Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

MONTHLY
MAGAZINES
Holiday Publications That
Are Worth Looking al
This Time Of The
Year

The Christmas Century is a great
big annual, overlooking with colored
plates, poems, stories, and high-class
literary performances too numerous
to catalog in a small newspaper. But
the spirit Of the thing is what quite
gets away with us-the richness Of
printing. contents and general make
up-a great big overlooking horn-of
plenty style Of publication. It is
nearly heaven on earth among peri.
odicals.
Outing is a splendid monthly Of
sport, travel and adventure, spiced
with sketches of country life and
wholesome outdoor fiction. Each
number has a review Of the sporting
events in which the editor, Casper
Whitney. tells what he thinks about
things, and If it is not just what other
sporting men think, it is generally
better than they think. His fearless
defense Of humanity in the treatment
Of game is also worthy Of commenda.
ton.
Peterson's Magazine is sustaining
the reputation it has justly earned of
offering to its readers a most happy
coordination Of bright, entertaining
fiction and clever articles on .ub-
jects of timely interest. This art Of
presenting useful information in a
manner to hold the attention Of the
casual reader is one not easy to at
tain, and Parsons Magazine is to be
congratulated on the success It has
always achieved in this line. The
leading article in the December Pear.
sons is the first of a series on the
organization and management Of the
gigantic industrial corporations OF
the present day, to be contributed by
Mr.. Henry George, jr. His initial ar.
tlcle deals with the methods Of
finance" employed by the great
Amalgamated Copper Company.
Frank Leslie's for Christmas has a
"Christmassy" expression from
TO cover, and the contents is more
Christmassy still. It is Christmas
for humans and for the animals, and
goodwill invades even the realms of
Nature.
McClure's for Christmas has a star
feature on Rockefeller and the Stand.
ard Oil oligarchy, by Ida NJ. Tarbell.
Ida doesn't do a thing to the greasy
old octopus. but stand him up and
make him face right-about and re,
veal his true inwardness from the
records. But he will go right on do
ing business and founding universe
ties to educate coming generations
in the gentle art OF skinning your fel.
bowman. John La Fargo begins his
series on the hundred greatest pic
lures, really the great magazine fea,
ture Of the month.
Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco,
have a beautiful December number
OF their Impressions Quarterly. The
contents ard the printing are equally
beautiful. The articles on home dec
o~rations are alone worth the price
OF admission
The new publishers OF Everybody's
Magazine declare the holiday issue OF
the publication Il be much the best
they have yet produced. Il is not the
typical Christmas number made up
OF stilted fiction and pictures OF the
festival in many lands. 1t is just an
especially lively and entertaining
magazine, full OF really good stories.
clever pictures. and well-written and
timely articles. The Ridgway-Thayer
Co, Union square, New York, ave 20
be congratulated on their brisk and
catchy editorial department. Il Is
the brightest thing OF the kind pub
lished in anv magazine or newspaper,
Western Camera Notes, Minneapo-
lis, continues the J. Edgar Ross pa.
pers on photography in the Cascades.
Il has tho usual list Of articles n
lusJrated with camera work from
some OF the best world amateurs.
Send for a sample COPY.
Like most OF the holiday month.
lies the December Atlantic has more
pages of advertising than reading.
but as the ADVERTISING is mostly about
holiday books, il is almost equally in.
teresting, There Is always a literary
charm about the Atlantic that is alb
sent from almost an other monthlies
It has not that got-up-to-sell style
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