The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-27

TIE NOVEMBER CENTURY.
The November number of The Cen
trrv which opens Volume LXVII., eel.
ebrates that event by a new cover
~ color and by a variety of colored
inserts which include among the sub
iects TROPICAL Sunsets, wild animals,
and Italian gardens.
Edmund Clarence Stedman contrib
ntes the opening article on the New
York stock exchange, entitled Life
q. the Floor" AS a veteran and re-
tired broker Mr.. Stedman brings to
Ks subject a personal knowledge,
which is admirably supplemented by
his trained literary style. The article
makes a unique appeal to the inter-
est of the lay reader, as well as to
that Of all men engaged in business
with the exchanges. The paper is
illustrated in a lively way by Blumen-
schein and Bacher.
OF the color work four pictures are
nv Naxfeld Parrish, accompanying
the first article of Edith Wharton's
series on Italian Villas and Their
Gardens" a project upon which the
author and the artist were engaged
last winter in Italy. Mrs. Wharton's
special tonic is Florentine Villas, and
there is an introduction by her setting
forth in general the desirable features
Of Italian gardens.
Ernest Thompson Seton contributes
a. series of short sketches in an en-
tirev new vein entitled Fable and
Woodmyth,' together with illustrations
some Iauciful. some realistic.
A leading feature of the number is
the opening paper of the new literary
find" Thackeray's letters recording
his friendship with an American fam
lily. the BaXters Of New York, to
which Miss Lucy w. Baxter contrib
utes an Introduction, and which are
accompanied by a number of drawings
and interesting autographs Of Thack-
cray. \ piece Of hitherto unrecord
ed adventure is entitled Fighting the
Hudson IN which II. Addington Bruce
relates a perilous emergency in the
pUrse U. the construction of the Hud-
River tunnel, now nearly finished.
l. Worlds Congress Of Lions" by
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn,
describes with curious details the Lion
House of the New York Zoo with two
eo.ore4 Insects OF animals by Charles
R. knight.
Andrew d. White adds another of
his chapters from my Diplomatic
Life this month on Bismarck, with
whom he had unusually interesting re-
-a-ols. In the series OF engravings
by Timothy Cole from the Old Spanish
Masters is a cut of the famous pOr-
Uall OF Pope Innocent X. by Velasquez.
There are two cOlored pictures of
tropical sunsets by F. W. Stokes,
whose previous scenes from the Attic
and Antartic have attracted much at
le1'oH IN The Century. DR.. James NJ.
buckley plunges into current questions
II an essay on The Present Epiiem-
Il Oh Crme,' subject of which he
Id been a careful student.
Al The head Of the fiction Of the
number IS the first part of new nov
entitled -Four Roads to Paradise"
" Maud Wilder Goodwin, author of
.l9'l OF Hundred" etc, a story of
->V" York society people, the scene
partly laid IN Florence. In the short
SORES the element of humor predomi-
las The Missing Exequatur, by
e-'@,a.1 Il. Ridgely, a laughable
SVL! Of consular life: The Marrying
y. susan C,egg" by Anne Warner, a
r'''eF new TO The Century; The Reg
-1'inSstones' Country Life"
Ivy u. hunting society, by David
lta' The Little Canoe" a humorous
:v.'H OF Porto Rico. by H. w. Phil
= Two stories Of a more sentiment
J. C"S1 are The Shadow Of Love-"
" Georga Hj5bard. and THE Summer
fs., - MARTINI a phantasy of very del
~ NDaFm by Dr.. S. Weir Mitchell.
~ EDITORIAL articles are "An Eyes
ri.o we" York;" relating to the mum
W. w.. erection. and Some Effects of
rs,, publicity" and there is a va
rbs VI "s1t material. The poets of
crir. -~DeT are Henry van Dyke,
SrnI. .91 Dangerfeld, Marion Couthor
g. , ~ evelyn Phinney. Arthur String
- Elsa Barker. and others