The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-30

tionai reputation in two weeks. THE
Russian Vodka Monopoly" by Anna
Northend Benjamin, is a very inter
esting account of the means the Rus
sian government has adopted to cor
rect the national vice of drunkenness.
The number is an unusually good one.
Ainslee's Magazine. Street & Smith,
24S William street, New York city.
The January Country Life in Amer
lea is California number with superb
pictures characteristic of this unique
and beautiful magazine, and wholly
devoted to the outdoor world on the
Pacific coast. The special covers show
big trees of the Sierras. and, a mag
nificent frontispiece, the blooming or
chards at the foot of snow capped
mountains. The leading article, by
l.. H. Bailey. tells of the diversified
beauties and peculiarities of the land
that flowers in winter and
sleeps in summer, where thunder
storms are not, and where the sun
& Co., "a Union Square, east, New
York city.
The leading article in the January
Cosmopolitan is by w. #. Stead. and
is entitled Government Unity for An
glo-Saxons." 1t is the article that has
been the subject already of a great
deal of comment, particularly in the
English papers. 1t is calculated to pro-
woke thought and discussion. Another
article that will attract attention is by
William r. Draper, and is entitled The
Last of the Red Race THE Story of
Theodore Roosevelt's Life" by John
Bisbee Walker. is one of the best of
the many articles on the life of the
President that have appeared in the
public prints. 1t is we'll worth reading.
The Cosmopolitan, Irvington. New
York.
Scribner's Magazine has seldom had
better union of a great subject with
the right man to treat it than in the
series which begins IN the January
number on THE American CONNER
eial -lnxGsion. Europe Freak
Vanderlip, on resigning his position as
assistant secretary of the Treasury last
srring, went to Europe with letters
from the highest American officials to
the ministers of France and other
leaders in industry and commerce in
all the great nations. Fresh from an
intimate association with the indus
trial and and financial problems in this
country, he was peculiarly fitted by
aptitude and training to appreciate the
bearings of this problem abroad. The
keynote of his articles is that 1.-The
Industrial world is as yet by no means
PROSTATE at our feet. We have before
US long campaign of hard work" 1t
IS the aim of Mr.. Vanderlip's articles to
point out the directions in which this
hard work must be done. Jesse Lynch
Williams (author of THE Stolen
Story'D contributes 1.-THE Harvest"
The story is of a broken engagement.
Artists of distinction furnish illustra-
tons for many of the articles. Among
them are Walter Appleton Clark, Otto
Baeher, Rene Lelong and Will H Low.
Peixotto furnishes beautiful illustra-
tons accompanying the first of Mrs.
Edith Wharton's charming articles on
Art Impressions of Italy" This one
is about Parma. Charles Scribner's
Sons. New York.
The special features Of the American
Review of Reviews for January are an
article summarizing the work and the
report of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion, by Prof. Emory r. johnson, a
member of the commission; an illus
trated sketch of Alfred Nobel the
Swedish inventor of dynamite, who
left over 100000, the proceeds of
which was to be distributed in the
form of annual prizes for the advance
ment of science and the promotion of
International peace; a sketch of M
Berthelot, the great French chemist,
whose jubilee was recently observed
in Paris; a brilliant account of recent
progress in high-speed electric loco
motion, by Thomas c. Martin; an Illus
trated description of a settlement"
work in a Buffalo tenement, by Emma
Winner Rogers, and a brief study of
the Charleston Exposition, recently
opened, illustrated from photographs
of the completed buildings now for
the first time published. The Review
of Reviews, 13 Aston Place, New York