The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-05
MAGAZINES.

marked advance over previous issues
of this popular and widely read mag
azine. While the contents generally
cannot be said to relate specifically to
Christmas, the Christmas spirit per-
vades the magazine from cover to
cover.
An article of an odd type is concern
ed with the work being done by Mr..
Louis Akin, an artist who for many
months has dwelt among the Hopi In
dams in Arizona. The Illustrations of
this article are among the most strik-
ing the Pilgrim has ever published
In fiction the Christmas number Of
the Pilgrim is especially rich. A strik-
ingly illustrated and swiftly interest
ing railroad story is entitled, The
Flight of $685." and Hopkins j. Moore
house, it's author, proves himself to
be a writer Of quite unusual power.
The Pilgrim Magazine Company, Bat
tie Creek, Mich.
The December number of Town
Topics has for it's leading story "A
Fifth Avenue Incident" by Edgar Sal
tus. 1t is a story that will be read
with considerable interest. Saltus is
an attractive writer and has many ad-
mirers. There are a number of other
stories, several poems of merit and a
lot of other bright things. Town Top
les Publishing Company, 452 Fifth
avenue, New York.
| The special features of the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for December
are an article by Walter Wellman on
THE United States and the Worlds
| Peace Movement" an account of the
work of the Merchant Marine Com
| mission, by Winthrop L. Marvin brief
character sketches of four men of the
month,-William Barclay Parsons. by
Nicholas Murray Butler; David Row.
land Francis, by Frederick M. Crun-
| den; George B. Cortelyou, by Louis a.
Coolidge; and William l.. Douglas,
by H. L. Wood; an account of the re-
cent movement for the betterment of
rural conditions in North Carolina, by
| Clarence H. Poe; a forecast of the COM
| ing Forestry Congress at Washington,
by H. NJ. Suter; Modern Picture
Book Children" by Earnest Knaufft,
with reproductions of the work of re-
cent illustrators of childhood, and an
account of the remarkable trials in
| November of the electric locomotive
built for the New York Central Rail-
road. The departments are up to their
usual high standard of merit.
A very attractive number is the Hol-
iday Book number of the outlook.
Even the cover and advertisements are
| attractive. It's articles are of a high
standard of merit. Those who read 1t
will get some interesting informa-
ton about books and the writer's
of them. The pictures of the writer's
mentioned are an additional attraction
as people like to know about authors
whose books they read The Outlook
Company, 2S7 Fourth Ave, New York
The December number of the
Worlds Work makes a wide sweep of
the activities of the United States for
the past year, covering not only the
most significant facts in our develop
ment, but showing further our rela-
lions with other countries, and the re-
gard In which we are held by them.
The Illustrations for this number have
been chosen with exceptional care, and
are among the finest that have ever
appeared in any magazine. The hope
full financial outlook is summed up
in The Sound Revival of Business"
| The Secretary of the Navy, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury the Secretary
of the Department of Agriculture, and
the Postmaster General have each con-
tributed a resume of the work of his
department for the past year. Lord
Curzon. Viceroy Of India, describes the
enormous difficulties encountered by his
administration, and paints a brilliant
future for the British Eastern Empire
i'm the Future OF British India" The
Universal Spirit Of Christmas" consid-
ers in its larger aspects the signif-
canoe of the Christmas gift, and Mr..
II. w. Lanier's notable series of arti-
cles on insurance Is continued with
a discussion of industrial life insur-
ance, entitled Billions in Ten Cent
Insurance" Doubleday, Page & Co.
1SS-1S7 East Sixteenth street, New
York.
II is doubtful II among the Christ
mas magazines there is one more at
tractive than McClures Its cover ar
rests attention and its articles and
illustrations are just about as good
as they can be. In looking over this
number Il Is easy 20 understand why
McClurc's has secured such large
circulation. The reason Is Il merits
the confidence and patronage OF the
public. Some OF It's articles have un-
doubtediy helped 10 raise the country
TO a higher plane OF morality s. s.
Mcclure Co. Twenty-third street and
Fourth avenue New York CITY