Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-08
NAGAzINES

Among the artistic holiday produc-
tons few are as attractive pictorially
or as interesting in text. matter as the
Theatre Magazine of New York. This
sumptuous publication of the stage not
only gives the usual chronicle of the
past months dramatic doings, illustrat-
ed with pictures of scenes from all the
recent plays and with splendid half
tone portraits of the leading artists,
but the Christmas number Is almost
double in size and contains a number of
literary contributions from the pens OF
we'll known players. Thus David War
field discusses the interesting subject
of long runs and answers the question
frequently asked: do actors feel the
emotions they portray? Viola Allen
explains the many difficulties that beset
the ambitious producer of Shakespeare,
and Carlotta Nillson writes on the sub
ject of Realism as the Standard of
Modern Acting" Marie Cahill, the
high prestess of stage humor, talks Sc
riously~ y~about her dramatic debuts.
Country Lie in America has come
to be an American institution-full of
good cheer, glowing color, and Yule log
feeling" 1t is like the English Illus
trated Annuals in it's sumptuous illus
trated friendly makeup. But it is also
national and new world. In it the. lih-
mortality of Santa Claus is affirmed
and proclaimed. And the two supreme
notes of the day are sounded-the re-
ligious note and the note of childhood.
Santa Claus and His Reindeer" oy
A. Eadclyffe Dugmore, tells of a bran
new stuffed reindeer-a Christmas nov
city that will thrill children of all ages.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke contributes a
Home Song" that will become a do
mestic classic.
The Outing Magazine for December
is a magazine de luxe, the most beauti-
full magazine the Outing company has
ever put forth. Take the paintings re-
produced in color for example. Such a
series as Mr.. ]. M. Gleeson has done
for Kipling's Jungle Tales" is unique
contribution to magazine art, and there
are many other paintings in colors by
such artists as N. c. Wyeth, r. C.
Stokes, ]. G. Somers and Allen True.
Other striking illustrations in the num-
Der are by Alice Barber, Hy. S. Watson,
Maynard Dixon and Thomas E. Mari,
the last named contributing many
handsome photographs of the sand
dunes of Cape Cod.
Seldom if ever has single issue of a
magazine offered such a wealth and va
riety of good reading as is to be found
in the Christmas Atlantic. The key
note is struck at the very outset in a
delightful and shreWdly pointed essay,
Christmas and the Literature of Disil-
lusion," by that most genial of the auto
Gratis descendants, s. McC. Crothers.
1t is wholesome, optimistic-and with
al seasonable-protest that he makes,
and is sure to find a wide echo. In a
remarkable article on New National
Forces and the Old T,aw' Daan I2ioa
low of Boston university law school
points out the failure of our common
law to meet modern crimes of combina-
tion, and asserts that some new weap-
on must be forged for the defense of
society.
The Christmas McClure's contains
some of the most varied, picturesque
and striking material which the maga-
zine has ever gathered together in a
single number. Perhaps the most in
teresting single feature is an editorial
article in which a life of Mary Baker G..
Eddy and a history of Christian Sci
ence are announced, to begin in Janu-
airy. Another chapter of the Carl
Schurz "reminiscences recalls his first
journey to the new, crude west, visit
in London, and his first hearing of
Jenny Lind and of Wagner-a remark
able musical experience described with
great poetry of feeling. Lincoln Stef-
fens relates the story of Judge Lind
seys splendid triumph in Denver, and
c. p. Connolly tells how the Clark men
failed in their attempt to handle the
supreme court of Montana, and of the
memorable scenes at the investigation
of, Clark's election at Washington.
With holiday cover of green and
gold, and packed with interesting mat
ter and pictures, the December Worlds