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The November number Of Everybody's Maya
sine bears the usual sessonahlc picture Of the
strutting but fated turkey gobbler. and yellow
pumpkins Between the covers are several items
Of interest, Crayton McCants' 'Vulp, Of the Caro-
lima Reds is a series OF pictures presenting in
strong lines and glowing oolors the lean. iank
and snewy well-hred red fox" FIRST as hunter
and then as hunted Indeed the hsunss and
habits OF fox IN the Carolina Blackberry" dur
ing the FIRST three years OF his life are so wildly
presented that anybody who has lived in fox
hunting communities must feel keen on the
scent when reading t. The frontispiece Is
copy Of the portrait OF President Roosevelt's
mother. who was Miss Stephens OF Georgia.
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Ainslees for November Is full of seintillant
frivolities. II is now conducted quite on the
same lines as che Smart Set at it's best even in
Guiding the little story in French and Edgar
Saltus' regulation number OF pages filled with
his Enthusiastically sneering epigrairs There
arc many specimens OF fiction IN the current num-
Der well adapted TO please when one is in a
mentally lclling mood,
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In the Thanksgiving number Of Success is an
interesting article and interview with Edwin
Austin Abbey, the most prominent American
painter of today. The article called "A New
Profession for Women" is specially worthy Of
attention.
IN the latest Littell's Is set forth the sermon
preached by ], T. c Weldon In Westminster alb.
hey the holy OF holies to the British race 10
the colonial troops on the eve of their departure
from England directly after the coronation The
text was from ST. Mark Y, 10, and the sermon
seems unsfteetedly pithy and to the point The
last thought emphasized by the speaker was this
That the church Westminster abbey, belongs not
TO England only, but 70 the empire nor 60 the
empire only. but to the whole Anglo-Saxon race
All thinking and observing Americans must feel
the force OF this remembering that not only do
monuments Of our poets and artists stand in the
poets corner of Westminster but that Z. A. Alb
hey lie the artist chosen by the king to paint the
scene OF the coronation IN the abbey. By the way
since receiving this distinction. our American
artist is called in studio eoteries Westminster
Abbey,
The October issue OF Masters In Art, is devot-
ed TO the English painter Hogarth. The ext is
iumined by ten plates, copies in photogravure Of
some of the typical and most celebrated eompo-
sitions Of this absolutely original painter. In
addition 70 close and painstalting descriptions OF
pictures of which the plates in the magazine are
copies, there are also able essays on "Hognrth as
Artist and Satirist' (his reputation as a writer
almost equals his fame as an artist. by John c.
Van Dyke Austin Dobson. Sidney Colvin. Theo-
phile Gauter and Mrs. Oiphant
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or course the October number Of The Worlds
Work contains its usual quota OF able articles on
eminenty practical subjects
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The last two editions OF Golfers Weekly
should bear refreshing suggestions 10 Texan
readers at this season Of bclated autumn for the
title pages Of both are pictures of Lieutenant
Peary's recent Attic experiences