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

ing. nature cure psychic research,
everyday psychology. the formation of
correct habits practical hygiene, and
in general the practical every day APP
plications of the principles of the New
Psychology for health and happiness.
The Popular Science Monthly for De-
/ Gem Der contains the following articles:
''Frsh-Water Springs in the Ocean,
by Professor G. H. Hitchcock; tEcon-
oIny in Irrigation by Professor Vol
ney NJ. Spalding; Mining and the Use
of Metals by the Ancient Egyptians
by Professor r. D. George; s.Anaxf-
nander, Earliest Precursor of OAR
win. !" by Charles r. Eastman; 1.-THE
Philosophy OF Friedrich Nietzsche,' % by
Professor Frank Thilly, and others.
AS usual. The Outlook's illustrated
I Magazine Number for Dec enber is also
/ its Annual Book Number, and this is
4 in fact the seventeenth year Of the ap-
! pearance of such a yearly survey of the
books of the season. In addition to
large number of pages devoted to a
classified review of recent literature in
/ its more important departments, there
are special features dealing with not
able literary personalities, and an ar
I ticle dealing with the American pub
4 Usher and including a dozen or more
/ portraits of the heads of the most
/ famous American publishing houses.
Half a dozen or more authors Of note
have been chosen as the subjects OF
! personal articles, accompanied in each
case with a portrait.
Volume TX of the Four-Track News
closes with the December number
which is an unusually interesting is
sue. Conspicuous among the articles
are an illustrated Christmas poem, by
Z Bingham Thoburn Wilson; 'HTenting
( Beyond the Rio Grande.'' by ellison
Willets: Curious Gargoyles.' by Alice
Hill Chittenden; Literary Work
I shops by James Melvin Lee; THE
yellow Peril Dramatized," by James
H. Collins; Elephant Hunting in New
/ York" by Ernest Thompson Seton;
'eThe Alhambra,' - by N. Hudson Moore,
and THE Cost of a Cruise by Alexan-
der Hume Ford, and others.
A notable number Of a noteworthy
periodical is the Christmas issue of The
| Reader, which is certainly proving its
right to be called the magazine Of
/ designs used by The Reader have
called forth scores of favorable no.
tees from newspapers throughout the
country, and the design for the Christ
mas cover is perhaps the finest the
magazine has yet used. 1t is in four
colors, and the drawing is by Franklin
Booth. The contents table of the mag
azIne shows such names as Louise
Belts Edwards, whose contribution,
THE Entrance" is one of the best
things that ever appeared in The
/ Reader; Bliss Carman, who has most
t'reada Bile sketch, My Friend the Mu-
sic Master" George Hibbard, with a
tale of civil war times, entitled Be
fore His Door" Frances Wilson, whose
story, 1.-THE Princess Ragtag," is as
whimsically delicious as one can
imagine, and others.
The reader who opens the Christmas
number of Harper's Magazine will
doubtless exclaim over its beauty. The
sumptuous color work arrests the eye
/ at once, and later the attention IS
/ caught by the wonderful list of writer's
/ contributing to this number: Maui
rice Maeterlinck, Grover Cleveland,
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells,
Booth Harrington, Jack London, El1Z-
abeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Prescott
! Spofford, Edmund Gosse, Mary E. VIII
kins Freeman, Henry Mills Alden, Ern-
est Rhys, Henry W. Nevinson, Profess
SOr Thomas r. LOunsbuTy, Mary r. S.
and manv others. The reproductions
Of Howard Pvle's four paintings, illus
/ trating his own article on 1.-THE Fate
of a Treasure Town." are remarka bic
picturesque and tropical buccaneer, no
living painter can compete with Pyle.
A delightful interlude in this number
is the group of eight color pictures of
children, from paintings by Elizabeth
Shipper Green, who has proved herself
the veritable poet painter.
At Christmas time one naturally
looks for something out of the ordinary
in magazine production. The illus
trated magazines of America lead the
world, and how near the top stands
The Outing Magazine we will leave to
YOU to Judge after you have looked
over the December number. With its
six full page color plates. it is the best
and handsOmest mum Der ever issued.
Every article is brilliant, fun Of the
rugged flavor of outdoor life and in
tensely American