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Herrick. Jesse Lynch Williams and Arthur
stanwood Pier.
/ The Christmas number of Harpers is
notable In many ways. The opening con-
! tribution is a story of Lincoln written by
Margarita Spalding Gerry. and is based
| upon facts in the great Presidents life.
Mrs. Humphry Ward. William Dean
| Howells. Henry Mills Alden Friedrich
Deltzsch, Mary p. Wilkins Freeman, Har-
! riet Prescott Spofford, James Branch
Cabell, Edward S. Martini Thomas r.
Lounsbury, Alice Brown, Thomas A. jan
vier, Elizabeth Jordan, Ruth McEnery
Stuart and others. Mrs. Wards new novel,
''The Testing Of Diana Mallory" continues
in its second instalment. In contrast TO
| this is Mark Twain's story, Extract
from Captain Stormfields Visit to
Heaven" one of the most amusing and
witty of his later tales.
The editors of the New Broadway
| Magazine believe that one of the most inn
portant magazine contributions of the cur
rent year is that entitled president
| Roosevelt, Wall Street and Country" APP
pearing in the December issue. 1t comes
opportunely upon the recent New York
panic. Lindsay Denison, friend of Roose-
welt, explains the Presidents attitude, and
| S. S. Pratt, editor of the Wall Street
Journal. tells the complete story. The
same number contains many other interest
! ing features, one of the most interesting
being an article by Hartley Davis on
Joseph Pulitzer, Father of Modern
| Journalism"
Ainslee's for December is a Christmas
number, and has a good leaven of holiday
| fiction. The complete novel is by Doctor
Henry G. Rowland, entitled "Her Mas
terpiece." Among the short stories are
''I'he Branding of the Maverick by
Ralph Henry Barbour; THE Subliminal
Sin' by Edith Macvane; "The Chauffeur
Crook by Robert E. MacAlarney; "The
Boy and the Bishop," by Arthur Alden
Knipe; THE Silence of Jim,' by Owen
| oliver. Mrs. John Van Worst has an es-
| say on the Trench Marriages of Ameri-
can Women"
"Satan's Candles" translated from the
French by George Morehead, is in the
next months Transatlantic Tales It's
author, Daniel Lesueur, is famous for the
love, mystery and adventure that vivify
every story she has written THE Vel
low Overcoat," translated from the Ger
man of Henry F. Urban, is one of a col
lection of short satires on America
Bonita Estrella" IS from the Spanish,
but the action and the setting belong to
Southern California. Many other famous
authors are represented in this number:
Gabrielle DAnnunzio, Paul Bourget and
Armando Palacio Valdes are perhaps the
ones that are best known on this side Of
the water.
! The novelette,, "The Unlit Lamp" by
Alison Lederer, a picture of Bohemian New
York, Is the leading feature of the Decem-
Der Youngs Magazine In the "Call OF
the Primal Miriam Cruishank pre-
sents a story of opposite theme-the saw
age instinct that calls mate to mate
sprlnging suddenly to life at the first
meeting of a man and girl, and for the
moment making them obliyious of ab
other ties. Brother Guys Supper" by
Marcel Provost, i5 a gay, little story OF
charming French marquise who visits
the demi-world and finds it dull and
stupid.
Next months Putnam's Monthly in>
cludes these articles, among several
others: Painting and the Word" by
Charles II. Caffin; whittier; an Appre-
citation. Apropos Of the Poets Centenary,
by H. w. Boynton; 1.-TWO Famous Mu-
sicians. Joachim and Grieg." by Richard
Aldrlch; with Grleg In Norway" by
| by Richard Watson Glider; "Recollec-
tions of the Rabelais Club by Brande1
Matthew's Letters to Samuel Ward;
H. by Henry W. Longfellow; ''rh,
Family Emmins Papers, x.,' by Carolyr
Wells; Sisters" by Grace McGowaI
Cooke" AT Large; VI, Specialism, y
Arthur c. Benson; MY Interpretation o.
Hamlet by Tommaso Salvini; "Art
Critics and Art Interpreters" by Elisa
betn L. Cary.
There is no more timely theme for fic-
ton than bridge and the novelette, which
opens the December number of the Smart
Set. entitled, "The Backslders," by
Dorothea DealSin, deals with this sub
ject. There Is wide variety of fiction
besides. and an essay on 1.-THE Women
You Have Loved" by Reginald Wright
Kaufman. Charming Pollock's theatrical
article and verse by George Sylvester
Verick Bliss Carman, John Kendrick
Bangs. Arthur Stringer and others are also
included
The Popular for December contains the
usual amount of fiction The complete
novel for the month Is by S. Carleton,
styled "Lastuck Lake" and tells of the
happiness that took place about a gold
mine up in the frozen north. The second
instalment OF 'Ihe Hemlock Avenue MyS-
terry" by Roman Doubleday advances
the mystery set down in the opening
chapters.
In the December number of the Peo-
pies Magazine the complete novel is by
John Camden, the author of 'The Hun
dredth Acre" ana is entitled 'HThe Girl
from Nebraska" 1t is a story of a young
American girl, who, refusing to be forced
into marriage diStasteful to her, starts
off with a girl chum to see something of
the world. Helen r. Martin, who is
widely known as the author of "Tillie, a
Mennonite Maid" and His Courtship."
has tale THE Marriage of Weesy
Gumpf" which, like the rest OF Mrs
Martins work, deals with the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch Owen Kildare, known as
the writer of Mamie Rose appears for
the first time as a contributor to the Peo-
pies in a characteristic tale, Righteous
Roundport." There is much other fiction.
The December number OF Smiths Maga-
zine has a complete novel in which is told
the story of THE Chorus Lady" the play
by James Forbes which has made such
hit in New York and elsewhere This
novelzation of the play is illustrated with
a large number Of photographs taken from
the New York production. The magazine
contains besides this a novelette, by Mar
garet Busbee Shipp, THE Laborer's Hire"
which gives a picture of the life and
In, a C0nfhaYua naffn,,-rofII I'D