The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28


scriptive of THE Child in Art" The
art features comprise q color reproduc-
lions of celebrated pictures and por-
traits, and % in tint and in half-tone.
These, exclusive of the various illustra-
tions in The World Of Print" section.
place the Christmas number of the
Booklovers Magazine In the forefront OF
the illustrated KDonthies both in quantity
and quality The principal literary
features are varied and interesting. They
inoludye Dan Black Paul Piper's
clever story; a poem by Edmund Vance
Cooke; a Defense of Slang by Her
man Spencer; and an appreciation OF
Scott by Professor FBTrott of Prince
ton.
The Popular Magazine for December
has much interesting fiction, and is in
creased in size There is a complete
Fuller, and stories by Louis Joseph
Vance, George Parsons Bradford, Arthur
Dudley Hall, w. Bert Foster and Henry
Harrison Lewis.
The new publishers of Eeerybody's
Magazine declare the holiday issue of
the publication to be much the beet they
have yet produced. 1t is not the typical
Christmas number made up of stilted
fiction and pictures of the festival in
many lands. It is just an especially
lively and entertaining magazine, full OF
really good stories, clever pictures, ana
well written and timely articles. Eu-
gene Burnand's pictures of Bible scenes
reproduced for the first time in America.
are an attractive feature. Burnand IS
the greatest painter of sacred subjects
since the old masters and his studies
of the Saviour and the Last Supper are
of extraordinary interest. In this num-
Der new department, The Players,
a gossipy resume of theatrical doingS.
by Hartley Davis, set Oft with supere
pictures of the stars and lesser stage
luminaries is inaugurated.
The Christmas number of THE
Worlds Work interprets timely phases
of our national and insular development
and rounds up a year of distinct maya
zine achievement OF vital significance
is Sereno's S. Pratt's article, ''Who Owns
the United States - in which concrete
facts and figures show the centraliza-
ton of our financial power and how all
the wealth of the country IS in the con-
troll of comparatively few people. The
second Of the series of articles on The
Postofiice and the People" by NJ. G.
Cunniff, shows how and why our post
Office is inadequate. and how 1t is the
true and permanent postal scandal
With THE True Character OF New YORK
Public Schools" Miss A. NJ. Shaw be-
gins a series of frst-hand studies OF
American schools Her first article
which is profusely Illustrated by photo
graphs taken especially for The
Worlds Work." shows by facts and fig
ures conditions that every citizen should
know Another notable series is begun
by Professor B. II. Galloway, CHIEF or
the bureau of plant industry or the
ture whose article THE New Farmer
and the New Earth illustrated by
numerous photographs, shows how ag-
riculture has become an exact science,
and that the day of the clodhopper IS
gone The cover designs is a reproduc-
ton in color OF an artistic French bind
ing.
A wonderful Christmas Annual, offer
ing practical suggestions for every pre-
paration one would make to enjoy an
ideal Christmas. is Country Life III
America for December, the largest mag
azine with the most beautiful photo
graphs and pages and supplements in
color to rival the great anpuats OF Eng
land. 1t is different, however, in beng
really American, breathing everything
of the outdoor world, from the snowy
woods, skeeing, ice-boating. the animals
birds and flowers to southern planta-
lions and house-parties. The beautiful
magazine aims to cover all the work
and pleasure that goes on under the
open sky. Among the really notapIe
features the Annual contains, are
"Christmas in the Pine Woods" by S.
E. White, the "blazed TRAIL author;
"Skeeing'' as a popular sport in A1nerl-
ca, with remarkable jumping pictures;
and the beautiful section OF the maya
zine illustrating Christmas greens ana
floral decorations in natural color5, in
GLIDING the many new southern varie-
ties. which, together with the large sup
plement, three feet long, entitled "A
Parsons Christmas" by Stetson Craw-
ford and other features, make an ex-
quisite run of color.
1t is the comic side of newspaper ex-
periences that is taken up in the Little
Stories of Journalism in The Reader
Magazine for December. Julius Cham
bers has had many odd adventures, and
his stories of the dynamite brick ana
the obviated Spanish duel are fresh ana
diverting. They of course are true The
other stories in the number are fiction
one is by Edgar Fawcett love sorry,
but not a trite one; the other Is the in
stallment of Miriam Michelson's serial,
THE Bishops Carria ge'-we call the
installment story, because this mover
is so constructed that each chapter ia
a complete tale, satisfactory in itself.
Another of the articles this month is a
confession" this time Of a theatrical
press agent, who calls the man in his
line 1.-THE Showiest Trickster, and
gives instances of the amazing games
he resorts to to get his plays talked
about in the newspapers. Bert Lesion
Taylor, in his dishful of Reading Sauce
What is sauce for the goose IS sauce
for the gander '-good-naturedly pokeS
fun at various prominent writer's; and
another well-known humorist, Miss
Carolyn Wells, in lover the Book
Counter" glances at several of the
latest books in her usual sprightly way.
The December Smart Set opens with
a charming novelette, by Frank Lee
Benedict entitled Miss Fitzmaurice,
Debutante" The story is of London
and washington society. The number
is notable for its good fiction. Among
the contributors are E. Phillips Open
helm. Maurice Francis Egan, Guy Wet
more Carryl, Edna Kenton, Mary l.
rendered, Louise Belts Edwards, Flor
ence Warden Gertrude Lynch and 9TH
ers. Humorous matter is contributed
by May Isabel Fisk, Tom Mason, Chas.
Battell Loomts, Hayden Carruth and
others.