The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-04
Among January Magazines

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presidential elections, and how the
popular conception of the function has
departed from the ideal set up by the
founders of our government is clearly
set forth in DR.. Shaw's article. AS
an appendix the Review presents the
names of all the electors chosen in the
| forty-fve states-a list of which has
probably appeared in no other pnblica-
tion and which was obtained from the
official sources
The general interest in the Booker
IT. Washington series of autobiography
cal articles called "Up From Slavery, :"
now being published in The Outlook,
is constantly on the increase. The in
stallment contained in the January
magazine number of The Outlook tells
some extremely significant as we'll as
amusing stories of the difficulties en-
countered at Tuskegee in inducing the
ambitious colored students to turn
their attention to industrial subjects.
The article has many illustrations
($3 a year. The Outlook Company,
2S7 Fourth Avenue, New York.
All the spirit and romance of the
Revolution are summed up in Rev.
Cyrus Townsend Brady's latest novel,
"When Blades are Out and Love S
Afeld This appears as the Com
p!ete Novel in the January New"
Lippincuott The author gives view
! of a battle, Guilford, unsurpassed in
fiction, and in this engagement his
two heroes fight ON opposite sides,
while his two heroines look ON from
their neighboring homestead. There
is galloping race of the lovers, one
of whom has snatched his lady-love
from the altar, and in turn these two
are beseiged by the bereaved suitor,
who really loves the cousin of the girl
he has lost. Thus there are four en-
crossing figures in the story, and they
are as gallant and as lovely as any
knights and ladies ever created by
romance Mr.. Brady has never pro-
duced novel fuller of human
charm than this, so we'll called "When
Blades are Out and Loves Afeld. -
THE Revenge of the Four" which
will appear in McClures Magazine for
January, is a short story by Mr..
Josiah Flynt and Mr.. Francis Walton,
and it is one of remarkable interest
In it, the reader. will learn something
very definite as to the relations be-
tween politics and plumber in that un-
derworld of which Mr.. Flynt is recog-
nized as the authoritative chronicler
The illustrations are of peculiar APP
propriateness in this narrative of
nefarious doings, for they are drawn
from studies of types in the Rogues'
gallery. The S. S. Mcclure Co., AL
155 East 25th street New York.
Scribner' S Magazine has many projects
for the year 1901 and several of the
most important have their beginning
in the number of January, which mas
Just been issued In fiction, readers
will welcome the half-dozen Amateur
Cracksmen stories by E. w. Hornung,
each of which is complete in itself but
the ingenious Raffles and his accom-
plice, Bunny, appear in all of the ad-
ventures The one in this number is
entitled mo Sinecure, and it is il
Illustrated by F. G. Yohn, who will
make the pictures for the whole series.
Rafies has already taken his place
among those distinguished characters
in fiction which everybody knows
about There will be five more articles
on Russia of Today" by Henry
Norman NJ. P. The present issue de-
scribes romantic journey in 1.-The
Caucasus, which Mr.. Norman be-
lieves is the most attractive vacation
trip in the world The illustrations
show the picturesque features of the
country.
The January issue of Table Talk
starts off the first number of the new
year and new century with many ex-
cellent articles of value to housekeepers
who are interested in housekeeping
and home making. How to prepare
things to eat in the most palatable
and nourishing manner is always a
main feature of this magazine. Illus
trated cookery is permanent feature
of Table Talk. 1t gives each issue a
number of illustrations of practical
everyday dishes, showing how they
can be served invitingly. Table Talk
teaches the art of good cooking and
wise and economical living. 1t is a
reliable aid to busy housewives Our
readers can obtain free sample copy
by addressing The Table Talk Publish
ing Co., Philadelphia.
Woodrow Wilson's graphic The
Reconstruction of the Southern States
in the January Atlantic begins strik-
ing series of papers by eminent hands
upon different phases of this topic.
Elizabeth Bisland discusses sugges-
lively The Time-Spirit of the TWEEN
tieth Century. R. Van Bergen, from
exceptional knowledge, treats the life
and rise of The Empress Dowager !;
Charles A. Conant accounts for the
modern Growth of Public Expendi-
lures H. d. Sedgwick, Jr., A Gap in
Education. touches much-needed but
generally avoided subject William L.
Scaife sketches the growth and great
ness of Pittsburg and Sara M. Handy
gives the personal experiences of
Southern woman duringThe Last Days
of the Confederacy Penelope's Irish
Experiences and The Tory Lover con-
tinue. The number contains enter
tanning short stories, reviews, and lit
erary articles upon Fiction, New and
Old ;Comwell Rowland Robinson, etc;
some attractive poetry, and the al
ways entertaining Contributors Club.
In fiction, the chief interest in the
January Century attaches to a COM
plete story-ingeniou and debate pro-
voking-by DIR. Weir MITCHELL
Comedy of Conscience. Other stories
are Margaret L. Knapp's "The Man
Who Went With the Place'-a place
in Connecticut Charles W. Chestnut's
'tThe March of Progress, 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. Fiction invades the airy pre-
cedents of SIN Lighter Vein in the