The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

I AuuDer OF Inc burr mcintosh MO1lU-
~ From the beautiful color piece on
the front cover to the last page it is
arranged with delicate regard FOR
artistic effect.
Bliss Carman has written a Christ
mas poem especially for the December
number Of Appleton's BooklOver's
Magazine The title is 1.-THE Princess
Of the Tower" and the fable it con-
1 tains is after the style Of Rosseu. 1t is
undoubtedly by far the best thing that
/ Bliss Carman has ever written. The
/ illustrations by Charles Weber-Ditz-
I Ter are in many colors and of beau
i tiful conception. The poem might be
/ described as the humanizing Of heav-
/ enly devotion as THE Blessed Damo-
sell is the sanctifying of human love.
The most interesting feature of the
/ December Mcclure to Kansans is
I William Allen Whites article on Folk.
/ But there are also cOlOred Illustrations,
/ and several short stories. There is
special article by Ray Stannard Baker,
and a critical estimate of Christianity
/ in practice by the Rev. Charles D. Will
Jams.
The Twenty-third Psalm, the 'song
/ of faith" has been deliberately set in
a series of eight full-page colored
I drawings by J. c. Leyendecker, and
/ forms a beautiful as well as an appro-
pirate leading feature of the holiday
number of the Delineator. John Luz
Their Long, TheOdosia Garrison, Ham
+ lin Garland and Sir Gilbert Parker are
among the contributors. And, of
course. there is no END OF good cheer
at least the recipes for tin the house
i keeping department of the magazine.
Mr. Lawson's attack on .Frenzied
I Finance" continues in the holiday
Everybodys, but the holiday spirit is
not lacking. In this issue is Charles
Edward Russeii's story of the Sol
diers of the Common Good" and of
what they have achieved, and in the
fiction as well as many other good
/ things.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnetts new
story and DR.. Henry van Dykes new
/ poem are the leading features of Serb
ners' holiday number. The story is il
Illustrated in cOlOrs by Mr.. Z Ohm; the
poem is set in tinted decorations by
/ Leyendecker. Richard Harding Davis
reappears a stOry-teller, after a long
period of exclusive devotion to plays
and playwrlting. Among the rest of
i the contents mention should be made
/ of the short stories contributed by Car
ollne Duer and Winfield Scott Moody.
Apart from its many Illustrations in
cOlOrs and tints, and its Christmas
/ poem and stories, the Christmas Cen
fury is notable on account of the first
| Of Mr.. Frederick Trevor Hills papers
! dealing with Lincoln the Lawyer, as a
/ phase of the life of the great Presi-
| dent which has hitherto been all too
| much neglected by his biographers.
/ This opening installment is accom-
panied by an all but unknown portrait
| of Lincoln. The number opens with
a Christmas hymn by Alfred DOmett,
with picture in color by Leyendecker
and decorations by r. Weir Crouch.
A Christmas flavor permeates the
| December number of the Smart Set.
/ 4I-r5a fr~E,k al ny
/ Barbour, is a clever story of a lonely
/ bachelors adventure at a theatre on
| Christmas eve. "a Telephone Ex-
change" by Inez Haynes Gilmore, and
Butler, are also light. crisp tales full
of the holiday spirit. In THE Per
manent FOOL the distinguished Dutch
/ author, Maarten Martens, proves
/ what a gentle humorist he can be.
The complete novel, Edna Kentons
Bondage" is a serious piece of work.
/ A striking portrait of the Duchess of
Marlborough, reproduced by new
/ process, forms the frontiSpiece of this
number. 1t is the first of a series Of
portraits of women distinguished as
leaders of society.
Christmas poems. Christmas stories,
/ Christmas gifts and Christmas din
ners claim the greater part of the space
in the holiday number of Harper's Ba-
Ear with its handsome cover.
The Christmas number of Country
Life in America is one of the most
| beautiful magazines ever published. 1t
/ is full of Christmas feeling in text and
| illustrations. The cover deSign--a pea
/ cocks in three colors and gold.
There are sixteen pages of text and
| illustrations in sepia double-tone. six
/ teen pages of bluegreen double-tOne,
/ the frontispiece and double page in
four cOlOrs, and the rest of the maya
iii ir4
appears in the magazine, THE Child's
( Best Christmas Present, by Eliza
beth Hale Gilman, illustrated by Helen
f w. Cooke, tells what to give and what
not to give to the children at Christ
mas time. Miss Ostertag illustrates
some of the "Old English Christmas
/ Carols" with which from the high
/ tide of their pOpularity=from the
| tion-singers have voiced the joy of
( the holiday season undlsturbed by
; Church or State. IAN Old-Time New
I England Christmas" by William J.
4 Hopkins, tells US how Christmas was
/ celebrated by the cOlonials. It is il
/ Illustrated with four full-page pictures
j by Jane Dudley. "a Christmas Vigil -
/ by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd is a beauti-
full Christmas story. Sixteen pages to
the magazine are devoted to Winter
+ Sports, Old and New by Jean Neil
wrath, A. Radclyffe Dugmore and Ar
/ thur Huntington Gleason. The fifty
seven illustrations by A. Radcliffe Dug
more help to bring out the joyous
possibilities of s1eighing. snowshoeing,
+ skeeing, curling, bObbing and tobog-
/ gaming.
! The Worlds Work for December has
Fl an attractive Christmas cover. Inside,
/ the magazine begins with its customary
/ FIVE editorial portraits-this month Of
/ DR.. Emil Behring, the discoverer of a
cure for consumption in man; William
/ F. Berry, the Democratic state-treas-
urer- elect of Pennsylvania W. NJ.
wins. DR. William r. Harper and Sir
+ Casper Pardon Clarke. 1.-THE meaning
I of the Colossal Bond Market" is in an
alysis of the stupendous business of
! IL, Dr. Of N nr,atr nr, securities This