New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-28


Sorrow, my treasured grief, my boarded pain
Where shall turn to have you mine a6aih'
Wherever there are other breasts that ache,
Wherever there are hearts are like to break
Wherever there are hurts too hard to pear
bur n ahd to 1G9 take 10, and have me for your
or keep me, as you thougnt rs laS 70 be
Beyond yourself you must abide Win me-
.ArccIure's Magazine" has nothing pictorial
about #. cover; It is content this month to ap-
near with an excellent conventional design IN
red green and white. BY all odds the most ar
tistic modern drawings in It are the three li0ue
by Ernest Haskell for THE Song OF the saw
mill" by Florence Wilkinson, and set OH ny
delicate tinted ground. Short stories occupy
much space in this number. but there Is one
critical article of value the first instalrnent IN
N5r Ia Farre,s study Of lone Hundred Mas
terpieces of Painting" illustrated with me
full page half tones of works by Dutch masters
Miss Tarbeu begins this month the second part
of her history of the Standard Oil Company
Frank Ieslie's' has a dainty design IN four
colors by Emile Benson-Knipe on its cover and
the same artist provides some clever hlustr4-
tions in black and white and red for piece oL
iuvenilia by Margaret Shipp. Noticeable also
I'm this number are the four animal studies IN
color by Charles L. Bull. These form group
entitled THE Wild Beasts Christmas Dlnner'
1t is a good idea we'll carried out Fiction mas
its place here, of course. but there are articles
dealing with actualities of the day, the working
girl of New-York, the theatrical property man
and Wall Street. Those to whom recent events
have made Mr. Charles ]. Bonaparte, Of Balti-
more especially interesting will appreciate MT
J. F Brownells article on that gentleman, IL
Illustrated with good portrait
.rTbe Rooklovers Magazine brims over with
pictures, many Of them in color. and some or
these notably the picture Of a scullon playing
with a cat by Joseph Bail, uncommonly artis-
tic 1.-THE Child in Art" by Miss Hurl is illus
trated with some we'll chosen old masters.
But perhaps the best things in this number
are the superb winter photographs illustrat-
ing the article on 1.-The Frost King at
Niagara" Outing for December rejoices In
one of the most striking of the Christmas COL
ored covers and has good frontlsplece IN COL
ors by Mr.. Walter Whitehead Here, too, we
find a couple of exquisite winter photographs.
The magazine opens with a vivacious paper on
THE Paris Cabman" by Mr.. Vance Thompson,
illustrated with interesting snapshots. For the
rest we have the familiar miscellany of pictures
and text of significance to sportsmen with good
fiction. including a story by Eden Philpotts.
'Everybody's Magazine" contains elaborate
color schemes but there is excellent tinted
work in the reproduction of pictures by
NJ Burnand for Mr.. Brinton's article on that
artist as "A Painter of Bible Scenes" and the
same process has been put to good use In the
reproductions Of photographs for The Worlds
Babies" by Marian West. Two other contribu-
tions to be signalized Mr. Tarkington's story.
BOSS Gorgett" and Mr.. Alfred Henry Lewis's
unconventional paper on Concord. THE Pail
MALI has q pretty cover in colors, tinted
frontispiece and a sketch in colors by the late
hut -ha host ms a
Shines original sketches for Miss Syrett's Blue
Roses: Fairy Tale for Impossible Women"
and Mr. Hartricks portraits for The Queens
QUAR-" A timely and well written contribution
is Mr.. Begbie's account of an interview with MIR.
John Morley, whom he describes as, in private
life, a "blithe soul, at once joyful and
gentle, glad and kind, merry and merciful."
But we must give few more of Mr.. Begbies
words:
He is intensely human-an Uncle Toby among
philosophers, in heart land If you be extremely
Tory you may say in head as welD a Don
Quixote among politicians. No mans face lights
with a merrier laughter. No mans voice ex-
presses a deeper sympathy. Some human magic
about the man makes every spoken word of his
even the light quip or the playfullest turn OF
phrase-good and memorable. To feel his hand
on ones shoulder and to hear him say God
bless you" in vaediction, is to experience a
There is something real about the man. some
thing noble, something harming-something
very human And this more than all-there is
contagion in his nobility.
1.-The Atlantic Monthly" true to it's old tradi-
ton, appears in the same cover that it has al
ways worn. and contains. Of course illustra-
lions. Neither does it pay overmuch attention
to Christmas. though it has story by Mr.. Dun
can opposite to the moment, and perhaps there
could be no better time for perusal Of DR.. Mum
gers wise article The Church: Some Imme-
date Questions" Sir Leslie Stephen devotes the
fourth of his reminiscent papers to a discourse
on Editing" and in relating his personal ex-
periences brings IL many a noted name. Here
is part OF what he has say the general as
poets Of his theme:
the fact Is always in q state of eagerness for
the discovery of the coming Tor woman),
In spite Of many disappointments, would take
manuscript after manuscript with a
nutter of hope that IL might be a new Jane
Eyre" or Scenes of Clerical Life" destined to
lift some obscure name to the heights Of celeb
rity That delight never presented itself; and
vet do not know that ever rejected angel
unaWares. Had / done so / should only have
been treading in the steps of men more sagacious
in gauging aptitude for success. l do not fancy
myself TO be a good judge of the public taste
l have never clearly discovered what II is that
attracts the average reader. Many popular au-
thors would suffer considerably and at least
obscure writer would gain. IL everybody
took my view OF their merits. / believe. not the
cause they ought to succeed. critic has no
business to assume that taste is bad because he
does not share it. His business is to accept the
fact and try TO discover the qualities 10 which IL
is due.
"Lippncotts'' retains its old cover. only