The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08
WITH THE MAGAZINES,

Raiders of the January Critic cannot fail to be interested by the announce rnent that, beginning with that number, The Literary World will be Incorporated with The Critic, the Critic Company hav- Ing taken over the publication of the Boston monthly from Messrs l.. O. Page & Company, who have been its pub fishers for the last two years. The Lit erary World was established some thirty or more years ago, and to the present date has been the only strictly literary Journal emanatlng from Boston. In talk ing over The Literary World The Critic expects to hold the attention ofthat pe- riodoals old subscribers, while at the same time appealing to a wider audience.
 Tho foremost city of America is, oddly enough, the most superstttlous Robert Shackleton has gathered In New York a remarkable assortment of actual charms, spells, black art all sorts of wlzardry practised there at this time, which he embodies in an entertaining article on "Superstitions of q Cosmopolitan City
 in Harper's Magazine for January. There are wise women who are caIled in to doctor tho sick in East Side tenements. there is Wall street broker "who must have his right cheek shaved first, and the initial stroke must be upward" MT. Sbal1leton also refers to New York financier, known over the civilized world, who holds active supersitions in regard to cats" superstitions while they abound among the foreigners, arc not, it seems, confined to that element.
 
 Every one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who read and enjoyed IT. Rider Haggard's famous story, "She." will want to read "Ayesna," by the same author. which is to be published serially in The Popular Magazine. beginning with the January number. MT. Haggard Is authority for the statement that this Is a companion story to his masterpiece. rather than a sequel. and that 1t is not necessary to have previously read 'She" in order to thoroughly understand and enjoy "Ayesha-" The other fiction in this number is up to The Popular Magazines usual high standard. The complete novel is a newspaper story, entitled '"rhe Rul- ing of the Fourth Estate" and Is by George Brownson-Howard, the well known war correspondent There are lib- eral instaliments of four other serials, including a splendid new one called "The Lonesome Trail," by B. W. Bower, au- thor of "Chip, of tho Flying U" which many critics pronounced superior to "The Virginian' as story of ranch life.
 The Popular Science Monthly for Jan uary opens with an article by President David Starr Jordan of Standford Uni- versity, describing the experiments of Luther Burbank. The article contains scores of illustrations of the extraordi- nary new plants that Mir Burbank has produced. In the following article Prof. Henry Fairfield osborn of Columbia Uni versity and tine American Museum of Natural History describes tho problems of paleontology, giving an interesting sketch of the work hitherto done In the science to which America has contrib uted so largely. pr. Allan Mclaughlin Of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service gives an account of the social and political effects of immi- grafton. Dr. E. s. Holden of the United States Military Academy of West Point contributes an article on Calico, explain ing the importance of his contributions to science and the difficulties that hs en- countered fin his work. There follows an important article on radio activity and matter translated from the German of the late Prof Clemens Winkler. There are other articles In the number by the Bishop of Hereford, on educational prob iems; by Prof. H. c. Wood of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania on the United States Pharmacopoeia. and by Prof John B. Smith of the New Jersey Agri- cultural Experiment Station, on the mos