The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-01-10

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The January issue of Table Talk
starts off the first number of the New
Year and the New Century with many
excellent articles of housekeeping
and home-making. How to prepare
things to eat in the most palpatable
and n%ourishing manner is always a
main feature of this magazine. Illus
trated cookery is q permanent feature
OF Table Talk. 1t gives each issue a
number of illustrations of practical
every day dishes, showing how they
can be served invitingly. Table Talk
teaches the art of good cooking and
wise and economical living.
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success" in it's January issue, &C
~centuates more clearly than ever the
deep-seated purpose of its existence.
Running through every page is the
spirit of aroused ambition, the mag
net of applied example, the genius OF
endeavor. Without this central
thought, Success" would not fulfill
any mission, except, possibly, the
mission of entertainment common to
all magazine publications.
In the current issue, a feature of
dynamic interest is 1.-THE Romance of
the Beginnings of Great Newspapers''
showing how James Gordon Bennett
made his opportunity by starting the
New York Herald" in a cellar, in
the face of unusual opposition, diff
iculty and lack of capital.
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The North American Review begins
the new century with a number which
by the Importance and diversity of
the subjects discussed in it and by
the ability, celebrity and representa-
tive character of its contributors,
more than maintains the high repu-
tation it has won as the greatest and
best review published in the English
language. Ex-President Harrison, in
the opening article, treats of the con-
stitutional "Status of Annexed Ter
ritory and of Its Free Civilized In
habitants."
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Scribner's Magazine has many pro-
jects for the year 1901 and several of
the most important have their begin
ming in the number for January,
which has just been issued. In hct-
ion, readers will welcome the half
dozen Amateur Cracksman stories
by E. w. Hornung, each of which is
complete in itself; but the ingenious
Rallies and his accomplice, Bunny,
appear in all of the adventures.
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In fiction, the chief interest in the
January Century attaches to a COM
plete story-ingenious and debate
p~roving-by DR.. Weir Mitchell-"A
Comedy of Conscience" Other
stories are Margaret. Knapp's 1.-THE
Man Who Went with the PIaee"-a
place in Connecticut; Charles W.
Chesnutt's''The March of Progress"
a tale of Afro-Americans; and
There's Only One Moo York" the
first of a series of "Some Americans
Abroad" by the young humorist,
Charles Battell Loomis.
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An article in the January st. Nicho-
las that will appeal to boys is Jack
Jouett's Ride" an incident in the
Revolution, when T~srleton's men,
setting out on horseback for Month
cello, were forestalled by a youpg
innkeeper, who rode thirty miles in
two hours, and warned Thomas JEFF
ferson of his danger. The author of
this account, R. 7. W. Duke, jr.,
rightly holds that the deed deserves
to rank with the famous ride OF Paul
Revere. Another paper that teens
with adventure is 1.-THE Diver" by
Cleveland Moffett-the first of a
series of articles on "Careers of Dan
ger ana Daring"
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With the January number Modern
Culture drops the old name, self
Culture" from its title page and
cover and takes it's rightful place
among the leading literary magazines
of the country. Fiction is strongly
represented by Marion Harland, who
introduces the first Of a series of short
stories illustrative of Virginia life
before the war, and by Charles w.
Chestnut, whose powerful serial
moves rapidly towards its dramatic
ending.
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The Review of Reviews for Janu-
ary has a cauital articla ON Sir .Iohn