The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-01
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JANUARY MAGAZINES.

Inc January Home Magazine is partic-
utarly strong in fiction. There is a char
acterlstlc story of New York fiat life.
entltled "A Terror by Night by Ea-
ssne WOOD Tire late Stephen Crane con-
tributes "A Sullivan County Episode y
tod III his best humorous style. "A
fair OF Bellows" is tender little love
tale by May Isabel Fisk. And "Jack,s
IhumperP is an ) entertaining child,s
story by Walter 1T. Ogden. OF mora
serious interest is Gloudsley johns
Charge 1t to the Company" The dra-
matte. department thfS month is in new
handss beings eonducted1@by Mr. Acton
Davies, the well known dramatic critic
OF the New York Evening Sun. Mr.
Davies discusses the rival L'Aiglons
with some particularly handsome pic
lures OF both the Maude Adams and tho
Bernhard productions OF the play There
are the usual editorial departments on
new books and from the feminine point
Of view, poetry. etc. The January num-
Der the New York Home Magazine
certainly eclfpses all previous records
in general timeliness, artistic merit ami
literary value
This number of the Ledger Monthly.
the first number of the new year. 1901,
contains new and attractive features.
new department, entitled 1.-THE First
Corneiia C. Bedford, will be found es-
pecially interesting to housekeepers The
article entitled Possibilities of the Kitch-
en- Garden" by Alma J. Noble, Is one
which appeals to all mothers and all
who have the care and training of young
girls in their charge. Among the special
illustrated articles of this number are:
t:SFhe Annual New Years Reception at
the White House." with illustrations of
oYfn nd iTf6 nf lie fa
house; Literary Strolls About Manhat
TAM" with portraits of Edgar Allen Poe,
Washington Irving, Joseph Rodman
Drake, James Fen1more Cooper, Richard
H. Stoddard eBayard Taylor, William
Cullen Bryant and the famous Cary
sisters, so long contributors to the New
York Ledger, and Illustrations of the
houses in which they lived. all of which
are amply described in the accompanying
interesting article;s.a very pretty de-
seriptive article on Indian Babies ana
an article on ''Aristocratic Cats" are
copiausly illustrated. Hall Gaines beaut-
iful story, Jan. the Icelander, is con-
cluded In this number
H,,nxan interest is. the KEYNOTE Of Frank
7 ESTES Popular Monthly. Its stories and
ifs articles follow as closely as may be
the lines Of genuine human experience
It's editors do not reject romance; IN
deed they seize upon a good story when
ever they find it; but they try to give
th, magazine as a. whole the flavor OF
reality. The reader feels instinctive.y
that most of the stories are transcripts
from life: not the commonplace existence
too familiar 70 most of Us. but the life
of energy and experience TAKE Tor eA-
ample the january number. 1t opens
with a singularly dramatic article. 'The
Reign of Soapy Smith" the notorious
boss of Skaguay The article is descllp-
tive Of occurrences incredible almost. yet
actual, written by a man WHO TOOK
prominent part in the long fight against
Smith and his ring. The story Is more
fnan the extraordinary history OF bad
man. 1t perfectly illustrates the develop
meut OF city hossisn, reduced to us
simplest terms in the primitive ciNtliZ1-
ton of a mushroom town. Other contrl-
buttons which must interest every man
who. works With hand or brain are;
f'Trading in Locomotives, NtVlo ac-
count of a remarkable industry, and An
Unexpected Result" the second of Mr.
S. A. Nelson's series Of Wall street
stories This last takes up an ethical
question of business and puts 1t In an
unusually dramatic form. Like all Mar
Nelson's stories, IT represents business
as business men know It,
The January number Of the Popular
Science Monthly contains a number Of
important timely articles. "Asphaltum
for Modern Street, by s. F. Peckham;
~ he Effect of Physical Agents on Sac
+er:al life nv DR. Allan Macfadycn:
ssFlies and Typhoid Fever. = by DIR. L. ..
Howard: Geometry: Ancient and Mod
err. by Prof, Edwin S.. CraWley: An
Address Before the. Anthropeiogical De-
partment of the British Association by
T. H. Huxley; 1.-THE Story Of AtltonoIs.
nv Prof William Henry Hudson; me
economic Life of France, by DR.. Edward
d. Jones: "Pearson's Grammar OF SCI
ence y, hy c. S. -Pieree: 1.-THE. Structure of
the Heavens, by Prof. Simon Newcoro.