The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-26
Magazines For January

THE CENTURK-A valuable chapter
in the history or evolution is contributed
TO the January Century by Henry Fair
| field, OSBORN Da Costa Professor OF
| Zoology in Columbia University, and
Curator IN the American Museum or Ma
tural History, dealing with Icntnyosours.
Almost simultaneous discoveries in Amer
| lea, IN Central Wyoming and Europe, IL
| Illustrating with remarkable clearneEs the
evolution of fitness. influenced Mr. Os-
born TO write of a period III natural his
tory which he finds of singular fascina-
ton. The illustrations, it is said, will be
OF special interest.
LEsLIEs.-A new detective story, by
Anna Katherine Green, which opens with
/ a oal, murder, and lost diamond, be-
gins in Leslie's Monthly Magazine for
January, and from these first chapters
vas her best An article on Grand
Opera in America by Heinrich Conreid.
director Of the Metropolitan Opera
Rouse, tells of some of the trials OF an
! impreSario in this country ana an essay
on Does 1t Pay to Be a Teacher" gives
! an excellent idea Of the work. oppor-
| tunitfes and rewards of that most impor-
tant career. The last of the articles on
the theatrical Syndicate is "a summing up
OF the conditions and prospects of the
theatrical business and an account OF
some OF the results of Syndicate
| methods.
THE SMART SET.-The contents of the
January Smart Set is the first indication
ot the excellence which Is to mark the
1 magazine for 1903. The Smart Set was
! long since conceded the title of the mag
| azine of cleverness." and its plans for the
coming year already embrace a list of
new contributors whose names stand for
] the very best in the fiction and verse of
the day With George Barr NcCutcheOn,
FRANCIS Aymar Mathews, William X.
Llghton, Emery Pottle, Rupert Huges,
i We md Tpg.re q
standing out from among twenty-seven
| other names. most of which are widely
known and especially familiar to Smart
SET readers, the January number prom
| Uses well for the coming year.
THE POPULAR.-Among the host of
/ good things which appear in the 1914 pages
/ OF the January Popular Magazine, the
| lttle more prominently, perhaps. than the
rest This Is by III. Rider Haggard, and
is a a companion story to his most famous
novel of adventure, She" The publica-
ton of this story denotes great enter
/ prise and liberality on the part OF the
publishers and should go a long way
among the top-nOtchers in point of cir
culation. In addition TO the foregoing
! there are a complete novel four Serials
and nine exceptionally good short stories
The cover design is by Hamilton King
! AINSLEE' S.-This magazine begins the
new year with table of contents for the
January number infinitely superior 10
| that of year ago. The novelette, is con-
/ unued as the leading feature of the mag
/ 9zlne. II is "A Beiated Harvest. by
/ Marie Van Worst. whose book THE Wo-
| man Who Tolls" written in collaborat ton
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Van
| Worst drew out President ROoseYelt's
| famous letter on race suicide "A Be
! lated Harvest is a story of very strong
| dramatic interest and is wonderfully well
told. b. NJ. Bower has a delightfully."- life
ike story of western ranch life. called
| The Sheepherder.' A strong character
! study. yet entirely free from the re-
! proach of being too psychological, is
Renaissance. by margarine Spalding
! Gerry; and it is intensely Interesting
The Master Hand is a short story by
| klbourne Cowles containing a very dra-
| matte situation, the climax being reached
i in a thoroughly artistic manner. Holman
r. Day has characteristic story IN THE
| Waiting of Palermo'S Jacob" 1t is one
/ of the best OF Mr., Days recent short
stories, and has a wonderfully gripping
| bit of human pathos
THE DELINEATOR.-W a most at
/ tractiye cover and d varied list of con-
! tents including the latest news of the
/ fashions and literary and domestic fea-
] lures of the greatest interest. the Define
/ atOr for January is an altogether excel
| lent number. The regular fashion display
is supplemented by strikingly Illustrated
1 article on The Stage as a School of
/ Costume, showing the close re-atiOns
|
/ world Of style. Herbert d. Ward and
! Seumas MacManus contribute stories of
rare charm, and under the pseudonym
/ Marie Columbia" very clever writer
/ describes the smart set in Washington
| society. Jesus, Lover of My Soul - is
the first paper in a series, by Allan Suth-
| erland. giving the history and romance Of
/ the famous hymns of the world and In
/ the "Composers' series the love story
] of Mendelssohn and Cecile is related by
/ Gustav Kobbe. For children there is a
wealth of interesting matter, the names
/ OF l.. Frank Baum and Grace MACEDONIAN
] Cooke being prominent among the con
! tributors. Among the domestic topics, In
addition to the regular features, is the
| first paper of The Making Of a House
! wife, BY Isabel Gordon Curtis. new
department. Good Looks supplements
! a series of papers along similar lines that
| appeared during the past year.
PEARSON'S.-This magazine for Jan
| uary presents a remarkable collection OF
| interesting special articles and clever
short stories, numbering in all eighteen
The leading article is a clear concise,
! exhaustive narrative. handsomely Illus
| trated and describing in a popular way
the dangers. the difficulties and the mag
nitude Of that most recent marvel of en-
/ cheering the New York subway. Skin
Sculpture. the Modern TaXidermy.' and
"A Seventy five-ThOusand-Pouu Meteor
ite' are articles that will please those OF
| a scientific turn of mind. ''Thc Max
! ing OF Incandescent Lamps The Life
! Story of "A Wild Boar and Pneumonia,
the Unsolved Problem" are articles that
| will appeal to those interested respec-
lively in industry. in animals and in
| problems of health; while Scoring the
! Beat is a stirring, striking article. con-
sistinC Of adventure of those daring, re-
sourceful fellows. the New York news
paper reporters. Still other special articles
are Kate V Saint Maurs serial. The
Seif-SuDporting Home" and Robert Sloss'
interview with Julia MarlOwe.
| HARPER'S-Among the really splendid
articles Of this splendid magazine none
perhaps will create more interest than the
one by Mr. Shackleton, dealing with
superstitions of New Workers. The fore
most city Of America is. oddly enough,
the most SuDerStitiOUS. Robert Shackle-
TON has gathered in New York a remark
able assortment Of actual charms. spells.
black art all sorts Of wizardry practised
there at this time. which he embodies in
an entertaining article on super titions
/ of a Cosmopolitan City in Harper
Magazine for January. There are Wise
/ Women who are called in to doctor the
| sick in east side tenements, there is a
Wall street broker who must have his
! right cheek shaved first and the initial
| stroke must be upward" Mr.. ShackietOn
! also refers to a New York nnancier,
known over the civilized world. who
''hoIds active superstitions in regard to
cats" SuperstitiUns. while they abound
among the foreigners. are not, it seems,
confined TO that element.
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