The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-27
LITERARY NOTES.

The two most striking articles of the
well-varied contents of the Worlds Work
for December are President IIliot's article
on 1.-The Needs of American Public Edu-
cation and Frank w. Nanderip's con-
servative note of warning on the tinan-
cial situation. The illustrated features
include II handsome series of reproduce
tions OF George Grey Barnard's sculpture
printed in a brown-t toned ink, accompany
ing an article about the sculptor and his
work by Alexander Blair Thaw. Other
interesting illustrated articles are For
rest CrisSeyS story of the development
of The Travelling Post Office, II complete
description. by Chalmers Roberts. OF the
work on the famous Nile Dam, and the
inner history of the growth of Mormon
Cooperation by Glen Miller. Portraits
of John b. Mcdonald and Clement \.
Griscom are accompanied by appreciatiNe
interpretations OF the work these men
have done. Interviews with prominent
employers in regard To profit sharing and
Christmas gifts to employees are report
ed by Fullerton Waldo Frederick y.
Job, the chairman of the Illinois State
Board of Arbitration tells of an interest
ing and successful experiment ic has
made in arbitrating labor troubles. The
usual editorial review and departments
are maintained to the limit of the high
standard for which this Incompatible
nftStZlne iS notea'
Ainslee's for December opens with Il
dramatic story of modern life, entitled,
"The Unequal Yoke" by Meth Boycc.
Molly Elliot Seawell contributes a pretty
love story entitled, "Blacli or Red?' John
Gilmer Speed writes entertainingly, and
with impartiality about 'The Bachelor
Maid" The first short story that Edgar
Saltus has published in n long time APP
In hh
"The Dear Departed" II is character
ICED by all the power and grace habitual
to Mr.. Satus' fiction. In all there are
n bout thrty-five contributions to the
christmas Ainslee's, Among the au-
thors included In IL are Sir Edwin Ar"
mold, Henry NJ Blossom, Jr., Joaquin Mil
ler, Caroline Duer, Ethel Watts Mum
ford Lady Violet Greville and Josephine
Dixon.
Country Life in America for December
Is n large Christmas annual with beau
tiful cover and hundred superb illustra-
tions, and colored supplements besides
Rudyard Kipling contributes the poem,
Pan I'm Vermont" defying the man who
in winter, brings the seeds of phloN and
hollyhocks into the snow bound country
where Kipling once lived. There is a
profusion of elaborate pictures and ar
acles that have to do with hockey, skee-
ing and tobogganing. snowshoeing, Ice
yachting on country lakes, fishing through
the ice. and even the homely sports of
ska ting, skate-sailing and the pursuits
that carry one into the deep woods.
Among the Christmas numbers i-eslie's
Monthly appears in am edition de luxe.
The number OF pages Is Increased; story
by Egerton Castle printed in tint and
one by Seumas MacManus on colored pa
per; and a collection of full page illus
trations by John Cecil Clay, Reginald
Birch, w. Glackens. Florence Scorel
Shlnn. John Wolcott Adams, IL. NJ, Eat
on and Howard Giles illumine the mag
azine. There are stories by Ralph Con-
nor, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Anna
Katherine Green, Eden Phillpotts, Finer
son Hough, author of the Mississippi
Bubble" and others. 1t Is twenty-five
cent magazine any way you look it at.