The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-11-28
A MOST sBAs0NA8LE NUM5ER.
McCIure's for December.

No one will ask for better holiday read.
ing than that which the Christmas number
of McClure's Magazine will furnish. Firs,
and foremost, of course, is John LaFarce's
article on "Michael Angelo" the FIRST OF a
series in which during the following year
this great artist and critic of our own cay
will discuss in the pages of McClute's the
greatest artist of the past.
But at this cheerful lime Of the year dc.
ton is especially seasonahle, and it needs
but glance at the title page Of the number
to show that it provides this not only in
ripht Christmas like abundance, but also in
range of style and variety OF subject TO sat.
isfy every taste and stimulate every interest
There are, in fact, no less than seven sep.
arate short stories, most OF them by writers
already well known to readers OF McClufe's,
ard all Of them certain to stick III the mem.
ory and provoke desire for more fIom the
same source.
"a Nendicant." by Adach Kinnosuk is
tale of Japan in the heyday OF romance,
touchingly simple in plot and full of the
spirit of that medieval idealism which finds
its prototypes in the West in the tales Of
the Iroubadours and m:nstrels. Again, for
the briskly humorous style of recital, it
would be hard to excel Herminie Temple.
TONS yivacious account OF "Darby Gill and
the Good People," Life Of to-day is vati.
ously dealt with by II. A. Crowell in 'Ihc
Pictures and the Pineapples," story of the
Italian quarter of New York by Theodore
Dresser in "a True Patriarch, the fitting
I title TO the portrait OF the old man It por-
trays by John Swain in an "lndcpendent
Boy" sketch of the unique juvenile oourt
of Cook County, Illinois and by Ray stan
nard Baker in "At the Tunnels End" the
story of two brave men who risk their lives
in the pressure workings of a submarine
tunnel. In another Emmy Lou story, "The
Shadow Of a Tragedy" George Madden
Martin continues now famous series.
In this number, also, commences a serial
certain to attract national attention-Scw-
art Edward Whites "The Forest Runner,
a novelette,, the scene of which is laid in the
forests of northern Michigan.
Stranger almost than any of these is the
true account, by Augustus Birdie and X.
Macdonald, of the eight days wanderings o
an American, Charles Bum, in the Arctic
circle. Yet not word of 'Lost in th'
Land of the Midnight Sun" stretches in the
least beyond the truth indeed, much of th'
sufferings OF the man has been left to th'
readers imagination-a more explicit recita
would have been too horrible.
Last, but not least, we have another o
Miss Morrs's stage recollections (of Savin
this time) and another of William Aller
Whites characterlzatlons Of the men whom
people want to know the truth about anC
about whom Mr.. White has found SO mucl
truth to say, this time of Senator Platt
The illustrations of the number are re
markably fine. Mr.. LaFarge's article is t
be illustrated with reproductions in tin
from photographs of some Of Michael An
gelo's greatest paintings and sculptures
The stories will be illustrated with picture
that illustrate not only in the sense Of
bare literal INSTALLATION of episode, but i
that finer adjustment of style which catche
and reproduces the very motive and spirit o
|, the story