The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-08
MAGAZINES.


The North American Review for De-
cember is a number of much impor-
lance. The subjects could not be bet
ter adjusted to the varied interests of
the hour, nor could more capable pens
be found to deal with them than those
represented by the uneXampled array
of eminent names which appear on the
| title-page. The achievements of
president Roosevelt's First Year" are
judicially considered by two distin-
guished writer's. whose identity, be-
You'd the fact that they are, respec-
lively "A Progressive Republican" and
"a Jeffersonian Democrat" is with
held. The late ex-Speaker Thomas =.
Reed asks What Shall We Do With
the TARIFF" Mark Twain makes some
characteristic comments on Christian
Science" in the first of three papers
he has prepared on that subject. w.
D. Howells pays a warm tribute to the
genius of the late Frank Norris. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt inquiries into the
fea sibility of using Electricity as a
Motive Power on Trunk Lines" DR..
Joseph S. Auerbach criticises some re-
cent utterances of President Roose-
Welt on the Trusts" and Henry C. Ad-
ans, professor of Political Economy in
Michigan University, unfolds the ma
ture of publicity and the administra-
tive measures through which it may
be successfully realized These and
other articles make up a very inter-
esting number The North American
Review, Franklin Square, New York
city
Country Life in America for Deem
Der is a large Christmas ANNUAL with
a beautiful cover and a hundred SUI
perb Illustrations, and colored supple
ments besides. The spirit of jollity of
the season pervades the bulky number
of winter sports, unusual house par
ties. Christina homes and many things
of winter at her best. Rudyard Kip
ling contributes the poem, Pan in
Vermont" deifying the man who in
winter, brings the seeds of phlox and
hollyhocks into the snowbound country
where Kipling once lived. Eleanor Hoyt
has written a story of another one of
the "misdemeanors'' of her adorable
Nancy. Pre-eminent, however, is the
profusion of elaborate pictures and the
articles that have to do with hockey,
skeeing and tobogganing, snowshoeing,
ice yachting on country lakes, fishing
through the ice, and even the homely
sports of skating, skate-sailing and
the pursuits that carry one into the
deep woods Altogether, the elaborate
makeup bespeaks the grand success
of this new sort of magazine, the
growing love of real sport in America.
Doubleday, Page & Company, "a Union
Square, New York.
The December number of The Era
will be received with pleasure by it's
many friends. 1t is a particularly
interesting number. The articles are
81 l., 49,, at L.
a high standard of merit and the de-
partments are as good as they can be
made. "Summering in Winter" by l..
de v. Matthewman is the leading ar
ticle. 1t is handsomely illustrated
The subject of the article is Jamaica.
The Conquest of the Widow Magill'
by William j. hampton is a clever
short story Royal Welcome" by
Albert Payson Terhune is another
Anarchy-A View in Detail" by
George Sands Goodwin, is timely ar
ticle. 1t is on a subject which the
average magazine reader wants to
know something about. These are only
few of the good things of the num-
Der. Henry T. Coates & Co., 1922
Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
DEFENDERS number of Masters in
Art" is devoted to the works of Luini,
a painter of the Lombard School. 1t
contains a number of excellent pic
lures of the most famous of the paint
ings of that artist, biographical
sketch, as well as a series of short
essays on Luini by such writer's as
Georges, Lafenestre and John Adding
ton Symonds.-Bates & Guild Co.,
Boston.
Masters In Music" Is the name of
new monthly magazine devoted to
music and issued under the editorship
of Daniel Gregory Mason. The pros
pectus is devoted to Mozart of whom
it contains an excellent sepia print
picture, a biographical sketch and
typical examples of his compositions.
Bates & Guild Co., Boston Mass.