expedition is Interesting American
ism. Another picturesque reminis-
cence is, the Passing of the Old School