The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07

the Christmas number of Scrfbner's
Magazine. American Portraiture of
Children" by Harrison s. Morris, is the
leading article in the magazine The pic
lures are of a class that will appeal to
all. and the descriptive matter is es-
pecially we'll written. Other leading
features are ''Thyreus, a poem of the
East, 1.-THE Making of Pilot" thrill
ing story of the sea; 1.-The Turquoise
Cup" "A Forgotten Pilgrimage;" THE
Last of the Fairy Wands;" chapter Of
'"The Fortunes of Oliver Horn" IAN Old
Virginia Sunday" and When Snow
Falls in the Adirondacks"
"Lozaire," Mary Hartwell Gather
woods new novel, is to be brought out
in England next spring ~ Grant Rich
ards
"Monorolies, Past and Present." the
work on economics by DIR. James Edward
LIE Rossignol, which was published last
spring by T. Y. Crowell & Co., is~to be
translated into the German and PUBLISH
ed in Leipsic.
Like the November number, the Christ
mas issue of Leslie's Popular Monthly is
beautifully decorated with color-plate
illustrations, and the general appearance
of the magazine is notable among the
monthlies. The opening article written
by the famous Snowman, Frank c. Bos-
tock is illustrated by score of sketches
and finished portraits of living animals
drawn from life by Charles c. Bull. But
the article which will perhaps arouse the
greatest attention is written by Israel
Zangwill, upon the long cherished de-
sign of the Jews to redeem and e-peopis
the Holy Land. Another paper of im-
portance is contributed by Gen. Balling-
ton Booth, and entitled 1.-The Personal
Appeal of the Volunteers" AS for stories
the number is full of them.
1.-THE Man From Glengarry," just issued
from the press of the Fleming H. Revell
company, is truly Ralph Connors best
book-and Mr.. Connor is a writer Of ex-
cellent books. 1.-The Man From Glen
garry" thrills with life and interest
seldom found in fiction of today.
The Snow Baby, by Mrs. Peary, wife
of the famous Arctic explorer, contains
much that is instructive, novel and in-
terestng to children. In describing the
child-life of the Esquimo and the animal
life which surrounded the Peary baby
during its infancy-for the Snow Baby
is the little daughter of Lieutenant and
Mrs. Peary-the author takes her young
readers into region when until now
has been strange and unknown to chill
dren. The Illustrations are from the
wonderful photographs taken in the Arc
tic regions by Lieutenant and Mrs.
Peary. and the book is one of the most
beautiful juveniles ever issued.
States.
| Worlds Work for December sweeps
| an even wider range of topics than ever.
| Particularly striking because of it's
| author is President Roosevelt's article
| concerning A. G. Wallihan's remarkable
| Camera Shots at Wild Animals, illus
trated by some of Mr.. Wallihan's best
pictures. Julian Ralph's outlina of the
results of the Boer war to date con-
tains much that is new about the con-
| ditions new existing in South Africa.
| Greater New York is being rebuilt, and
NJ. G. Cunniff and Arthur Goodrich. in
| an illustrated article tell how the new
! city "built of steel and founded on a
I rock" is replacing the old. By the re-
| cent election, also, New York has been
politically remade, and Lindsay Denson
| sketches a number of stirring scenes
from the recent unique municipal cam
| paign. The Romance Of the Fur Trade,
| by w. S. Harwood and Forrest Crissey,
and Henry II. Lewis Days Work Of
| Locomotive Engineer, are full of vivid
| incident and are both handsomely illus
trated. In The March of Events the
|
mire President Roosevelt, and deals with
| the Schley inquiry, the Southern E,du-
| cational Conference and conditions in
national and municipal political life.
| II. G. ChatfieldTaylor is finishing
! new novel to be published by Herbert 8.
| Stone & Co., which has required months
of work. In this he will take up an
| unfamiliar subject, the scene OF
action is France at the time of the
! Franco Prussian war. Mr.. Taylor 10
most conscientious in his method OF
work. and nothing has been sighted
which could help him to paint true
.picture Of the melancholy and the UNI
V,st of that troubled period.
LAS the Goose Flies Katherine Pyie's
new Juvenile. recently published by
Little, Brown & Co.. is sure to be as pops
ular as THE Christmas Angel" 1t is a
| fanciful story, generously illustrated,
and cannot fail to please the little ones.
| THE Growth of American Coal Ex-
| ports-EurOpean Industries Promoted
by Cheap Fuel Supply" by Frederick
Eward Saward. is the title of the lead
ing article in the Engineering Maya
zine and Industrial Review for Decem-
| Der. The article, which Is intensely in
| teresting shows great thought and re-
| search. Philip Dawson compares at
length English, American and Conti-
| mental Steam Engineering,' and there
| are numerous timely articles by other
| men of note.
1.-THE Boy Captain" published by the
| Saafield Publishing company, is an in
| teresting story laid in the good old
days of sailing ships when there was
| romance in a sailors life, and when it
required knowledge, skill and bravery to
navigate the great deep. The char
acters are all real ones and the plot OF
i the story is founded upon fact.
| The December number of the Ten Cent
Story Book, published by the Daily
Story Publishing company of Chicago, is
better than any that have preceded it,
and is readable from cover to cover.
Among the contributors are Gen.